Gapminder is a non-profit venture that develops information technology for provision of free statistics in new visual and animated ways. In short, it enables you to make sense of the world by having fun with statistics. Google’s method is to turn boring data into enjoyable interactive animations using Flash technology. Gapminder is a Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. Funding has been mainly by grants from Swedish International Development co-operation Agency, Sida. In collaboration with United Nations Statistic Division Google promote free access to searchable public data and our animations of different types of data are freely available at www.gapminder.org.

Even from his cell in an Egyptian prison, Alaa Abdel-Fattah is blogging — scribbling messages on slips of paper that make their way to the Internet and spread around the world.

The 24-year-old Abdel-Fattah’s blog, which he does with his wife Manal Hassan, has become one of the most popular pro-democracy voices in Egypt. He has continued writing despite being arrested in early May during a street demonstration in Cairo — part of a crackdown on reform activists by Egyptian security forces.

Source: AP

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the No. 2 maker of microchips for personal computers, said on Monday it will spend an additional $2.5 billion to upgrade and expand its two factories in Germany.

The expansion comes as AMD steadily gains market share from larger rival Intel Corp. and highlights the company’s desire to prove that its once-crippling supply problems are a thing of the past.

Source: eWeek

GOOGLE is planning a new ­version of its search engine – designed for TV screens – that the company’s co-founder and its chief executive believe will rival traditional broadcasting.

Chief executive Eric Schmidt told The Business: “At the most people currently have access to only around 500 television channels,�? said Schmidt. “They should have access to everything – that is where we are heading.�?

As they prepare to make the move from the PC to the television, internet service providers and broadcasters are trying to develop electronic programme guides (EPGs) that will enable viewers with a broadband internet connection to choose from a far wider range of video and film entertainment than is currently available. And Google believes it can offer a world-­beating EPG.

Source: thebusinessonline.com

The agency promoting China’s wireless encryption standard has accused a U.S. engineers’ group of waging a conspiracy that led a global organization to reject the Chinese system, the country’s official news agency said Monday.

China made the accusation in its appeal against the International Standards Organization’s decision in March to reject its encryption system, known as WAPI, the Xinhua News Agency said.

Source: AP

If you are working with the command prompt with Windows XP, you probably need to copy and paste text and commands from previous lines. In Windows XP the copy and paste operation are done by right click and selecting the mark, copy or paste menu options.

Users who use older versions of Windows, such as Windows 2000, know that in previous versions you could immediately mark a text without having to select the Mark item menu, and pasting was as easy as right click (again no need to select from a menu).

Well fortunately you can still use this quick edit mode in Windows XP. To enable Quick edit mode follow these steps:

• Click on the top left corner of your command prompt windows (on the C:\ icon )
• In the popup menu select Properties
• In the Options Tab Check the box that says QuickEdit Mode
• Click OK, and apply this setting to the current windows or to all the windows when asked