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China tightens grip on net videos - (aljazeera) -- China has announced strict new regulations on the broadcasting of online videos - including those posted on video-sharing websites – restricting them to sites run by state-controlled companies.

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The 8 Hottest Skills for 2008 - (Computerworld) -- No one is mistaking the current IT jobs market for the one that sizzled during the dot-com days and inflated salaries to astronomical rates. But as the U.S. economy wrestles with a weak housing market and record oil prices, ...

Microsoft narrows scope of Home Server bug - (Computerworld) - Microsoft Corp. product managers on Friday claimed that a data-corruption bug in Windows Home Server crops up only when the system is under an "extreme load," but they also defended their decision to sound a general alarm bef...

Techie Gen Y Is Also Library-Savvy - (technewsworld)- Today's libraries are definitely not the same places where today's senior citizens did their homework after school. Indeed, according to the results from a study conducted by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the ...

RIP: AOL kills Netscape - (Computerworld) AOL LLC today pulled the plug on Netscape Navigator, the Web browser that once owned the lion's share of the market and that was the focus of a landmark federal antitrust case against Microsoft Corp.

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Netscape Browser to Die a Quiet Death in February 2008 - NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of Apple Inc. hit the $200 mark for the first time Wednesday, as investor confidence in the company continued rising near the end of what has been a strong year for the iPod and computer maker.

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Web icon set to be discontinued - The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users.

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Google stands firm on Reader sharing as users ire grows - (Computerworld) -- Google Inc. yesterday said it would consider tweaking a new sharing feature of its Reader service, the only concession thus far to a users' revolt that's been building on blogs and message forums for nearly two weeks.

Google Responds to Shared Reader Privacy Furor - It seems trying to make the Web more social is tricky for even Google, which prides itself on exercising caution before implementing new features that affect users.

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DoCoMo, Google to join forces, say Japanese reports - (Computerworld) -- Japan's biggest mobile carrier, NTT DoCoMo Inc., will partner with Google Inc. to provide search and e-mail on its handsets, news reports claimed today.

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The year in technology - You'll balk if I label 2007 "The Year of the iPhone." True, news of Apple's new device hit the world within two weeks of New Year's 2007 and dominated tech coverage pretty much incessantly afterward. But as several cynical Salon letter writers pointe...

Technology in 2008 - 1. Surfing will slow
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Samba Team Receives Microsoft Protocol Docs - Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft W...

Yahoo China held liable for copyright infringement - The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) hailed a recent Chinese court ruling that held Yahoo China responsible for acts of copyright infringement in the most populous country in the world.

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FTC Clears Google's DoubleClick Buy - Google took a step closer to its acquisition of online advertising server DoubleClick on Thursday, when the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved the sale. One major hurdle still remaining is approval by the European Commission.

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