AFP - China has delayed a plan requiring that all new computers come with a Chinese-made Internet filtering software programme, state media reported Tuesday, hours before it was to take effect.
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PC World - Upcoming real-time strategy Windows game StarCraft II will ship without Local Area Network multiplayer support in an effort to combat piracy, says Blizzard, in an official statement sure to annoy if not outright confound series fans the world round.
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NewsFactor - Comcast launched a high-speed wireless data service in Portland on Tuesday as the first step in what the cable-TV network operator expects to eventually become a nationwide rollout — with Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia expected to go online later this year.
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AP - Specialty glass maker Corning Inc. said Tuesday it is getting a big lift from rising sales of flat-screen televisions, most notably in China.
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AFP - European travellers will pay less to use their mobile phones while abroad in the EU from Wednesday when new regulated price caps take effect across the 27-nation bloc.
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Macworld.com - When is a point update not just a point update? When itâs a point-five release, naturally. On Tuesday, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5, the latest version of the popular open-source Web browser, bringing joy into the hearts of children and adults alike.
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PC World - When it comes to the PlayStation 3, it’s apparently easy to confuse the game blogs. They’ve picked up on an incidental story by a tech site that communicates in fragments concerning Sony’s recent filing to patent emulation of its legacy PS2 Emotion Engine vis-a-vis its “cell” processor. The cell processor, you’ll recall, is the cerebral cortex of the PS3’s multi-processing brainpan.
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AP - As bad as the technology market fared in the first quarter of this year, the worst may be over, at least in the United States, Forrester Research said in a report Tuesday.
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AP - Apple Inc. co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs is back at his office a few days a week after taking a 5 1/2-month medical leave and getting a new liver.
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AFP - Apple’s iconic chief executive Steve Jobs has returned to work after a five-month medical leave of absence during which he underwent a liver transplant.
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