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BEIJING: The United States is studying whether it could launch a WTO challenge against Chinese Internet restrictions that affect Google and other US companies operating in China. Here are some questions and answers on the possible complaint to the World Trade Organisation and its chances of succeeding: WHAT ARE THE CHINESE INTERNET CONTROLS THAT HAVE IRKED GOOGLE AND THE US GOVERNMENT? Google Inc, the world's biggest Internet search...

MOUNTAIN VIEW : Google is adding a bike lane with its latest online mapping option. The new bicycling...

SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet. The online store that was announced late Tuesday marks another step in Google's crusade to convert the world to ``cloud computing,'' the idea of running applications in Web browsers instead of installing them on individual hard drives. The information entered in the programs also is stored...

NEW YORK: Sex.com, often touted as one of the most valuable internet domain names, is due to head to the auction block next week. DOM Partners LLC, a New Jersey...

SAN FRANCISCO: Cisco Systems today unveiled super-fast Internet hardware that promises to boost US competitiveness and bolster economic recovery by moving mountains of data at astounding speeds. The leader in networking...

MOUNTAIN VIEW: In a meeting at Google in 2004, the discussion turned to an e-mail message the company had received from a fan in South Korea. Sergey Brin, a Google founder, ran the message through an automatic translation service that the company had licensed. The result read: “The sliced raw fish shoes it wishes. Google green onion thing!” Brin said Google ought to be able to do better....

LOS ANGELES: The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are finding themselves caught between those ideals. Although Google, News Corp's Facebook and their rivals have enjoyed a relatively "safe harbor" from prosecution over user-generated content in the United States and Europe, they face a public increasingly more inclined to blame them for cyber-bullying and other online transgressions. Such may have been the case...

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E-mailing has become a huge part of our lives. An important element of emailing which has evolved, involves the concepts of cc and bcc. Who we mark mails to often defines our personality and working style at the workplace, more so the latter. BCC, an acronym for Blind Carbon Copy or even Blind Courtesy Copy has, these days, degenerated into an acronym for Blind Co-Conspirator. What is this BCC and why has it become so important? In the context of correspondence, Wikipedia refers to bcc as the practice of sending a message to multiple recipients in such a way that it conceals individual email addresses...

Dear Carolyn: Recently, friends of ours announced that they were getting divorced. Obviously, with a divorce is going to come separation of the parents, and the children will be shuttled back and forth. How do we deal with this as friends of theirs, and how do we discuss this with our children? What do we do if our friends' children are here and talk about it? How...

The growing interest and value in PC desktop virtualization strategies and approaches has its roots in both technology and economics. Recently, a lot has happened technically that has matured the performance and economic benefits of desktop virtualization and the use of thin-client devices. At the same time as this functional maturity improved, we are approaching an inflection point in a market that is accepting of new clients and new client approaches like desktop virtualization. Indeed, the latest desktop virtualization model empowers enterprises with lower total costs, greater management of software, tighter security, and the ability to exploit low-cost, low-energy thin client devices....

For all those who use Google to search the web, and most of us probably do, here’s a quick question. Have you ever hit the “I’m feeling lucky button” on the search engine and accessed the results? For the uninitiated, the button takes you directly to the number one result your query fetched. Whether it’s the answer you were searching for depends entirely on your luck, hence the “I am feeling lucky” tag. Ironically, this is true of most web search results today. Search engines may be speedy but are they precise enough? “Not necessarily. There is still a lot of confusion there,” says usability professional, Manish Sinha, whose work involves providing suggestions to websites to improve the...

I am a new Group Health member and I am trying and understand Group Health policies. Is it seriously Group Health policy to charge patients for parking at your Group Health facility in Bellevue? Is it seriously Group Health policy to charge group members to park when Group Health doctors have ordered time consuming procedures and tests? Is it seriously Group Health policy to force injured,...

WARSAW, Poland – Hundreds of Polish school kids are getting a leg up with free rubber boots as they face months next to a muddy construction site....

The normal sales pitch is that converged IT stacks like HP's Matrix and Cisco's gig with VMware...

 

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