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Nokia House Defaced by Indian Hacker

Nokia House (nokiahouse.com), a website that offers reviews, software, wallpapers, screensavers and themes for Nokia phones was hacked and defaced by a hacker called Ashell, a member of the Indishell crew, reports VoiceOfGreyHat. “Finally …Hacker u Nokia House. It take good time to find your weakness. B...

12 December 2011
11:07 GMT

Cyber Pirates Hack 99 US and Indian Websites to Make NATO Stop Attacks

The Pakistani hacker collective known as Pak Cyber Pirates breached the defense mechanisms deployed by 99 US and Indian websites in an attempt to attract the attention of NATO officials. All the defaced websites host an image of a Pakistani flag and signs of the alleged atrocities committed by NATO in their countr...

10 December 2011
06:49 GMT

Asian Space Race Goes By Virtually Unnoticed

Major Asian powers are currently engaged in a quiet space race of sorts, which is going by largely unnoticed by other countries. It's only now that analysts are beginning to put things into perspective. The major actors in this race are China, India and Japan, all of which are currently ramping up their space ...

8 December 2011
05:36 GMT

Steve Wozniak: iPhones Could Have Been so Much Better

During a visit to Bangalore, India last week, beloved geek Steve Wozniak shared a few impressions about smartphones with young entrepreneurs.Wozniak is a sworn Android fan, but he also loves his iPhone, and he loves Apple as a company. And while some may see the iPhone as the perfect smartphone, Wozniak sees quite th...

5 December 2011
08:05 GMT

Pakistani ‘Cyber’ Hackers Take Down Over 100 Websites

Pakistani hackers are keeping themselves busy these days, taking down more than 100 websites over the weekend, many of which belonged to their declared enemy India. Pak Cyber Army, Pak Cyber Pyrates and Pak Cyber Combat Squad are the groups to blame for the latest website defacements. First, Pak Cyber Combat Squad ...

5 December 2011
08:04 GMT

iPhone 4S Arrives in India at Airtel and Aircel

Apple’s iPhone 4S handset is now available for purchase in India via two of the country’s largest wireless carriers, namely Airtel and Aircel. Both wireless services providers announced the release of this device with a price tag of Rs 44,500 ($865 / 642 Euros) attached to it for the 16GB model. How...

25 November 2011
17:51 GMT

Computer Simulations to Replace Animal Dissections in Indian Universities

Indian Universities might no longer use animals dissections during classes. As modern technology provides a long list of advantages, old-school learning methods relying on the lives of unfortunate creatures could be replaced with computer simulations. University Grants Commission (UGC) wants to make sure that every...

25 November 2011
06:51 GMT

Climate Group, Awarded for Making the Indian Lighting Industry Sparkle

The Climate Group proves its main objective, a Clean Revolution in the lighting industry, is close to being achieved. The organization has won Frost & Sullivan India LED Lighting Market Excellence Awards for their innovative lightning project developed in Kolkata, India. The benefits of their strategy are not limite...

25 November 2011
03:59 GMT

Pak Cyber HunterZ Deface Indian and Pakistani Government Sites

A hacker collective that goes by the name of Pak Cyber HunterZ defaced a handful of Pakistani and Indian websites, some of them hosted on .gov or .edu domains. “Site Has Been Hacked By (GiRl-RiD3r-H3x()r)Team Pak Cyber HunterZ. Where Is Your Security Admin? You dnt even got skills to protect your own a**,&rdqu...

24 November 2011
10:11 GMT

Two Thirds of the Indian School-Going Children Depend on Oil Lamps

India struggles to follow the green trend while letting its 1.21 billion inhabitants enjoy the benefits of earth-friendly energy. This is the second most populous nation all across the Globe, but its resources aren't divided in an equitable manner. While some people enjoy prosperity and opulence, a more signif...

15 November 2011
07:19 GMT

There Are Now More than 100 Million Internet Users in India

If someone were to ask you to name the biggest internet markets in the world, China may spring to mind, but India probably doesn't. This despite the fact that it now has over 100 million internet users, making it the third largest market globally.The two biggest, by a large margin, are China with 485 million use...

8 November 2011
15:31 GMT

Galaxy Nexus to Land in India Before Year's End

Galaxy Nexus, the first smartphone in the world to arrive on shelves with the new Android 4.0 ice Cream Sandwich operating system on board, should hit the shelves in India before the end of the ongoing year. The handset was made official a few weeks ago, and Google and Samsung already offered users in India the po...

