The Indian government which had stopped a Greenpeace activist from flying to the UK earlier this year told her today that she can fly anywhere she pleases, two months after Delhi High Court ruled in her favour.   Priya Pillai, a campaigner with the environmental organisation Greenpeace India, today had the “offload” stamp expunged from her passport …

      We’ve had Angry Birds on iOS, Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Wii U. It seems that one platform remains amiss from catching avian fever, virtual reality (VR). This however, is about to change. The Samsung Gear VR headset played host to a demo of Angry Birds …

    Reliance Jio, the telecom arm of Reliance Industries, may begin operations with “disruptive offers” to quickly capture customers to leap into the top three along with established players like Bharti andVodafone , according to Bernstein Research. In a research note titled ‘What Is the Likely Impact of Reliance Jio’s Market Entry?,” Bernstein said, “We believe an organic strategy …

    RadioShack, whose carrion corpse has been slowly picked apart by various consumer retail chains, is only a shambling zombie of its former DiY electronics self. But Standard General just pulled a Frankenstein, adding a jolt of electricity to the bankrupt brand and snatching up the rights the iconic chain’s name. Auction of the dilapidated retailer finished on Tuesday, …

Buildings wrecked by Tuesday’s earthquake in Nepal, already weakened by last month’s huge quake which killed over 8,000, will take years to rebuild. But another type of infrastructure will bounce back much sooner: communication networks.Enabling aid workers and civilians to access the Internet, make a phone call or send a text is now seen as a vital part of any …

Hyderabad will be the first city in India to get Google Street View, Telangana IT Minister K T Rama Rao said on Tuesday. A delegation led by the minister met the Google Street View team of Manik Gupta, Director of Product Management and Narayana Tummala, Ground Truth Engineering Lead for Google on Tuesday. While Street View has been extensively used …

    Verizon Communications Inc will pay $90 million (roughly Rs. 576 crores) and Sprint Corp will pay $68 million to settle US government probes into unauthorised charges tacked onto their customers’ phone bills, federal agencies said on Tuesday. The settlements are the latest in the government’s push against the practice known as cramming, in which mobile carriers bill customers …

        China ‘s dominant Internet search engine Baidu Inc has fired eight executives accused of criminal behaviour, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Tuesday, as the company strives to keep its reputation clean. A Baidu spokesman confirmed the authenticity of the company memo, but declined further comment. Chinese President Xi Jinping has overseen a …

    A Greenpeace report released on Tuesday charged utilities with hampering efforts to use renewable energy to power data centers needed for services hosted in the cloud. Greenpeace praised moves made by Apple, Google and other Internet titans to fill a skyrocketing demand for electricity with solar, wind or other environmentally-friendly sources but lamented expansion of data center capacity …

    Facebook’s long-rumored plan to directly host articles from news organizations will start on Wednesday, concluding months of delicate negotiations between the Internet giant and publishers that covet its huge audience but fear its growing power. Nine media companies, including NBC News and The New York Times, have agreed to the deal, despite concerns that their participation could eventually …