China's securities regulator also is considering opening up the country's capital markets to international hedge funds by launching a feasibility study on broadening the scopeof the QFII program to include such investors, a person familiar with the situation said last week.
The use and scopeof NGI, which kicked off a pilot program in February, will likely be questioned not just by black helicopter watchers but privacy advocates as well.
The size and scopeof Apple's developer program remains a bit ofa mystery, but Apple has already shown off demos from online auctioneer eBay, mobile social-networking start-up Loopt, blogging service TypePad, the Associated Press and game developer Pangea Software.