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March 14th, 2009 NDA to use information technology for development: Advani NEW DELHI - BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani on Saturday said that, if voted to power, his government would use Information Technology as an important tool to bring about drastic changes in various fields. "If the country gives us an opportunity then we will utilize the IT in social, financial, administration, health and educational fields," Advani said.

February 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Rs.70 billion (Rs.7,000 crore) accounting fraud at Satyam computer Services was not a corporate scam but a 'governmental scandal', senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani said.

January 28th, 2009 BANGKOK - About 2,300 websites have been blocked for not showing respect to the monarchy, Justice Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhage said Thursday. On Jan 8, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva tasked the ministries of justice, the information and communication technology, and defence with forming a committee to clamp down on the websites having words or images insulting the monarchy, according to the Bangkok Post website.

March 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday unveiled its IT Vision Document, which lays down how the party plans to use Information Technology (IT) as an important tool for change if voted to power. The party's prime ministerial candidate L.K.

April 17th, 2009 The use of internet for campaigning, being tested in India in the ongoing general elections, will emerge as a powerful medium when the world's largest democracy is ready for the next polls in 2009, concludes a leading tech publication.'Cyber campaigning may come of age in 2009 elections if politicians see marginal gains by using Internet and mobile technologies,' says Ibrahim Ahmad, group editor of Dataquest, which has done a report in its e-governance magazine. 'Their faith in e-governance could go up significantly.' The magazine says parties are now moving to the next stage - from static websites to interactive net strategies by building online communities and social networking sites to actively use technology to reach out to the electorate.

January 16th, 2009 L.K. Advani's website proclaims that he puts the nation first, the party second and 'self last'. For the present, however, the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate is probably concerned more about himself than about the first two.

January 10th, 2009 BEIJING - China has shut down another 50 websites for containing pornography and lewd content, bringing the total number of blocked sites to 91 since last Thursday. Authorities have vowed to beef up crackdown efforts in the following days and urged law-breakers to voluntarily turn themselves in to local public security departments.

October 4th, 2005 India’s global image and reputation is rapidly growing. Top Internet decision makers, PIR, have decided to make India a hub for the technical backend of all new websites, a move that is expected to significantly reduce time to resolve websites.

January 13th, 2009 BEIJING - China Wednesday shut down 84 additional websites for containing 'pornographic and lewd content' in its month-long campaign against online porn, bringing the number of blocked sites to 175. The Special Operation Office said in a statement that government departments would step up efforts to continue to close illegal websites and 'severe penalties' would be meted out to violators of law.

August 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The hottest thing on the Internet is not social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter, but Flickr-the popular photo-sharing portal - and the proof is: it has topped TIME's list of the best 50 websites this year. One of the noticeable trends in this year's list, which was released this week, was on-demand video services, like YouTube, Vimeo and US services Hulu and Netflix.

August 1st, 2009 LONDON - Amateur scientists have apparently been cooking up mutant microbes at home with help from popular websites Ebay and YouTube. The "biohackers" were said to have assembled makeshift gene laboratories in their own homes and were creating genetically-engineered bugs.

January 5th, 2009 BANGKOK - Thai officials Tuesday said the government recently blocked 2,300 websites for allegedly insulting the monarchy and is seeking court approval to shut down another 400. 'We are preparing to ask for court approval to shut down an additional 400 sites,' said Thailand's Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) Minister Ranongruk Suwanchawee.

August 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Popular social networking websites' users could be leaking their personal information to tracking sites, warn researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). They have found that the practices of many popular social networking sites typically make that personal information available to companies that track Web users' browsing habits, and allow them to link anonymous browsing habits to specific people.

August 31st, 2009 LONDON - 'Twittering', 'hmm', and 'heh' are among the 267 words that have been added to this year's Collins English Dictionary, all thanks to teenagers who use such words on social networking websites. With teenagers increasingly using these grunts and sighs in words on Twitter and other such websites, the need to find spellings for sounds that were traditionally used only in speech has also spawned "meh" (an expression of dissatisfaction) and "mwah" (the sound of a noisy kiss).

May 15th, 2009 How many times have we talked about sleazy marketing strategies and lazy branding? Well, there are some who get away with cheap thrills like Sprite (whose only motto was to devalue Coke's rival Pepsi by mocking others), but then again, there are some who can give us the shock of our lives. Take Vodafone for example.