Cybersecurity, Microsoft's Bing, Google's Wave

29.05.2009

6. : The aid group Telecoms sans Fròntiers is working in northwest Pakistan to help people displaced by war, and although the group found five mobile networks intact in the region, it has not yet been able to provide much in the way of help because its workers are potential targets of Taliban insurgents.

7. : The European Union will investigate Google's plans to make the content of millions of books available online, which raises concerns about the rights of U.S. authors in other markets.

8. : China is monitoring dissidents online as well as increasing Internet censorship as the 20th anniversary of the pro-democracy Tiananmen Square protests approaches on June 4.

9. : Good thing that President Obama is making U.S. cybersecurity a priority. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was apparently whammied by a virus that led the agency to shut down e-mail traffic on its unclassified, external network.

10. : Some retail Web sites got out ahead of Intel's Core i7 chip launch, taking orders for the new chips before they are officially released, which according to PCs for Everyone will happen Sunday.