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Government to launch internet spy system Netra
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Intelligence Bureau and Cabinet Secretariat are currently testing 'Netra', the defence ministry's internet spy system which can capture any dubious voice traffic passing through software such as Skype or Google Talk, according to a DoT’s internal note.
The system which will be deploye
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Nokia launches 6-inch Lumia 1520
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Nokia has launched its new flagship smartphone, Lumia 1520 in the Indian smartphone market. The handset is the first Nokia device with a 6-inch screen and quad-core processor and was unveiled globally in Abu Dhabi in September. At Rs 46,999, it is among the most expensive Nokia smartphones in the
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Next-gen video games
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Imagine playing a video gamewhile moving freely throughout your house!
A revolutionary new technology that uses radio signals to track a person through walls and obstructions could change the way video games are played, scientists say.
Researchers from the Massachusetts
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The new platform for stars to promote brands, Twitter
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Besides appearing in commercials and other marketing campaigns, Bollywood celebrities have now started using Twitter to promote the brands they endorse, says a new report.
A study of tweets of Bollywood stars by social media analytics firm 'To The New' reveals that around 9 per c
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How Doom changed the video game industry
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At the stroke of midnight on December 10, 20 years ago, a file was uploaded to an FTP site on the University of Washington's network.
It sparked a revolution and changed the face of the video game industry, which now rakes in $66 billion each year (to put that in perspective, Hollywo
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Meet Googles new robots
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BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas have joined Google's growing robot menagerie.
Google has confirmed that it has completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, based in Waltham, Massachuset
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Smartphones future
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This may be remembered as the year smartphones became boring.
Although high-definition displays on smartphones have gotten bigger and their cameras have gotten better, the pace of gee-whiz innovation has dawdled.
Smartphone and software makers are working on ways to snap
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WTO reaches its first ever trade deal at Bali meeting
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The World Trade Organization reached its first ever trade reform deal on Saturday to the roar of approval from nearly 160 ministers who had gathered on the Indonesian island of Bali to decide on the make-or-break agreement that could add $1 trillion to the global economy
The approval
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A flashlight app that kept users in the dark
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The maker of a popular Android mobile app that turns your phone into a flashlight has agreed to settle the Federal Trade Commission's charges that the software secretly supplied cellphone locations to marketers, even when consumers rejected its terms of service.
The settlement agains
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2 million Google, Facebook, Twitter passwords stolen
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Security experts have uncovered a trove of some 2 million stolen passwords to websites including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo from internet users across the globe.
Researchers with Trustwave's SpiderLabs said they discovered the credentials while investigating a server in th
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