3 November 2011
10:41 GMT

Google and Hostgator Offer Indian Businesses Free Hosting, Domains and Other Perks

Google and Hostgator have teamed up to offer Indian businesses free hosting and domains to get as many small and medium businesses online as possible.Through a program dubbed India Get Your Business Online, Google hopes to convince businesses who may be wary or just uninterested of the advantages of having a website ...

2 November 2011
07:41 GMT

Galaxy Nexus Sign-Up Page Now Live in India

The latest Google phone, set to become available for purchase on shelves with the new Ice Cream Sandwich OS on board, was made official a few weeks ago and Google has already started to put up registration pages for it in various markets around the world, including India. Those users in India interested in the pur...

31 October 2011
18:51 GMT

India Celebrates Diwali Using Eco-Friendly Firecrackers

Today India begins the celebration of Diwali, a festival of lights and color. In order to highlight their concern towards the environment, Indian officials decided that their enthusiasm should be expressed in a more earth-friendly manner. India proved that not only international super powers are interested in develop...

26 October 2011
05:30 GMT

Massive Floods Hit India this Month

The Indian province of Bihar is seen in this image submerged in torrents of water, during some of the most severe floods to affect the area this year. The event began in early October, and are currently subsiding, to some extent. The walls of water are responsible for drowning entire villages, killing both humans and...

22 October 2011
05:58 GMT

India's Justice Sytem Switches to Ubuntu 10.04

The justice system in India has been directed by the Supreme Court of India to switch from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The most probable reason for this decision is the fact that Red Hat Enterprise Linux actually costs money to support and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS from Canonical doesn't.Sure enough, th...

18 October 2011
09:00 GMT

Nokia Windows Phones to Arrive in India in Q1 2012

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been confirmed to plan on bringing its first Windows Phone devices to the market in India in the first quarter of the next year. D Shivakumar, Nokia India managing director, is the one who confirmed the move, though no specific details on the devices that will be released have...

12 October 2011
08:31 GMT

Microsoft to Launch Windows Phone Mango in India on October 12th

Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has just confirmed plans to launch its new Windows Phone Mango operating system on the market in India on October 12th. Reportedly, the launch will also include the availability of the Windows Phone Marketplace for all users in the country who would like to access, purchase a...

6 October 2011
09:11 GMT

BlackBerry Torch 9860 Arrives in India at $577

A new mobile phone from Canadian handset vendor Research In Motion is now available for purchase in India, namely the BlackBerry Torch 9860, a Blackberry 7 OS-powered device. The new smartphone went for sale in the country only a few days ago, with a price tag of Rs. 28,490 attached to it (around $590 / 430 Euros), ...

23 September 2011
19:11 GMT

AutoCAD for Mac 2012 Released for OS X Lion Users in India

3D design expert Autodesk, Inc. has announced that its range of new AutoCAD products built specifically for Mac OS X Lion is now available for customers in India.According to Autodesk, AutoCAD 2012 for Mac and AutoCAD WS for Mac expands options for millions in areas like design, documentation and collaboration.Build ...

23 September 2011
08:30 GMT

Google Predicts Indian Internet to Go from 100 Million to 300 Million People in Two Years

Google is bullish about the Indian web market. There are about 100 million people online in India at the moment, it's the third biggest web market. But Google believes that this only scratches the surface, it says there will be 300 million internet users in India by 2014.A market so big tripling in two years mak...

16 September 2011
14:11 GMT

Motorola Brings Android-Based FIRE XT and FIRE to India

Two new Android-based mobile phones from Motorola have made their debut on the market in India, namely the Motorola FIRE XT and Motorola FIRE, both featuring slim designs, affordable form factors, and the features and capabilities that the Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS has to offer. The new Motorola FIRE XT comes t...

14 September 2011
02:37 GMT

As Europe and US PC Sales Fall, Companies Turn to India

Users, or some of them, will no doubt have learned by now that the PC market isn't doing too well, financially speaking, and it looks like big brands are all eyeing the same more or less newer potential business outlet. The PC industry is being faced with a continuous drop in demand on the part of customers,...

