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Technology cuts down on Web registrations
USATODAY.com   Friday, 16 March 2007
USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - An emerging technology standard could be the answer to a major headache: It lets consumers use the same user name and password for hundreds of websites that require a sign-in. OpenID's approach has quickly earned it the support of Microsoft, AOL and thousands of users online. "It's all about convenience," says Raven Zachary, 33, a technology analyst for The 451 Group. He intends to use the same user name and password for dozens of social-networking and news sites.
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Update: Microsoft offers enterprises incentives for search
InfoWorld   Friday, 16 March 2007
InfoWorld - In an apparent attempt to boost its disappointing Web search market share, Microsoft is giving financial incentives to large enterprise customers whose employees use Microsoft's Live Search engine.
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Ballmer questions business strategy of Google
InfoWorld   Friday, 16 March 2007
InfoWorld - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer criticized rival Google, saying it is devoted primarily to ad-supported search while Microsoft has reinvented itself many times over.
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Vodafone takes hybrid approach to mobile VOIP
InfoWorld   Friday, 16 March 2007
InfoWorld - Vodafone Group is demonstrating a service at the CeBIT trade show that allows mobile phone customers to call and exchange presence information with users of Internet phone services such as Skype.
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Malaysia issues WiMAX licences to four companies
AFP   Friday, 16 March 2007

Malaysians work on their lap-tops at a Starbucks outlet providing wireless Internet in downtown Kuala Lumpur in 2004. Malaysia issued licences to four telecommunication operators to provide fourth generation (4G) wireless high speed Internet services nationwide this year.(AFP/File/Jimin Lai)AFP - Malaysia on Friday issued licences to four telecommunication operators to provide fourth generation (4G) wireless high speed Internet services nationwide this year.


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Japanese Internet icon found guilty
InfoWorld   Friday, 16 March 2007
InfoWorld - The founder and former CEO of Japanese Internet portal Livedoor was found guilty of violating securities laws on Friday and sentenced to two and a half years in prison in one of the biggest cases of corporate abuse for Japan in recent years.
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WebEx buy makes Cisco a collaboration player
InfoWorld   Friday, 16 March 2007
InfoWorld - Cisco Systems is entering new territory with its planned $3.2 billion acquisition of WebEx Communications, with plans to deliver collaboration tools as an online service and possibly integrate the company's business-related offerings with consumer social networking technology.
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Livedoor founder gets 2 1/2 years in prison
AP   Friday, 16 March 2007

Takafumi Horie, center, founder of Internet services company Livedoor Co., arrives at the Tokyo District Court in Tokyo Friday, March 16, 2007.  The Tokyo District Court on Friday sentenced Horie, 34, to two years and six months in jail in a case that has come to symbolize the challenges Japan faces in policing rising startups.  (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Tomohisa Kato)AP - Former dot-com mogul Takafumi Horie was found guilty of securities laws violations and sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison on Friday, in a case that has come to symbolize the challenges Japan faces in policing rising startups.


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Cisco to pay $3.2 billion for WebEx
AP   Friday, 16 March 2007

Exterior view of WebEx Communications Inc. headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Thursday, March 15, 2007. Cisco Systems Inc. said Thursday it has agreed to acquire the online meeting company WebEx Communications Inc. for about $3.2 billion in cash. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Cisco Systems Inc. said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire the online meeting company WebEx Communications Inc. for about $3.2 billion in cash.


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Prison sentence marks new low for Horie
AP   Friday, 16 March 2007

Dressed in a black sweatshirt that said, 'Billionaire Boys Club,' former dot-com star Takafumi Horie speaks to The Associated Press in Tokyo in this Dec. 20, 2006 file photo. A year after his Internet empire came crashing down, turning Japan's most famous dot-com mogul into a business pariah and celebrity defendant, Horie and a captivated nation will learn Friday, March 16, 2007 whether his name will be cleared. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara, File)AP - A solemn Takafumi Horie sat quietly as the judge read out his sentence Friday — two and half years behind bars for violating securities law.


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Sina to build China's largest digital music platform with 5 record companies
AFP   Friday, 16 March 2007

Chinese Internet portal Sina.com CEO Charles Chao at a recent promotional ceremony in Beijing, January 2007. Sina.com has announced it will tie up with five foreign record companies to build a digital music platform that could become the largest of its kind in China.(AFP/STR/File)AFP - Chinese web portal Sina.com announced it will tie up with five foreign record companies to build a digital music platform that could become the largest of its kind in China, state media said Friday.


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