PC World - Amazon has always been cagey about releasing sales figures for its Kindle e-reader, but maybe it’s opening up a bit. Rather than simply crow about Kindle’s growing popularity with Amazon customers–the device was reportedly a best-seller during the holiday season–the online retailer is now providing numbers–well, sort of.
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PC World - Google will phase out support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 Web browser starting in March, the company said Friday.
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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 some Internet weirdness associated with President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address.
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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.
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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.
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PC World - Two lawmakers criticized the Web services company that may have enabled the hacking of almost 50 government Web sites on Wednesday.
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AP - Vistaprint NV’s fiscal second-quarter profit shot up 45 percent as more companies and consumers bought business cards, calendars and party invitations from its network of Web sites.
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AP - Apple Inc. is allowing iPhone owners to use Internet calling services over cellular networks.
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AFP - China, the United States and Russia are among 20 countries locked in a cyberspace arms race and gearing up for possible Internet hostilities, according to the head of web security firm McAfee.
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Reuters - The news of the cancellation of ABC’s “Ugly Betty” had barely hit the Internet on Wednesday when the phones of the representatives of star Eric Mabius started ringing off the hook.
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