India’s leading IT brand Hewlett-Packard, commonly referred to as HP, has introduced its Accidental Damage Protection service under the HP Total Care programme in India.

San Francisco - Undermining widely held views about the divisive effects of the internet and cell phones, a new study claims that the use of modern communications devices is bringing families closer together by effectively turning them into online social networks.

The Pew Internet Report, which was released Sunday, surveyed 2,252 traditional "nuclear families" and found that families compensated for the increased stress of modern life by using cell phone calls, emails, and text messages to stay in touch.

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.”

London, Oct 19 : A computer program that can identify paedophiles, who pretend to be children on the Internet, is being developed by scientists at Lancaster University.

By analysing language and syntax used online, the new technology can reveal if an adult is masquerading as a child as part of the victim "grooming" process.

The scheme, known as Project Isis, will also be able to keep track of secret code words used by paedophiles as file names for child pornography.

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.