After Bing's fiasco over pornographic videos its ace search engine Google's turn to face the wrath. Chinese Internet sentinel codenamed the Chinese-language version of Google was accused for disseminating pornographic and vulgar information.  The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center has already beefed Goolge about the pornographic and vulgar links on its search engine for chinese- www.google.cn. It urged Google to carry-out a thorough clean-up of its web pages and also requested the authorities to take stern action against the company.

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JAKARTA - At least 97 people were killed when an Indonesian military plane with more than 100 people on board crashed Wednesday into a residential neighbourhood in East Java province, the military said.

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JAKARTA - An aircraft belonging to the Indonesian Air Force crashed Monday afternoon in West Java capital of Bandung, killing all 24 people on board, news reports and officials said.

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Suppose you are a family of three. What will you take home? 3 Apple iphones for you, your wife and your child or a car for your family (because now, Tata Nano is priced at $2,000 where as each Apple iPhone costs $700)? Like any other educated and rational country, Indians decided for the second. With all due respect to Apple iPhone that sizzled in the US and European market, Apple failed to bring in the glory to one of the most aggressive mobile phone market in the world, India. So, with a new strategy they are now trying to reach out to another Asian giant, China.

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China does it again. People of China have been pursued off from availing the luxury of watching Youtube without any official reasons i.e. not yet known. When asked about it, Youtube officials were as clueless as anyone was and Scott Rubin, a Youtube spokes person said "We don't know the reason for the blockage," . While some suspect that it is a direct consequence of communism looming large, others think it is due to a video on youtube the previous week that showed handcuffed Tibetan prisoners being beaten by a Chinese police officer. Xinhua, the state-run Chinese news service, Tuesday accused the Tibetan government in exile of faking the wounds, but did not mention YouTube. But it got enough exposure already for the Chinese official to think of some actions.

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Though it has nothing do with technology, still we just couldn't let this bewitching incident not happen to our site. India had pulled out from a Cricket series in Pakistan after the 26/11 attack on Mumbai. Sri Lanka was invited and they accepted. And now they are paying a bigger price for that. According to Reuters and other news sources, four of their players are critically injured after 12-13 gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan team bus (en route to Guddafi Stadium in Lahore today)with modern ammunitions and even rocket launchers! Five Policemen are suspected to be dead including two commandos. Aren't you being reminded of another Munich incident?

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With iPhone wave sweeping across the continents the mobile phone giants are with one-upping. The furor over Japanese iPhone killer seems to have sedimented. The much written about Japanese challenger to iPhone, Sophia Mobile's NANI is written off. Although the NANI has a significant presence in Japan. In a recent event even world's largest mobile manufacturer Nokia had to hang up its boots struggling with limited presence in Japan. Is that a conservative Japanese market ardent on eschewing the benefits of susceptibility to the Global market? Full article (377 words) »

BANGKOK - Thailand's Culture Ministry is urging authorities to crack down on a rising trend of Thai students using the internet for prostitution, media reports said Sunday.

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BANGKOK - About 2,300 websites have been blocked for not showing respect to the monarchy, Justice Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhage said Thursday.

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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.

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