NEW DELHI: A day after Facebook claimed that Indian-origin Aran Khanna did not remove the code from a malicious app despite requests, Khanna said that he had complied with all requests of the social media giant. “I complied with Facebook’s requests, as they pertained to both my interactions with the media and the handling of the code, every step of …

The rupee’s sudden fall in the past few days may prove to be an added advantage for software exporters who are betting big on the improving outsourcing demand in the US and Europe. The rupee traded at 65 per US dollar on Friday. This is 2.5% depreciation from the average rupee level of 63.4 at the end of the June …

NEW DELHI: A huge surge in public response has pushed the number of comments on the telecom department panel’s net neutrality recommendations well past the 50,000 mark, with almost all seeking free and equal access to the web. At last count on Sunday, the responses to the report on the mygov.in portal were 52,172, a far cry from around 700 …

CAIRO: Egypt is looking to add 500,000 new internet users by the end of 2015 and increase its internet penetration rate to 50% from 34% by the end of 2016, communication minister Khaled Ali Negm said. The communication and information technology ministry mandated reduced prices at the start of August as part of its plan to expand internet access across …

SEATTLE: On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult them into Amazon’s singular way of working. They are told to forget the “poor habits” they learned at previous jobs, one employee recalled. When they “hit the wall” from the unrelenting pace, there is only one solution: “Climb the wall,” others reported. To be the best …

BENGALURU: Maya Rai shops online when she’s bored at work. She clips through the fashion pages of e-commerce portals, between assignments and accounts, pausing only to focus on an outfit, zooming in on details, carefully reading descriptions before cross-checking the writing with the accompanying picture. Until recently, when she added an extra click to her online shopping sprees. READ ALSO: …

Over the past year, Delhi-based entrepreneur Kavita C has found a friend in Massachusetts. She chats with the 15-year-old schoolboy twice a week, showing him the mango and banana trees that shade her farmhouse and the occasional dancing peacock on her webcam. He turns to her for advice on dinner and to boast about his family vacation to Venice. Theirs …

Today, everyone has a wide variety of technology in their homes. It seems impossible to live even one day without the technology that makes our lives so much easier every day. There is, however, one potential issue that a lot of people do not consider with their home tech. Security is a major issue with all types of technology. Even …

Straight out of the box, your Pebble Watch is a blank slate. This is for a very good reason. The generic smartwatch, with its polycarbonate casing and adaptive OS, was made to be completely customizable. Its creators expect you to download a tonne of apps that make your Pebble your own, so they ship you an empty canvas on which …

Windows 10 installations in a lot of places are showing up with an error message – ‘Something happened’. While it is quite clear that something indeed happened, it doesn’t tell you what happened. Moreover, making things worse, the second line of the message telling you what happened also says, ‘something happened’. We have so far been lucky enough with our …