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Nepal leader to seek India's advice as Maoists cripple government

Kathamandu: The chief of Nepal's ruling party is heading for New Delhi on a week-long visit Tuesday for consultations with Indian leaders after the republic's political parties failed to persuade the former Maoist guerrillas to call off their protests, which have crippled the government. Jhalanath Khanal, whose Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist is leading the current 22-party government in Nepal, will be holding talks in the Indian capital with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, president of India's ruling Congress party, who have expressed support for the present government of Nepal, despite the Maoists' demand for its dissolution. Khanal will also hold consultations with India's communist leaders, who are regarded as being close to the Nepal Maoists, like Sitaram Yechury of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The communist leader will consult India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party leaders as well and is scheduled to h...

Google: You too could win millions in stock

Google is once again dangling incentives before engineers. Google's Chrome browser earned its developers millions in stock bonuses. (Credit: Google) The company threw open its doors Monday to the engineering community Monday, announcing that it granted a Founders' Prize--"a multimillion-dollar stock bonus"--to the team that developed Google Chrome. "(The) future is shaped by small teams of creative people who want to make a difference. We're on the hunt for these kind of people -- let us know if you think you're one of them," wrote Alan Eustace, senior vice president for engineering and research at Google. Google is still one of Silicon Valley's most generous companies in terms of employee perks, but Google's hiring slowed over the past year as the recession took hold and the company scaled back some of those famous extras. Google even was forced to cut employees in March, and has also suffered as a number of high-profile employees decided to...

Yahoo has open-source app for slow Web sites

by Stephen Shankland Sure, rivals could profit from Yahoo's release of Traffic Server as open-source software. But overall, Yahoo bets it'll gain more than it loses by giving it away. Betting that the benefits of the move will outweigh the risks, Yahoo has released the source code underlying in-house software called Traffic Server that can speed up Web site operations... The software works by moving some data and operations closer on the Internet to the people trying using those services. Yahoo released it as an "incubator" project under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation, a seasoned organization for managing open-source projects and also the site that houses the Hadoop open-source project Yahoo favors for large-scale data-processing challenges. Shelton Shugar, Yahoo's senior vice president of cloud computing (Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) "We've donated Traffic Server to Apache because we think it's a great piece of code...

Nepal Maoist Protest Begins With Tourch Protest

Sunday: Nepal Maoist has declared their begining of programmed protest from yesturday with burning the tourch lights in the streets... "This is what they call a civilian supremacy" Nepal Maoist Cadre In Tourch The Unified Maoists’ Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal inaugurated the protest programs in the heart of the capital, Ratnapartk, at around 5:45 PM, November 1, 2009, by lighting a Torch amidst the presence of a sea of the Maoists’ cadres and party senior leaders. Senior vice president Mohan Baidya Kiran, Narayan Kaji Shrestha, General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal and other politburo members were present to grace the inaugural ceremony of the torch demonstration. “We will encircle Singh Durbar-the seat of Nepal Government, if the government resorted to repressive measures, the government will itself be held responsible for the undesirable consequences arising thereafter”, thundered Dahal making a brief speech. “We are ready to pay any price…use of force against our p...

Facebook to 'Memorialize' Profiles of Dead Members

NEW YORK — Death doesn't erase the online footprints that people leave in life and Facebook won't either, though it will make some changes. The five-year-old social network will "memorialize" profiles of the dead if their friends or family request it. Such accounts will be different from regular Facebook profiles. For example, the site will remove any contact information and bar people from logging in. The person's profile also won't appear in the "suggestions" section of Facebook, and only the deceased person's confirmed friends will be able to find them in a search. The development comes as Facebook becomes an important social hub for its more than 300 million active users worldwide to keep up with friends and family.