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September 2, 2010

Amazon joins online TV craze

Online retailer Amazon has become the latest to jump on the online TV bandwagon.
 
It has been pitching its planned subscription service to major media companies including NBC Universal, Time Warner and News Corp, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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August 30, 2010

It’s Google vs Facebook vs privacy

Another day, another Google swing at Facebook.
 
This time the Googlers have bought Angstro, a startup that enables the sharing of news and other data across social networking sites.
 
Angstro, named after Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Angstrom, says its technology enables it to

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August 26, 2010

Gmail voice goes live

Google’s Gmail phone service – reported yesterday as in beta – has gone live, offering Skype-style voice and video calling. 
 
The service is activated out of the Gmail inbox, with free calls

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August 24, 2010

Octopus privacy scandal: new words, same tune

Filed under: Blogs,Facebook,Google,Hong Kong,Octopus,Operator Services,Privacy,Public — fmmonteverde @ 7:03 am

The furor in Hong Kong over the recent Octopus Card scandal – in which it was found to be selling customer data to third parties – has died down following the

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August 18, 2010

Wimax has expanded to the max

Just as the Wimax industry is preparing to jump to Wimax 2 alarm bells are ringing over the future of the wireless broadband technology.
 
The Taiwanese, who make some 80% of the world’s Wimax devices, believed Intel is giving up on the technology

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August 17, 2010

Outlook cloudy for enterprise IT

It’s back to uncertainty on the enterprise front.
 
Cisco last week announced a bumper quarterly profit but sparked a tech sell-off when CEO John Chambers complained about “unusual uncertainty.”
 
He said major customers bel

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August 16, 2010

China Mobile’s token search deal

Just how serious is China Mobile about building a search engine with Xinhua?
 
Clearly, last Thursday’s joint announcement with the state news and propaganda arm is politically-driven. 
 
But it’s hard to see that the vag

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August 11, 2010

The great Googizon conspiracy

There’s been no end of dithering over the Google-Verizon proposal on a framework for Net neutrality.
 
I’m not surprised at the emotion of the reaction, if only because the debate over net neutrality – at least in the US – has already been

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August 10, 2010

RIM’s BlackBerry jam

If you’ve been scratching your head about the apparently sudden desire of governments to make BlackBerrys open to official eavesdropping, some recent FT reporting might throw some light on what’s triggered the standoff.
 
In a story that has spread well beyond the tech blogosphere, the Saudi, Gulf, Indian and Lebanese authorities have threatened to ban the

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August 5, 2010

RIMifications of the BlackBerry bans

The ban-the-BlackBerry bandwagon rolls on.
 
Today it’s the Indonesian authorities who, according to the Jakarta Post the and

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