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PC World – Mobile online shopping is growing in China following a surge in sales of smartphones and the growing use of third-generation (3G) mobile networks necessary to access such services.

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PC World – As protesters continue to clash with police in anti-government demonstrations, Egypt has pulled the plug on the Internet.

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Reuters – Egypt’s Web activists have been brazen critics of the President Hosni Mubarak 30-year rule online. This week’s unprecedented protests across Egypt showed they are becoming formidable opponents offline too.

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Reuters – British police arrested five young men on Thursday as they and U.S. authorities conducted searches as part of a probe into Internet activists who carried out cyber attacks against groups they viewed as enemies of the WikiLeaks website.

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AP – Google Inc. is getting closer to releasing a version of the Android software meant for tablet computers, one that will include a fresh look and updated Web browser and keyboard.

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AFP – British police arrested five people and the FBI launched raids across the US as part of a probe into cyber attacks by online group “Anonymous”, which last year assailed websites hostile to WikiLeaks.

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Macworld – Apple on Thursday released iTunes 10.1.2, a stability and performance update for everyone’s favorite media-playing / iOS-device-syncing / app-shopping tool.

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AFP – Amazon.com stock price plunged late Thursday as investors evidently fretted about a narrowing gap between the online retail giant’s revenue and operating costs.

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AP – LinkedIn Corp., the company behind the largest website for professional networking, plans to raise at least $175 million in an initial public offering of stock that could open the IPO floodgates for other widely used online services that connect people with common interests.

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AP – The Obama administration is throwing its support behind a proposal to give a valuable chunk of radio waves to police officers, firefighters and emergency medical workers to build a nationwide wireless broadband network for public safety.

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AP – Amazon.com uncharacteristically missed Wall Street’s revenue target in the fourth quarter, sending the stock tumbling nearly 9 percent and showing that not all Internet companies benefited equally from the holiday shopping season.

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AFP – Internet service was disrupted in Egypt early Friday as cell phone text messaging appeared to be down, hours before activists who used both to organise large anti-government protests planned further actions.

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PC World – Have you wondered how your Internet Service Provider stacks up against the competition when it comes to delivering streaming video to your home? It seems Netflix has been wondering, too, so today it launched what will be a monthly feature at its tech blog comparing average bit rate speeds of major ISPs in the United States and Canada.

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Reuters – In what could signal a big year of Internet initial public offerings, social networking website LinkedIn Corp announced plans on Thursday to float shares to the public.

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AP – Sarah Palin issued a scathing response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, alluding to a popular Internet slang to describe what she thought of the speech.

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PC World – Hey, did you hear? Facebook is launching its own phone. I read it on the Internets, and those Internets are never wrong.

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AFP – A blood-soaked cartoon that marks the Year of the Rabbit by portraying a bunny revolt against brutal tiger overlords has proven an online hit, with its thinly veiled stab at China’s communist rulers.

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Reuters – Nielsen Holdings, which measures television ratings, and Demand Media, which publishes articles online, rallied on Wednesday in their trading debuts, signaling that demand for media-related IPOs was building.

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AP – Concert and ticketing giant Live Nation Entertainment Inc. on Wednesday cut its annual profit forecast by 7 percent after agreeing to settle a class-action lawsuit against its Ticketmaster division over online fees charged to customers.

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AFP – Facebook is rolling out options for advertisers to pay to “sponsor” comments people make about businesses, places or products at the world’s largest online social network.

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Reuters – Movie rental service Netflix reported better-than-expected quarterly profit, fueled by rapid subscriber growth that shows no sign of letting up this year.

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AFP – Facebook said Wednesday following reports it had been blocked in Egypt that it had not seen any major changes in traffic from the country rocked by anti-government unrest.

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AFP – Google ramped up its investment in online entertainment Wednesday with the purchases of a startup devoted to movie talk and another that connects celebrities with fans.

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Appolicious – There’s so much information available about the Xperia Play, Sony Ericcson’s (SNE) forever-rumored PlayStation Phone, that one would almost expect to find one in the U.S. Oh wait — tech blog Engadget did, and they’ve pretty much dissected the phone for our benefit.

