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InfoWorld - Beset by performance issues, Microsoft has decided to extend the beta testing period for its upcoming Visual Studio 2010 software development platform and will postpone the planned March 22, 2010, launch date by a few weeks, a Microsoft executive said in a blog on Thursday.
AFP - Sex was a hot online search topic for children in 2009, according to findings released by Internet security specialty firm Norton.
PC World - God bless the Internet. Where else can you assume a fake identity, pose the most inane question imaginable–like “Why can’t I see my reflection in the mirror on a television?”–and then sit back and watch the answers pour in?
Reuters - U.S. Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday that its Kindle electronic book reader posted its best sales yet in the month of December, as the battle for the digital reader market heats up.
PC World - Suppose someone tried to shut down AT&T’s wireless network tomorrow at Noon and nothing happened? Besides in New York and San Francisco, that is the likely outcome of Dan Lyons’ urging his blog readers to use so much iPhone data that the carrier becomes blocked during midday tomorrow.
Reuters - When Tassaporn Ratawongsa, a 42-year-old radiologist arrived for work at a private Bangkok hospital recently, she expected to see her patients.
AP - France’s efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust’s manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country’s reluctance to rely on help from American Internet giant Google Inc.
AFP - Privacy advocates are calling on the US Federal Trade Commission to make Facebook undo recent changes made to privacy controls at the world’s leading online social network.
AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden began dishing out the first installment Thursday of more than seven billion dollars set aside in the stimulus package to expand access to high-speed Internet broadband.
NewsFactor - The Federal Communications Commission revealed broad outlines Wednesday for the national broadband plan it is scheduled to submit to Congress early next year. One of the major challenges is to more effectively use the nation’s existing telecommunication assets — including the available wireless spectrum, which is facing impending shortages — according to a report from the FCC’s broadband task force.
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