Bill Gates ain’t the richest man of the world anymore.
Carlos Slim Helu takes No. 1 spot on Forbes World’s Billionaires List.
1) Carlos Slim Helu
Net Worth: $53.5 billion
Source: Telecom
Residence: Mexico
• Telecom tycoon who pounced on privatization of Mexico’s national telephone company in the 1990s becomes world’s richest person for first time after coming in third place last year. Net worth up $18.5 billion in a year.
2) Bill Gates
Net Worth: $53 billion
Source: Microsoft
Residence: U.S.
• Software visionary is now the world’s second-richest man. Net worth still up $13 billion in a year as Microsoft shares rose 50% in 12 months, value of investment vehicle Cascade swelled.
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Egypt’s communications minister on Sunday announced the introduction of the first Arabic domain, in a step easing Internet access to millions of Arabic speakers around the world.
From midnight (2200 GMT), registration was to begin for the. misr country code top-level domain, Tarek Kamel told the fourth meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
“Now we can really say that Internet will speak Arabic,” Kamel said at the opening of the four-day conference, hours before the launch.
The announcement follows a decision by the US-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to end the exclusive use of Latin characters for website addresses, allowing Internet users to write an entire website address in Chinese, Arabic, Russian and several other scripts.
At present, all domain names — the part of the website address after the dot, as in .com and .org — end in letters from the Latin alphabet.
“The voice of developing world must be heard,” Sha Zukang, the UN undersecretary-general for economic and social affairs, told the Sharm el-Sheikh conference.
“Good and democratic Internet governance is a means of achieving development for all,” he said.
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Mashable has compiled a list of 10 most popular games on facebook.
With 11 million daily players and counting, Farmville is a virtual force to be reckoned with and it tops the chart as the no. 1 game in facebook. Here is the summarized list:
1. Farmville
2. Word Challenge
3. Mafia Wars
4. YoVille
5. Bejeweled Blitz
6. Zynga Poker Read more…
The fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the Internet that has infected at least 3 million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way on Wednesday — April Fools’ Day.
That’s when many of the poisoned machines will get more aggressive about “phoning home” to the worm’s creators over the Internet. When that happens, the bad guys behind the worm will be able to trigger the program to send spam, spread more infections, clog networks with traffic, or try and bring down Web sites.
Technically, this could cause havoc, from massive network outages to the creation of a cyberweapon of mass destruction that attacks government computers. But researchers who have been tracking Conficker say the date will probably come and go quietly.
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“A malicious Facebook Widget actively spreading on the social networking site ultimately prompts users to install the infamous “Zango” adware/spyware. The tremendous success and lightning fast expansion of Facebook empowered the social networking giant with an impressive user base. Needless to say, in a digital world where web traffic equals money, such a user base attracts spammers, virus/spyware seeders, and other ethic-less online marketers like honey would attract flies.”
from Slash Dot
So Beware! 
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