http://www.firstpost.com Firstpost Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:41:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.firstpost.com/world/google-contests-us-gag-order-as-gmail-users-freaked-by-us-spying-885417.html#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:08:46 +0000 Uttara Choudhury http://www.firstpost.com/?p=885417 Internet companies that handle sensitive personal data are worried that media coverage of NSA surveillance will make people feel less comfortable about sending personal emails and sharing photos. That would kill their business. ]]> http://www.firstpost.com/world/google-contests-us-gag-order-as-gmail-users-freaked-by-us-spying-885417.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/tech/google-aims-to-simplify-web-search-with-start-searching-india-campaign-882971.html#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:27:09 +0000 FP Staff http://www.firstpost.com/?p=882971 Google India launched a campaign which is aimed at simplifying the web for the country's Internet users. The campaign is called, ‘Start Searching India.’ ]]> http://www.firstpost.com/tech/google-aims-to-simplify-web-search-with-start-searching-india-campaign-882971.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/tech/for-wearable-computer-devices-longer-battery-life-will-be-key-882857.html#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:37:55 +0000 hidden http://www.firstpost.com/?p=882857 Longer-lasting batteries are crucial for a new crop of wearable computers whose rise may upend Apple and Google's dominance of mobile devices, two of the field's pioneers say. ]]> http://www.firstpost.com/tech/for-wearable-computer-devices-longer-battery-life-will-be-key-882857.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/world/nsa-leaker-edward-snowden-a-spy-for-china-or-whistleblower-881105.html#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:48:32 +0000 Uttara Choudhury http://www.firstpost.com/?p=881105 Snowden who revealed US spy programs track phone and Internet messages around the world in the hope of preventing terrorist attacks, scoffed Monday at the notion he's a spy for China. ]]> http://www.firstpost.com/world/nsa-leaker-edward-snowden-a-spy-for-china-or-whistleblower-881105.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/business/google-launches-product-listing-ads-in-india-for-better-shopping-experience-878191.html#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:20:44 +0000 hidden http://www.firstpost.com/?p=878191 Everyday, millions of shoppers use Google search to research and discover products to purchase online and offline, and this new format connects users to rich product-information like looks, price and brands, Google India said in a statement]]> http://www.firstpost.com/business/google-launches-product-listing-ads-in-india-for-better-shopping-experience-878191.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/tech/google-has-big-plans-to-make-child-pornography-inaccessible-876973.html#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:32:56 +0000 FP Staff http://www.firstpost.com/?p=876973 Google joins other big tech companies such as Microsoft and who are also actively taking measures to curb the sharing and spread of images and videos of children being sexually abused.]]> http://www.firstpost.com/tech/google-has-big-plans-to-make-child-pornography-inaccessible-876973.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/tech/project-loon-how-goolge-will-use-baloons-to-provide-affordable-internet-to-remote-areas-873567.html#comments Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:51:15 +0000 hidden http://www.firstpost.com/?p=873567 Developed in the secretive X lab that came up with a driverless car and web-surfing eyeglasses, the flimsy helium-filled inflatables beam the Internet down to earth as they sail past on the wind.If successful, the technology might allow countries to leapfrog the expense of laying fiber cable, dramatically increasing Internet usage in places such as Africa and Southeast Asia.]]> http://www.firstpost.com/tech/project-loon-how-goolge-will-use-baloons-to-provide-affordable-internet-to-remote-areas-873567.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/tech/thousands-of-iranian-gmail-users-hacked-on-eve-of-polls-says-google-870623.html#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:00:22 +0000 hidden http://www.firstpost.com/?p=870623 "For almost three weeks, we have detected and disrupted multiple email-based phishing campaigns," Eric Grosse, Google Inc.'s vice-president for security engineering, wrote in a post on Google's blog.]]> http://www.firstpost.com/tech/thousands-of-iranian-gmail-users-hacked-on-eve-of-polls-says-google-870623.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/tech/uk-lawmaker-slams-google-accuses-it-of-dodging-taxes-868087.html#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:47:24 +0000 FP Staff http://www.firstpost.com/?p=868087 The company's highly contrived tax arrangement has no purpose other than to enable the company to avoid UK corporation tax," she said.]]> http://www.firstpost.com/tech/uk-lawmaker-slams-google-accuses-it-of-dodging-taxes-868087.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/world/iran-gmail-users-targeted-in-pre-election-hacking-campaign-google-867689.html#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:22:09 +0000 hidden http://www.firstpost.com/?p=867689 Tens of thousands of Gmail accounts belonging to Iranian users have been targeted in an extensive hacking campaign in the weeks leading up to the country's closely watched presidential elections, said Google. ]]> http://www.firstpost.com/world/iran-gmail-users-targeted-in-pre-election-hacking-campaign-google-867689.html/feed 0