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All-day party celebrates China web filter delay (Reuters)

June 30, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Reuters - Chinese web users flooded to a trendy art zone cafe Wednesday to celebrate a last-minute halt to a rollout of government-sponsored filtering software, and make a stand for freedom of expression in the Communist-run state.

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Business groups hail China web software delay (AFP)

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AFP - The American and European chambers of commerce in China have welcomed a decision by Beijing to delay an order that new computers sold in the country be equipped with an Internet filtering programme.

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Business groups hail China web software delay
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China’s Internet backdown lauded by firms and activists (Reuters)

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Reuters - China’s ambitions to strengthen control of the Internet with filtering software became a show of the limits of its power on Wednesday, as Internet activists and businesses welcomed the abrupt delay of the controversial plan.

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YouTube Readies Redesign Amid Chorus of Complaints (PC World)

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PC World - YouTube plans to soon switch all of its members to a redesign of its channel pages that it has been testing for several months, although many people want the Google video-sharing site to give them the option to keep the old layout.

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Cooliris even cooler (Macworld.com)

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Macworld.com - Cooliris, the visually-enthralling free browser plug-in that allows you to navigate through online photos and video via a 3-D image wall, has been updated to version 1.1.1. New to this version is support for displaying Cooliris within tabbed windows, sharable URLs, and greater support for Flickr information and MySpace content.

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Chambers Unfazed at Disrupted Speech (PC World)

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PC World - Cisco Systems believes networking among doctors as well as among sensors in the field can help prevent pandemics, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said in a keynote address at the company’s annual Cisco Live customer conference that was briefly disrupted by a protest and a technical glitch.

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Chambers Unfazed at Disrupted Speech
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Mac News Briefs: wineCellar 2.0 adds cloud support for mobile access (Macworld.com)

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Macworld.com - Users who turn to Cadent Computing’s wineCellar to log and organize their wine collection will now be able sync entries via a new synchronization service added in the latest update. wineCellar 2.0 introduces Cadent Cloud, a service that lets the app sync up to 500 wines to a cloud where they can be viewed through either a standard Web site or a site for mobile devices.

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Mac News Briefs: wineCellar 2.0 adds cloud support for mobile access
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Cisco may offer Web-based office software (Reuters)

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Reuters - Cisco Systems Inc is considering offering Web-based alternatives to Microsoft Corp’s popular Office software as the networking giant expands on the Internet.

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Beyond Firefox 3.5: A Sneak Peek at Mozilla’s Next Browser (PC World)

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PC World - Mozilla’s Firefox 3.5 is off to a running start. The new browser, boasting significant speed increases and a host of added features, was officially released Tuesday morning. By mid-afternoon, the program had surpassed 1.6 million downloads worldwide and was steadily climbing, according to Mozilla’s real-time tracking utility.

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Beyond Firefox 3.5: A Sneak Peek at Mozilla’s Next Browser
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Web video site Joost cuts service, jobs, CEO goes (Reuters)

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Reuters - Joost, an early pioneer in bringing popular TV shows and movies to the Web, is dropping its consumer service, cutting jobs and losing its high-profile chief executive as it struggles to find revenue to survive.

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