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BEIJING — China, widely criticized for its censorship of the media, this week blocked access to The New York Times, the newspaper said on Saturday. When computer users in cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou tried to connect on Friday to NYTimes.com, they received a message that the site was not available, the newspaper said. […]

WASHINGTON — The United States is unprepared for a major hostile attack against vital computer networks, government and industry officials said on Thursday after participating in a two-day “cyberwar” simulation. The game involved 230 representatives of government defense and security agencies, private companies and civil groups. It revealed flaws in leadership, planning, communications and other […]

TOKYO — A group of Japanese lawyers and professors asked on Friday that Google Inc stop providing detailed street-level images of Japanese cities on the Internet, saying they violated privacy rights. Google’s Street View offers ground-level, 360-degree views of streets in 12 Japanese cities and is also offered for some 50 cities in the United […]

As the recession bites into budgets, enterprise IT will focus on projects with a fast payback and those that help cut costs. That will see increased emphasis on technologies like virtualization and cloud computing, which will increasingly come into the production environment. The move into these technologies will see a shift from their currently unstructured […]

Research in Motion returns to its traditional BlackBerry roots with the launch of its latest Curve smartphone this week. The Curve 8320, which is the smallest and lightest BlackBerry at this point, offers up the beloved full QWERTY keyboard and is the second in RIM’s five-handset Curve 8300 series to provide Wi-Fi. It marks a […]

Security experts and vendors recommend that users install and use antivirus and other anti-malware software on their PCs, but enterprises that have these installed in their infrastructure may not be as well protected as they think. According to Promisec, which offers clientless security solutions, more than 25 percent of 100,000 computers it surveyed recently have […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo unveiled a new toolbar on Monday that will give Web users access to their e-mail as they surf the Web, the latest step in its strategy to make its products more open to users and third parties. Firefox, Yahoo, Microsoft and others make toolbars — small strips that sit atop Web […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Saturday it was canceling a December 18 meeting in response to a request by Democratic lawmakers that it pay more attention to a smooth transition to digital television early next year. Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Rep. Henry Waxman of California wrote FCC Chairman […]

The world’s top mobile phone maker, Nokia, plans to tap the surging market for connecting laptops to wireless networks taking on market leader Huawei Technologies, the Finnish device manufacturer said. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will start to ship its first Internet “dongle” — a term that refers to external USB modems and PC cards — in […]

Ivory Investment Management, which owns 1.5 percent of shares of Yahoo, urged the Internet company to sell its search business to Microsoft, saying such a deal could more than double Yahoo’s value. In a letter to Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) board, Ivory proposed that the Web portal salvage a deal with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), which had […]

Microsoft Corp will soon launch a full range of online versions of its software products, including the Office suite, and expects the weak economy to accelerate growth of the nascent Web-based software market, a senior executive said on Monday. Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft’s business division, is leading the company’s entry into the “software as […]

A cheaper version of Apple’s iPhone will be sold at Wal-Mart Stores Inc for $99 later this month, the New York Post said. Two models of the popular device will hit shelves at the retail giant, the paper said, citing employees at several stores. Employees also told San Jose-based Mercury News that the $99 iPhones […]