Since the Chinese authorities cracked down on online porn over the weekend, it shut down nearly 50 additional websites and also instructed Internet giants like Google to end any sort of links with such material.

It should be noted that as a part of a month-long campaign, that the government informs is aimed at stamping out online pornography, a total number of 91 sites have been shut down or blocked since Thursday.

Washington, Jan 12: Just one negative comment on you on the web may be enough to cost you your job, and to evade such an impact, an expert has now given tips on how to avoid and repair comments that could tarnish your internet image.

According to estimates, over 70 percent of employers do a Web search on job applicants as part of their hiring procedures, and more than 50 percent of them confess that they do not prefer applicants who are found to have negative information about them online.

Youth-focussed mobile service provider Virgin Mobile has announced that it has linked up with MySpace for offering social networking services. Virgin Mobile users would be glad to know that under the tie up, MySpace would offer its social networking services on Virgin Mobile's WAP-enabld phones starting at Rs 2,999.

Virgin Mobile's youth clients can access to world's major social networking site by simply click on the MySpace link on vBytes and log in the user ID and password. There will be a daily charge of just Rs 5 for accessing vBytes.

A new programming language known as "VoicePHP" has been announced by an Indian startup with the aim to bring simplicity and universality to Web-enabled voice applications.

If adhered to TringMe, founded by Lucent and Texas Instruments (TXN), Yusuf Motiwala in Bangalore, India in 2007, the concept is not new and it's just a voice-enabled version of the familiar Web programming language PHP (which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Processor").

Recently, the harmonious functioning of Twitter was disrupted, when the micro-blogging website, that lets the users to broadcast short messages to groups of followers laned as a target of a wave of hacking and phishing attacks.

On Monday, it was confirmed by the San Francisco Company that a total number of accounts hijacked were 33, including those of President-elect Barack Obama, singer Britney Spears, and CNN correspondent Rick Sanchez.

London, Jan 5: A Christmas appeal by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has helped the website avoid the compulsion to carry ads and introduce access charges, as concerned readers have successfully raised a whopping 6 million dollars to cover its running costs for 2009.

Jimmy Wales, the founder of the free online encyclopaedia, made a personal appeal after donations fell short to raise 6 million dollars, even after launching a campaign seeking donations on November 3 last year.