Pakistani authorities on Friday put seven major websites, including Google and YouTube, under watch for containing material deemed offensive to Muslims, officials said.

The Ministry of Information Technology is also blocking at least 17 links on YouTube and other websites for showing “blasphemous material“.

Univ. of Washington, Microsoft Research (Redmond) and LUMS ran a collaborative distance learning course on "Computing for the Developing-world".  The video on the right shows how the classroom presenter technology and tablet PCs were used to enhance interaction between students across the three sites.