A fund set up by Yahoo to atone for revealing "cyber
dissidents" to Chinese officials is aiding people jailed there
for human rights views posted on the Internet, its overseer said
Wednesday.
Harry Wu, a widely-known Chinese dissident who
spent 19 years in labor camps for voicing his opinions, declined to
say how much money is in the Yahoo Human Rights Fund he is
administering with the help of a board of directors.
US software giant Microsoft has won recognition for its key Office
software package format as an international standard, the body
charged with regulating such matters said on Wednesday.
The world's biggest computer chip maker Intel unveiled on Wednesday
a set of tiny "Atom" processors it says will give mobile
devices desktop computing power.
Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and
mobile software, recently reported that it expects financial results
for its first quarter ending March 31, 2008 to exceed previously
stated guidance provided on January 24, 2008.
NEO recently
announced the availability of the first locally branded,
Internet-centric netbook PC called the NEO eXplore X1, The new
Intel-powered portable computing device, based on the Intel
classmate PC