A school bus was struck by a train in the French alps close to the Switzerland border killing 5 and injuring at least 12, the authorities said.
It was however not clear if the dead or injured were children. The accident has taken place near the town of Allinges in France’s Haute-Savoi Department.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the President, has paid tribute to the victims
I was just planning my trip to the Beijing Olympics when I came across the news that the Olympics tickets are going to contain all of the personal data of the ticket holder…
They are embedding data such as Passport Number, Home Address and Email Addresses. As if this wasnt bad enough, they are going to embed all of this data on an RFID chip.
This poses as a terrible threat as all this data can be interpreted by anyone as RFID data can easily read wirelessly and someone whois rally dedicated can find ways to break whatever security measures have been taken.
So, I, personally have put down my plans of Beijing. Id rather have my privacy.
Announced Friday, Facebook is joining hands in an effort to making it easier for people to share their personal profile online.
This came as a result of growing interest among the users for such portability needs. Internet social networking giant, MySpace has also announced their launch of such a feature. While MySpace allows users to use their profiles in only a few websites, facebook has announced that the facebook profile can be carried to any site that wants to host them.
The actual portability will be possible after several weeks.
Google Inc, the internet search leader has last year created a network that will make it easier to share music, picture, hangouts and the likes. Its Open Social. While MySpace has joined OpenSocial, Facebook has not.
Facebook widget application will get a new boom with the portability kicking in. This is because developers stand to gain more now that the profiles will be used even outside of the site!
