Internet

New York, November 7 -- According to a recent survey by the Pew Internet and American Life, people who use mobile phones and Internet are linked to a more diverse discussion network and have better social life.

Mountain View, CA, November 6 -- Your memory might fail, but Google's does not. Google has introduced the Google Dashboard, a one-stop shop to see how much Google really knows about you.

New York, November 5 -- Apple's official declaration of having 100,000 applications fails to impress.

New York, November 5 -- Undeterred by the legal action from The Beatles' music label, an online retailer is offering downloads of the entire music catalog by the band.

Washington, November 1 -- The Obama administration is gearing up to deal with the long-brewing issue of cyber security.

Beijing, November 1 -- Chinese authors claim search engine giant Google Inc. has violated international copyright standards by scanning Chinese works into its electronic database without authorization.

New York, November 1 -- Google has accidentally revealed statistics from its Google Voice service.

San Francisco, October 31 -- Social networking site Facebook was awarded $711 million in civil damages against the “spam king” Sanford Wallace, who accessed Facebook accounts without obtaining permission.

New York, October 30 -- Relaxing strict rules concerning domain names, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit body that regulates the functioning of Internet, has approved Friday the use of non Latin characters like, Hebrew, Korean Chinese, Hindi in the domain names.

New York, October 30 -- Internet today has revolutionized lives, but in the process it has traveled miles. As Internet turns 40, let’s take a walk down the memory lane to see how it all began.