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Where’s WMD site? A Website lampooning the United States’ inability to locate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has become one of the biggest hits on the Internet. The site, which is designed to look like a genuine error message — replete with "bomb" icon — is the top result when "weapons of mass destruction" is entered into one of the Web’s top search engines, http://www.google.com. And despite being five months old — a real veteran by Internet standards, the site is more popular than ever and is attracting over a million hits a week. Linking to the page from Google yields the message "These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed," and suggests that the country might be experiencing technical difficulties. Because it looks like an authentic error message, many Internet users were under the impression Google had been hacked. But despite its alarming appearance, the page is a harmless, regular website, authored by one Anthony Cox, a 34-year-old pharmacist from Birmingham, England. Digital signatures National Informatics Centre (NIC) will issue digital signature certificates to officials of the central and state governments and all district administrations to promote e-governance in the country. Communications, Information Technology and Disinvestment Minister Arun Shourie inaugurated the Certifying Authority for Digital Signature Certificates at the NIC here. As a first application of digital signatures in the government, electronically signed e-mail was exchanged. Intel price cut plan Intel Corp. plans to cut prices on its Celeron desktop and notebook processors in August but maintain its higher-performance Pentium 4 prices through October, an analyst said. Tai Nguyen, an analyst at SIG Equity Research, said he learnt of the price cuts after talking with Intel customers who have seen Intel’s product roadmaps. Those roadmaps include information about future products, as well as plans to cut prices of existing products. Intel does not disclose those plans in advance, and an Intel spokesman said the company does not comment on price cut speculation. According to the roadmap, Intel plans to cut prices for its Celeron processor, aimed at entry level and lower-cost machines, between 5.9 per cent and 13.6 per cent, on August 24, Nguyen said. SMS boom in Hong Kong Hong Kong people are
sending and receiving nearly 100 million text messages a day as the
popularity of the medium booms, a news report said. Official figures
from the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) showed people
in the territory of 6.8 million sent and received 93.67 million text
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