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Windows 7 is 'fastest-selling OS ever'

SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp's Windows 7 has sold more than 240 million copies in its first year, the company said, making it the fastest-selling operating system, and helping the software giant to record profits despite a recent dip in computer sales growth. The new software, which costs from $80 for a

Apple unveils mobile-inspired Macs

Apple unveiled a new line of Macs on Wednesday, upgrading the notebooks and laptops with features inspired by its popular mobile devices, the iPhone and iPad. "We asked ourselves: What would happen if a MacBook and an iPad hooked up?" CEO Steve Jobs said in unveiling the new devices at an event in

Communal harmony and secularism have been reduced to mantras

It has been my considered view that December 6, 1992, would not have happened in the age of 24-hour news television. Through the forest of microphones and broadcast vans that would have swarmed the disputed site in Ayodhya, it would have been impossible for either the Uttar Pradesh government or the

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The social networking tools you need for business

Washington - Have the Facebooks and Twitters of the world passed you by? Are e-mail and telephone the primary ways you can be reached or that you reach out? If so, you're probably wondering at this point whether it even matters be keep up with the latest social networking sites and tools. The short

Editorial: Holding the flock together

The notice issued by the Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly to 11 Bharatiya Janata Party legislators, who had joined the revolt against Chief Minister Yeddyurappa and given letters to the Governor withdrawing their support to the government, raises interesting constitutional issues regard

Yahoo! seeks boost from search

Yahoo! began rolling out changes to its Web search engine on Thursday, the first significant revamp since it partnered with Microsoft to take on market leader Google.Microsoft and Yahoo! reached an agreement last year which calls for the US software giant to eventually power searches at all Yahoo! w

Facebook offers new way to sort friends

PALO ALTO, California - Facebook is introducing tools that will make it easier for people to separate their online friendships into different groups and copy all the personal information they have posted on the Website.The new features will start rolling out to Facebook's more than 500 million

Ayodhya Verdict:ASI report far from foolproof?

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad HC may have gone by the Archaeological Survey of India's (ASI) report submitted to it in April 2003 to rule that the disputed site is the birthplace of Ram but noted historians had drilled holes in the report when it first came out.Though the ASI report refrained f

'Cyber Storm III' tests US preparedness for cyber attack

Keyboard warriors from the United States and a dozen other nations were battling a simulated cyber attack Tuesday on government and private networks that undermines basic trust in the Internet."Cyber Storm III," which simulates a "large-scale cyber attack on critical infrastructure," involves thousa

RIM unveils new tablet computer

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has unveiled its new tablet computer 'BlackBerry PlayBook', which will hit the markets early next year taking on Apple's iPad.The PlayBook has a seven-inch touch screen - half the size of the iPad - high-definition cameras in the front (3 megapixel) and back (5 me

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Twitter hit by mouseover bug

Read more: Twitter hit by mouseover bug - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/social-media/Twitter-hit-by-mouseover-bug/articleshow/6601312.cms#ixzz10B2v7IJ8WASHINGTON: Computer security firm Sophos warned that a security flaw was causing havoc on Twitter .Graham Cluley of Sop

Nokia launches dual SIM set

Handsets major Nokia on Monday launched its first dual SIM set - Nokia C1.The set, available in three colours, will cost Rs. 1,999, the company's Director (Sales) Vipul Sabharwal told reporters here.The company would launch five or six models of dual SIM in the next six to nine months, he said. The

Microsoft's new browser is pretty cool. No, seriously

New York: On Wednesday, Microsoft officially released a beta version of Internet Explorer 9, the latest remake of the company's nearly-ubiquitous Web browser. A few months from now, it will become the built-in browser on all new PCs. Most techies think of Internet Explorer as the first piece of soft