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BEIJING (AFP) – China on Monday denied any state involvement in cyberattacks on Google and defended Internet censorship as necessary, as a row with Washington over the US firm’s threat to leave the country rumbled on.
The statements from Beijing, carried in twin interviews on the state news agency Xinhua, came after the White House said [...]
The Macalope hopes you enjoyed your vacation from tablet rumors last week because it’s just a few days until Apple unveils whatever it’s going to unveil and it looks like everyone’s had their crazy pills.
Sadly, they took the ones that make them even crazier, not the ones that calm them down.
We’ll look at some tablet- [...]
San Francisco – It’s the thought experiment we all like to engage in. What would life be like without Microsoft Windows? To listen to the free open source software crowd, the demise of Windows — and by extension, Microsoft’s hegemony over the PC universe — would signal a kind of rebirth for information technology. Software [...]
CANNES, France (AFP) – Social networking site MySpace, which has enabled many artists to launch their careers, is now helping to pay them back millions of dollars in “lost” royalties for songs and performances.
MySpace CEO Owen van Natta said Sunday the company had signed a ground-breaking deal with performance rights group SoundExchange to track down [...]
RIYADH (Reuters) – Zain Saudi Arabia (7030.SE), the kingdom’s newest mobile phone operator, said on Saturday it is in talks with lenders after missing some commitments last year on a two-year $2.5-billion Islamic loan.
Saad al-Barrak, Zain’s chief executive, told Al Arabiya television later that the unmet commitment was related to performance ratios the company was [...]
San Francisco – Firefox 3.6, the latest version of Mozilla’s popular browser, was released Thursday, featuring a 20 percent speed improvement over version 3.5, Mozilla said.
The browser includes improvements to boost performance for everyday Web tasks like e-mail, uploading of photos, and social networking. JavaScript performance is improved, as are overall browser responsiveness and startup [...]
The clock is winding down to the big reveal on Wednesday at Apple’s major press event. It could be an iSlate, or an iSlab, or an iTablet, or perhaps even an iPod Tablet Edition. There are almost as many potential names for the mythic device that may not exist as there are pundits speculating about [...]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China widened its attack against U.S. criticisms of Internet censorship on Monday, raising the stakes in a dispute that has put Google in the middle of a political quarrel between the two global powers.
China has defended its curbs on the Internet nearly two weeks after the world’s biggest search engine provider, Google [...]
NEW YORK – AOL Inc. said Monday that it is boosting its ability to create Web videos by paying $36.5 million for StudioNow Inc., a Web site that lets companies buy custom-made online videos from a network of freelance filmmakers.
AOL will merge Nashville-based StudioNow into its own content management system, Seed.com, which has aggregated assignments [...]