2. Google bans phone apps used in spying
• A controversial mobile phone application, which helps a
cell phone user read the text messages of others secretly,
has been removed from sale by internet search engine
Google.
• Once installed on a mobile phone, the Android phone
application automatically creates carbon copies of
incoming text messages and forwards them to a selected
number - prompting fears it could be used by jealous
lovers and even work colleagues to snoop on private
messages.
3. NEW DEAL FROM NEW DELHI
Obama:We want access to your markets
• MUMBAI on Sunday saw a glimpse of the ‘wow factor’ that helped Barack
Obama become President in 2008 as he mingled and spoke to a young
audience at St Xavier’s College.
• Addressing an audience of 300 students at one of Mumbai’s best-known
colleges, President Obama was candid in acknowledging that the world has
changed and so has the US
• We have to negotiate this change in relationships... in the ’60s and the ’70s,
America could be open even if the economies of our trade partners were
not open
4. Wal-Mart urges India to open retail
sector
• The world's number one retailer Wal-Mart said on Thursday it
could open "hundreds of stores" in India if the government
opened up the country's giant retail sector to foreign investors.
• Foreign groups such as Wal-Mart can currently only be
wholesalers and must partner with domestic firms to sell in
India.
• India has recently kicked off a public debate on allowing
foreign supermarkets to open stores in India, a key reform
pushed for by economists seeking greater liberalisation in the
economy
5. Tatas to call back Nanos to fit safety add-ons
• Tata motors said they would ask Nano
customers to bring back their cars to add
safety devices free of cost to prevent tge
vehicles from catching fire.
• Company officials said these are the
additional protection being provided, else
Nano is quite safe.
