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    Game on for PS3 users after Sony fixes bug

    AFP, Published on 02/03/2010

    » Japanese electronics giant Sony assured millions of users that a system bug halting play on older versions of the PlayStation 3 had been fixed.

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    Private matters

    Database, Published on 03/03/2010

    » Google sent its best PR people out to tell the media that it was "taken aback" by complaints and a raft of media stories about how Google Buzz had severe privacy issues; the problem, the spin doctors said, was that Buzz was tested inside Google before being foisted on the public at large, and people working at Google didn't seem to mind that the new social network set them up with a group of people to follow and be followed by - presumably because most of them knew each other, or close to it; even the PR mavens seemed hugely unaware that much of the digital world is already sceptical about Google's actions and intentions, since it never provides a clue what it does with the vast amount of information it already has accumulated.

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    The importance of porn

    Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 01/09/2010

    » The Internet owes a lot to porn, whether we care to admit it or not. Without porn driving growth and web technologies (picture formats, file-sharing, and so on), the Internet probably wouldn't be what it is today. In the early days, trading pornographic pictures occupied much of the Internet's time and effort. Even before the Internet, there were BBSs full of porn for the downloading.

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    Going nuclear

    Database, Published on 29/09/2010

    » Researcher Ralph Langner of Germany concluded that the highly troublesome, infective Stuxnet worm was the world's first malicious software designed specifically to destroy physical property, such as a factory or, well, a nuclear power plant; Mr Langner took apart the worm and discovered code that indicated it was targeting the Bashehr nuclear power plant in Iran; the worm is incredibly sophisticated and takes action without any user interaction; Stuxnet is not a criminal shakedown, said Mr Langner, and "not about espionage. This is a 100 percent sabotage attack."

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    The final nail, not a new era

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 01/12/2010

    » As Thailand celebrates one year of ToT's 3G network, others will mourn the passing of the Frequency Allocation Act. Instead of marking the beginning of a new dawn in Thailand's telecommunications saga, the act marks the final nail in the coffin for our short-lived attempts to reform the telecommunications sector from a 90s-style state-run concession to a modern, deregulated licensed one.

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    New Google TV sets facing delays: reports

    AFP, Published on 21/12/2010

    » Google has asked several television makers to delay their launch of sets featuring Google TV, which merges online content with traditional TV programming, newspapers reported on Monday.

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    Apple shuns CES but accessories a hit

    AFP, Published on 10/01/2011

    » Apple snubbed the big Consumer Electronics Show but vendors of accessories for its hot devices turned out in force.

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    Take a tablet ... or two or more

    Mylife, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 11/01/2011

    » If you ask people to pick one of the hottest gadgets this year, the tablet computer would definitely be on their shortlist. Many IT companies are eyeing a share of this lucrative pie after Apple's iPad starting welling like hot cakes when it debuted last year.

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    Amazon buys European film rental service Lovefilm

    AFP, Published on 21/01/2011

    » Internet retail giant Amazon announced Thursday that it has agreed to buy Britain-based online film and games rental service LoveFilm for an undisclosed amount.

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    Amazon 'to offer movie streaming service'

    AFP, Published on 02/02/2011

    » US online retail giant Amazon plans to offer a movie streaming service that would compete directly with Netflix, Britain's Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

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