Life Style/Techfile

  by Steven Morris Police chiefs are calling on users of online social networking sites to be the “eyes and ears” of officers to help combat the menace of ‘trolls’ who bully or abuse via the web. Police forces across the UK are investin...

Google’s self-driven cars will soon be appearing on Nevada roads after the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles approved the nation’s first autonomous vehicle licence. The move came after officials rode along on drives on highways, in Carson ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Internet security specialists have applied for a “.secure” domain that they plan to turn into an online safe zone where bad guys aren’t allowed. San Francisco-based Artemis was awaiting word from the Internet Corporation for Ass...

  WASHINGTON: More smartphones means more Americans are using the devices to get location information or to share their whereabouts with friends, a study showed. A Pew Internet & American Life Project report found 74 percent of US smartphone owner...

  By Farhad Manjoo Was Google’s snooping on home Wi-Fi users the work of a rogue software engineer? Was it a deliberate corporate strategy? Was it simply an honest-to-goodness mistake? And which of these scenarios should we wish for — which ...

  As Zhou Enlai would say, it’s always too early to predict the outcome of a revolution - but wherever it’s headed, the one that’s happening in the publishing world looks to have reached a point of no return. This week, the Publishers Asso...

by Tracy Grant Anne Curry opened the “Today” show recently with a tease that went like this: “Have you heard about the viral video Kony 2012? If not, your teenager has.” Indeed the only reason I knew about Invisible Children and Joseph Kon...

  By Rich Jaroslovsky For most of us, the paperless life remains just a dream. We’re awash in memos, documents, photos. It would be far more convenient, not to say environmentally friendly, if we could keep everything neatly organised and acce...

  By Ari Levy Silicon Valley is one of the few places where a 27-year-old Web entrepreneur can parlay a photo- sharing application with no known source of revenue into $1bn — in two years. Evidence of that came recently, when Facebook announc...

What’s new onthe app stores.Shakespeare’s The Tempest for iPad (iPad)Luminary Digital Media is the latest company looking to give Shakespeare an appy twist, with its new iPad version of The Tempest. It includes expert commentaries, a full-length ...