It's not that the Brazil government can't afford a Thawte or Verisign certificate - the actual reasoning is that as a sovereign nation they don't trust (and can't depend on) these foreign corporations. The website is (IMHO, correctly and appropriately) certified by the chief Brazilian trusted authority.

Effective October 1st, 2007 Travisa Outsourcing will handle all requests for Indian visas.

But yes, it's your country so your rules apply. I understand that a visa is a privilege, not a right.

The perception of iPhone being a failure was created by a newspaper in Japan, Sankei Shimbun, Hayashi noted in his original reply to Wired. Last fall, it wrote although Softbank tried to sell one million units by the end of 2008, they only sold about 200,000. This article was wrong in two fronts. One is that Softbank nor Apple never publicly claimed they would sell 1 million units. Second, their estimate of 200,000 units were also wrong. Although Apple nor Softbank releases the real number of shipment, today, it is strongly believed that they have shipped more than 300,000 and possibly near 400,000 units in Japan.

In another move to counter VMware's lead, Citrix will offer its XenServer software free starting in April. One or two high-end features from that product, including the high-availability features, will be moved to Citrix Essentials for XenServer, but many of the existing capabilities will be available for no charge, said Citrix CTO Simon Crosby. Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V and Citrix Essentials for XenServer each will be priced at US$1,500 to $5,000 per server, depending on the features selected, Crosby said.

.....instructs its drone machines to report to 250 different internet addresses each day. Without the service, admins would have to manually block 1,750 domains each week, or 91,250 each year.