First victim of Christchurch earthquake buried...

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First victim of the Christchurch earthquake buried...

A five month old baby boy was the first of the victims of Christchurch's devastating earthquake to be laid to rest today - the first funeral and the death toll mounts to 148.

Dozens of family members and friends gathered at a small chapel for the funeral of baby Baxtor Gowland, who was sleeping peacefully in his bed until struck by falling masonary during the 6.3 magnitude EQ a week ago.

He later died in hospital. Inside the chapel a slideslow of the smiling infants photographs were reportedly flashed on a screen, as Sarah McLachlan's song "Angel" echoed sadly through the room.

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Yahoo tests new mail upgrade...

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Yahoo tests major Mail upgrade



 Yahoo will unwrap on Wednesday a test version of a major upgrade of its Mail service, whose user engagement has been eroding to the detriment of the company's overall usage.



Called simply Yahoo Mail Beta, the new version of the webmail service will feature a revamped interface and navigation scheme, improved functionality for viewing photos and videos, tighter Twitter and Facebook integration and sharper spam detection and filtering.



A lot is riding on this Yahoo Mail upgrade. In May, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz blamed Mail for a drop in user engagement on Yahoo services.



Speaking at an event for Yahoo investors, Bartz said Yahoo Mail's user engagement had been "a bit flat" and that a revamping of the webmail service was in the works. "The big dog of engagement is mail," Bartz said then.



In terms of average minutes per visitor, Yahoo's user engagement fell between January 2009, when users spent an average of 336.4 minutes on Yahoo properties, and April 2010, when that had shrunk to 247.9 minutes, according to comScore.



Now, the 273 million Yahoo Mail users will get a chance to try out the beta upgrade by going to http://features.mail.yahoo.com and clicking on the "Try It Now" link.



The new version has been designed to be faster, especially for people logging in from mobile devices and with slow Internet connections.



Integration with Twitter and Facebook will allow users to view status updates from those social networking services within the Yahoo Mail interface, as well as publish posts.



Yahoo Mail Beta also makes it possible to view photos and video from sites like Yahoo's Flickr and Google's Picasa and YouTube within the webmail service's inbox pane.



The spam detection and the e-mail search functionality have also been improved.



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The World Wide Web - sometimes it doesn't appear so...

The World Wide Web - sometimes it doesn't appear so.

You receive an email offering a service or product. You decide that you would like to sign up for it, you click in and...you receive a comment, "this is not available in your area"(the pacific area). Something to do with US tax laws?

You read about China forcing Yahoo to give up information about a Chinese national who has sent emails, or about a blogger who has some how offended their Government. Privacy? Yahoo cooperates fully with that particular government.

Sometimes the World Wide Web is not realy the World Wide Web.

The World Wide Web should be outside national boundaries, unless it is registered in a particular country and really offends that country's laws on security or treason It should not be manipulated by any particular government.

The World Wide Web is really the World Wide Web or it isn't!

What do you believe?