new study has found that three in four parents use social networking site Facebook to check up on their university going children. The research, commissioned by insurance company Ensleigh, also found that 72 percent of 18-25-year-olds who have left home use the Internet to speak to their

Hacktivity 2010, the largest computer hackers` conference in eastern Europe, kicked off Saturday, with some 1,000 participants expected to attend the two-day event, according to organisers. The conference was to bring together officials and computer experts from Hungary and abroad in an

The number of global subscriptions for wireless services is expected to reach five billion in September and be equal to 73.4 percent of the world’s population, a market research firm has said. According to iSuppli Corp, worldwide wireless subscriptions will increase by another 100

Facebook has launched its location-based Places service in the UK. It allows people to "check in" wherever they are and see who among their friends and other Facebook users is - or has been - at the same location. The service also lists nearby businesses and attractions, and Facebook

According to a recent research survey jointly conducted by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB, a large percentage of India`s rural populace is simply unaware of the phenomenon called the Internet! The data accumulated from the survey puts the figure at 84

China`s press watchdog has ordered 15 websites to remove videos which were unauthorised or had copyright issues. The deadline for the removal of videos is Sep 21. The 15 sites, including youku.com, ku6.com and video.baidu.com, took up more than 80 percent of the country`s video market

Apple is ready to launch a subscription service for newspapers on its Pad tablet computer, according to a report by a Silicon Valley newspaper Wednesday. The San Jose Mercury News said the launch was expected "soon" but was being delayed by a tussle between Apple and publishers over who

Broadband is the most modern of communication means, while carrier pigeons date back to Roman times. But on 16 September the two will be pitted against each other - and the pigeon is expected to win. Ten pigeons will be released from a Yorkshire farm at the same time a five-minute video

Bangladesh will soon launch a new satellite for improvement of information and communication technology, a government statement said. According to the statement released Wednesday, the satellite will upgrade the broadcasting facilities of the country to international standard, Xinhua

Gadget-mad South Korea now has more mobile phones than people, with a growing number of users carrying multiple handsets for business purposes, telecoms authorities said Wednesday. The Korea Communications Commission said there were 50 million mobile service subscribers in the country as

Nokia Corp. said Tuesday that board chairman Jorma Ollila has signaled readiness to stay on at the helm of the world`s leading handset maker until 2012. Nokia spokeswoman Arja Suominen said that no announcement had been made but that Ollila has said he would be "at the disposal of the

The world`s biggest chip maker, Intel, has unveiled the chipset it is banking its immediate future on and one it hopes will shake up the market. The product, code-named Sandy Bridge, is Intel`s first architecture to merge a microprocessor and graphics processor onto a single silicon

Finnish phone giant Nokia has vowed to fight back as it battles for customers in the increasingly competitive smartphone market. The company unveiled three new smartphones - E7, C7 and an updated C6 - at London`s Nokia World conference. The C6, C7 and E7 devices all run on Symbian, the

YouTube has started to experiment with its own-brand live video-streaming technology. Over two days the site is planning a trial in which four partners will get the chance to air live programmes. YouTube has done one-off live events in the past, but the trial marks a test of underlying

Americans prefer socializing on Facebook to searching for information on Google or looking up videos on YouTube. For the first time since its inception, Facebook beat out Google for a full week as the most visited site in the U.S.  That is the word from online tracking firm comScore. 

Mobile phone giant Nokia is to lose its second high-profile executive in less than a week. Anssi Vanjokia, the head of Nokia`s mobile business, resigned from a job that he began in July 2010. He took up his job as executive vice president and general manager of the firm`s mobile solutions

FINLAND: Out with the bad one, in with the new one’– this phrase is what Nokia has been following these days. They replaced their old CEO with one of Microsoft’s former President of the Business Software Group.Stephen Elop, the new CEO, who replaced Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo in Nokia.

Microsoft has been spruiking its new motion detector gaming device, `Kinect` ahead of its Australian release on November 18th. Kinect will retail for $199. Kinect transforms your body into a games controller and kicks off a new revolution in video game technology. Used in conjunction

It is what parents of teenagers who `revise` in front of the computer have long feared. Students who use Facebook while they study get significantly lower grades than those who do not, according to psychologists. A study has found that the exam results of those who used the social

Facebook is testing out a new feature that will enable users to get notifications whenever another Facebook user uses the social-networking site to update their status or share photos with friends. The “subscribe to” feature allows Facebook users to select which friends or family