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BUSINESS
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You may think Second Life is a virtual world, but players paid real money for their property and improvements. The new round of online fervor/fear is as interesting as the stuff we saw in the 1995-2000 dot-com bubble.
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BUSINESS, CLOUD COMPUTING
NEWS
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Microsoft reportedly struck a big deal with Chinese internet search market leader Baidu to provide search services in English to their users.
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CLOUD COMPUTING
NEWS
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Panguso, the new search engine in China, may not be able to bypass government censorship any better than Google could. In fact, it appears to be under a tighter rein than Baidu, the premier search engine based in China.
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SECURITY, SOFTWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Oh my, my IM is down. Two technology companies are having a spat and their customers wish they’d just get over it. Tencent and Qihoo 360 seem to care more about warring among themselves than servicing their clients.
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DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT
NEWS
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Sight-impaired individuals are being helped to make phone calls, send messages, and surf the mobile Internet thanks to Baidu.com’s search engine open platform. This is a first public service application by Chinese search giant.
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