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Facebook, Google has jumped on the bandwagon of polls in India, the world's biggest democracy, by setting up an election portal that gives all polls and politics related news to users in India. The US-based search engine major Thursday launched its election portal which also provides information on political parties. "Election portal will serve as a one-stop destination to help voters get answers to their elections and voting-related queries to make an informed decision," Google said in official blog. In the first phase of the launch, the portal will cover news information and videos related to state elections in Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Mizoram covering news from leading publications and broadcasters both in English and Hindi. Users will also be able to watch content hosted by YouTube partners on elections and links to Hangouts done by political representatives in the recent past. Earlier this month, social networking...

Three under-sea cables connecting India to Europe and the Middle-East suffered from multiple cuts last week. BSNL has released a statement revealing that its Internet capacity has dropped by 21% thanks to fiber cuts in three undersea cables that are responsible for global connectivity. According to a story by NDTV, it’s still not clear if the cable cuts have resulted in sub-par Internet connectivity for BSNL users since the BSNL customers we spoke to did not notice any anomalies in Internet speeds and connectivity. Two of the undersea cables that suffered from cuts are managed by Tata Communications- the IWEWE cable system connects India to Europe via the Middle East and the SMW4 cable system connects South East Asia to Europe. In a statement, Tata Communications confirmed the cable cut and said that some customers could have noticed service disruptions last Wednesday. We had  earlier done a story  on how these under-sea cable cuts could have been responsib...

Government has issued directions to all  Internet service providers   to disable any inflammatory or hateful content that targets the community for northeastern states.   "Based on complaints regarding content that's inflammatory, hateful and inciting violence targeting  North East Community , DIT has issued an advisory to all intermediaries," Union Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology   Sachin Pilot   said.   The advisory based on terms and provisions of   IT Act and Rules asks them to take action for disabling all such content on priority, the minister said.

Microsoft made a big move today by pulling the plug on Hotmail and replacing it with a fresher, cleaner, simpler email service called  Outlook.com . Within just a few hours of its birth, Outlook.com   witnessed 1 million sign-ups. So what is making the newly launched e-mail service popular? We find out. Signing up for the service is pretty basic and you're good to go after a few steps. A note of advice here, captcha is case sensitive while verifying your account. Once in, you're greeted by a simple blue and white themed Inbox. The colour is set by default and you can always head to the settings menu to change it. Overall, the design incorporates Metro style Windows 8 touches. You can now link social accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Flickr. Apart from that, you can also access a horizontal menu for your Mail, Contacts, Calendar and SkyDrive by clicking on the Outlook icon.  Twitter integration allows you to tweet to your friends from  Ou...

Days of hardbound and paperback could soon end as e-books take over! With growing popularity of virtual books which can be downloaded on book reading devices, the real paper books have taken a back seat, the 'Daily Mail' reported. The online retailer 'Amazon' which started selling downloadable books in the UK in August 2010, has sold 114 internet book downloads for every 100 print books this year. Amazon's eReader devices, the Kindle range, have been a huge seller in Britain despite the fact consumers pay up to 70 per cent more than those in the USA. "We hit this milestone in the United States less than four years after introducing Kindle, so to reach this landmark after just two years in the UK is remarkable and shows how quickly UK readers are embracing Kindle," vice president of Kindle EU Jorrit Van der Meulen was quoted as saying. "As a result of the success of Kindle, we're selling more books than ever before on behalf of ...