12 September 2011
10:13 GMT

Sony Ericsson Xperia ray Now Official in India

Today, Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson announced the release of a new Android-based smartphone on the market in India, namely the Sony Ericsson Xperia ray. Based on Google's Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, the new smartphone comes to the market with appealing features in a stylish...

30 August 2011
12:51 GMT

Sony Ericsson Brings Xperia active to India

A new Android-based mobile phone from Sony Ericsson is now official on the Indian market, namely the Xperia active, a rugged device that runs under Google's Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system and which offers support for a wide range of great features, services and applications. The new mobile phone a...

30 August 2011
10:02 GMT

Mercury mTab Android Tablet Hits India at INR 9,499

A new Android-based tablet PC is now available for purchase in India, featuring one of the most affordable price tags any similar device sports, namely INR 9,499. The new tablet PC arrives on shelves with pretty impressive specs and capabilities, such as its 7-inch WVGA TFT LCD touchscreen display, or the triple-...

29 August 2011
15:31 GMT

Samsung Teases IFA Announcement, Plans Smartphone Market Takeover

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics plans the release of new devices at IFA this year, and some of them will land on the mobile market, helping the company gain more share in the area.While no specific info on what the company intends to release was unveiled, a video teaser that Samsung published on ...

19 August 2011
05:06 GMT

Exclusive Opera Mini Flavor in India at Vodafone Essar

Norwegian software company Opera has just announced a partnership with Vodafone Essar for the release of a special flavor of the Opera Mini mobile browser in India.The new announcement follows the extension of the global frame agreement that Vodafone Group Services and Opera Software made earlier this year. Vodafone...

18 August 2011
18:51 GMT

India's Internet Surveillance Plans Target Facebook and Twitter

The Indian government is trying to find a solution that would allow its intelligence agencies to monitor Facebook and Twitter encrypted traffic.The Indian regulators are considering asking telecom providers to put the encryption keys for their secure services in an escrow account for use in surveillance operations wh...

11 August 2011
12:33 GMT

India Adds 2.5 Million Facebook Users in July, Brazil 2.1 Million, Gaining on Orkut

Facebook's official user number is 750 million and it's not likely to get updated any time soon. But even if the company is not showing off its growth anymore, it's still seeing big improvements in some countries, with India leading in the past month. According to numbers by Socialbakers, 2.5 millio...

4 August 2011
08:51 GMT

Opera Mini to Offer Gaming Content from UTV Indiagames

Opera and UTV Indiagames have just announced an agreement aimed at providing the users of Opera Mini with gaming content from the latter. The company will deliver games to all Opera Mini users in India as well as a series of other products, it seems, all straight from the Opera Mini Speed Dial. UTV Indiagame...

25 July 2011
05:58 GMT

Google+ Has 'Post by SMS' Feature in India

Google+ is just getting under way. Google has only let a few users in, if you can call five million a few, but it is slowly opening up the service. While it's probably looking to get traction in the developed countries first, in the US, Europe and so on, it looks like Google is very keen on the developing market...

11 July 2011
12:11 GMT

Indian National Security Guard Targeted by Hackers

The website of the Indian National Security Guard (NSG) was defaced by hackers and the email accounts of some officers were compromised.NSG is one of India's special response units that is mainly involved in counter-terrorism activities. It is headquartered in Mehramnagar, Palam.Following the hack, all officers ...

4 July 2011
13:27 GMT

Nokia Launches Symbian Anna-Based E6 and X7 in India

Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia brought to the market in India two new handsets powered by Symbian, namely the Nokia E6 and the Nokia X7 smartphones. These devices were unveiled to the world only several weeks ago with the new Symbian Anna operating system on board, and are both available in only a few marke...

30 June 2011
11:21 GMT

Motorola XOOM Gets Launched in India

Today, Motorola announced the availability of its first tablet PC on the market in India, namely the Motorola XOOM, in two different flavors, namely Wi-Fi and 3G enabled. Rumors on the possible arrival of this device on the local market have been around for quite a while now, and all of them were confirmed today...

28 June 2011
08:41 GMT

Google Translate Adds Support for Five Indian Languages

Google Translate is a great tool in many occasions when you only need to understand something, a web page, some lyrics and so on, not to get a professional translation. This is why the addition of five Indian languages to Google Translate is a great step forward even though, the support is far more error-prone than f...

