Kerala governement ‘Likes’ Netizen Police on FB

It seems the State government ‘Likes’ Netizen Police, a group on the Facebook.The group in the social networking site has become a movement strong enough to make the State Government take notice of it. The group has many stories of online frauds and cyber crimes that the State Government is now actively following them up.“Reports on the basis of complaints lodged at the group are being prepared, which will be forwarded to the cyber cell. Cases will be registered against those found committing online crimes,” Minister for Home Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan told The Hindu.

Facebook’s e-mail switch draws flak

Social networking website Facebook yet again succeeded in angering a large section of its 900 million privacy-conscious users over the weekend when it surreptitiously switched many of their profile e-mail addresses with a @facebook.com domain address.Many users who had e-mail addresses from Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail, would have discovered on Monday that their profile now showed a @facebook.com address instead. While the option to revert to the external e-mail address exists, it requires tweaking of their profile information display settings. Users also have the option to hide the @facebook.com address.

Microsoft to buy Skype: report

Microsoft is on the verge of a deal to buy Skype, in a multi-billion-dollar acquisition that would be its biggest ever, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.The software company would reportedly pay between $7-8 billion for the internet telephone company, the report said.The price appears to be part of a bidding war — Skype has reportedly also been in talks with Google and Facebook.

Facebook sharing sending readers to big news sites

Facebook is influencing what news gets read online as people use the Internet’s most popular hangout to share and recommend content.That’s one of the key findings from a study on the flow of traffic to the Web’s 25 largest news destinations. The study was released Monday by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Energy,water and urbanisation are the challenges in the next 5 year plan: PM

The planning commission held its full fledged meeting for the 12th five year plan wherein the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that planning commission and finance ministry should work together to ensure the fiscal consolidation vis a vis expansion of the economy.He hoped that economy would grow by 9 to 9.5 percent during the twelveth five year plan.