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PC World – When it comes to broadband, I’m a socialist. Why?

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PC World – Nearly a month after a Google engineer released details of a new Windows XP flaw, criminals have dramatically ramped up online attacks that leverage the bug.

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PC World – Nearly a month after a Google engineer released details of a new Windows XP flaw, criminals have dramatically ramped up online attacks that leverage the bug.

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Reuters – Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it signed an agreement to acquire online store Woot.com, which sells discounted products and operates an online community, for an undisclosed sum.

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Reuters – Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it signed an agreement to acquire online store Woot.com, which sells discounted products and operates an online community, for an undisclosed sum.

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AFP – Google on Wednesday overhauled its news website to tailor pages to individual interests of readers.

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AFP – Google on Wednesday overhauled its news website to tailor pages to individual interests of readers.

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AFP – Google’s Web search engine in China was “partially blocked” on Wednesday, the deadline for the Chinese authorities to renew the Internet giant’s business license.

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Reuters – Google Inc could face further pressure for its other products in China as Beijing is due to decide whether or not to renew a license for the firm’s flagship search engine in the world’s largest Internet market.

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AFP – A French competition watchdog accused Google on Wednesday of unfair practice by blocking a company from advertising on its online search services.

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AP – Listen closely, that’s the sound of demented music dying that you’re hearing on your radio.

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AP – Shaw Communications Inc.’s earnings jumped 20 percent in its fiscal third quarter as more customers signed up for its Internet and digital phone services.

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PC World – A series of leaked screenshots depict what appears to be a version of Apple’s iWork productivity suite for the iPhone. The 9 to 5 Mac blog received a dozen screenshots of the alleged Pages app for iPhone and iPod touch devices from an unnamed source, but there are several clues they could be fake.

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Reuters – Patriotic, anti-American messages adorn the pages of two alleged Russian spies on Russia’s answer to Facebook, a reminder of historic suspicions and resentments that have survived the end of the Cold War.

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AP – Supporters of a high-speed broadband network that connects researchers in a dozen northern states say the system is in good shape despite university budget cutbacks, thanks in part to a new federal initiative.

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AFP – Social media such as Facecbook and Twitter or blogging sites have become powerful tools that influence what people buy, online researcher Nielsen said Wednesday, urging business to embrace the trend.

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Reuters – Google Inc’s talks to buy ITA Software, an airline IT and services provider, has travel executives worried that the search engine giant could wield too much power in their industry.

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PC World – AOL has revamped MapQuest with the intention of boosting the site’s capabilities to not only display maps but also inform users about the places shown on them, the company said Tuesday.

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AP – Online video site Hulu, under pressure from its media company parents to generate a bigger profit, launched a subscription service Tuesday with complete access to back episodes of popular television shows.

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AP – China is threatening to revoke Google’s business license over the company’s decision to redirect Chinese traffic to computers in Hong Kong that are not governed by the communist government’s censorship practices.

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PC World – While I was cobbling together my PlayStation Plus review, Hulu went ahead and launched its long-anticipated paid subscription service, Hulu Plus. For $9.99 a month, you’ll be able to stream content to your iOS4 iPhone or iPod, 3D or WiFi iPad, and Samsung Internet-enabled TVs or Blu-ray players.

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PC Magazine – Microsoft started to roll out Hotmail Wave 4 to its 360 million users on June 15, but at this point, less than 1 percent of the company’s customer base has the updated version and it could take several weeks before everyone has access, Microsoft said in a Tuesday blog post.

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Reuters – Google Inc is tweaking its China website in a last-ditch effort to save its search business in the world’s largest Internet market after butting heads with Beijing over Web censorship.

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AP – MapQuest was long the leader among websites giving people online directions, but Google Maps surpassed it in 2008.

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NewsFactor – Google is looking for creative ways to remain true to its uncensored search stance in China as it seeks to renew its operating license in the communist nation. For the past three months, Google has been redirecting traffic to its uncensored Hong Kong search engine, but is moving to reverse that motion with a twist.

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AP – Japanese are so in love with Twitter they’re setting a record for tweets per second with a flurry of mini-blog postings. But not a chirp is heard in one silent sector — the campaign for the upcoming nationwide elections.

