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Google’s Crisis Response page for the Haiti earthquake has news, donation links, maps, satellite imagery, videos, and a Person Finder tool to look for or report on missing people.
This video is from the White House Haiti Earthquake Relief  site:

I used to tell people that the newest Internet Explorer 8 was safe enough. But recent events have changed my mind. The Chinese attacks on Google over Christmas were perpetrated using a vulnerability that exists in all versions of Internet Explorer. Microsoft still hasn’t fixed this.
Because of security concerns, both the German and French governments [...]

Until now, Google has operated in China by not listing government-blacklisted sites in its search results (See google.cn search results for “Tiananmen”). This was controversial, but Google maintained that it was better to work within these restrictions than to have no presence in China.
After recent cyber attacks on Google, Google is changing its stance. This [...]

Here are some resources to inform/panic you about the H1N1 Swine Flu that was just declared a national emergency.
Washington D.C. area residents should visit:

Swine Flu Vaccinations: When and Where to Get Them by the Washington Post. It has links to all the D.C., Northern Virginia, and suburban Maryland Flu resources. Local residents should go here [...]

Good news for Microsoft. They reached a deal with Yahoo for Yahoo to use Microsoft’s new and rebranded search engine called Bing to power Yahoo searches. This, along with Bing’s big advertising push, should help Microsoft greatly against Google. It will also help that Bing is the default search engine in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Add [...]