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House Member Criticizes Internet Companies for Practices in China — WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 — In a crowded House hearing room, Representative Christopher H. Smith, Republican of New Jersey, unleashed a scathing condemnation of four American Internet and technology companies — Google, Yahoo …
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Tech's China Policy a 'Disgrace' — Lawmakers blasted four U.S. tech giants Wednesday, accusing them of willingly helping China suppress dissent in return for access to a booming internet market. — Representatives from Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco Systems. and Google defended themselves …
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Joining the Edelman Me2 Revolution — Change is what life's all about. Sometimes it's planned, other times it falls in your lap. — When I first began to dabble with blogs as a communications tool over two years ago I saw change, but I didn't know what it was.
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Joining the Me2Revolution — I have never used my blog as a means of self promotion or hyping our firm. But this morning, Steve Rubel, of MicroPersuasion fame, has decided to join Edelman, to make the Me2 Revolution happen even more quickly. He joins Phil Gomes, Guillaume du Gardier …
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Customers to Receive Better Solutions and More Product Options With 2007 Microsoft Office Release — New and improved programs, servers and services will give customers unparalleled flexibility. — REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 15, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the lineup …
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Microsoft's Office-Come-Lately — The software behemoth plans its biggest-ever package of business-productivity apps. The catch: It's behind schedule — Microsoft (MSFT) is readying the next version of its Office suite of products for release later this year.

Amazon Plans Music Service To Rival iPod — In recent years, Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has explained his company's deliberately paced approach to the digital-music business by saying he wants to avoid simply imitating the dominant player in the field, Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store.
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Local Search to Hit $13B by 2010 — The global online local search market, which includes Internet Yellow Pages, local search and wireless, is set to grow from the $3.4 billion it brought in last year to nearly $13 billion by 2010. That's according to a new forecast by the Kelsey Group.
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ContentAds the name of MSN contextual ad program with a 2006 launch date — You may have noticed I will be speaking at Mix06 next month (I list upcoming conferences I am speaking at on the right side of my blog), and I was taking some time to check out the speakers of the other sessions …
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SIPphone Offers Free U.S. Telephone Numbers Which Ring Computer and Mobile Identity; New Area775 Service is First to Link VOIP and Traditional Phone System — SAN DIEGO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Feb. 16, 2006—SIPphone today announced Area775, a new VOIP service where one personal phone number can ring a landline …

Beijing Censors Taken to Task in Party Circles — BEIJING, Feb. 14 — A dozen former Communist Party officials and senior scholars, including a onetime secretary to Mao, a party propaganda chief and the retired bosses of some of the country's most powerful newspapers, have denounced …

Get Concert Info + Music at Podhop — Podbop launched today, and for music lovers it may be the most interesting mashup we've seen yet. They've combined concert events from eventful and mashed the data up with band sites that include downloadable music. — The result? search for any city …

Yahoo on NSA surveillance: No comment — Under cross-examination during a congressional hearing, Yahoo's top lawyer refused on Wednesday to say whether the company opens its records for government surveillance without a court order. — Michael Callahan, Yahoo's senior vice president and general counsel …

Power lunching with wizards and warriors — "We Know" isn't your father's country club. — Sure, it has about 100 members, some of them wealthy, a few of them wildly wealthy. On the membership roster are at least 10 people who have the letter "C" in their job titles.

The First Mac OS X Virus? (A New OS X Trojan) — On the evening of the 13th, an unknown user posted an external link to a file on MacRumors Forums claiming to be the latest Leopard Mac OS X 10.5 screenshots. The file was named "latestpics.tgz" — The resultant file decompresses …