Reuters – An online auction of pop memorabilia from some of Britain’s biggest acts has raised around 50,000 pounds ($80,000) so far for survivors of the Haiti earthquake, organizers Oxfam said on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100201/en_nm/us_quake_haiti_music
PC World – Acer refuses to follow the pack with a tablet like Apple’s iPad, saying it’s too hard to compete with iTunes and the App Store. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100201/tc_pcworld/acerspookedbyitunessaysnoipadrival
AP – AOL Inc. reports its fourth-quarter results on Wednesday before the market opens. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_aol_earnings_preview
Reuters – Amazon.com Inc all but waved the white flag in a dispute with publisher Macmillan that could lead to the online retailer raising prices on some of its e-books. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100201/wr_nm/us_amazon_macmillan
AFP – Australian Internet rights groups fear a piracy court case could force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to become “copyright cops” and cut web access to customers who make illegal downloads. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100201/tc_afp/technologyaustraliainternetcopyright
AFP – An Internet festival in Brazil billed as one of the biggest in the world has proved an irresistible attraction not only for corporate technology sponsors — but also for military recruiters and politicians. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100201/tc_afp/brazilitinternetpoliticsmilitary
AFP – China’s online tourism market is booming as an increasingly wealthy middle class travels for pleasure and the use of credit cards and the Internet soars, analysts say. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100131/tc_afp/lifestylechinaeconomyinternettourism
Reuters – U.S. arms sales to Taiwan hurt China’s national security, its foreign minister said, escalating the rhetoric in a dispute threatening to deepen rifts between the world’s biggest and third-biggest economies. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100131/pl_nm/us_usa_china_taiwan
PC Magazine – Forty-nine Web sites of members of the U.S. House of Representatives were hacked following the State of the Union address recently. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20100130/tc_zd/247991
PC World – While it seemed that all eyes were on Apple’s unveiling of the long-awaited iPad this week, Oracle on the same day revealed its plans for Sun Microsystems’ technology, while those at Sun braced for the merger and began their public goodbyes. We also had a flurry of financial reports this week and [...]
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