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Microsoft sues over Google hire
Opening a new chapter in its rivalry with Google, Microsoft on Tuesday sued the search giant and a former Microsoft executive that Google had tapped to run its China operations. Read more »
Yahoo settles China lawsuits
Just a week after being publicly chastised by Congress for cooperating with the Chinese government in a case that led to the jailing of two journalists, Yahoo has settled a lawsuit filed by the men and their families. Read more »
Internet censorship should be trade barrier: Google
Internet censorship should be treated as a barrier to trade, according to the chief executive of search and advertising giant Google. Read more »
Russia and China 'behind current spam deluge'
As hardcore criminals step up their spamming, experts believe that nine out of 10 of all e-mails may soon be unsolicited junk. Read more »
eBay fraud of no concern to Eastern Europe
eBay is decrying the lack of interest in cybercrime by authorities in countries such as Romania, Russia, and China. Read more »
Courtroom showdown for Microsoft and Google
Attorneys for Microsoft and Google faced off before a state court judge in Seattle on Tuesday, arguing whether former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee should be allowed to start work for the search company before a trial determines whether he violated a noncompete contract. Read more »
Microsoft censors Chinese blogger
Microsoft has admitted to removing the blog of an outspoken Chinese journalist from its MSN Spaces site, citing its policy of adhering to local laws. Read more »
Red Hat: Open source driven by anti-US sentiment
Anti-US feelings are boosting the international market for open source software, according to the president and chief executive of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst. Other commentators prefer to credit national pride in non-US countries. Read more »
Microsoft staff defend blog censorship
A senior Microsoft manager has defended the decision to remove the blog of a Chinese journalist from the company's MSN Spaces site, claiming that content which breaks national laws must be taken down. Read more »
Cisco partners sell fake routers to US military
Cisco admits its partners sold counterfeit Cisco products to the US military, posing a serious threat to military and critical national infrastructure, according to the FBI Read more »
Features (5)
What if? an alternative history of tech
Michael Kanellos imagines a world where Apple licenced the Mac and wrestling is a corporate sport. Read more »
Linux gains an Asian foothold
China, Japan, and South Korea recently announced that they would work together to create a new, Linux-based operating system that would end their dependency on Microsoft. Read more »
Perceiving the true potential of technology
Robin Christopherson, head of accessibility at AbilityNet, says he owes everything to the freedom technology has provided Read more »
Talking tech with Bill Joy
Famed technologist-turned-venture-capitalist says tech industry innovation is moving beyond Moore's Law. Read more »
Outsourcing overseas
Sending software development tasks overseas is the latest cost-cutting phenomenon, but is it a case of 'you get what you pay for'? How can you optimise offshore development? Read more »
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5 reasons restricting hacking is not like gun control
-- Let's get it out of the way: Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people. People with hacking tools can steal your personal data, shut down your system and deface your web site -- but is that any reason to ban them? Read more »
How Microsoft beat Linux in China and what it means for freedom, justice, and the price of software
-- Thanks to some major concessions on source code and a precipitous price drop, the Chinese government has now thoroughly embraced Windows and Office, what does this mean for the world? Read more »
Do you trust data in the cloud?
-- Cheap hosted storage, app engines, and hosted code libraries. Can you really trust your data, or your client's data in the magical Web 2.0 cloud? Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.