China warned Web sites and mobile content providers not to violate the state-owned broadcaster’s rights to cover the Olympic Games.
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China will punish Internet Web sites and other new media that broadcast the Beijing Olympic Games and related events without the authorization of state-run China Central Television, the government said.New media broadcast rights for the summer games were exclusively granted to CCTV by the International Olympic Committee, according to a joint statement by the State [...]

An Irish company, 3G Doctor, is employing the until now redundant camera on the front of 3G phones to provide remote medical consultations, especially in country areas. A hospital in Da Nang City, Vietnam, has developed software to transform a mobile phone into a database of treatments and medical knowledge that can be looked at [...]

When BitTorrent sites get into legal trouble or other pressures force a move to a new location, the speculation begins on the safest place to go.For instance, would a site bail out of the Netherlands and move to Canada? Is Canada too dangerous now, and would a move to Sweden be more appropriate? What about [...]

More than half the sites that spread malicious code are hosted on Chinese networks, and getting such sites cleaned up is much harder in China than in the U.S., Stopbadware.org said today.

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A Microsoft automatic update has eradicated password stealing programs from more than two million computers. Writing on the TechNet blog, Matt McCormack says the company?s Malicious Software Removal Tool detected and erased Trojan horse programs designed to steal passwords from popular online games like World of Warcraft, Valve?s Steam Client and Lineage Online. [...]

The majority of the Internet’s malware-infected websites are located on Chinese networks, finds a new report released today by StopBadware.org, the university-based research initiative aimed at protec…
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More Members of Congress have had their computers infiltrated by hackers within China than initially suspected, a lawmaker has revealed.Reps. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), Chris Smith (R-N.J.), and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) admitted to having data removed from their Capitol Hill computers last week, but Wolf says there are more. ?I?m not at liberty to say who [...]

Microsoft said it is unaware of an investigation into whether the company unfairly dominates China’s software market as reported by the country’s state media.

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A 19-year-old computer intruder who broke into a provincial seismological bureau’s Web site to place a false earthquake warning could have caused widespread panic in the rattled Sichuan region.

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China said its antitrust regulators aren’t investigating Microsoft, and its State Intellectual Property Office said it has not conducted any research on monopoly behavior aimed at any enterprises.

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Sophos is warning computer users to be on their guard against unsolicited emails following the discovery of a new malicious spam campaign that claims another earthquake has just occurred in China, and…
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