The World's Hardest-Working Countries

If you thought you worked long hours, consider 39-year-old Lee from South Korea. A civil servant at the ministry of agriculture and fisheries, Lee gets up at 5:30 a.m. every day, gets dressed and makes a two-hour commute into Seoul to start work at 8:30 a.m. After sitting at a computer for most of the day, Lee typically gets out the door at 9 p.m.

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25 Excellent Ajax Techniques and Examples

If you’re interested in expanding your understanding of Ajax techniques and practices, check out these 25 hand-picked Ajax articles and tutorials that outline various methods and concepts involved in the development of Ajax-based applications.

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Take Me Off Your List

Michael Fertik wants to wipe your personal details off the Web. He's finding out just how difficult it is to protect privacy.The Web is populated by people-focused search engines like Intelius, Peoplefinders or US Search that peddle personal data: the value of your house, criminal records, salary information and employment history.

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What Is Programming?

Interesting debate on what programming really is and what it really does. Any thoughts?

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Google: Android will be 100% open source

Contrary to some reports, everything that makes Android “Android”, including all the core platform components and libraries needed to port Android to new devices will be open sourced under commonly used, industry standard licenses, says Google.

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People will pay for web content, says Google

President Google for Europe, Middle East and Africa and vice president Google UK, believes that the web economy will evolve just like the print economy - and that means people will pay for content online, writes Stephen Brook. The business model on the web is going to be no different to the business model today," Arora tells the audience

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To Counter Google, Facebook Opens Its Code

In a bid to keep software developers in its orbit, Facebook is making its code open-source.

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