Mittal Jr bets on Hike
Hyderabad: It would have been quite easy for the son of one of the top ranking entrepreneurs in India to take up a plum board seat. But not for Kavin Bharti Mittal, who would like tread the same path
Teens hooked to texting
Hyderabad: Short Message Service (SMS) or ‘texting’ as it is popularly known, is now integral to the lives of teenagers. They are constantly texting — updating status, sharing emotions and opinions,
‘Phishing’ calls on rise
Calls and messages about fake awards and lottery prizes are troubling the public. Many people have received calls and messages from unknown numbers saying that the receiver has been selected for an aw
Pesky SMSes take new avatars
After a tired day at work, as soon as you sit the sack and begin to snore, the sms ‘ping’ wakes you up. You panic wondering what kind of an emergency it could be only to find smses like, Do you want t
Use of social media to inflame communal tension worrying: PM
Voicing concern over deterioration of the communal situation in the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the use of social media and other mode of communication to aggravate such
8,000 threat SMSes: Mastermind Moosa held
The man who stands accused sent a jaw-dropping 8,000 threat SMSes and caused last week’s exodus of north-easterners from Bengaluru has been arrested.
Pakistan plans bigger cyber attack?
A highly-classified government report on the recent incident of what has been described as the worst cyber attack on the country has said that it should not be treated as an 'isolated incident' as thi
Ex-scribe detained for 'sending threat SMSes'
A former journalist, who allegedly forwarded threat SMSes pertaining to the recent incidents in Assam and Myanmar, was detained on Thursday for questioning, police said.
Identified as Shanawaz Hussa
Government to set up area-specific SMS monitoring system
The government is putting in place a new system to allow blocking offensive and inflammatory content
through SMSes and MMSes in affected states and regions alone.
Once the security and technical cha
Govt hikes SMS limit to 20 per day
After checking the use of SMSes to prevent spreading of rumours which had led to mass exodus of north-eastern people from certain states, the government on Thursday increased the number of SMSes to 20