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Reuters – Apple removed a notorious anthem of the Nazi Party from the German version of its iTunes online music store on Wednesday, a German spokesman for the U.S. firm told Reuters.

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AFP – More than 17 billion mobile applications will be downloaded from online stores this year, more than double the number of the mini-programs downloaded last year, research firm Gartner said Wednesday.

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AP – Federal regulators have given a satellite start-up called LightSquared clearance to use its allotted airwaves to provide wireless broadband services that could compete with AT&T and Verizon Wireless.

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Reuters – TV ratings company Nielsen and online media company Demand Media made successful debuts on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday.

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Reuters – AOL is making a big online play targeting women with the help of Heidi Klum.

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Appolicious – Apple (AAPL) retooled its online store page on Apple.com Tuesday night, it seems in preparation for the Verizon (VZ) iPhone launch on Feb. 10. For a brief moment, users got a glimpse of the pricing and service plans that will be available when they purchase an iPhone on Verizon.

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PC World – One of the Internet’s necessary evils is about to get worse in the name of Facebook security.

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PC World – The modern office printer is a machine of many talents. It can print, copy, and scan your most important documents in a flash. Connect it to the Internet, and it can do all those things and more from any device, anywhere, thanks to the advent of printer apps and nascent cloud computing services like Google Cloud Print or HP’s ePrint. But that same connectivity has made these devices a prime target for hackers seeking easy access to your office.

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AFP – Facebook on Wednesday announced heightened privacy controls for members of the world’s largest online social network.

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Reuters – Regulators on Wednesday approved a waiver that paves the way for satellite broadband startup LightSquared to lease its airwaves to traditional mobile phones.

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PC World – Amazon has launched Simple Email Service (SES), a new component of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform designed to help businesses send bulk e-mails. No, not spam. They aren’t too keen on the “S” word over at Amazon and, in fact, many safeguards are in place to prevent abuse.

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PC Magazine – Google has created the Web’s largest digital archive of Holocaust photos and documents, in partnership with the Yad Vashem museum in Israel.

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AFP – Search engine Google said Wednesday it will open a Malaysian office, its second in Southeast Asia, following significant growth in Internet usage in the country.

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AP – Google Inc. plans to hire more than 6,200 workers this year — boosting its work force by at least a quarter — in the biggest expansion yet by the Internet’s most profitable company.

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Reuters – U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday called for expanding high-speed wireless services to meet the voracious appetite of consumers and businesses, a task that could be tough because airwaves are a finite resource and demand is almost limitless.

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Reuters – Yahoo Inc warned that revenue will again slide this quarter as it bleeds traffic to Google and Facebook and as a much-touted search partnership with Microsoft Corp fails to deliver quick results.

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Reuters – Twitter confirmed on Tuesday the Internet messaging and communications site had been blocked in Egypt, where thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.

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AP – Yahoo Inc.’s fourth-quarter earnings more than doubled, but the Internet company’s sagging revenue showed that it’s still lagging in the high-stakes race for online advertising.

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AFP – Yahoo! reported Tuesday that its net profit more than doubled in the final three months of last year, despite a slip in revenue due to its online search deal with Microsoft.

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Reuters – A personalized news service funded by New York Times Co., Washington Post Co, and Gannett Co launched on Tuesday in an attempt to get readers to pay for online news.

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AFP – The US Justice Department wants Internet service providers and cell phone companies to be required to hold on to records for longer to help with criminal prosecutions.

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AP – Yahoo Inc. is laying off 100 to 150 workers in the latest sign of the pressures facing the Internet company as it begins the fifth year of a financial funk.

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Reuters – Egyptians say the Twitter Web site is blocked on all Internet Service Providers in their country, a representative of Harvard University’s Herdict Web monitoring service told Reuters on Tuesday.

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PC World – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has set Long Term Evolution (LTE) as the data standard for a nationwide mobile broadband network for public safety agencies that’s been on the table for nearly a decade.

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AFP – Yahoo! said Tuesday it is laying off one percent of its workforce, or some 130 employees, in the latest job cuts at the struggling Internet portal.

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AFP – Ongo, a subscription-based service backed by The Washington Post, The New York Times and USA Today, launched on Tuesday promising a “new way to read, discover and share” news online.

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