Microsoft to stay its China course despite Google spat
2010-03-05
BEIJING (Reuters) – Microsoft said it will stick to its development strategy for the China Internet search market regardless of the outcome of Google's high-profile spat with Beijing.
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Facebook, Omniture expand marketing partnership
2010-03-04
NEW YORK – Facebook and Omniture, the Web analytics software maker, said Wednesday they are working together to help companies use the world's largest social network as a marketing channel.
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Yahoo-Microsoft deal set, taking aim at Google
2010-02-20
SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. and European regulators have cleared the long-discussed Internet search partnership between Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc., enabling the rivals to form a tag team as they try to mount a more serious challenge to Google Inc.
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Report: Hackers attacked Google from China schools
2010-02-20
SAN FRANCISCO – The Internet attacks that may end up driving Google Inc. out of China originated from two prominent schools in the country, according to a story published late Thursday.
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AOL integrates Facebook chat with AIM
2010-02-10
SAN FRANCISCO – As part of an ongoing effort to improve its user experience, Internet company AOL Inc. is letting users of its AIM instant-messaging service chat with friends on Facebook.
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Online Video Explodes
2010-02-08
The online video market continued to grow in December, as nearly 178 million U.S. Internet users watched 33.2 billion videos in the month a lone, said comScore last week.
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Chinese police shut down hacker training business
2010-02-08
BEIJING – Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday.
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Cuba's Internet revolution edges forward, with limits
2010-02-03
HAVANA (AFP) – Yoan used to earn 25 dollars a month working as a computer technician for a state company -- and an extra 500 dollars selling Internet access on Cuba's vast and varied black market.
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Trends & Innovations - Tuesday
2010-02-03
Hackers target social networks
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China Tablet PC Maker May Sue Apple Over IPad Design
2010-02-01
A Chinese company that sells a tablet PC like Apple's newly announced iPad may sue the U.S. company over the similar design between the devices, it said Monday.
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Google row threatens China web development: analysts
2010-01-29
BEIJING (AFP) – The row between Google and China is damaging for the development of the Internet in the country and it would be a major blow to the world's biggest online market if the US firm were to leave, experts say.
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Apple introduces new $499 iPad tablet computer
2010-01-28
SAN FRANCISCO – Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the company's much-anticipated iPad tablet computer Wednesday, calling it a new third category of mobile device that is neither smart phone nor laptop, but something in between.
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Deadline looms for Google Books deal
2010-01-28
Amazon has urged a New York court to reject a deal that would allow Google to build a vast digital library.
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China online earnings reach 11 billion dollars in 2009
2010-01-19
BEIJING (AFP) – Chinese firms earned nearly 11 billion dollars from their Internet operations last year, a research group said Monday, as the nation with the world's biggest online population becomes more web-savvy.
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Internet Explorer 6 Dealt Another Blow
2010-01-19
Spooked by the use of an Internet Explorer exploit to attack Google and other firms in China, France and Germany are both urging their citizens to stop using Microsoft's Web browser.
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Attack code used to hack Google now public
2010-01-19
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The dangerous Internet Explorer attack code used in last month's attack on Google's corporate networks is now public.
The code was submitted for analysis Thursday on the Wepawet malware analysis Web site, making it publicly available. By Friday, it had been included in at least one publicly available hacking tool and could be seen in online attacks, according to Dave Marcus, director of security research and communications at McAfee.
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The attack is very reliable on Internet Explorer 6 running on Windows XP, and it could possibly be modified to work on more recent versions of the browser, Marcus said. "The game really changes now that it's hosted publicly," he said.
A hacker could use the code to run unauthorized software on a victim's computer by tricking them into viewing a maliciously crafted Web page.
That's apparently what happened at Google late last year, when hackers were able to get into the company's internal systems. According to people familiar with the incident, 33 other companies were also targeted by the attack, including Adobe Systems.
On Thursday, Symantec and Juniper Networks said they were investigating the incident, and Yahoo, Northrop Grumman, and Dow Chemical have also been named as victims in published reports.
Microsoft issued a security advisory on the IE flaw Thursday and has not ruled out the possibility of rushing out an emergency "out-of-cycle" patch to fix it. Microsoft's next set of security patches is due Feb. 9, giving hackers more than three weeks to exploit the flaw.
Security researchers say it would be very hard to exploit the flaw reliably on Windows Vista or Windows 7 systems, however, because of their advanced memory protection technology.
Marcus said that, judging from the amount of concern McAfee is hearing from corporate customers, an out-of-cycle patch is a strong possibility. "My gut tells me that they're going to go with an out-of-cycle," he said. "It's too good of a vulnerability for most of the bad guys to overlook."
The problem is serious enough that on Friday, Germany's federal IT security agency, the Federal Office for Information Security, advised users (in German) to use an alternative browser until Microsoft fixes the issue.
McAfee has more details on the attack here.
The dangerous Internet Explorer attack code used in last month's attack on Google's corporate networks is now public.
IE 6 users on Windows XP are most at risk, though the code has likely been modified to work with later versions of the browser
By Robert McMillan | IDG News Service
IE 6 users on Windows XP are most at risk, though the code has likely been modified to work with later versions of the browser
By Robert McMillan | IDG News Service
IE 6 users on Windows XP are most at risk, though the code has likely been modified to work with later versions of the browser
By Robert McMillan | IDG News Service
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China's population of Web users hits 384 million
2010-01-19
BEIJING – China's population of Internet users, already the world's largest, soared nearly 30 percent last year to 384 million as the number of people surfing the Web by mobile phone more than doubled, a research group reported Friday.
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Our view on capitalism vs. censorship: Google’s threat to leave puts China on notice
2010-01-16
Ultimatum shines harsh spotlight on restrictions, theft of technology.
It's about time somebody stood up to the Chinese government, and Google, inventor of the world's top search engine, might be powerful enough to make a difference.
Google's threat to pull out of China, made in a feisty blog announcement this week, is revolutionary, which is why it's so important. For years, Western companies, from automakers to aircraft manufacturers, have put up with outrageous Chinese demands in return for access to the enormous, fast-growing market.
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