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Browser Wars: Chrome winning, IE losing

The latest NetMarketShare Web browser numbers are out for May 2011, and they show Chrome growing faster than any of the other browsers with Internet Explorer (IE) continuing its slow decline.

eBay fined for 5.7 mln euros for counterfeit LVMH goods trade

eBay says ruling is a victory for French consumers

New cables tie West Africa closer to Internet

Internet now has more than five times the capacity of the old one and is set to bring competition to a market where wholesale Internet access costs nearly 500 times as much as it does in the U.S.

The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet

Who’s to blame: us or them?

The Americans consider faster broadband internet useless

The majority of Americans do not favor making affordable high-speed Internet access a government priority, according to a study released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project on Wednesday.

Google under probe in S.Korea over data collection

South Korean police raided Google Inc’s Seoul office on Tuesday, the latest in a series of legal challenges the company is facing because of data collected by its controversial fleet of “Street View” cars.

How Google TV will work

Google’s announcement that it would partner with Intel, Logitech, Sony and Dish Network on its Google TV service was probably as anti-climactic as one could expect, being that it was also one of the worst kept secrets in recent months. The much talked about and anticipated debut of Google’s plan to bring the web to televisions went as expected (sans technical glitches that plagued its roll out at its I/O developer’s conference in San Francisco: not enough bandwidth available to connect), with one of the biggest revelations being that users would be able to use Google Search to browse web content and channel guides. The software will be based on Android, Google’s mobile phone OS.

Adobe’s ‘love’ ads as a weapon against Apple

Adobe is firing back at Apple with love.
Adobe Systems Inc. is countering Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs’ recent jab at Adobe’s Flash technology for Web video and games. The company is running ads in newspapers and popular technology blogs saying “We Love Apple” – with a bright red heart in place of love.

Google sues indie label over copyright claims

Google has taken the rare step of asking a California judge to declare that by linking to copyright-infringing works on Rapidshare, the search giant is not facilitating the illegal distribution of copyrighted songs.

China, Russia, Canada again top USTR piracy list

The United States on Friday placed Russia on its list of countries with the worst records of preventing copyright theft for the 13th straight year, just days after the two nations agreed to intensify talks on Moscow’s bid to join the World Trade Organization.