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AP – A political outsider who largely financed his U.S. Senate primary race with Internet donations banked $172,000 on Monday in his first Web-based fundraiser of the general election season.

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AP – iTunes’ top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending June 28, 2010:

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AFP – Google on Tuesday changed tack in China to address government complaints about its attempts to evade censorship, as it vied to get its business licence renewed in the world’s largest online market.

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PC World – A California law firm may be looking to build a class action lawsuit against Apple over the iPhone 4’s network reception issues, now known online as the iPhone 4 death grip. “If you recently purchased the new iPhone and have experienced poor reception quality, dropped calls, and weak signals, we would like to hear from you,” reads a notice on the Web site for the law firm Kershaw, Cuttiner and Ratinoff.

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AFP – A company called ON24 thinks businesses that have ridden out the global financial chaos are ready for Virtual Briefing Centers that let them save time and money with online gatherings.

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AFP – South Korea’s top mobile network operator SK Telecom Tuesday announced a 100 million dollar investment in a Malaysian firm to tap into regional high-speed Internet services.

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AP – Federal regulators on Monday paved the way for a second online exchange letting investors make bets on movies’ future box-office receipts, but the exchange said a congressional ban may force it to change its plans.

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AP – Two more companies are jumping into the mobile streaming music field with applications that work on iPhones, giving consumers new ways to listen to millions of tracks on the go for about $10 a month.

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PC World – Microsoft has some big plans for the future of the PC if alleged Windows 8-related documents recently leaked online are correct. Nearly 18 documents–supposedly confidential internal Microsoft plans–have surfaced, including one called “Modern Form Factors” that shows that Microsoft may be looking at three broad PC categories for the future: Lap PC, Workhorse PC, and Family Hub PC.

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PC World – Nexus One owners have begun to receive version 2.2 of the Android software, codenamed Froyo, as an over-the-air update to their phones, Google said in a blog post on Monday.

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AP – JOIN THE CLUB: Music blog site MOG and startup Rdio are offering ways to stream millions of songs to mobile devices for about $10 a month.

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PC World – Google has stopped automatically redirecting some search traffic from China to its Hong Kong search engine in a bid to placate angry Chinese officials, the company said Tuesday.

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Reuters – Baidu Inc, China’s leading search engine, will start hiring software engineers directly from the United States early next month, as it seeks to expand its technological capabilities and raise its global profile.

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AFP – Google Chrome last week unseated Apple Safari for the first time as the third most used Internet browser in the United States, according to figures released by StatCounter.

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PC World – What’s Microsoft cooking up for Windows 8? We’ve already heard rumors of a 128-bit operating system with a 2012 release date, but what about the cool stuff that would make an upgrade worthwhile? A few Windows aficionado sites have just posted leaked documents–purported to be from Microsoft insiders–that offer a sneak peek of what Redmond has is mind.

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Christopher Null – Internet service providers get a pretty bad rap. Everyone seems to be convinced that his Internet provider is the worst, and that everyone else in America has a dreamily fast connection to the Web.

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AP – Forgot to de-friend your wife on Facebook while posting vacation shots of your mistress? Her divorce lawyer will be thrilled.

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PC World – By the time my roommate, Sarah, invited a strange man from Australia to stay with us for a month, he no longer seemed like a stranger to her.

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PC World – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has disrupted a long-running online scam that allowed offshore fraudsters to steal millions of dollars from U.S. consumers — often by taking just pennies at a time.

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PC World – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has disrupted a long-running online scam that allowed offshore fraudsters to steal millions of dollars from U.S. consumers — often by taking just pennies at a time.

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PC World – If you’re paranoid about snoops discovering your Web search terms and results, you’ll have to start pointing your browser to another URL to use Google encrypted search.

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Appolicious – Microsoft’s Bing is holding its own alongside search engine giants Yahoo! and Google, and is now included as default option in mobile Safari. However, the free Bing app, despite its recent update for iOS4, is still sitting in middle-of-the-road territory—not much of an overall change since I reviewed the product back in December.

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AP – In the murky world of the Internet, how do you ever really know who you’re talking to, who you’re buying from or if your bank can actually tell it’s you when you log in to pay a bill?

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