On Monday, we began to hear reports that a large number of Microsoft Windows Live / Hotmail Web E-mail accounts had been compromised. This was subsequently confirmed by Microsoft: Over the weekend Microsoft learned that several thousand Windows Live Hotmail customers' credentials were exposed on a third-party site due to a likely phishing scheme. Upon learning of the issue, we immediately requested that the credentials be removed and launched an investigation to determine the impact to customers.

This week, with the help of Joshua To and Brute Labs, we launched MCHOPA.com. The site features the iconic Masai paintings of Gregory Mchopa, an artist whom Josh and I met in 2007 while consulting for Google.org. Dispatched as Business Development Consultants and lecturers in TechnoServe's "Believe, Begin, Become" national business plan competition, we read scores of business plans and advised entrepreneurs on framing problems, solutions, and market needs. It wasn't until our break, however, that we met Greg, dusty Nokia in hand, pitching deals in mile-a-minute Swahili. We offered web services; he agreed to inventory supply; we promised to return him 100% of the profits.

Death Ray and Filmstar magazines have closed, as Blackfish Publishing splits from their parent company Rebellion. According to a press release issued by managing director Matt Bielby, the current issues of both magazines (Death Ray issue 21, and Filmstar issue 5) will be their last.

I'm actually very optimistic about U.S. economic prospects in an unfettered market. Here are some reasons for optimism ... The average American worker is better educated and more capable than the average worker worldwide. There are, of course, many excellent workers in countries such as China and Mexico, but on average a U.S. worker is more useful to a business. We have a better-than-average infrastructure of transportation, communications, electric power, and legal system. We have a lot of natural resources, including the basics of land and fresh water.

What do online
poker and health care have in common? If an amendment offered by Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon,
makes its way into law the profitable business of online gambling could generate revenue to aid health care by funding subsidies provided through the America's Healthy Future Act of 2009. The dollars would be aimed at helping low-income Americans.

A justice that does not spare the powerful and those protected by the powerful? I understand now why a minister of the French Republic --" who has carefully put his president and his ministers safe from justice -- finds that America is frightening.

Mao's China has been annihilated. 60 years on from its founding on the 1st October 1949 there is little recognisable about it. Although some on the left will lament the loss of this slightly more presentable face of state Socialism, this is a cause to celebrate.

Great news today on the open-access (OA) front with the federal government's announcement that the Federal Register, the daily compilation of proposed and final regulations to be issued by federal agencies, will now be available in XML format.

Coal dust inhalation has been linked to a handful of debilitating lung diseases, including pneumoconiosis (black lung) and silicosis. Despite the fact that these diseases are 100 percent preventable, countless coal miners and quarry workers continue to be diagnosed with these fatal illnesses each year.

There are a lot of sites that offer criminal record and background check services but IntegraScan gives back to the community by offering free employee and volunteer checks to youth organizations.

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