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Becker fined THREE-times Wimbledon champion Boris Becker was fined by a German court over his role in the financial collapse of a German sports Website. A Munich court ordered Becker to pay `80 5,700 — much less than the administrator of insolvent Internet portal Sportgate was asking for. The administrator said Becker, who was a majority stakeholder in the company, had promised to pay `80 1.5 million ($1.85 million) to cover the firm’s losses. Becker, who was not in court for the ruling, denied the charges. F‘UN’ CD The United Nations has launched what it billed as a fun CD-ROM aimed at the "six to 96 age group" to spread knowledge of how the organisation works. The $10 disc, Discover the U.N. and Have Fun, is to go on sale in the UN bookshops and information centres around the globe. Using a game format, it pits the user against a Terrible Bug, representing the problems that the world body struggles to resolve — like refugee crises, wars and pollution — and tests their knowledge of development and environmental issues. The CD-ROM was developed by the UN’s Economic Commission for Europe. So far only available in a bilingual English-French version, it will also be produced in other official UN languages — Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic . Microsoft regrets ‘Swastika’ Microsoft Corp. said its latest version of Office software inadvertently contained a font featuring two swastikas, and said it would offer tools to remove and replace the offending characters from the program. The swastika, which was made infamous by Nazi Germany, was included in Microsoft’s "Bookshelf Symbol 7" font. That font was derived from a Japanese font set, said Microsoft Office product manager Simon Marks. The Redmond, Washington-based software maker said it had contacted various Jewish organisations about the font and said a utility would be immediately available on its Website that would remove the characters from the system. Indo-French
collaboration Indian computer scientists
are to work in close collaboration with French National Research Centre
for Informatics, INRIA, and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)
will act as a nodal agency from India for all future joint advanced
projects. An MoU in this regard, which is in its final stage, was
decided on at the five-day international conference in Advances in
Computing Science and Logic Programming that concluded last week. The
conference also drew plans for scientists to work with biologists in a
big way to provide them simulation models especially in cell evolution
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