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29.08.2007 The brand new website,ErasmusPC has been launched which is an International Network for Culture and Cities. Its aim is to gather ideas and to formulate and promote initiatives relating to urban and cultural development.

29.08.2007 One of the largest providers of business application software, SAP AG a German software firm, has doubled the number of customers in India to 2,000 in the past year and reaffirmed plans to invest $1 billion in the country to boost growth.

29.08.2007 Algeria and the United States have ratified a second agreement which is extending over the next five years, to cooperate in science and technology.

29.08.2007 British House of Lords has found in an inquiry of a personal online security that the internet supports a criminal economy, though the incidences of e-crime are huge but with no existence of accurate data. So the governments, the manufacturers of hardware and software, internet service providers, and the criminal justice system must act against burgeoning e-crime.

27.08.2007 United Nations officials called on top Chinese executives to utilize information technology to improve the plight of poor people and to fight against poverty, illiteracy and disease in their home country and around the world.

27.08.2007 The Intel Foundation partnered with the Digital Empowerment Foundation, a New Delhi-based non-governmental organisation has granted a donation of US 60,000 (Rs.25 lakh) towards women's education and empowerment in India.

27.08.2007 Researchers in Canada have revealed that computer analysis of existing drugs may be a key to fight new infectious agents and antibiotic-resistant pathogens like deadly tuberculosis strains and staph 'superbugs', making it easier to tackle sudden outbreaks. They said that the use of such "emergency discovery" technology could save time, money and lives during a sudden bio-terrorism attack.