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According to the researchers, the government of People's Republic of China monitored and censored messages that were sent through Skype, program which allows users to chat and make phone calls over the Internet.

Representatives of a research group from University of Toronto, Canada, called Citizen Lab, stated that they were able to discover a database that featured thousands of words that were blocked by China due to their political sensitiveness. It is worth mentioning that that database, which is free for public view, also included personal information of every subscriber.

It is worth mentioning that small web-research company, ComScore, represents the de facto authority of online audiences. In winter of 2007, the company faced strong criticism from analysts who blamed it for the fact that it reported Google's loss of 1/3^rd of its market value.

According to a report that ComScore issued, the domestic paid clicks of number one search engine, meaning how many times people clicked on an ad, had flattened.

According to the report presented by Interbrand, a brand consultancy company, the image of Coca-Cola Co. was overall the most valuable for eight years in a row. It is worth mentioning that the consultancy company ranked different brands according to the revenue of each company.

The number one search engine, Google, was the one to register the most impressive increase in value. This is mainly because the company introduced some of its news features, including Google Mobile, Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Google Book Search. According to Interbrand, Google's new features allowed the company to increase its value by $25.59 billion.

By ROBIN TONER and ADAM NAGOURNEY

Despite an intense effort to distance himself from the way his party has done business in Washington, Senator John McCain is seen by voters as far less likely to bring change to Washington than Senator Barack Obama. He is widely viewed as a “typical Republican” who would continue or expand President Bush’s policies, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

Polls taken after the Republican convention suggested that Mr. McCain had enjoyed a surge of support — particularly among white women after his selection of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate — but the latest poll indicates “the Palin effect” was, at least so far, a limited burst of interest.

From the very start it is worth mentioning that the Pacific Ocean is more expensive than the Atlantic due to a number of factors; besides people have to pay much more if they wish to live on the west coast.

Most expensive waterfront places to live are located in California. Forbes presented the most expensive waterfronts in the United States, mentioning that the prices for a small-size bungalow may reach $1.85 million. However, the Atlantic Ocean is not that cheap either - the price for a two-bedroom in Boston may reach $1.5 million.

According to the watchdog of People's Republic of China, he country is going to apply anti-monopoly rules in evaluating the bid of Coca Cola Company to purchase Chinese juice firm called Huiyan. The United States popular drinks company Coca Cola looks forward to swallow the Chinese company is a bid that reaches $2.5 billion.

The move of the American company will be closely monitored due to the fact that such case is the first under China's new antitrust laws.

A new poll shows Republican presidential candidate John McCain with a slight lead over Democrat Barack Obama in West Virginia.

A second poll by the same group also shows that Margaret Workman has a sizeable lead in the race for West Virginia Supreme Court, but the other two candidates are in a neck-and-neck contest for the second Supreme Court seat that’s up for grabs.

McCain is ahead of Obama in West Virginia by five points, according to Charleston pollster Mark Blankenship.

Studies performed earlier showed that about 48 percent of all adults and 60 percent of young voters watched fake news shows in order to obtain the necessary information on 2004 presidential election. However, scientists from Ohio State University discounted the effectiveness of these shows to inform the public about the elections.

The Bush administration, after considerable internal debate, has decided not to take direct punitive action against Russia for its conflict with Georgia, concluding that it has little leverage if it acts unilaterally and that it would be better off pressing for a chorus of international criticism to be led by Europe.

In recent interviews, senior administration officials said the White House had concluded that American punishments like economic sanctions or blocking Russia from world trade groups would only backfire, deepening Russia's intransigence and allowing the Kremlin to narrow the regional and global implications of its invasion of Georgia to an old-fashioned Washington-Moscow dispute.

The Boeing Company, whose order books are bulging with demand for its planes, was hit by its second major strike in three years early Saturday, when the union that represents 27,000 machinists in Washington State, Oregon and Kansas walked off the job.

The union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, said its members struck Boeing at 3:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time after last-minute talks, held in Florida, failed to bring an agreement. No new talks were scheduled.

Bulgaria is located on Balkan Peninsula. It is bordered on the north by Romania, on the south by Turkey and Greece, and on the west by the Serbia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. To the East Bulgaria is washed by the Black Sea. More than half of the country’s territory is mountainous or hilly. The majority of tourists are interested in fine Black Sea beaches, basically round Varna. Amateurs of winter vacations are advised to visit known mounting skiing resorts such as Borovet, Pamporovo, Vitosha and Bansko.

As a mountain-skiing direction Bulgaria is known a little, and the number of “winter” tourists here is insignificant because the beach country cannot guarantee to skiers good paths and steady snow.

The Best Polish mounting skiing resort and Poland’s "winter capital" the resort of Zakopane is situated in a beautiful valley of Tatra Mountains at an altitude of 850-1120 metres. The resort is bordered by Slovakia and is in 100 kilometres far from Krakow. Zakopane is 840 m above sea level and the ski season begins here in December and lasts till the end of April.

By 2007, statistical information about the growth of the Internet and E-commerce has become a very large concern and there are thousands of sources.

A large percentage of electronic commerce is conducted entirely electronically for virtual items such as access to premium content on a website, but most electronic commerce involves the transportation of physical items in some way. Online retailers are sometimes known as e-tailers and online retail is sometimes known as e-tail. Almost all big retailers have electronic commerce presence on the World Wide Web.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moscow has been artificially creating and maintaining various centres of tension, in order to maintain its influence on the formers Soviet republics. Misleading the world society, under the appearance of peacemakers, the country has been constantly frightening and impeding the development of the young states during many years. A vivid example of this is Moldova and Georgia.