Google is now taking its step to help children and children’s advocates to combat child porn online.
Google announced last Monday via their blog that they had built a custom video and image search technology for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. This institution will use this technology to help them identify and track […]

The 32 year old Lonely Planet author, Thomas Kohnstamm from Seattle, Washington admits he plagiarized some parts of his popular travel guidebooks and deal with drugs to supplement low pay.
Thomas who has wrote a book about his misadventures said that he didn’t really go to Colombia to write the guidebook for the country but instead […]

Nintendo Wii has gained more attention from media and consumers for the innovative motion based controls. Linden Lab is now on experimenting on how to interact on an easy way with its Second Life virtual world with just a Webcam.
Codenamed Segalen, this technology uses 3D Webcams, such as the 3DVsystems to track users body gestures […]

In a plenary held last Thursday, European Parliament discarded pursuit to criminalize file sharing of private individuals, and but instead suggests on banning copyright abusers online.
In closing, the votes out of 314 members of the European Parliament who voted in favor of an amendment to junk what many consider cruel and excessive measure on protecting […]

MyBlogLog started an experiment at eTech and SXSW that supports Bluetooth technology to detect the people around you. This Java based service was then named Meetspace but now known as MBL Mobile that works both on Blackberrys and Bluetooth enabled laptops.
Once you have installed the Java applet and login your Bluetooth ID to your MyBlogLog […]

Defense officials in Israel said that they have identified an unlikely new threat to national security, it is Facebook.
A new set of rules was announced Thursday that is intent to prevent soldiers and Defense Ministry employees on revealing classified information on all social networking sites.
The Israeli officials said that some of their soldiers have pictures […]

Some of the ruling party candidates for elections in Malaysia is compulsory to have their own blogs, this is a retraction for governing politicians who had ridiculed online politicking.
Secretary general of the United Malays National Organization party’s youth wing, Abdul Rahman Dahlan said, to all those competing for national youth posts must have their own […]

New York Time reported that Microsoft Corporation plans to release a Web based service for giving road directions that uses complex software to help the users in avoiding traffic jams.
According to Times, this software technology system is called Clearflow, this will provide drivers with alternative routes information that takes into account prevailing traffic patterns.

By Sean Michael Kerner
Networking gear and server equipment are two distinct types of hardware, right? Not anymore.
Networking goliath Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is now opening its Integrated Services Router (ISR) and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) platforms to become Linux-based application server platforms. The move could have wide-ranging implications, as Cisco’s gear has millions of […]

By Stuart J. Johnston
Despite Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) successful campaign to achieve standards recognition for its Office Open XML (OOXML) file formats by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), opponents and critics of both OOXML and Microsoft show no signs of letting up in their attacks on the company.
Indeed, Microsoft’s previous legal troubles with the European […]