AP – European Union regulators will investigate whether Google Inc. has abused its dominant position in the online search market mdash; the first major probe into the online giant’s business practices.
AP – China’s government announced a new crackdown Tuesday on rampant illegal copying of products from software to music that is adding to tensions with Washington and other governments over trade and currency complaints.
AP – On one of the year’s busiest Internet shopping days, federal law enforcement announced a crackdown that blocked 82 domain names of far-flung commercial websites to keep them from peddling counterfeit merchandise and illegal copies of music and software.
Ben Patterson – Tablets like the iPad and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab are the gotta-have gadgets of the year, no doubt — but could they eventually replace the PC as your platform of choice? Make no mistake: PCs are still big business, with consumers …
Ben Patterson – Ever wanted to know who’s been keeping tabs on your Facebook profile? Bad news — you can’t, and any Facebook app that promises otherwise is lying to you, as tens of thousands of scammed users are finding out. The whole …
PC World – Just under a year after it went on sale, Nintendo’s New Super Mario Bros. Wii has become the first Wii software title to sell 4 million copies in Japan, a market data provider said Tuesday.
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AP – The Associated Press-CNBC Poll on the deficit was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs Corporate Communications from Nov. 18-22, 2010. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,000 adults. Interviews were conducted with 700 respondents on landline telephones and 300 on cellular phones.
AP – Former President George W. Bush has pledged not to publicly criticize his successor, Barack Obama, but he did offer some praise Monday during a live broadcast on Facebook to promote his new book.
AFP – Canadian teen idol Justin Bieber said Monday he plans to go to university, even after selling millions of albums by the age of just 16 after being discovered on YouTube.