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LONDON — The wife of the new head of Britain’s spy agency has posted pictures of her husband, family and friends on Internet networking site Facebook, details which could compromise security, a newspaper said on Sunday. Sir John Sawers is due to take over as head of the Secret Intelligence Service in November. The SIS, […]

SHANGHAI — China clamped down on the Internet in the capital of China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang on Monday, in the hope of stemming the flow of information about ethnic unrest which left 140 people dead. The government has blamed Sunday’s riots in Urumqi — the deadliest unrest since the 1989 military crackdown on the […]

NEW YORK — Thieves are increasingly going after iPhones and other smartphones but victims now can fight back with technology. One device allows a user to remotely activate a loud siren designed to rattle the thief. Another application, designed for iPhones, can reveal the phone’s location. Police statistics show petty crime is down in New […]

It is only a matter of time before a controversial scheme to install Internet filtering software on all computers begins in China, a state newspaper said on Thursday, after the plan was abruptly delayed this week. The surprise halt was reported late on Tuesday by Xinhua news agency, which said the Ministry of Industry and […]

Amazon.com has closed its third Internet associates program in a week, in Hawaii, as the online retailer steps up an effort to skirt new sales taxes in several U.S. states. Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) move follows the cancellation of associates programs in North Carolina and Rhode Island, under which the world’s top online retailer pays Web […]

BEIJING — China’s ambitions to strengthen control of the Internet with filtering software became a show of the limits of its power on Wednesday, as activists and industry groups welcomed an abrupt delay of the contentious plan. The surprise halt was reported late on Tuesday by Xinhua news agency, which said the Ministry of Industry […]

Microsoft’s new Bing search engine gained U.S. market share in its first month in operation but still trails dominant rival Google, according to data released on Wednesday. Bing, launched on June 3 but available to some users a few days earlier, took 8.23 percent of U.S. Web searches in June, up from 7.81 percent for […]

A U.S. judge turned down a request from IBM to bar its former head of mergers and acquisitions from working at Dell over allegations that he would disclose trade secrets. The ruling means the executive, David Johnson, will be able to continue to work as Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) senior vice president of corporate strategy while […]

U.S. recovery is likely to begin this autumn, the worst of the crisis has passed and it is “reasonable to be optimistic for 2010,” Internet search giant Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt said on Friday. Speaking at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in southern France, Schmidt said U.S. jobless claims indicated “the beginning of the […]

Advertising on mobile phones should really take off within two to three years, driven by new applications on smartphones and the growing popularity of social networks such as Facebook. Executives, who attended last week’s Cannes Lions 2009 ad festival, told Reuters that emerging economies were also promising though the lack of a global mobile phone […]

Smartphone maker Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) posted a narrower-than-expected quarterly loss on Thursday, sending its shares up more than 14 percent. The results come as the company’s turnaround effort, led by the just-unveiled Pre handset, picks up steam. The device, which was launched at the beginning of June, has been well-received by reviewers and saw strong […]

It cost Apple $178.96 to make its newest iPhone, the 3G S, according to a teardown analysis by research firm iSuppli. The 16GB iPhone retails in the U.S. for $199 with a two-year contract with AT&T, Apple’s exclusive carrier. The iSuppli analysis is based on its own physical deconstruction of the 16GB device and the […]