Wall Street Journal

Beijing Heralds Bust of Major Hacker Ring

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China heralded a major bust of computer hackers to underscore its pledge to help enhance global online security, with state media saying officials had shut what they called the country's...

Digital Technology and Cleaner Politics

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This is supposed to be an era of openness and full-on transparency, powered by the Internet. Disclosure is a virtue, made simple through technology. The old, top-down control over communications is over, a relic of predigital life. All true—except when it comes to politics.

Should TV Take Bite Out of Apple Playbook?

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Is Apple's new e-book store a model for the television industry?

Japanese Regulator Examines KDDI's Planned Deal for Jupiter

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Location: Tokyo, Japan

Japan's Financial Service Agency is examining whether KDDI Corp.'s planned $4 billion purchase of a major stake in Jupiter Telecommunications Co. from Liberty Global Inc. violates share transaction law, according...

Pushing to Bring TV to the Internet

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Location: 796 East Utah Valley Drive, American Fork, 84003, United States

A small start-up is trying to do what many in Hollywood and Silicon Valley have so far been unable to do: take Internet video from its YouTube origins to a full-fledged television service with dozens of channels.

Italy Set to Extend TV Rules to Web Videos

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Location: Rome, Italy

Italy's government is forging ahead with plans to extend TV-broadcasting regulations to Web sites that host videos, marking one of the most sweeping attempts by a Western government to tighten control over the use of video on the Internet.

Leap Wireless Seeks Suitor

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Location: Leap Wireless | Cricket Communications, 5887 Copley Drive, San Diego, CA, 92111, United States

Cellular provider Leap Wireless has hired advisers and formed a special board committee to look into selling the company or merging with rivals. Leap, which sells its service under the Cricket brand.

Carriers Try Software for Data Flood

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Facing a deluge of Web and video traffic that is pushing the limits of their networks, big wireless carriers are resorting to software shortcuts and other tricks to streamline data traffic until they install more cellular towers and roll out next-generation networks.

China Won't Limit Google's Android

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Location: Beijing, China

The Chinese government won't limit the use of Google Inc.'s Android operating system for mobile devices by Chinese telecommunications operators.

How to Counter Corporate Speech

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Location: Washington, DC, United States

Each American should get a refundable federal tax credit of $50 that they can use to make contributions to federal candidates during presidential years, and a suitably smaller sum during off-year federal elections.

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