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BBC News reports that the government has been conquered in the House of Lords - over its plans to halt online privacy, after opponents from the Liberal Democrat and Conservative parties commented that the original bill could affect digital innovation. The House of Lords passed the changes by 165 votes to 40.

The changes to the bill will give power to the High Court in issuing injunctions to sites which house ‘’substantial” amounts of copyright breaching content. Such changes have worried YouTube, who has been taken to task in the past by record labels and media agencies for hosting illegal video content.

The Telegraph reports that the proposed changes have angered internet freedom campaigners, who believe that many websites could shut down, due to the prospect of an expensive legal battle.

Full Story: YouTube threatened by government legislation - Vertical Leap News (press release)

He was speaking yesterday on the second day of the summit taking place in the capital. In his keynote speech, he highlighted that the biggest advantage of the internet and Google is the capability to communicate with anyone and everyone.

"Imagine, you can text to someone you cannot talk to," he said, referring to the instant capability of Google to translate more than 70 languages.

He noted that 160 million web pages are translated a day in 70 languages by Google, "and it's not done by any dictionary".

Full Story: Global media leaders salute the digital age - Emirates Business 24/7

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The company has entered into capital market entailing the public issue of 16 million shares at the face value of Rs 10 each in its bounty.

DQ opened the subscription of these shares during March 8-10, 2010 with the price band of Rs 75-80 per equity share of Rs 10 each. According to NSE data, the issue received total bids for 1113.5 million shares, over subscribing by around 86 times.

However the group expects to churn out Rs 150 Cr at its higher end on the price band. Further the group has raised Rs 25 Cr via the pre IPO placements to IDFC Investments and a grip on high net worth individuals.

Full Story: IPO of DQ Entertainment receives 86 times subscription - TopNews

There are a couple of different ways to look at SharePoint 2010. Although the technology perspective is important, maybe the most critical is how it makes the lives of business users easier.

Microsoft speaks a lot about the vision of “ECM for the Masses” as key underpinning of information management element of SharePoint 2010.

The previous 2007 version of SharePoint (known as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or MOSS 2007) was a breakthrough because of its Web 2.0 add-ons, document management capabilities and its simplicity. The 2010 release promises even deeper features and capability.

Full Story: Will SharePoint 2010 stack up? - IDM.net.au