SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter will honour requests from users who do not want their online behaviour tracked, the company said on Thursday, in contrast with web companies such Google Inc and Facebook Inc whose business models rely heavily on collecting user data. Twitter said it will officially support “Do Not Track,” a standardised privacy initiative that has been heavily promoted by the US Federal Trade Commissi ...

Zuckerberg marked the debut of his company's shares at the company's Silicon Valley campus, symbolically ringing the opening bell for stock trading on Friday morning. SAN FRANCISCO, USA: The historic initial public offering (IPO) of Facebook Inc did not go as planned on Friday, as the social networking company’s sky-high valuation combined with trading glitches left the stock languishing near its offering p ...

A new technology involving a chip planted in the brain, successfully helped two paralyzed people control a robot arm with their thoughts. The system involves a tiny implanted sensor to record brain signals and computer software and hardware to turn these signals into commands to move the robotic arm. The sensor chip which is implanted into the motor cortex of the brain is a square of silicon about the size ...

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc will increase the size of its initial public offering by 25%, a source familiar with the matter said, and could raise as much as $16 billion as strong investor demand for a share of the No.1 social network trumps debate about the company’s long-term potential to make money. Those concerns over revenue growth were underscored earlier on Tuesday, when General Motors said i ...

More research is needed, but our work is a promising first step toward the development of personal power generators, actuators for use in nano-devices, and other devices based on viral electronics."   Dr. Seung-Wuk Lee of the University of California, Berkeley A team of US researchers in California have used viruses to build tiny devices that gather energy from mechanical forces and convert it into ele ...

The Language Immersion for Chrome browser extension. Photo: AFP A new experimental Language Immersion browser extension for Chrome wants to help you learn a second language by simulating the experience of being immersed within the language. The tool uses Google Translate to automatically translate words and phrases on the websites you browse from English into a foreign language. “Depending on the language y ...

Japan says it is set to put four satellites into orbit from a remote pad in southwestern part of the Asian country. Spokesman Reiichi Tanaka at Japan's space agency said Tuesday that a South Korean multipurpose KOMPSAT-3 satellite is among the satellites waiting for launch on Friday. KOMPSAT-3, which is assembled by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, will monitor the environment, ocean and agriculture. ...

AEDB official says under Rural Electrification Project 3,000 solar home systems provided to 49 villages in Tharparker. ISLAMABAD:More than 30 alternative energy projects, which will generate over 1,500MW power for the national grid by next year, are in the pipeline. Giving details, an official at the Alternate Development Energy Board (AEDB) on Sunday said the wind power projects, which are in advanced stag ...

Devices can be used to access Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks directly or through Nokia Browser. KARACHI: In a bid to capture the lower end of the market, Nokia launched two new mobile phones — the Nokia 110 (Rs 3,800) and Nokia 112 (Rs 4,000) — in Karachi on Tuesday. Designed to appeal to “young, urban consumers”, the devices can be used to access Facebook, Twitter and other social media ...

This screen shot shows a portion of a Twitter blog post. LONDON: The Internet is not a law-free zone, the British government’s top law officer warned Twitter users Friday, adding that he would not hesitate to take action over offending posts. Attorney General Dominic Grieve, the government’s chief legal advisor in England and Wales, spoke out following a series of high-profile court cases involving postings ...