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Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday denied providing Chinese authorities with information that led to the arrest of a Chinese journalist on charges of incitement to subversion.n

A handful of delegates to China's National People's Congress (NPC) are using blogs for the first time to share their thoughts on the rubber-stamp body's annual session, tapping into a medium that has recently soared in popularity among Chinese Internet users.n

AT&T Inc. Sunday announced a deal to acquire U.S. telecommunications operator BellSouth Corp. in an all-stock deal valued at US$67 billion. The merger will mean faster development of IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) services for U.S. consumers, AT&T said.

Western media was abuzz Wednesday with reports, citing an English-language story on the Web site of the official People's Daily newspaper, that China plans to create a set of Chinese-language domain names as part of a bid to split China off from the Internet. There was just one problem: the story wasn't true.n

China's Ministry of Information Industries (MII) has completed an investigation into Google Inc.'s usage of an Internet license that belongs to a Chinese company, a ministry spokesman confirmed Wednesday.n

Google Desktop 3 beta poses a security risk to many companies and use of the software should be tightly controlled, Gartner Inc. said in a research note last week.

Singapore will establish an R&D Trust Fund to boost the country's spending on research and development, Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore's prime minister and finance minister, announced Friday during the annual budget speech to the country's Parliament.rn

A worm that affects computers running Apple Computer Inc.'s MacOS X operating system is circulating on the Internet, according to antivirus software makers.