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BEIJING — China on Thursday stepped up accusations that Google is spreading obscene content over the Internet, a day after U.S. officials urged Beijing to abandon plans for controversial filtering software on new computers. The growing friction over control of online content threatens to become another irritant in ties at a time the world is […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at the Cannes Lion 2009 advertising festival.Source: Reuters CANNES, France — Microsoft, the world’s largest software group, has still not yet ruled out a partnership with search engine giant Yahoo, CEO Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday. “We remain open to a partnership with Yahoo,” Ballmer told a seminar at the […]

Source: Reuters Apple CEO Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant at a Tennessee hospital and has “an excellent prognosis,” the hospital that performed the operation confirmed on Tuesday. Jobs, 54, received the transplant because he was “the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available,” the Methodist University Hospital […]

YouTube frames of “Neda,” a young Iranian woman whose face is engulfed in blood, are a horrific image of what some are calling the Tehran spring. They also show the genie unleashed by citizen journalists. Identified on the photo-sharing Web site Flickr as Neda Agha Soltan, the young woman shown on cameraphone footage falling, apparently […]

Source: Reuters Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Chief Executive Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant operation about two months ago and is expected to return to work by the end of June, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Jobs, a pancreatic cancer survivor, has been away on medical leave since January for an undisclosed condition. An […]

Source: Reuters NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO — The latest iPhone hit stores on Friday with new features and faster speeds, drawing some fans but not the crowds that had swarmed Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and AT&T stores at previous iPhone launches. At an AT&T (NYSE: T) store near New York’s Grand Central Terminal, a handful of people […]

Google released a tool that translates Internet blogs, news articles and text messages from English to Persian, and vice-versa, in a move the firm said will “improve access to information” amid the turmoil and media restrictions following Iran’s disputed election. The move is the latest example of the growing role that consumer Internet technology is […]

Source: Reuters Few events in the technology world can rival the attention a new iPhone launch draws, but the return of Steve Jobs to Apple would surely be one of them. The new, souped-up iPhone 3G S goes on sale this Friday, as investors and gadget lovers alike await the presumed re-emergence of Apple’s (NASDAQ: […]

China’s Internet watchdog condemned the Chinese-language version of Google on Thursday for “disseminating pornographic and vulgar information.” The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center said it had complained twice to Google about the “pornographic and vulgar links” available through its search engine at www.google.cn. “Google China has not conducted the oversight required according to China’s […]

The Internet is by far the most popular source of information and the preferred choice for news ahead of television, newspapers and radio, according to a new poll in the United States. But just a small fraction of U.S. adults considered social Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace as a good source of news […]

NEW YORK — Why compete with Microsoft? To Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical — the lead commercial backer of the Ubuntu Linux distribution — squaring off against Windows is a battle worth fighting. “The operating system is the intersection of so many things in technology,” Shuttleworth said here at Wired’s Disruptive by Design conference. “It’s […]

Fresh competitive threats and economic pressures from the recession probably will not have slowed the momentum of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) when it reports results later this week. Analysts expect RIM (NASDAQ: RIMM) will put up solid numbers for subscriber additions, gross margins and the number of BlackBerry smartphones shipped when it posts […]