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Rampant piracy lands China on 'watch list'
News The U.S. government claims China isn't living up to its commitment to a copyright crackdown.
Tags: Copyright
IBM denies re-entering PC market with Russian deal
News Big Blue says it's not getting back into the PC market, despite selling "Microsoft-free" PCs running Linux and OpenOffice in Eastern Europe.
Tags: Personal Computers, Open source
Fed employees urged to leave Russia before Y2K
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Bush talks with international bloggers
News In recognition of Human Rights Day, President Bush speaks in support of using blogs to promote democracy.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Politics, Blogger, Democracy, U.S. Department Of State, Video, Belarus, Burma, Cuba
Study supports controversial offshore numbers
News A new report by Forrester Research repeats its controversial assertion that more than 3 million U.S. jobs will move overseas by 2015, an estimate that contributed to the political firestorm surrounding the offshoring issue.
Tags: Offshoring
Opera: Mini leads cross-platform charge
News Browser maker says Opera's reach extended to include devices such as games devices and in-flight entertainment systems, where over 35.6 million people use Opera Mini.
Tags: Browser, Web browsers, Opera Software ASA, Microsoft Corp., mobile, Web Browser, Europe, Microsoft Internet Explorer, antitrust, Microsoft Windows
Freedom on the global Internet still a pipe dream
News commentaryThe latest global survey by Reporters without Borders concludes that the Internet increasingly is the target of surveillance and restrictions.
Tags: Web sites, Blogger, North Korea, Vietnam, Borders Books & Music, Cell Phone, Syria, Government, China, Internet
Enemies of the Internet named
News Reporters Without Borders has called on IT managers to talk to companies that deal with repressive regimes.
Tags: Web sites
House to revisit clamp on U.S. firms in Web-restricting countries
News Committee is expected to approve bill aimed at regulating how U.S. companies operate in China and other foreign locales notorious for censorship.
Secret Service busts online ID fraud ring
News U.S. Federal agents and international allies arrest 28 suspects thought to have traded in credit card numbers and financial information.
Tags: Security
State Department employees urged home for Y2K
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