Phoenix-area mother helps bust Ecstasy ring

PHOENIX — Police are crediting a Phoenix-area mother's tip for the dismantling of an drug ring that even had a price list posted on MySpace. The woman's call to the Maricopa County Methamphetamine Task Force last week helped authorities find the dealers' MySpace page. By Tuesday, police say 10 Ecstasy dealers in Phoenix and nearby cities were under arrest. Authorities say they had a combined clientele of nearly 500 high school and college students.

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NEW DELHI - Certiport today announced the launch of a pilot that will enable 500 eighth- through twelfth-grade students with little or no computer experience to develop and certify critical digital skills in Certiport Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3) and the official Microsoft Office certification programs.

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BANGALORE - How to browse the net, search, e-mail, social networking, browse maps or track stock market trends - this is what global web-based search engine Google is going to teach people as its custom-built Internet bus drives through 15 towns of Karnataka to expose the people to the digital world. The bus, which began its journey Monday, will course through the state for the next 50 days.

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Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil secrets

TOKYO — When Google Earth added historical maps of Japan to its online collection last year, the search giant didn't expect a backlash. The finely detailed woodblock prints have been around for centuries, they were already posted on another Web site, and a historical map of Tokyo put up in 2006 hadn't caused any problems.

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As pay falls, CEOs get more perks

NEW YORK — U.S. companies remain generous with the perks they give to CEOs, including some that are unfathomable to the average American worker: chauffeured cars, bodyguards, club memberships and free travel in company jets.The median value of these and similar perks rose nearly 7 percent in 2008, according to an Associated Press analysis of regulatory filings from 309 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500. The increase came even as overall CEO compensation fell 7 percent to $7.6 million.

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WASHINGTON - A new report from the National Research Council has determined that the current policy and legal framework regulating use of cyber attack by the US is ill-formed, undeveloped, and highly uncertain. The United States should establish clear national policy on the use of cyberattack, while also continuing to develop its technological capabilities in this area, it says.

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MOHALI - Dell in partnership with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) today announced the launch of "The Climate EduXchange Initiative", an IT-enabled Climate initiative to improve environment education in schools across India. The primary objective of this partnership is to create a motivated force of students, who through technological advancements are aware of and concerned about the environment and its associated problems.

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NEW DELHI - Nowadays, keyboards made of bamboo are a rage in China, as they provide a more environment-friendly alternative to the usual keyboard made of plastic.

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Programmers with little or no exposure to parallelism have an opportunity to learn about multicore programming at the UPCRC Illinois Summer School to be held June 22-26, 2009 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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NEW DELHI - As India seeks to emerge upfront in today's knowledge economy, the national elections will give its verdict on whether information technology can help politicians reach out to their vote banks, as US President Barack Omaba did last year.

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