China’s booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world’s biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday. The latest figure on Web use at the end of June is a 56 percent increase from a year ago, the China Internet Network […]

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Apple may be making a lot of noise lately with its new iPhone 3G, but when it comes to fighting software pirates, Steve Jobs’ company prefers to speak softly and carry a big stick — the stick, of course, being legal action like its recent lawsuit against computer maker Psystar for producing machines that can […]

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If you told Rhett Frandsen 10 years ago he’d end up being a professional widget-maker, he probably would have called you crazy. “Back then, widgets were only something you read about in your economics book,” Frandsen laughed. “Until Apple coined the phrase, everybody had sort of agreed upon the fact that it wasn’t anything.”

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