INDUSTRY NEWS Media circles welcome changes to Cyber Crimes Law Electronic media and press freedom activists on Monday welcomed the government's decision to amend the recently endorsed Information Systems Crimes Law, calling the amendments a step in the right direction. The amendments to the law, also called the 'Cyber Crimes Law', came in the wake of extensive criticism from the online media sector and from human rights advocates, who said the law in its previous form would have left news websites vulnerable to capricious prosecutions and lawsuits. read more Source: Zawya   Facebook inches past Google for Web users' minutes US Web surfers are spending more time socializing on Facebook than searching with Google, according to new data from researchers at comScore Inc. read more Source: The Economic Times   Google Campaign to Build Up Its Display Ads Google, the online search ad giant that rarely advertises, has decided it needs to advertise the fact that it is in the online display advertising business. It has picked one of the most crowded advertising venues to get the message out - Times Square. read more Source: The New York Times   'Hackers make 57,000 fake websites weekly' About 57,000 seemingly legitimate websites, booby-trapped by hackers spring up on Internet each week. read more Source: Zee News   Twitter Introduces New Types of Ads Advertisers will soon be able to pay for Twitter to suggest that people follow their accounts, and next year Twitter advertising will expand to small businesses, which will be able to place ads using a self-serve system. read more Source: The New York Times   Mobile phone users prefer using handsets for net surfing to PCs According to a report, half of the users in their 30s accessed the web using their mobile device while at work or at home even though they had access to a computer. The behaviour comes as a result of the thriving smartphone market, which got a boost with the release of the iPhone more than two years ago. read more Source: Yahoo News   50% online consumers bank on social media sites More than 8 out of 10 Indian online consumers plan to buy products on the net in the next 12 months, while a quarter said they spend about 11 per cent of their monthly shopping budget on online purchases. read more Source: Business Standard   5.4 million internet users in rural India by 2010: Survey The survey reveals that 85 per cent of internet users in rural India used emails in 2009, while 67 per cent of the rural users accessed music and video over the internet. About 48 per cent of the people claimed to have used the internet for educational research and 42 per cent claimed to have used it for general information search. read more Source: Aloo Techie   Twitter Quietly Setting Traffic Records People worried that after Twitter's days of hyper growth the Company could lose its footing and fall over. Those concerns seem to be overblown, as the Company is adding piles of new users and retaining old ones as well, to result in steady growth. Twitter has over 145 million users and growing exponentially. read more Source: TNW   Pro-privacy social network launched as Facebook rival Four US students who launched a new social networking site called 'Diaspora' are stressing its ease of use and stricter privacy policy, in a bid to make waves in a field dominated by Facebook. read more Source: Yahoo News   Nielsen eyes anonymous data to track online ads Nielsen is working on a new way to track online ads that will be more accurate and quicker than today's methods, it promises. Currently in development, the Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings will combine a couple of different ways of showing advertisers how well their ads are doing. read more Source: Cnet News   Online lead generation 'accounts for 42% of all consumer sales' Econsultancy's Online Lead Generation (B2C) Report, sponsored by international lead generation specialist Clash-Media for the fourth year running, also found that marketers are continuing to increase their budgets for this activity. read more Source: Netimperative   Site of the week How many friends do you know? A site called "How many friends do you know", where you are tested to show how many of your Facebook 'friends' you ACTUALLY know. A smart way to test familiarity of our 'virtual' life. Check your own score! Visit Site Idea of the week Uniqlo Lucky Counter A new one from Uniqlo - Lucky Counter. You tweet about a product and its price will come down for everybody. Impressive social interaction around the whole thing. Visit Site Industry News Compiled by All India Technologies Disclaimer: We do not claim ownership over the videos / images / articles appearing in the Industry News section. They are used for information purposes only and in no way are meant to claim ownership over any of the above mentioned. All photos, videos, articles, etc. are copyrighted to their original owners. Industry News is compiled by All India Technologies.

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