South Korean employees of the Hynix Semiconductor …
April 6, 2008
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South Korean employees of the Hynix Semiconductor at a branch of the company in Seoul in 2007. Hynix Semiconductor said Sunday it has developed what it calls the fastest data-processing one-gigabit memory chip for cellphones and other mobile applications.
Photo:Jung Yeon-Je/AFP
The logo for Microsoft at their office in Herndon, …
April 6, 2008
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The logo for Microsoft at their office in Herndon, Virginia. Microsoft issued a three-week ultimatum Saturday for Yahoo to accept its 44.6-billion-dollar takeover offer or face a hostile battle for the support of the Internet giant’s shareholders.
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The logo for Microsoft at their office in Herndon, …
April 5, 2008
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The logo for Microsoft at their office in Herndon, Virginia. Microsoft issued a three-week ultimatum Saturday for Yahoo to accept its 44.6-billion-dollar takeover offer or face a hostile battle for the support of the Internet giant’s shareholders.
Photo:Paul J. Richards/AFP
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, seen here in March …
April 5, 2008
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, seen here in March 2008, set a three-week deadline as he threatened Saturday to go directly to Yahoo’s shareholders to advance his company’s efforts to take over the Internet giant.
Photo:David Hecker/AFP
Employees of Yahoo! China are seen through the …
April 5, 2008
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Employees of Yahoo! China are seen through the window of its office in Beijing. Microsoft issued a three-week ultimatum Saturday for Yahoo to accept its 44.6-billion-dollar takeover offer or face a hostile battle for the support of the Internet giant’s shareholders.
Photo:Goh Chai Hin/AFP
An internet user looks at photos from Tibet in …
April 5, 2008
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An internet user looks at photos from Tibet in Beijing in late March. Canada’s public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada called on Friday for China to restore access to its websites.
Photo:Peter Parks/AFP
A protester wearing a mask at a demonstration …
April 5, 2008
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A protester wearing a mask at a demonstration outside the Dutch embassy in Jakarta on April 3. Indonesian Internet providers have started blocking access to an anti-Islamic film, a report said on Saturday.
Photo:Bay Ismoyo/AFP
The Dalai Lama talks to journalists in New Delhi …
April 5, 2008
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The Dalai Lama talks to journalists in New Delhi on March 27. Over a million people have ’signed up’ to a Chinese website set up to criticise Western media ‘bias’ in covering the Tibetan unrest.
Photo:Pedro Ugarte/AFP
Jerry Yang, Co-Founder & CEO of Yahoo! Inc., …
April 4, 2008
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Jerry Yang, Co-Founder & CEO of Yahoo! Inc., waits to answer questions from students and the media at Georgetown University’s Healy Hall in Washington, DC. Yang, whose company once allegedly helped Chinese police nab and jail cyber dissidents, is today in the forefront of a global campaign to free those languishing in prison for expressing their views online.
Photo:Paul J. Richards/AFP
A man is looking at his computer screen. NATO …
April 4, 2008
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A man is looking at his computer screen. NATO has put in place special emergency response teams to deal with cyber terrorism following a serious attack on member state Estonia last year, a senior official said on Friday.
Photo:Mike Clarke/AFP
Viviane Reding unveils the .eu domain at the …
April 4, 2008
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Viviane Reding unveils the .eu domain at the EU headquarters in 2006. The .eu web domain has picked up 2.8 million customers in its first two years of existence and ranks in the global cyber top ten.
Photo:John Thys/AFP
Michael Dell, Chairman and Founder of Dell Inc. THE ASSOCIATED …
April 4, 2008
(The Canadian Press) – Michael Dell, Chairman and Founder of Dell Inc. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Ahn Young-joon
A man checks his Hotmail e-mail account at a …
April 4, 2008
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A man checks his Hotmail e-mail account at a cyber cafe. Fewer Americans fell for Internet fraudsters last year but those who did parted with a record 239.09 million dollars (152.5 million euros), an annual report by the FBI said Thursday.
Photo:Alex Tan/AFP
In this photo released by the Harry Ransom Center,Mike Wallace …
April 4, 2008
(The Canadian Press) – In this photo released by the Harry Ransom Center,Mike Wallace interviews Eleanor Roosevelt on ‘The Mike Wallace Interview,’ in this November 23, 1957 photo. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Harry Ransom Center
Michael Moore, of Westfield, Ind. shows nurses the video he …
April 4, 2008
(The Canadian Press) – Michael Moore, of Westfield, Ind. shows nurses the video he made to let his best friend, Stephen Gottschalk, of Hillsboro, Mo., know he was a match for a kidney transplant in his room at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., on Wednesday, April 2, 2008. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Sarah Conard
An Intel worker in Cavite, south of Manila. The …
April 4, 2008
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An Intel worker in Cavite, south of Manila. The world’s top chip maker is considering pulling out of the Philippines, the economic daily BusinessWorld said Friday, citing a company statement
Photo:P. Parameswaran/AFP
MySpace is creating a free music Internet service …
April 4, 2008
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MySpace is creating a free music Internet service with major recording labels to go head to head with digital giant Apple, whose iTunes has just claimed the crown as world’s largest music store.
Photo:Nicholas Kamm/AFP
Since Apple launched the online digital content …
April 4, 2008
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Since Apple launched the online digital content store five years ago, iTunes has reportedly sold more than four billion songs and built the most extensive music catalog in the market.
Photo:John D. Mchugh/AFP
People walk past a billboard advertising Yahoo …
April 3, 2008
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People walk past a billboard advertising Yahoo in Beijing in 2007. A fund set up by Yahoo to atone for revealing ‘cyber dissidents’ to Chinese officials is aiding people jailed there for human rights views posted on the Internet, its overseer said Wednesday.
Photo:Teh Eng Koon/AFP
A woman surfs the Internet at a cafe in Beijing. …
April 3, 2008
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A woman surfs the Internet at a cafe in Beijing. Chinese censors appear to have relaxed their control of Wikipedia — a popular online encyclopaedia — as reports from users suggested it was accessible in at least parts of the country.
Photo:Frederic J. Brown/AFP



