Hong Kong sites the riskiest

Hong Kong Web sites are the most likely to hit visitors with unwanted ads, viruses and spam, research from an Internet security company has found, reports AFP.

More than 19% of Web sites using the ".hk" domain name pose a security threat to visitors, the research by US software firm McAfee discovered.

China-based sites are the second most risky with 11%, while those from Finland and Japan are the two safest. Romanian and Russian sites were also a threat to Web users.

Almost 80% of social networking site users would be more careful about the details they put online if they knew the media might use them, a poll says, according to BBC News.

The Press Complaints Commission said 89% of the 1 000 people polled wanted guidelines on what the media could use.

And 42% of 16- to 24-year-olds who used such Web sites said they knew someone who had been embarrassed by material which was posted without consent.

Apple is bringing movies to iTunes Canada, almost two years after their launch in the US, says National Post.

The iTunes Store in Canada now offers more than 1 200 films, available for rent or purchase, the company said in a press release.

Titles will be available for purchase on the same day as their DVD release, including recent movies such as Juno, I Am Legend, The Bourne Ultimatum and Cloverfield.

Google plans to develop a high-technology campus at Nasa Ames Research Centre, in Mountain View, California, reports China View.

Under the terms of a 40-year lease agreement, Google will pay Nasa an initial rent of $3.66 million a year for leasing Nasa's unimproved land to construct offices and research and development facilities in a campus-style setting.

"This long-term lease agreement is a key component of Google's strategy for continued growth in Silicon Valley," said David Radcliffe, Google's VP of real estate and workplace services.