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It’s A Boy, With Thanks To YouTube

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It might be the first YouTube baby. Engineer Marc Stephens from Cornwall, England, delivered the baby boy his wife has been carrying after she went heavily into labor, and before an ambulance could arrive to take her to hospital.

According to the mother, Jo Stephens, the couple had planned a home birth for their fourth child, but not quite so dramatically.

"I woke up and realized I was having contractions every five minutes," she told the BBC.

"I woke Marc up and we phoned the midwife, but they were all so busy they couldn’t come round to our house and told us to call an ambulance. But before it arrived, it all started."

FTC Stops Scareware Scam

Two companies – Innovative Marketing, Inc., which is incorporated in Belize and maintains offices in Kiev, Ukraine, and ByteHosting Internet Services, LLC from Cincinnati, OH – have been named in an FTC complaint relating to a scareware scam, and the body has obtained a temporary restraining order that effectively freezes their activities.

The FTC complaint alleges that the companies, “along with individuals Daniel Sundin, Sam Jain, Marc D’Souza, Kristy Ross, and James Reno, violated the FTC Act by misrepresenting that they conducted scans of consumers’ computers and detected a variety of security or privacy issues, including viruses, spyware, system errors, and pornography. The complaint also names a sixth individual, Maurice D’Souza, as a relief defendant who received proceeds from the scheme.”

Netscape Founder Joins Facebook Board

Netscape Founder Joins Facebook Board

Remember Netscape? At one time it looked as if it would eclipse Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as a browser. Those days are just a hazy memory now, but the man who dreamed them, Marc Andreessen, is still very much alive and kicking – and the newest member of Facebook’s four-member board.

It will be a change for Andreessen, who has plenty of experience with startups – after Netscape he was involved with Opsware and Ning.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and chief executive, said:

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