San Francisco - Yahoo Inc was to announce at least 1,000 job cuts, possibly as early as Tuesday when it releases its quarterly earnings report, two newspapers reported.

The job cuts would be at least as many as the 1,000 jobs axed in January by the internet portal, which is struggling to compete with Google Inc for online advertising dollars, The Wall Street Journal and California's San Jose Mercury News reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.

Melbourne, Oct 20 : A teenage hacker, belonging to underground group ‘Anonymous’, has confessed to have hacked Church of Scientology websites, say justice officials.

According to the Justice Department, Dmitriy Guzner, 18, of New Jersey will plead guilty to computer hacking, reports News. com. au.

He was accused of allegedly launching a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Scientology websites in January this year.

In DDOS attacks, websites are inundated with a large volume of malicious internet traffic, which make the sites inaccessible to legitimate users.

The information filed in federal court in Los Angeles revealed that Guzner described himself as a member of "Anonymous.”

Melbourne, October 19 : The popular social networking site Facebook has come under fire for its new layout after three million of its members called to boycott it.

The protest that started with a million members and had formed a community by the name of ‘1,000,000 Against The New Facebook’, has managed to almost trebled its members drawing support of 2.8 million users.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the change was a must to be in sync with the amount of information its users were posting.

On Tuesday, a very astonishing fact was put forward by the researchers of the U.S. that the memories of the middle aged and older adults can be kept intact and sharp, if they regularly search the internet. 

To reach this conclusion, the researchers at University of California Los Angeles scrutinized people engaged in searching the Web, while at the same time their brain activity was recorded with the help of functional magnetic resonance imaging scans. 

Washington, October 15: For freshers, social networking site ‘Facebook’ is the best way to ease anxiety and loneliness during the crucial first year, shows a new study.

According to the researchers at the University of Leicester, a high percentage of freshers used the Internet to smooth the settling-in process by using social networking sites and podcasting.

The survey questioned 221 first year students and found 55 percent had registered at the social networking site before entering the university while 43 percent had joined straight away after starting university.

Washington (dpa) - Web-based e-mail services may get most of the attention these days, but traditional desktop-based e-mail remains indispensable for most. That's in part because of history - people are still accustomed to downloading their e-mail into a traditional application - and in part because many have grown dependent upon the additional features that have come to be seen as essential to e-mail programs but are lacking in Web-based e-mail: contact management, calendaring, and more.