G8 Not Honoring AIDS Commitments, Says Expert

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The AIDS community is increasingly concerned that the donor countries are finding in the current financial crisis an excuse to avoid fulfilling their commitments to AIDS treatment and prevention | IslamOnline.net

One reason for concern was the “pathetic silence” of the G8 countries on AIDS when they met in Italy earlier this month. G8 countries “think HIV can wait,” said Julio Montaner, Co-Chair of the International AIDS Society conference, to open today in Cape Town, South Africa.

“We must send a clear message that HIV is not waiting. Any retrenchment in our efforts to provide universal access to anti-retroviral treatment to AIDS, which was repeatedly promised by G8, will cause us to pay a huge toll in the future,” he added.

What Google Wants

Google’s operating system project is probably the search giant’s most forceful attempt to hasten the end of the operating system era | IslamOnline.net

Technology rumor sites, and probably everybody else, were caught off guard. Google, which is the subject of an ever-revolving rumor mill, announced last Tuesday that it’s working on an operating system, dubbed Chrome OS.

And that was a surprise. After all, it’s no secret that Google has been working to elevate the web browser to be the center of users’ interaction with information. Whether you wanted to compose a formal letter or share your photos with family, Google made sure that a web browser (and a Google account) would suffice.