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Several of Google’s Web services in mainland China were reported as fully blocked on Thursday including Web search, YouTube, Ads, and Blogger. Those reports turned out to be incorrect due to misinformation from Google’s Mainland China service availability chart. Other services, including Google Images, News, Docs, and Groups were also misreported as “partially blocked.” (See [...]

Updates to the Firefox Home app for iPhone and to the
Firefox Sync add-on for Firefox (Windows|Mac) fix the top three problems users reported for each program, says Mozilla.
The new version of Firefox Home (1.0.1), a companion app for the Firefox browser on
iPhone, now supports usernames with upper-case letters for logging in to the URL viewer. [...]

Technology goes a long way toward making our personal and professional lives easier and more enjoyable. But what many people may not realize is that it can also be an integral tool in making the lives of others better. From Web-based volunteering to device donation, there are a plethora of ways you can do good [...]

SAP is sprucing up its NetWeaver portal with an upcoming add-on, Enterprise Workspaces, which will provide an iGoogle-like way for users to work with content.
The software is now in a “ramp-up” release mode and set for general availability toward the end of this year, according to a presentation on SAP’s website.
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MIcrosoft will ship a beta of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) in September, a company executive said today.
If the timeline is accurate, the IE9 beta release will come a month later than earlier speculation, which had settled on August, a pick based in large part on PowerPoint slides purportedly from a Microsoft presentation that focused on [...]

Microsoft’s chief executive on Thursday sought to address some common questions raised by analysts, but his answers may not have been exactly what they were looking for.
While Microsoft reported its highest-ever quarterly revenue last week, the company was also criticized for lacking a well-developed strategy for slate PCs, and for continuing to struggle with some [...]

(AP) — A panel of federal judges is deciding where to consolidate several lawsuits against Google Inc. alleging the company violated wiretapping laws.

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In a change to its software licensing model, Zend Technologies has begun offering its PHP Web application deployment solutions as part of a package available through an annual subscription.
The company said its Zend Unlimited Subscription program, unveiled Thursday, addresses market demand for more flexible, cost-effective application infrastructures. For subscription prices starting at $50,000, users get [...]

Microsoft is shifting its strategy away from pitching itself as a company that can offer companies a choice of software or hosted services, toward pushing the cloud, an executive said on Thursday at the software giant’s annual financial analyst meeting.
A year ago, Microsoft was telling customers that the company is uniquely positioned because it offers [...]

Employees work at the Youtube headquarters in San Bruno, California in May, 2010. YouTube gave its users five more minutes on Thursday, increasing the upload limit for videos to the site to 15 minutes from 10 minutes.

YouTube gave its users five more minutes on Thursday, increasing the upload limit for videos to the site to [...]