Government of Nepal in consultation with Nepalese travel trade sector and concerned organizations/experts decided on October 25, 2008 to launch a national tourism campaign Nepal Tourism Year 2011. This announcement reflects the government’s anticipation to bring into Nepal at least one million international tourists by the year 2011 and tourism industry’s exigency to organize a tourism promotion campaign for wider impact.

Facebook on Tuesday said that it had partnered with McAfee to offer its 350 million members a complimentary six-month subscription to McAfee security software.

"Now, if your computer is infected, you will be asked to run a scan ... and clean it before accessing Facebook," said Facebook project manager Jake Brill in a blog post. "We're not aware of another free Internet service that takes this much responsibility for helping people keep their accounts secure."

After the six month period, Facebook users who chose to renew the subscription will have to pay a fee. A McAfee spokesperson said the fee had not yet been determined and that it will probably be less than the annual subscription price charged to retail buyers of its security software.

McAfee's software requires a PC. A Facebook spokesperson was not immediately able to provide data about the number of subscribers who use Mac OS X or Linux.

CAN Info-Tech 2010, the largest annual Information and Communication Technology (ICT) fair in the country, has kicked off in the capital on Wednesday.

Organised by the Computer Association of Nepal (CAN), the expo aims to showcase the latest technological development in ICT realm as well as to create awareness among the people about the ICT sector of Nepal.

While inaugurating the 16th edition of the annual event at the Exhibition Hall, Bhrikuti Mandap, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said that the government was committed to exploit the ICT as a productive tool to expedite the development of the country.

Google is now offering a small virtual hard drive in the cloud so you can access all sorts of files anywhere — the latest salvo in an arms race to become the dominant player in cloud services.

As with many Google initiatives, this one may be deceptively modest: When it is completely rolled out, Google Docs will accept uploads of any kind of file — not just text and spreadsheets. That move heightens their competition with Microsoft, and takes on Apple and a number of small startups in the business of creating backup and storage space on remote servers.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's contention last week that privacy is becoming less important to online users caused a stir across the Internet and among privacy advocates.

Zuckerberg told an audience at the 2009 Crunchies Awards ceremonies in San Francisco on Friday that social norms are changing and people don't expect or want nearly as much privacy as they have in the past.

"When we got started, the question people asked was, 'Why would I want to put any information on the Internet?'," he said during the presentation of awards to top online startups and makers of innovative technology.

Thousands of female users - and some male ones - began updating their statuses on Friday with “beige”, “hot pink”, “crimson red”, “sexy black and gold” or even “nothing”.

As online confusion raged and dozens of bloggers speculated about its meaning, it was disclosed it was part of a new campaign to help raise awareness for breast cancer.

Within hours of the craze starting, dozens of Facebook groups began appearing, with one group “breast cancer awareness ♥ I updated my Status with my Bra colour ♥”, having more than 33,000 fans.

A social networking site developed by a Nepali has been launched and, like Facebook, looks to tap into the globally rising revenues of social networking sites by earning revenue from advertisements on its site.

Despite enrolling some international social networking websites like 'Facebook.com', 'Hi5.com' on a daily basis, majority of Nepalese users does not know where they were established from. But it should be different in case of another global social networking website called 'Connectfrens.com' because it is the first launched international social networking website from Nepal which was developed by a course tutor at Arena Multimedia Pvt Ltd and he is 'Krishna Karki'.

The firms unveiled the Windows 7 powered touchscreen machine, also known as a tablet, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

The aim of the device is to bridge the gap between laptops and smartphones. Apple are also reported to be gearing up to launch a slate device in late January to go on sale in March, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Google  launched its hotly-anticipated new mobile phone Tuesday in its most direct challenge yet to Apple's hugely popular iPhone.

The Nexus One, which boasts a highly-developed touch screen and other enhancements, is due to be unveiled at Google's headquarters in Silicon Valley.

Precise details of the launch – including final prices and information on when it will go on sale in Britain – are still unconfirmed, though speculation is rife that it will be priced at $530 (£328).