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AOL will axe several services that haven't achieved enough popularity, as it struggles to grow its online ad business.

The SIIA considers suing eBay for allowing counterfeit software to be sold there.

InformationWeek - Sens. Dick Durbin and Tom Coburn ask Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, and Google chief Eric Schmidt not to help censor or repress Internet users.

InformationWeek - More than 230 million touch-screen handsets are expected to ship in 2012, according to a report from IMS Research.

InformationWeek - Eight small bombs exploded in quick succession across the south Indian IT city of Bangalore on Friday, killing a woman and wounding at least 15 people, police said.

InformationWeek - The Microsoft CEO dismissed Yahoo as a major player in the Internet business, despite previously offering more than $40 billion for the company.

The Software and Information Industry Association said this week that a key seller of fraudulent software on eBay, Jeremiah Mondello, had been sentenced to 48 months in federal prison.

InformationWeek - Our Apple expert John C. Welch picks 22 lesser-known applications that can make your Mac experience more productive and more fun. Part 1 of 2.

They call it "sunsetting." Like so many cases of corporate doublespeak, the term is not quite so pleasant as it sounds. It means that a company is attempting to sell off, or just close some of its less successful properties.

BEIJING (AFP) - China's online population, already the world's largest, has swelled to 253 million, an official report said, driven by news events such as natural disasters and the Beijing Olympics.

InformationWeek - Vint Cerf slams the telecoms, which aren't happy that bits have been commoditized and would like to shape industry regulations to help them to get back in the services game.

BEIJING - 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.

A 10-gbps fiber-optics connection enables a Swedish film editor to do his job in real time from his dream home in a beautiful rural village.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Jon Heder, who starred in "Napoleon Dynamite" and skated opposite Will Ferrell in "Blades of Glory," is venturing into digital entertainment as the star of the zombie comedy "Woke Up Dead."

REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday defended Microsoft Corp's need to make heavy investments in its Internet businesses but said the company was "done," for now, with pursuing Yahoo Inc.

Microsoft is working on a way to combine its online services into a single Web page to solve its branding problem, CEO Steve...

REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft's CEO defended the software maker's decision to invest heavily in its unprofitable online business, but shed minimal light Thursday on specific steps it will take to challenge Google in the wake of the failed bid to buy Yahoo.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Internet security researchers on Thursday warned that hackers have caught on to a "critical" flaw that lets them control traffic on the Internet.

InformationWeek - Davidson reportedly forced his wife to help him leave the minimum-security federal prison in Colorado where he was serving time for his role in spam scams.

REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell on Thursday described Yahoo Inc. as "a declining asset" and all but ruled out a complete takeover of the Internet company.