The Register states that after British “business leaders met chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday to detail their objections to his proposed changes to how capital gains tax is charged,” Darling said “he would look at further evidence offered by the lobbyists, but

[seemed] unlikely to completely abandon the changes.”

In a different article, the Register writes that “Google has slipped its Web 2.0 Docs application onto its mobile portal, allowing users to view documents, spreadsheets and presentations on their mobile phone browser.  For the moment the service is read-only, but Google promises editing capability will come real soon now y’hear.”  However, the publication also points out that “[w]hile the applications-as-a-service model might work on desktop computers, with their always-on connectivity, it’s harder to understand how such a model can be useful on a mobile phone without something like Google Gears to make the applications work when you are disconnected.”

Reuters reports that British “[p]olice launched a Web site on Tuesday to warn children as young as eight about the dangers of putting their personal details on social networking sites such as MySpace and Bebo.  The site — www.thinkuknow.co.uk/cybercafe — has an online cafe where children can learn about the dangers of revealing too much about themselves online.”

According to the Wall Street Journal, “Rep. Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has drafted legislation that would trim the 35% [in corporate income tax] companies now pay to between 30% and 31%.  […]  The change would be funded in part by eliminating an existing tax deduction for manufacturers aimed at keeping production in the U.S.  The proposal, which Mr. Rangel plans to introduce later this week as part of a broad tax bill, is unlikely to make it through Congress this year, a fact even he has acknowledged. Still, it sets the stage for a future debate about taxes and could provide fodder for a broader overhaul when a new president takes office in 2009.”

The International Herald Tribune has an article on the European Union’s "blue card" plan.  The EU wants to use “blue cards” to “lure highly skilled migrants by offering financial and housing benefits, and reducing bureaucracy.  The 27-nation bloc is trying to compete with the U.S. ‘green card’ system and programs in other Western countries to get the best-qualified migrant labor, which is increasingly important to plug labor gaps in the aging developed world.”