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Egypt’s communications ministry said on Thursday that it had launched the first internet domain name “.misr”-using Arabic letters to try to boost e-services and the number of people online in the most populous Arab nation.

“Introducing Arabic domain names is milestone in internet history,” communications minister Tarek Kamel said in a statement. “This great step will open up new horizons for e-services in Egypt. It will enable internet services to penetrate new market segments by eliminating language barriers.”

With the addition of non-Latin suffixes, web users with little or no knowledge of English would no longer have to type Latin characters to access web pages targeting Chinese, Arabic and other speakers.

Since their creation in the 1980s, domain names have been limited to 37 characters: the 10 numerals, the hyphen and the 26 letters in the Latin alphabet. In January, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, paved the way for an entire domain name to appear in Cyrillic for Russia and Arabic for Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Now Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd faces the hazards of online social networking as he becomes the follower of pornographic communities through his official Twitter Account.

A bare-breasted women in handcuffs, an online adult super store and a pornographic blog were among dozens of dodgy accounts followed by the prime minister among his list of supporters, community groups and wife Therese Rein.

An embarrassed spokesman for Rudd has since admitted an Twitter automated programme made the prime minister’s account auto-follow those who followed him, Herald Sun reported.”While the Kevin PM Team try to monitor the follow backs, with more than 900,000 followers this is a very large task,” the spokesman said.

To “follow” someone usually requires a user to view and approve a profile. Other profiles followed by Rudd include a gay resort in Phuket, blogs offering sex shows via webcams and an online store selling adult goods, reports heraldsun.co.au.

Although it normally requires a Twitter account holder to view another person’s profile before following, an auto-follow option allows this to be done automatically. This can be helpful for people with large followings –Rudd follows around 200,000Twitter users through his KevinruddPM account.

Rudd is known as an eager Tweeter, using the medium to announce policies and recently the engagement of his son. About 900,000 accounts follow th PM on twitter, while he follows about 200,000.

Young Media Australia vice president Elizabeth Handsley said Rudd’s questionable online companions highlighted the dangers of social media.

“There seems to be an attitude with new media like twitter that anyone can just get on and have a go without a problem,” she said.

“We need to understand the platform and know how it works before using it safely- this is an example of that.”

Computers in companies, Hospitals and schools around the world got stuck repeatedly rebooting themselves after an antivirus program identified a normal windows file as a virus.

MCA fee Inc confirmed that a software update it posted at 9am Eastern Time caused its antivirus program for corporate customers to misidentify a harmless file. It has posted a replacement update for download.

MCA fee could not say how many computers were affected, but judging by online posting, the number was at least in the thousands and possibly in the hundreds of thousands.

MCA fee said it did not appear that consumer versions of its software caused similar problems.  It is investigating how the error happened and will take measures”to prevent it from recurring, the company said in a statement.

The computer problem forced about third of the hospitals in Rhode Island to postpone elective surgeries and stop treating patients without traumas in emergency rooms, said Nancy Jean, a spokeswoman for the Lifespan system includes

In mid 1997, soon after his return to ten troubled Apple Computers, Steve jobs, at the MacWorld Expo trade show, announced to the astonishment of all assembled that arch-enemy Microsoft was investing $150 million in Apple. He then famously told the booing crowd, we have to let go of the notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose before calling up Bill Gates to tell him, “Bill thank you. The worlds a better place.

Thirteen years later, on April 23, 2010 to be precise, Apple overtook the very same Microsoft in market capitalization to emerge as America’s second most valued firm behind Exxon Mobil, Apples market capitalization at $241.5 billion was ahead of Microsoft’s $239.5 billion and trailed only the oil giant, which had market cap of over $300 billion. Obviously, the world is a better place at least for Apple  and for Apple to win, Microsoft had to lose, if not in the market place(the two are not strict competitors) then at least on the bourses, Such a stunning turnaround would have been unthinkable in July 1997, when bill Gates literally rode to the rescue by picking up nonvoting shares worth $150 million in Apple and promising to develop and ship future versions of Microsoft office, Internet Explorer and development tools for Macintosh computers.

Then Microsoft was the dominant desktop software company whose spectacular growth seemed guaranteed for years with no major rivals on the horizon. Jobs then needed Bill Gates far more than Gates needed Jobs. Analysts had it that Gates, under intense anti-trust scrutiny, was investing in a rival with whom Microsoft had a contentious relationship especially relating to whether the Microsoft windows operating system infringed on some Apple patents as a way of showing the world that his company wasn’t seeking a monopolist position. That it could collaborate. Simply put, that it could be a good guy.

Jobs then desperately needed Gates backing as Apple was still a small player in desktops with the path breaking i-pod still four years away from launch. Nobody then had any clue that Jobs would go on to fundamentally re-shape not one but three industries; music animation and telecom. Apple and Jobs have been able to read the whispers in the wind better than the Seattle duo of Gates and his lieutenant, Steve Ballmer;