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| Jul.24 |
Beijing |
China: World's biggest Web population| China says its fast-growing population of Internet users has surpassed the U.S. to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people on-line | | |
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| Jan.11 |
China |
Blogger beaten to death| Authorities have fired an official in central China after inspectors beat to death a man who filmed their confrontation with villagers | |
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| Nov.13 |
China |
Yahoo settles dissidents suit| Internet giant has settled a lawsuit brought by the families of a dissident and a journalist, who were jailed after the company cooperated with authorities | | |
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| Jul.26 |
China |
Huge Chinese piracy ring tackled| Pirated software worth $500m has been seized as the FBI shuts down a world-spanning piracy outfit | |
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| Dec.27 |
Taiwan |
Quake knocks Asia back to pre-Internet| A powerful earthquake triggered the largest telecommunications outage in years, cutting off telephone and Internet traffic | |
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| Sep.29 |
Japan |
Toshiba joins Sony battery recall Toshiba and Lenovo to recall laptop batteries made by Sony because of a potential fire risk
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Energy crisis as Georgia freezes
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| Nov.11 |
Japan |
Sony stops making anti-piracy CDs Sony will suspend the production of music CDs that can leave computers vulnerable to viruses
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| Oct.13 |
South Korea |
Samsung in price fixing admission The electronics giant has agreed to plead guilty to involvement in price fixing in the US and to pay a $300m fine
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| Feb.25 |
Japan |
Microsoft's Tokyo offices raided Officials from fair trade watchdog have raided MS offices on suspicion of anti-monopoly law violations
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| Dec.1 |
Malaysia |
Pirates in Microsoft 'coup' Pirated versions of Longhorn, next operating system, are on sale, more than a year before the official release date
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SoBig.F breaks virus speed records
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| Jan.25 |
South Korea |
Virus-like attack hits web traffic An attack by fast-spreading malicious code shut down South Korea and Thailand internet services for hours
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| Dec.26 |
China |
Crack down on cyber cafes More than 3,000 internet cafes had been closed as part of a national workplace safety campaign
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| Sep.30 |
Japan |
First 3G mobiles NTT DoCoMo, has launched the third generation mobile phone service
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| May.30 |
Japan |
World's first 3G services NTT DoCoMo's new mobile phones run at speeds from 64 to 384 kilobytes per second
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Y2K bug fails to bite
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