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By  Daniel Sperling Google  has announced that it will now display concert listings when users search for their favourite bands.  As of yesterday (February 23), results pages for musical acts show dates at nearby venues and links to sites offering tickets for sale.  Google product manager Kavi Goel said of the update in a  blog post : "To me, music is best heard live, so it's always exciting to find out that a band I love is coming to town. 

Bloomberg: Google Inc. will allow a "do-not- track" button to be embedded in its Web browser, letting users restrict the amount of data that can be collected about them. The world's most popular search engine will join with other Web companies to support the anti-tracking initiative, which prevents an individual's browsing history from being used to tailor ads, according to an e-mailed statement today.

Source :  NYT   Amazon.com removed more than 4,000 e-books from its site this week after it tried and failed to get them more cheaply, a muscle-flexing move that is likely to have significant repercussions for the digital book market. Amazon is under pressure from Wall Street to improve its anemic margins. At the same time, it is committed to selling e-books as cheaply as possible as a way to preserve the dominance of its Kindle devices.

By  Sebastian Anthony Update here . By the end of 2012, Google will launch a pair of Android-powered, augmented reality, head-up display (HUD) glasses. Anonymous Google employees, speaking to The New York Times, say that the glasses will resemble a pair of Oakley Thumps (pictured), will have 3G or 4G connectivity, a forward-facing camera, GPS, and a full array of movement sensors. They will cost “around the price of current smartphones.”

BANGALORE Wipro Infotech on Tuesday launched a range of ultra-portable notebooks, including the country's slimmest 14-inch ultrabook Aero Ultra with a thickness of about 19.3mm. The e.go Aero range comprises Aero Alpha, Aero Book and Aero Ultra, and costs between Rs 39,900 and Rs 49,000. Mr Ashok Tripathy, Vice-President and Business Head, Wipro Systems & Technology and Infrastructure Availability Services, told  Business Line  that the company expects the Aero range of products to contribute about 35 per cent to Wipro Infotech's revenues. Currently, the laptops and desktops together contribute about 33 per cent to Wipro's revenues from India.

In a bid to have an iron grip over instances of terror activities planned on the internet, major internet content providers Yahoo, Gmail and others were asked to route all emails accessed in India through servers located in the country. This applies to even those mail accounts registered outside the country. The matter was highlighted when security agencies were unable to have real-time access to some emails that was registered outside the country but were opened in India.

San Francisco, Feb 21, 2012, Reuters : Faceebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg Josh Buckley, Chief Executive of an online gaming start-up, is looking forward to next month’s Game Developers Conference, particularly for parties with industry A-listers. But, Buckley, who will turn 20 this week, may be turned away from the parties because he is not old enough to drink. Such are the dilemmas facing the ever-younger entrepreneurs that Silicon Valley investors are backing these days. While little data on the phenomenon exists, venture capitalists say they are funding more chief executives under age 21 than ever before.