22 June 2011
05:48 GMT

Google Street View India Shut Down After Only One Month

It seems that it's getting harder and harder to maintain and expand Google Street View. Only a month after Google announced that it's rolling out the service in India and that it will start shooting in the country soon, the process has been stopped after the company received a letter from the Commissioner o...

20 June 2011
10:39 GMT

Anonymous Hacks into NIC Website Again and Leaks Admin Logins

For the second time in a week, Anonymous members have hacked into a system belonging to India's National Informatics Centre (NIC) and leaked administrative login credentials for several official websites.Following a violent government crackdown on anti-corruption protests led by political activist Baba Ramdev, t...

10 June 2011
09:57 GMT

Nexus S' Price Gets Cut in India to INR. 22K

Nexus S by Samsung, the second Google phone in the world, and the first handset to arrive on shelves with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, has just had its price tag cut on the Indian market. Apparently, the decision comes from Samsung themselves, and follows the recent introduction of their latest flagship Android device, ...

10 June 2011
09:25 GMT

YouTube Launches Ad-Supported Channel for Bollywood Movies

YouTube is expanding into anything that has to do with online video, but as it often the case, the most interesting products are only available to US users. On occasion though, YouTube, and Google in general, does launch cool products somewhere else, catering to the local conditions and advantages.The latest such mov...

7 June 2011
10:21 GMT

Google Street View Starts Rolling Out in India

Not everyone may like it, but Google's Street View is one of the most interesting projects the company is working on, considering the scope and scale of it. Moving forward with the goal of having every city, or, indeed, every street on the planet photographed and made available online, Google is now launching th...

26 May 2011
10:00 GMT

Galaxy S II Goes Official in India: June 3rd at Vodafone, June 9th Nationwide

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has just announced the upcoming availability of its high-end Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone on the market in India. The new device should hit shelves in the country starting with June 3rd, on the airwaves of Vodafone. The carrier would have it on pre-order tomorrow...

25 May 2011
03:36 GMT

Website of Large Indian Newspaper Distributes Scareware

Security researchers from cloud security provider Zscaler warn that the website of India's DNA (Daily News and Analysis) newspaper was compromised and is leading visitors to scareware.DNA is estimated to be the 8th largest English daily newspaper in India and considering that the country has 100 million Internet...

17 May 2011
13:33 GMT

IPL Live Matches Already Viewed 20 Million Times on YouTube

The Indian Premier League cricket tournament is proving once again that YouTube has what it takes to be a major player in live sports. And the video site needs examples like this to showcase to advertisers and content partners that its viewers are watching more than cat videos on the site.This year's season, whi...

16 May 2011
09:50 GMT

PayPal Requires More Account Info in India

PayPal has been having plenty of trouble in India as the national Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has put several limitations on what users can do with the payment system in the country, related to export and money withdrawal issues.PayPal has complied with the demands and regulations and is now asking Indian users for e...

9 May 2011
09:10 GMT

India Enters Supercomputer Race, Builds 220 TeraFLOPS Machine

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has just announced that it has started operating the country's fastest supercomputer yet, the SAGA-220 which uses Intel Xeon CPUs and Nvidia Tesla GPGPU add-on cards in order to deliver a peak performance of 220 teraflops. India's SAGA-220 supercomputer is ho...

3 May 2011
05:50 GMT

Nexus S Now Official in India, Priced at Rs.29950

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has just made its Nexus S smartphone official for the market in India, where it lands along with a range of other Samsung Android devices, including the Galaxy Pro, Fit, Ace, Pop, and the CDMA flavor of Pop.The Nexus S is the very first Android 2.3 Gingerbread-base...

27 April 2011
09:31 GMT

India's Population Tops 1.2 Billion

India is well on its way towards becoming the most populous country on the planet. The preliminary Census 2011 conclusions show that the nation is currently home to 1.21 billion people. For comparison, China has an estimated 1.33 billion citizens. The new data indicate that the Indian population grew by more than 181...

31 March 2011
11:01 GMT

Samsung Goes Official with Galaxy Ace, Fit and Pop for India

Three new Samsung handsets were officially unveiled for the Indian market, namely the Samsung Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Fit and Galaxy Pop, all three of which were already made available for purchase on the local market.What's even more interesting to note is that all of these devices feature price tags lower than Sam...

10 March 2011
20:11 GMT


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