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SHANGHAI — After years of delays, the Chinese government said late Wednesday that it would issue licenses for next-generation 3G wireless services, which could fuel growth in what is already the world’s biggest market for wireless services.
China’s state council, or cabinet, made the announcement on its Web site saying the government would back three [...]

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ON the blog Mrs. O, fans of Michelle Obama’s style can view photos of the outfit she wore on a recent date with the president-elect and find out where to buy the same purple designer coat.
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Bartle Bogle gave an account planner the green light to create the Mrs. [...]

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The next chapter of the World Wide Web will not be written in English alone. Asia already has twice as many Internet users as North America, and by 2012 it will have three times as many. Already, more than half of the search queries on Google come from outside the United States.
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It has been nine years since the Y2K computer glitch inspired apocalyptic fears. On Wednesday, another time-related bug created its own small-scale panic. For some owners of the Zune, the portable media player that is Microsoft’s answer to the Apple iPod, it was a day without Kanye West and Girl Talk.
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Thousands of users have joined fan pages devoted to top Mafia bosses on the social networking site Facebook, the Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica reported Tuesday. A page devoted to Salvatore “Totò” Riina, the “boss of bosses,” who is serving 12 life sentences, has more than 2,228 fans, some of whom wished him [...]

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SHANGHAI — A court in southern China convicted 11 people on Wednesday of violating national copyright laws and participating in a sophisticated counterfeiting ring that for years manufactured and distributed pirated Microsoft software throughout the world.
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The laptop market has changed in recent months.
That was due to the introduction of the Asus Eee PC, which single-handedly created the low-cost mini-laptop market segment.
To support this market, Intel has now released its Atom processor, designed specifically for such laptops and the MSI Wind 100 is the first machine we’ve seen sporting the new [...]

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Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, planned to announce on Wednesday that it had acquired Consumerist.com, a popular blog formerly owned by Gawker Media.
Consumerist is one of several sites Gawker has sold this year, including the political gossip blog Wonkette and the travel site Gridskipper. The blog offers consumer tips, like [...]

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AUSTIN, Tex. — Shortly after taking the helm of Hewlett-Packard in early 2005, Mark V. Hurd realized that, despite being one of the world’s leading technology suppliers, H.P. had an embarrassing and crippling technology problem.
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A rash of retailing bankruptcies is expected in the new year, but as the clock winds down on one of the weakest holiday shopping seasons in decades, the fallout has already begun.
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On Monday, the Parent Company, an Internet retailer of children’s products, had the [...]

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