The Malaysian government is looking into the feasibility of installing an Internet filter to block “undesirable websites”, along the lines of the People’s Republic of China’s abandoned “Green Dam” software. The reason for this new move …
In the most recent attack, on Monday in the Austrian town of Bach, activists are believed to have set fire to the holiday home of the company’s chief executive officer, Daniel Vasella. A fire accelerant was found at the scene, …
India’s wholesale prices fell for the eighth straight week but prices of farm products continued to head north, raising concerns that food inflation will likely flare up in coming months due to scanty monsoon rains.
Forget Michael Jackson. PepsiCo (PEP) has launched its own music label in China that will enable it to groom, produce and ultimately control its recording stars.
According to The New York Times, the Home Affordable Mortgage Program (HAMP) is pretty much a failure. HAMP is the Treasury plan to get banks to modify.
I-FCS Nicholls State, Webb faces a sizable learning curve as he makes the transition to the NFL, but each of the hundreds of rookies trying to break into the professional ranks is getting a different kind of education post-college. …
Kind of an interesting look, taking a little bit of the speculative out of the science fiction. Thoughts?
Holdren was the chairman of the board of directors for the American Association of the Advancement of Science from 2007 to 2008. He is director of the Woods Hole Research Center. Holdren most recently served as the Teresa and John Heinz …
Does government-provided health care lead to bad teeth? In the United Kingdom, at least, my former colleague Delia Lloyd says the answer to that question is “yes.” The problem, as usual, is perverse incentives which arise out of the …
Over at CNet they have posted an article about tablet computers and why consumers may not buy the device. As we have been reading during the past few months, the founder of TechCrunch is in the process of introducing what is called a …