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8th of March every year marked as International Women’s Day! The above funny video was found on Youtube, hope you enjoy it and drive carefully in future!

What’s Happening on 2009 International Women’s Day?

On occasion of 2009 International Women’s Day the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned that the specific health-care needs of women are often ignored or insufficiently taken into account in war situations.

In the world’s least developed countries, many of which are at war, women are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications than in developed countries, according to UNICEF. While armed conflicts and other violence affect entire communities, women are particularly at risk of rape and other forms of sexual violence. Because of poor security conditions or because they have no means of transportation, it is often impossible for women to reach a health-care facility so as to give birth safely.

Something to share?

The International Women’s Day website by Aurora provides a free service to women around the world wanting to share and promote their IWD activity, videos, opinions and ideas. Feel free to submit gender-related items for the site that you consider relevant and useful.

Last but not least, wish every women have a Happy, Healthy & Confidence year!

Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo and CEO since June 2007, is stepping down from the Chief Executive Officer position as soon as Yahoo find suitable person replace his position. Jerry Yang will be staying in the role of “Chief Yahoo” and maintaining a seat on the company’s board of directors.

In a statement released by Yahoo’s company Chairman Roy Bostock says: “Jerry and the Board have had an ongoing dialogue about succession timing, and we all agree that now is the right time to make the transition to a new CEO who can take the company to the next level. We are deeply grateful to Jerry for his many contributions as CEO over the past 18 months, and we are pleased that he plans to stay actively involved at Yahoo! as a key executive and member of the Board.”

After Yahoo rejecting Microsoft’s offer to acquire the company for $31/share earlier this year, Yahoo has slipped all the way to a recent low of $10.32 amidst its own internal problems and the broader economic slowdown, market believe this could be strong reason why Jerry Yang decide to leave the CEO position.

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Friendster.com, the largest social network in Asia had experience long downtime for schedule maintenance

Some netizen suspect they probably hacked but there is no comfirm news release on this matter yet, all we can do is wait until friendster team doing their press release. You may find more about friendster’s users comment on this schedule maintenance matter here!

Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) is the next version of Microsoft Windows and the successor to Windows Vista. Microsoft stated in 2007 that it is “scoping Windows 7 development to a three-year time frame”.

Windows 7 is hot topics recently and everyone are looking forward to the next Windows incarnation and the app demo’d below shows off what the system will be able to do. The multi-touch comes via a 3rd-party app running pre-beta N-Trig drivers on a pre-beta Windows 7 build.

[ScreenShot of Windown 7]