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China to force internet users to register real names

Peter Foster Telegraph 06.05.2010

China is considering measures to force all its 400m internet users to register their real names before making comments on the country's myriad chat-rooms and discussion forums, in a further sign of tightening controls on freedom of speech.

Grey market iPads selling like hot cakes across Asia The Economic Times 06.05.2010	Facebook to Share Your Info for Money My FOX DC 04.05.2010
Apple has not yet officially launched the iPad in Asia, but that hasn't stopped a booming "grey market" trade in the world's most talked-about high-tech gadget.	Facebook is now sharing your personal profile information with third parties. For now, it's just a few web sites, like the music site Pandora, and the consumer review site, Yelp. Facebook is automatically sharing that information, without your consent. If you don't want to share, you have to opt out.
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8 Things We Hate About IT: How to Move Beyond the Frustrations to Form a New Partnership with IT HBS Press Book 04.05.2010	iPad users targeted by hackers Claudine Beaumont Telegraph 28.04.2010
Why can't you get what you really want from IT? All you desire is a ready-and-willing partner to help you exploit IT to drive your business. Instead, you get endless rules and regulations, not to mention processes, projects, and technologies that deliver too little, too late, for too much. It's frustrating! How to build a relationship that puts you firmly in control and produces the business results you need?	Security experts have warned that Apple iPad users are being targeted by cyber criminals. Hackers are trying to dupe iPad owners in to downloading a fake iTunes update on their Windows computer, which, when installed, creates a backdoor for cyber criminals, allowing them to remotely access the machine or even use the computer to send spam messages.
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True aims to become the ‘Amazon of Thailand’ Suchit Leesa-nguansuk Bangkok Post 28.04.2010	Mini USB 3D Monitor Made Early Appearance in Hong Kong Electronics Show Everything USB 28.04.2010
The emerging e-reader phenomenon, with its various brands on offer to consumers combined with True’s ambition to become the “Thai Amazon’’ by launching the True Digital Bookstore, is fostering a digital bookworm society.	Are you ready for 3D on your PC? The 3D craze hasn't quite taken off yet as 3D systems have no champion and no standard, but that could change at any minute. The fetal technology is bound to get people excited as soon as a decent movie is able to take advantage of it and bring it home.
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Police seize Gizmodo's computers in lost iPhone 4G prototype probe Greg Sandoval and Declan McCullagh CNET News 27.04.2010	Sony delivers floppy disk's last rites Steven Musil CNET News 27.04.2010
Police have seized computers and servers belonging to an editor of Gizmodo in an investigation that appears to stem from the gadget blog's purchase of a lost Apple iPhone prototype.	The days of the 3.5-inch floppy disk are now officially numbered. Sony, which boasts 70 percent of the anemic market, announced Friday that it would end Japanese sales of the ancient storage medium in March 2011, according to a report in the Mainichi Daily newspaper.
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