A Bangalore-based IT professional, Laxman Kailas K has landed in the police net after he allegedly uploaded a blasphemous matter about Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji on the social networking site Orkut. Kailas has been working in a giant information technology (IT) firm in Bangalore since 2001 and hails from Tamil Nadu. The cyber cell of city police (Pune) was investigating the crime for the last ten months on a complaint registered by Dhiraj Ghate (32) of Ambilodha colony with the Vishrambaug police, Pune on November 11, 2006. On that day, infuriated members of various political parties (mainly BJP)and organisations forcibly closed down city’s cyber cafes. How Cyber crime squad of the police traced Laxman ? Contacted Google Office in Banglore for the IP Address. ...

  Reliance Entertainment Pvt Ltd, a company of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has launched its Video on Demand online services, Bigflicks.com. It mainly targets NRIs residing in United States, Canada, UK, Australia, West Asia and Europe. BigFlicks currently have around 200 movie titles in Hindi, English and various Indian languages. It will offer 1,000 movies for downloading within 2-3 months and 2,000 titles within 1 year. Cost for downloading a movie varies from $4.49 to $19.99. The revenue model is based on downloading on rent or owning a title without advertisement, while the other model offer free online streaming with advertisements. These advertisements could be in the beginning of the movie or in the middle of the film. The ...

Forget about going to a planetarium. Google has announced a nifty extension to its Google Earth expanded its view which allows users to scan different areas in the universe, from distant galaxies light years away, to constellations, planets and other extraterrestrial wonders. It will also help you in learning the lifecycle of a star and different kinds of galaxies. You must download the new version of Google Earth to get the features, then you're on your way to checking out planets in motions and supernova explosions.The add-on is available on the latest version of Google Earth, and hitting the "Switch between Sky and Earth" button on the top toolbar immediately offers an upward view with seven optional layers: Constellations Backyard astronomy (info ...

  Microsoft has launched an experimental demonstration site Tafiti that combines Live Search with Microsoft Silverlight. The demonstration is to show the strength of Windows Live Suite (especially Live Search) and Microsoft Silverlight (latest release to counter Adobe Flash) Tafiti uses MS Silverlight 1.0 RC and AJAX to provide rich, cross-platform user experiences and leverages the following Microsoft services on the backend: Live Search for Web, Books, Blogs, News, and Images Live ID Live Spaces What Microsoft means by Tafiti? Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share ...

Hackers have attacked the United Nations official website, forcing some sections to be taken offline. The UN was forced to take down the affected pages for repair. The slogans accusing the US and Israel of killing children appeared on the pages reserved for statements from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Several web pages of the subsite for comments were also affected and those sections of the UN website were taken offline temporarily.  A message appearing on the site early on Sunday said: "Hacked By kerem125 M0sted and Gsy That is CyberProtest Hey Ysrail and USA dont kill children and other people Peace for ever No war." The group of hackers, who have previously referred to themselves as "Turkish defacers", ...

Sherlyn Chopra, aka Meghna, aka Mona Chopra, desperate to get rid of the "sleazy actress" tag, is disturbed with the images of porn stars/escort girls on the website of her name. In a bid to sort out the issue, Sheryln Chopra successfully traced the owner of the website, who is Pankaj Gupta, and tried in vain to dissuade him from maintaining the website. “I called and requested him to amicably hand over the unlawfully acquired domain name to me. He refused and threatened he would not budge even if I approached the police,” says Sherlyn. Sherlyn Chopra says Pankaj is a resident of Anand Vihar (Delhi) and runs an escort site under the name of ‘Westhaven’ and ‘West Haven Services’ on the internet forum, Digital ...

The rebel Indian Cricket League has done something which the BCCI, the world's richest cricket Board, is still struggling to do -- launch its official website. ICL, the much talked about venture of Subash Chandra's Essel Group which has already sounded the alarm bells in the BCCI, today announced the launch of their website www.indiancricketleague.in to facilitate the entry of aspiring players. The website would help hundreds of aspirants to now apply directly for the twenty20 League proposed to be held in October. Business Head of ICL, Himanshu Mody, said in a press release, We have been getting thousands of mails, letters and queries from aspiring cricketers who don't know how to apply for the ICL. With the website, ...

Microsoft has launched the new Windows Live Home beta portal. At the moment it offers only basic functionality, ie minimal integration and access to the Windows Live services. It is featuring modules that allow you to monitor and access the Windows Live services that matter to you. A few examples of this cross-service integration are: Providing access to your emails and contacts through Windows Live Hotmail Showing the upcoming calendar items from your Windows Live Calendar Allowing blog and photo publishing direct to your Windows Live Space Showing the status of Windows Live OneCare installed on your home pc Screenshot of Windows Live Home Beta Portal Interestingly, the background of the webpage changes according to the weather and time.  ...

The code name shuffle of Microsoft. Microsoft's long-rumored online storage offering which has been in beta for a little while, has once again changed it name. Originally code-named Live Drive, it became Live Folders and today got its final name, Windows Live SkyDrive. Microsoft's Live strategy has always been confusing.  Live Vs not-Live in Microsoft's array of online services is still not clear to me. Recently they changed the name of their next Windows operating system as well, originally code-named Windows Blackcomb, which became Vienna and now Windows 7. There is also a significant update to the service, extending the basic functionality that was criticised somewhat at the start of the initial beta. New features include: Drag and drop ...

French police briefly detained a 16-year-old boy who posted an unauthorised translation of the latest Harry Potter book online "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" on the internet. The French teen translator, a high school student from Aix-en-Provence in southern France, accomplised a mystifying feat in translating all 759 pages of the book within days of its 21st July 2007 release. He was picked up following a complaint from the Paris police,  but later released on the same day after questioning. The boy could face charges for violating intellectual property rights. Police has shut down the site where the boy posted the translation. Marie Leroy-Lena, spokeswoman of Rowling and Gallimard Jeunesse ( the publishing house), said official Harry Potter translator Jean-Francois Menard is still working on ...