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Soaring e-book sales speak volumes (AFP)

File photo shows online retail giant Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos unveiling the Kindle DX in New York. Amazon, by slashing the price of the Kindle at the end of July 2010, is hoping to turn the electronic book reader into a device with mass market appeal, one for AFP - After years of lurking in the literary wilderness, the e-book market has exploded with online retailer Amazon.com's digital volumes recently overtaking sales of their hardcover counterparts.



Hack attack hits ATM jackpots (AFP)

People take cash at an ATM machine in Bangkok. Banks use AFP - Computer security researcher Barnaby Jack jokes that he has resorted to hiding cash under his bed since figuring out how to crack automated teller machines remotely using the Internet.



Google Cries Wolf as Outage Disrupts China Operations (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - After assuming the worst with its China operations, Google on Thursday evening backed off accusations of censorship in the communist nation. Google said earlier Thursday that the Chinese government was blocking its search engine, Google Mobile, and Google Ad products. Google also said its news and image services were being "partially blocked."

Microsoft Will Try to Block Google-Yahoo Japan Deal (PC World)
PC World - A legal battle is brewing between Microsoft and Google for control of Japan's lucrative search market.

RIM’s rumored 'BlackPad' tablet due in November? (Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson - Rumors of a BlackBerry tablet are heating up by the day, with Bloomberg now claiming that the BlackPad — yes, the BlackPad — will arrive in November, complete with an iPad-size screen and the ability to connect to the Internet via either Wi-Fi or your Bluetooth-connected BlackBerry.

Sprint prepping 'Peel' mobile Wi-Fi case for iPod Touch? (Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson - Take an iPod Touch, add Wi-Fi and an Internet-calling app like Skype, and you’ve pretty much got a phone, right? Now comes word that Sprint could be prepping a cradle for the Touch that acts as a portable hotspot, good for keeping the iPod in a Wi-Fi cloud when Sprint 3G coverage is available.

Amazon updates Kindle app with inline dictionary, more (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Amazon on Thursday released significant upgrades to its Kindle app for iPhone and iPad. Just days after the company announced the new Kindle 3, Amazon’s made the iOS version of its e-reader even more competitive with its hardware device: The app now includes a dictionary with 250,000 entries, adds the ability to search within books on the iPad, and improves the experience of searching books on the iPhone and iPod touch.

FBI access to e-mail, Web data raises privacy fear (AP)

FILE - In this June 28, 2010, file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., gestures on Capitol Hill in Washington. Invasion of privacy in the Internet age. The administration's proposal to change the Electronic Communications Privacy Act 'raises serious privacy and civil liberties concerns,' Leahy said Thursday, July 29, 2010, in a statement. Expanding the reach of law enforcement to snoop on e-mail traffic or on Web surfing. Those are among the criticisms being aimed at the FBI as it tries to update a key surveillance law. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Invasion of privacy in the Internet age. Expanding the reach of law enforcement to snoop on e-mail traffic or on Web surfing. Those are among the criticisms being aimed at the FBI as it tries to update a key surveillance law.



HOW TO: Manage a Sustainable Online Community (Mashable)
Mashable - Rob Howard is the CTO/founder of enterprise collaboration software company Telligent.

Australia govt expands proposed broadband network (AP)
AP - Australia's government expanded its ambitious plan to bring broadband to much of the vast country, adding 300,000 homes and businesses to the coverage area Friday in hopes of winning votes in next month's federal election.

Microsoft's IE9 Beta Arrives in September (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Addressing an audience at the company's annual financial analyst meeting in Redmond, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner announced that a beta for Internet Explorer 9, the latest version of its popular browser, will be available fore download this September.

Google not sure if China behind service disruption (AFP)

A Chinese flag flies next to the Google company logo outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing on March 2010. Google does not know if the Chinese authorities were behind a disruption in the company's services on Thursday, chief executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - Google does not know if the Chinese authorities were behind a disruption in the company's services on Thursday, chief executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.



Australia pledges expansion of fibre broadband network (AFP)

Customers are seen surfing Internet in Sydney. The government Friday committed to expanding its fibre broadband Internet network to a further 300,000 homes across the vast island continent if re-elected at next month's polls.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - The Australian government Friday committed to expanding its fibre broadband Internet network to a further 300,000 homes across the vast island continent if re-elected at next month's polls.



Attacking the edges of secure Internet traffic (AP)

A man passes a logo of the Black Hat technology conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)AP - Researchers have uncovered new ways that criminals can spy on Internet users even if they're using secure connections to banks, online retailers or other sensitive Web sites.



False alarm: Google search still working in China (AP)

A Chinese flag flies next to the Google company logo outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing on March 2010. Google does not know if the Chinese authorities were behind a disruption in the company's services on Thursday, chief executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AP - Google Inc. triggered a false alarm Thursday by posting a notice that its search engine and several other services had been cut off from mainland China - a key market where the company has been locked in a high-profile battle over online censorship.



Google Reports Brief Search Outage in China (PC World)
PC World - Google's search engine in China appeared to have been partially blocked overnight Thursday, but a Google spokeswoman said the service was up and running again by Friday morning local time.

Google says China search block may be tech glitch (Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc said its earlier report that Internet search services in China were being fully blocked could have been the result of a technical glitch that overstated the problem.

Smartphones, Tablets Seen Boosting Mobile Health (PC World)
PC World - Smartphones, tablet PCs and other wireless devices are poised to play a greater role in health care as doctors and patients embrace the mobile Internet, panelists at a mobile health technology conference in Boston said Thursday.

Analysts' View: Google says search service blocked in China (Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc said its Web search and mobile services in China were blocked on Thursday, weeks after Beijing agree to extend the company's Chinese webpage license.

US flank exposed on cyber war front: Hayden (AFP)

Former US spy master and retired general Michael Hayden, pictured in 2007, warned on Thursday that the country's AFP - Former US spy master and retired general Michael Hayden warned on Thursday that the country's "cyber flank" was exposed and it was losing clout to influence rules of war on the Internet.
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