Johnston Press starts charging for online local news

One of the UK's biggest newspaper firms is to charge for access to online content from six of its titles. The Johnston Press websites will either ask users to pay £5 for a three-month subscription to read the full articles, or direct them to buy the newspapers.

Via BBC Online

Pub fined £8K after user infringes copyright with its WiFi

A British pub has been fined £8,000 because someone using the WiFi there allegedly committed a copyright infringement. Even though British law exempts people who provide Internet access from liability for their users' copyright infringements, the pub was still fined.

Via Boing Boing

Bangalore blooming into innovation hothouse

Years ago, when the world pictured Bangalore they imagined an outsourcing hub full of call centre agents and paid-by-the-hour software workers. How that has changed. Today, that same city has metamorphosed into a thriving research and development centre where advances in areas such as chip design, software product design and innovative healthcare products are driving profits for global multinationals.

Via Silicon.com

UK 'must find 600,000 new engineers in seven years'

Government hopes of a revitalised manufacturing sector dragging Britain out of recession will be thwarted unless almost 600,000 engineers are recruited and trained over the next seven years, according to a report out this week. The annual health check on the state of the industrial labour market from the Engineering and Technology Board, due out on Tuesday, shows that the sector needs to shatter its male-dominated image to tackle a potentially severe skills shortage.

Via Guardian.co.uk

Royal Society places archive online

The Royal Society has put 60 of its most important papers online to mark its 350th anniversary. Royal Society places archive online. They include a gruesome account of an early blood transfusion in 1666, Benjamin Franklin's account of flying a kite in a storm to identify the electrical nature of lightning, Watson and Crick's description of the evidence for the structure of DNA and Stephen Hawking's early writing on black holes in space.

Via TG Daily

Gangs in New York talk Twitter: Use tweets to trash-talk rivals, plan fights

New York City's street gangs are becoming tweet gangs. One investigator recently warned parents and teens that the bastion of OMG and LOL has been infiltrated by violent crews waging turf wars. A boy shot in the leg weeks earlier on Lenox Ave. may have been targeted because of a battle the Original Young Gangsters crew started on Twitter.

Via New York Daily