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EU urges balance between Internet freedom and copyright
AFP, Published on 22/01/2012
» Governments must strike a balance between policing the Internet to protect copyright and upholding freedom of expression, EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding said on Sunday.
China's Internet population tops 500 million
AFP, Published on 16/01/2012
» China now has more than 500 million people on the Internet and nearly half use weibos, microblogs similar to Twitter that can circumvent the country's powerful censors, official data showed on Monday.
US retail sales flat in December
AFP, Published on 13/01/2012
» US retail sales rose only 0.1 percent in December from a month earlier, the Commerce Department said Thursday, confirming that the holiday shopping season was a disappointment to retailers.
Bowing to pressure, Beijing begins hourly smog data
AFP, Published on 12/01/2012
» Beijing on Thursday began publishing real-time air quality data on the Internet, bowing to a vocal online campaign for greater government transparency over pollution in China's capital.
Google makes search personal
AFP, Published on 11/01/2012
» Google wove content from its social network and Picasa photo-sharing service into its search formula to serve up personalized results to online queries.
US unemployment falls to 8.5 pct
AFP, Published on 06/01/2012
» The US economy added more jobs in December and unemployment fell again, but economists said more shocks from Europe or a jump in oil prices could stand in the way of a sustained recovery.
Beijing to issue new air quality data after online outcry
AFP, Published on 06/01/2012
» Beijing's government on Friday bowed to a vocal online campaign for a change in the way air quality is measured in the Chinese capital, one of the world's most polluted cities.
Brazil Indians squat outside Brazil's World Cup venue
AFP, Published on 06/01/2012
» "We came here to resist," said Arassari, a Pataxo Indian. Just next to Rio's mythical Maracana soccer stadium, the venue for the 2014 World Cup final, dozens of Brazilian Indians are fighting to keep control of a rundown building the authorities want to turn into a shopping mall.
'Saudi hacker' publishes Israeli credit card details
AFP, Published on 03/01/2012
» A self-defined Saudi hacker claimed he had published details of 400,000 Israeli-owned credit cards online, but the card firms on Tuesday insisted that only 14,000 cards had been affected.
BlackBerry's annus horribilis in Indonesia
AFP, Published on 01/01/2012
» Few companies better understand the difficulties of doing business in Indonesia than BlackBerry maker Research In Motion.