Hong Kong Plans To Use Children for Piracy Control

April 21st, 2009 Spokesman: Jackie Chan comments out of contextHONG KONG — Jackie Chan's comments that freedom may not be good for China were taken out of context, his spokesman said Tuesday, while Facebook users and Chinese scholars condemned the veteran actor on the Internet in a spreading backlash. The 55-year-old star of the "Rush Hour" action comedies caused a huge uproar after he told a business forum on Saturday that it may not be good for authoritarian China to become a free society.

April 4th, 2008 The "do no evil" mantra of Google is slowly fading into oblivion as Google, like any other large corporation, plans to axe 300 jobs from newly acquired DoubleClick Inc. This is the first time that Google has made significant job cuts.

June 7th, 2007 Today's newspaper reported a heart-warming story in a village in West Bengal who has adopted a widow with AIDS. She is allowed to freely mix with the families and even cuddle their children.

May 14th, 2006 I was watching a TV infomercial which argued in favor of HIV positive children attending schools with other HIV negative students. On the surface it appears the humanly thing to do but is it really logical (and humanly) to allow HIV+ students to attend normal schools? In school children are known to get into fights, bruises from various causes are common.

August 18th, 2005 Asia leads in world in total number of people using the internet. 34.5 % of the world's internet users are Asian.

September 13th, 2005 A 31 year old Dutchman returned from work to find a strange car in the drive of his home in Pieterburen, near Groningen. Two children were sitting on the back seat so the man asked them where their father was and was told that his father was inside, "robbing" the house.

August 11th, 2005 Research by McGill-affiliated Douglas Hospital Research Centre in Montreal demonstrated that mothers who breastfeed respond less to stressful situations than those who bottle-feed their children. These findings suggest these mothers may be better able to care for their children.

July 28th, 2005 Microsoft's effort to refuse access to updated versions of Windows Operating System has been foiled by hackers within 24 hours. Microsoft demanded that those who wanted Windows updates, other than security updates, will have to download an Active X program that sniffed their operating system to see if their OS copy had been pirated.

April 24th, 2009 Hollywood in showdown over DVD 'ripper' SAN FRANCISCO — Hollywood calls it "rent, rip and return" and contends it's one of the biggest technological threats to the movie industry's annual $20 billion DVD market — software that allows you to copy a film without paying for it. On Friday, industry lawyers urged a federal judge to bar RealNetworks Inc.

August 18th, 2006 The ambitious One Laptop Per Child program, which began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, to provide low-cost laptop computers to poor children around the world is about to take a big step forward. More than 500 children in Thailand are expected to receive the machines in October and November for quality testing and debugging.

July 31st, 2006 Popular social networking sites like such as MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, Friendster faces ban in US schools & libraries. The Deleting Online Predators Act tries to limit the access of paedophiles to the networking sites which have become hugely popular with minors.

June 20th, 2007 Attorney General Jim Hood said his office is reviewing 162 identifiable records of registered Missisippi sex offenders provided by MySpace. "MySpace has assured us that the sex offenders they reported to us have been removed from the site," said Hood.

May 14th, 2009 A look at economic developments around the globe A look at economic developments and stock market activity around the world Thursday: TOKYO — Electronics giant Sony Corp. reported its first annual net loss in 14 years and forecast a bigger loss this year, saying the pressure from sliding sales, competition in gadget prices and a strong yen was expected to continue.

August 14th, 2007 Online piracy is assuming alarming proportions and will continue to do so with the popularization of internet and better bandwidth availability to customers. Online piracy affects every material that can be moved online - music, video, books and software.

January 5th, 2007 The first batch of computers built for the One Laptop Per Child project could reach users by July this year. However test XO machines are expected to reach children in February before the formal launch.