A newly amended Information Technology Act has emerge as a warning for the people visiting ‘porn sites’, as browsing child porn online, will now become punishable under the IT Act.

Under the previous law, publishing and transmitting child pornography was subject to punishment by law.

The new bill has added up a new clause that makes surfing, transferring (downloanding) and viewing material showing children in an obscene or indecent or sexually explicit manner punishable under the law.

In a case pertaining to copyright theft, four men working at The Pirate Bay file-sharing Web site go on trial in Stockholm. All four of them - Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom, and Fredrik Neij - were supposedly accomplices in breaking copyright law.

If convicted, the four men face a fine of $143,500, and a two-year prison term.

The real value of Facebook's stock appears to have become a contentious issue - while a $240 million investment by Microsoft for a 1.6 percent stake in the company in 2007, puts Facebook's value at $15 billion, the company claims its own evaluation to be $3.7 billion.

In June last year, Facebook's self appraisal pegged the price of its privately held stock at $8.88 per share; while the Microsoft investment put the related figures at $35.90 per share.

The incongruity with regard to Facebook's actual worth has come to light because of the revelations pertaining to the Palo Alto-based company's $65 million lawsuit settlement with ConnectU.

Search giant Google has decided to educate common people about power of Internet in India’s Tamil Nadu (TN) state.

To fulfill its purpose, Google on Tuesday flagged off a ‘Google Bus Project’, which will educate the power of Internet to the common people in 15 tier II and tier III towns in Tamil Nadu over a period of a month and a half.

It is an Internet connected bus, which will demonstrate content as well as usage of the internet to create awareness among the common people.

London, Feb 4: Social networking website MySpace has revealed that it has identified and removed 90,000 sex offenders from its site.

The effort to make social networking websites safer had been taken up by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.

And as per Cooper, the new figure, submitted by MySpace executives on February 3 to Blumenthal''s office, in response to a subpoena, showed that the number of sex offenders removed was 40,000 more than last year.