London, Oct 4 : Within weeks of Google’s Map Maker launch, tens of thousands of Indians have marked details of their cities, towns and villages, many of them previously blank spaces in even the most up-to-date atlases.

Map Maker, created by an Indian, Lalitesh Katragadda, is a tool that would allow users annotate and amend satellite images to produce useful maps. 

Washington, Oct 3: Bullying has become a common phenomenon in cyberspace with nearly 72 percent of teens reporting at least one incident of cyber bullying during the past year, says a new study.

Online bullying was associated with increased distress, as well as with in school bullying, with 85 percent of respondents who reported at least one online incident also reporting being bullied in school.

London, Sept 29: In a bid to recruit the next generation of spies, UK’s Secret Intelligence Service MI6 has launched a series of online adverts on the social networking website Facebook.

The advertisements are aimed at attracting potential spies from all kinds of backgrounds.

While, the intelligence agency had traditionally been recruiting members from the country's elite universities, this time it has targeted the popular social networking site.

"A number of public channels are used to promote job opportunities in the organisation and Facebook is a recent example of this," the Guardian quoted a Foreign Office spokeswoman as saying.

London, September 29: With the development of a network of supercomputers, known as the Grid, the speed at which information is downloaded to personal computers would be revolutionized, heralding the dawn of a new internet age.

According to a report in the Times, the power of the Grid is such that downloading films should take only seconds, not hours, and processing music albums just a single second.

London, September 27: British children who are kept indoors for longer duration are more prone to online predators than their European counterparts, claims a new survey.

According to the study by co-author Dr Leslie Haddon, of the EU Kids Online project, worried parents, in order to safeguard their children against street dangers, are exposing their kids to dangerous online situations at home.