When instant messenger saved a life

I had just started my day in office when my husband called. "A girl in Bangalore is about to commit suicide. She has some pills with her and she is alone. I spoke to her. But I think it will be......

Will Name Change Erase Faceook's Toxic Reality?

Adversarial Harmful Networks -- India Case Study, cited in Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's SEC complaints, revealed, among other things, that Facebook was a preferred platform for......

Privacy in the Dock

'No government will forego the usage of data of this order and nor will any private concern.''Unless, of course, there are strong safeguards to privacy.''Which is why that nine-member Supreme Court......

Fake news and its dimensions

Complicated social phenomena behind it, says Ajit Balakrishnan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Suddenly, the word on practically everyone's lips is 'fake news'. In a simpler, less......

MSN messenger on mobiles soon

Microsoft Corporation will expand the availability of its corporate instant messaging software to mobile devices and cell phones, the world's largest software maker said on Monday. Microsoft said......

Worm targets MSN Messenger users!

A new variant of Bropia worm is doing the rounds through MSN Messenger, a popular instant messaging platform. Trend Micro has issued a 'medium risk' alert on the worm, which attempts to send copies......

Billionaire Vinod Khosla's daughter blackmailed by ex-boyfriend

Venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla’s daughter, Nina Khosla, was victimised by her ex-boyfriend, who threatened to publish her naked photographs online as part of......

India is a very special and important country: Zuckerberg

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said India is a very special and important country with a remarkable entrepreneurship culture, as he sought to push deeper the just-launched......

Review: This Porkkalam is a dud

If Mani Ratnam was one among the best to re-imagine epics in ultra-modern formats, it's the turn of Bandi Saroj Kumar to take a hand in re-making Ramayana, one of India's greatest epics to suit......

Kolkata 2001: The Odyssey, viewed from the sidelines

20 years ago this week, India and Australia played one of the greatest Test matches in cricket history.Sreehari Nair relives the sound and the fury of that unforgettable game at the Eden Gardens.......