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S. Korea, Japan have world's fastest Internet links: survey Tokyo (AFP) Feb 2, 2010 
East Asian countries led by South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan are the best wired in the world with the highest number of fast broadband connections to the Internet, a recent report has found.
South Korea boasts the world's highest average connection speed at 14.6 Megabytes per second (Mbps) and also has six of Asia's 10 cities with the fastest link-ups, all with average speeds above 15 Mbps. ... read moreGoogle News tunes into favored topics 
San Francisco (AFP) Feb 1, 2010Google on Monday began letting online visitors tell its news website what topics they want to tune into. People can click on "stars" to mark groups of stories on preferred subjects to signal Google News to watch for updates or developments, according to Google software engineer Jude Britto. "When you star a story in Google News, it's one way to let us know that you're interested in that ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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Fears Australian piracy case could shut off net
Sydney (AFP) Jan 31, 2010Australian Internet rights groups fear a piracy court case could force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to become "copyright cops" and cut web access to customers who make illegal downloads. The Federal Court is on Thursday expected to hand down its judgement in the case, which has pitted Hollywood and Australian film and television producers against Australia's third-largest Internet provi ... more Apple's Jobs unveils new tablet computer, the iPad 
San Francisco (AFP) Jan 27, 2010Apple chief executive Steve Jobs on Wednesday revealed the culture-changing company's latest must-have device, a touchscreen tablet computer annointed the "iPad." "We want to kick off 2010 by introducing a truly magical and revolutionary product," said Jobs, who underwent a liver transplant last year and was making just his second public appearance since September. The long-awaited iPad ... more Yahoo! posts quarterly net profit, revenue down 
San Francisco (AFP) Jan 26, 2010Yahoo! on Tuesday posted a quarterly net profit of 153 million dollars, reversing its losses of a year ago, but revenue continued to slide at the Internet giant. The Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo!, which recorded a loss of 303 million dollars in the fourth quarter a year ago, said revenue fell four percent in the quarter to 1.732 billion dollars. While lower than a year ago, fourth-q ... more Google reclaims "Don't Be Evil" mantle 
San Francisco (AFP) Jan 14, 2010In drawing a battle line with Chinese Internet censors, Google is reclaiming a "Don't Be Evil" mantle lost in a global business arena where profits routinely trump morals. While critics challenge whether Google's motivation is altruistic, the search engine seized the high ground by declaring it will not filter query results in China even at the price of being shut out of the booming market. ... more |
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China issues new rules on Internet domain names
Beijing (AFP) Dec 22, 2009China's Internet watchdog issued a new set of rules on domain name registration this week in a bid to curb pornography and illegal content. According to Liu Jie, an official at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the regulations posted on its website Sunday beef up existing rules on domain name registration. The measures will cut off Internet services to those websites ... more Google, Bing deals make Twitter profitable: BusinessWeek 
Washington (AFP) Dec 21, 2009Twitter has reached profitability after signing deals with Google and Microsoft to make the micro-blogging service searchable on the Internet, BusinessWeek magazine reported on Monday. BusinessWeek, which was purchased in October by financial news agency Bloomberg, said Twitter had signed a 15-million-dollar data-mining deal with Google and a 10-million-dollar agreement with Microsoft. ... more French court orders Google to stop scanning French books 
Paris (AFP) Dec 18, 2009A French court on Friday told Google that it cannot digitise French books without publishers' approval and ordered the online giant to pay 300,000 euros (430,000 dollars) in damages. The ruling capped a three-year-old case brought by one of France's biggest publishing houses, Les Editions du Seuil, which claimed that thousands of its works had been digitised by Google without consent. ... more Google phone revolution or misdirection? 
San Francisco (AFP) Dec 19, 2009Google smartphones are either a daring foray into the telecom world or a misunderstood test of the next-generation of the Internet giant's Android mobile operating system. Analysts interviewed Friday were divided over what to make of the "Nexus One" smartphones that Google is having workers test internally. "We are having a big discussion whether this is going to kill Android or make it ... more |
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