| Japanese PC Use Shrinks as Consumers Move On to Other Gadgets
Digital cameras connect directly to printers and high-definition TVs for viewing photos, bypassing PCs altogether. Movies now download straight to TVs. More than 50 percent of Japanese send e-mail and browse the Internet from their mobile phones, according to a 2006 survey by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The same survey found that 30 percent of people with e-mail on their phones used PC-based e-mail less, including 4 percent who said they had stopped sending e-mails from PCs completely. The fastest growing social networking site here, Mobagay Town, is designed exclusively for cell phones. Other networking sites like Mixi, Facebook and MySpace can all be accessed and updated from handsets, as can the video-sharing site YouTube. And while a lot of the decline is in household PCs, businesses are also waiting longer to replace their computers partly because recent advances in PC technology are only incremental, analysts say.
Gansu, Ningxia Adopt Real-name System For Online Communities
Gansu and Ningxia have announced plans to adopt real-name registration system for Internet BBS administrator and chat room host posts. According to local Chinese media, Gansu Province and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region have worked out measures to implement real name registration systems and are asking websites providing BBS, online forums and chat rooms to register within the system. Thirteen Chinese ministries including the Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Information Industry and Ministry of Culture jointly held a tele-conference on January 22, 2008, saying that they would continue to crack down on harmful online content between January and September this year. .
Madison Man Charged With Enticing Minor
Police said Brian OShaughnessy was in contact with the 14-year old girl from Kentucky in an online chat room and began communicating with her over the phone. Police said during the phone conversations, OShaughnessy described graphic acts to the victim and spoke of performing acts while conversing with her. Police said he also spoke about traveling to Kentucky to meet the young girl. .
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