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Indispensable Web Utility or Fly by Night?

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Twitter reinvented the way people communicate on the web, offering instant messaging on the minute to minute daily activities of millions of people. Is Twitter the indispensable web utility of the future or soon to be lost in the crowd? An analysis of the new telegraph system of Web 2.0 & its competition. Read more.

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Why More Webmasters Choose AJAX

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Google rewrote the Chrome browser based upon a new AJAX processing engine, but FireFox claims the new JavaScript VM in version 3.1 is faster. What is AJAX and why is it so important for the current generation of web applications? Learn more about Asynchronous Java and XML (AJAX). Read more.

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Tim Berners-Lee's Blog - The Inventor of the WWW

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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and founder of the W3C group which oversees its continued evolution, blogs on the Drupal CMS using the 'Spread Firefox' theme with the content published under a Creative Commons license. We review this tech guru's writings for insight on the future of the internet. Read more.

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Android - Mobile, Netbook, & Future Desktop OS?

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The first Intel netbooks have been hacked and loaded with the Android operating system, originally designed for the mobile phone platform, and the code suggests Google planned this in advance. Will Android lead Google to take on Microsoft and Apple directly in the market for desktop operating systems? Read more.

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Mark Zuckerberg - Interviews on Facebook's Future

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Facebook founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been described as 'the Bill Gates of his generation,' a billionaire before thirty directing one of the most dynamic and paradigm changing companies on the web today. This article looks at interviews with Zuckerberg for clues to the direction of Facebook's future. Read more.

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Toyota chief vows to take safety to 'the next level' (AFP)

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AFP - Toyota president Akio Toyoda vowed to take safety "to the next level" during a meeting Thursday with the head of the US Department of Transportation.


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China's Hu says tackling climate change 'urgent' (AFP)

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AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao has said the country must urgently confront climate change and make it a central part of the government's development strategy, state media said Wednesday.


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Tearful Toyoda apologises; Japan hopes for recovery (Reuters)

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Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda apologised to U.S. lawmakers probing the automaker's safety record and ended the day in tears, in what Japanese politicians hoped was a first step towards rebuilding trust in the country's most valuable company.


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Finance commission says govt can raise $82 bln from stake sales (Reuters)

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Reuters - The government can raise 3.81 trillion rupees ($82 billion), equal to 0.88 percent of GDP every year, in stake sales in state firms and banks in the next five years, the finance commission said.

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Britain's culture-clash comedy "East is East" gets sequel (Reuters)

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India, Pakistan hold talks, seeking to repair ties (Reuters)

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Reuters - India and Pakistan held their first official talks since the 2008 Mumbai attacks on Thursday, a meeting that is unlikely to lead to an immediate breakthrough but may help thaw relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.


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23 suspects to stand trial in China for CCTV fire (AP)

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AP - Twenty-three people will go on trial this week for alleged involvement in a deadly fire triggered by an illegal fireworks display that gutted a hotel at the new headquarters of China's main television network last year, a court official said Monday.

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Senior U.S. official on China trade resigns (Reuters)

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Reuters - A senior American trade official in charge of handling disputes with China has left the U.S. Trade Representative's office to take a job in the private sector, his new employer said on Monday.

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China to prosecute 23 for CCTV tower fire: court (AFP)

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AFP - China will prosecute 23 people for a blaze at its new state television headquarters that engulfed a hotel, killed a fireman and left a 24-million-dollar clean-up bill, a court official said Tuesday.


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Poor mkt response won't alter Govt stake sales plan (Reuters)

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Reuters - The government will not defer plans to sell stakes in state-run firms, required to bridge its yawning fiscal deficit, despite a poor response to two of its recent sales, a finance ministry official told Reuters on Tuesday.

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ANALYSIS - Copenhagen billions key to climate talks success (Reuters)

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Reuters - The allure of $30 billion in climate aid for poor nations holds the key to helping restore confidence in U.N. talks on fighting global warming and stopping them from unravelling.


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China promises better benefits for rural migrants (AP)

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AP - China will grant young migrant workers more social service benefits and help them rent or buy homes in smaller cities, a government adviser said Tuesday.

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