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According to official figures posted today from the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC), China has surpassed the US as the world?s largest net-using population with more than 253 million people in the country now online.
The figure fly?s past the US total of 223 million, which was last checked in June. Net penetration in the [...]

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With the help of screen-reader software, blind people can use a computer, but those products can cost more than US$1000, so you won?t see them in public libraries or at internet cafes.
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A new web-based application called ?WebAnywhere? has been developed by a computer science graduate at the University of Washington ? and best of all, [...]

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The decision to have a huge UK database of the details of all phone calls, emails and internet use could be ?step too far for the British way of life?, according to the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas.
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Security minister Lord West responded to the warning, saying: “It is very early days as to where we go [...]

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Joss Whedon, the guy who gave us ?Buffy the Vampire Slayer? and ?Firefly?, found a way to keep himself busy during the recent Hollywod writers strike by creating a wacky musical about a mad doctor with an evil-mastermind-wannabe inferiority complex.
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Buts instead of his traditional TV route, he?s decided to go all Web 2.0 on us, [...]

Japanese electronics manufacturer Pioneer unveiled a new 400GB optical disk on Monday ? that?s enough to hold most peoples hard drives. One downside though ? its not re-writable.
The crafty chaps at Pioneer created the worlds first 16 layer disk, with each layer holding a massive 25GB. Sadly do to the read-only aspect, the information on [...]

Fun stoppers France have suggested an amendment to the pan-European Telecoms Package, which would bar broadband access to anyone who continues to illegally download music or films.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French prime minister, last month insisted on a similar ?three-strikes-and-your-out? scheme for France. Under a cross-industry agreement, ISPs would have to cut off access for up [...]

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Adobe, Google and Yahoo have banded together to add dynamic web content and rich internet applications (RIAs) to search results. The two search giants will use an optimised version of Adobe?s Flash Player technology to improve their engines? abilities to index the Flash file format (SWF) and scan information contained within the files,.
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Adobe say this [...]

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According to an article in the New York Times, Seth MacFarlane, of Family Guy fame, and search giant Google are working together to form a new style of cartoon video advertising. Working with a production company, Macfarlane and Google will produce 50 two-minute episodes of ?edgy? cartoons that are set to launch in September.
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Titled ?Seth [...]

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Microsoft, it seems, is taking a beating from all sides over its much maligned Windows Vista operating system. Long-time partners Intel, according to an inside source who spoke to the New York Times, have not yet made the switch to Vista on its employees computers. The decision was apparently made after in-depth analysis of costs [...]

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Microsoft has announced that while its plans to discontinue sales of Windows XP are going ahead, it intends to offer support for the software for a further six years.
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In 2007 Microsoft announced that it would extend the sales period for Windows XP until June 30, 2008. With the deadline due in a week?s time, the [...]