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Issue Date: Aug 15, 2008
>> The video-sharing site YouTube will be allowed to mask the identities of individual users when it provides viewership records to the
media giant Viacom and other copyright holders after a US court directed it to submit its database to Viacom.
>> Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola has come under pressure for their continued sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics, with activists
protesting the Chinese government's stance on Tibet. Coca-Cola signed the sponsorship deal before the hosts were announced. Coca-Cola has
Biodiesel portal
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2008
With oil prices going through the roof, the frenzy around biodiesels has intensified. The us Biofuels Exchange Inc.
(usbe) has thrown in its bit in the kafuffle. It has launched an internet biofuels platform which links biofuel producers
with buyers.
The platform works very similar to the emarketing portal, eBay; it has a rating system to track and follow deals, display real time pricing and
Green Business
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2008
www.echoinggreen.com
With climate change and global warming looming large on us, green business is the new buzzword. This site would be useful for those who intend
to go along this trend.
Run by an US organization, also called Echoing Green, the site says "it identifies talented, yet unproven, social entrepreneurs who are dedicated
Mixed reality
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2008
The virtual world of secondlife.com is serious business. Last month steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, ceo of ArcelorMittal, held a regular shareholders' meeting in Luxembourg and linked it with the digital continent.
NEWS SNIPPETS
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2008
>> Now the people of China can directly interact with their president without going through the trouble and complex procedure to meet him.
Chinese President Hu Jintao has made himself available online to chat with citizens through a major news portal of the Communist Party of China
(CPC). The tech savvy president also has an account in the social networking website, Facebook.
>> The new version of the Firefox browser was downloaded over eight million times in its first 24 hours of release in what organisers claimed
was a world record.
DOUBLE STANDARDS
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2008
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North Korea was at the receiving end of global condemnation after it announced that it carried out its first underground atomic weapons test in
2006. The US, Japan, China and Britain were the first to criticise and demanded action by the United Nations Security Council. Barring Japan, all
these countries have conducted several nuclear tests of their own.
Apostate You Tube
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2008
If Viacom has its way you won't find these clips on YouTube
Online
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2008
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INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Many of us often shrug away global warming saying there's nothing we can do about global warming. The problem is just too big. But then, we as individuals do contribute to global warming. We have a carbon footprint, the total carbon dioxide emissions we create when we drive or fly or use electricity.
It hurts
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2008
Graphic images of real injuries inflicted by knives feature in a new 3 million (us$ 5.8 million) government advertising campaign against youth violence. The ads devised by teenagers aim to show the dangers of carrying a knife. One shows a man with a knife and a screwdriver on his chest, and deep, gaping wounds to the body.
