IDG News Service – Yahoo plans to close a beta advertising service through which small online publishers, such as individual bloggers, signed up to carry ads sold and distributed by the company in exchange for a commission.
The service, called Yahoo Publisher Network Beta, provides pay-per-click text ads that are contextually relevant to the Web pages [...]

As Mozilla plans to wind down the 3.0 branch of its Firefox browser, it has issued what it expects to be the final security patch for that branch of the browser. The update also addresses vulnerabilities — some critical — in the 3.5 version of the browser.
Datamation looks at Mozilla’s Firefox security update, which targets [...]

IDG News Service – Oracle announced the 17th version of its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) application Wednesday and made a fresh push into pharmaceutical sales with a Life Sciences edition of the software.
New features in CRM on Demand Release 17 include tools for managing sales pipelines and performing forecasts of future business; a redesigned [...]

Adobe has teamed up with Google to integrate its Flash Player with Google’s Chrome browser.
On March 30 the two companies announced that Google released an initial integration of the Flash Player with Chrome to its developer channel. That integration consists of an integrated Adobe Flash Player plug-in and a basic plug-in manager.
In a blog post [...]

IDG News Service – The massive number of Chinese Internet users running no antivirus software increased last year, a survey showed, even though online security risks continued to multiply in the country.
The percentage of Internet users in China with no security software was 4.4% last year,a up from 3.9% the previous year, according to survey [...]

NASA has updated its iPhone application with new connections to social media sites and access to more than 125,000 photos from its image collection.
Version 1.2 of the NASA App is now available with a Facebook Connect feature that lets users share images, videos, tweets and mission information on Facebook, and an Integrated Twitter feature for [...]

United Utilities, the UK’s largest listed water company, has signed a five-year deal worth £30m with Cable & Wireless (C&W) Worldwide.
The telecommunications provider is revitalising United Utilities’ aged voice technology with IP telephony services for its 300 UK sites including datacentres, water works and two key contact centres.
Now when United Utilities staff access core business [...]

MUMBAI, INDIA: The shares of India’s top telecom company Bharti Airtel opened strong on bourses here Wednesday, a day after it sealed a $10.7 billion deal to acquire the African assets of Kuwait’s Zain.
The bluechip, among the 30 scrips that are part of the sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange, opened at Rs.312.10 [...]

Network World – There could soon be a new 4G-based carrier taking aim at cell providers.
According to documents filed late last week by the Federal Communications Commission, investment firm Harbinger Capital Partners plans to use its recent acquisition of satellite communications company SkyTerra to build out a 4G network of its own.
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IDG News Service – Google mobile services have been partly blocked in China, according to the company, after it snubbed the Chinese government over censorship last week.
A China status page set up by Google shows its mobile services were partially blocked in the country starting Sunday.
It was unclear how widespread the access problems were or [...]