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Twitter wants to do more than make their presence felt in China, they want to compete with Weibo.

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter said that they would love to have their presence felt in China. China is currently the world’s largest Internet market with more than 500 million users but many western mainstream websites including Google and Facebook are finding it hard to capture a market share since time immemorial.

China blocks overseas social networking properties like Facebook and Twitter, Google on the other hand is left to dust by Baidu, a Chinese search engine. Weibo is a micro-blogging platform similar to Twitter.

Dorsey stressed that for starters they must be allowed to compete with Weibo. That translates to unblocking Twitter on China. Dorsey made this statement during the All Things Digital AsiaD technology conference in Hong Kong.

Twitter and other websites like Google and Facebook are still accessible to China – through a proxy that is. China’s decision to block these non-local web properties is political in nature. Censorship in China is a serious

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U.S tech biggie oracle is in a verge of buying the Sun Microsystems at a sum of $7.4 billion (?5.1bn). The talks with the IBM were not successful. Oracle is willing to pay $9.50 per share for the Sun Microsystems. This acquisition is the latest by the Oracle in the continuous acquisition by Oracle’s Larry Ellison. Sun’s controlling board has accepted this deal without any hesitation. This deal will certainly have some impact on the IT industry. However Oracle offer was little bit higher than the IBM. Sun’s future has been put into trouble when talks with the IBM failed. Oracle offers the most business software like databases, Customer relationship management programs and relationship tools and it seems it will finish this deal by summer.

Sun chairman Scott McNealy said that his company and Oracle forge in IT industry for more than 20 years. He also added that this natural relationship would be the industry defining moment. Sun Microsystems are famous for its Java software platform, MySql database, Solaris operating system and SPARC chips. It cuts many jobs in the last year to reduce the cost of the company. Jonathan Schwartz chief executive of Sun Microsystems distributed free sources in the net nut it fails it bring in the revenue growth because of the boom in dotcom got over.

Some of the analysts said that Sun will be disintegrating while they sold the database, semiconductor and other software firms of sun are sold to other big giants. Ellison told that the Sun will be involving in the design of integrated systems to ease the work of the customers. This will definitely cut costs and improves security and performance. In the past few year, oracle also bought the PeopleSoft, Siebel and BEA Systems. Oracle said that after considering the Sun’s cash and debt, it cost us around $5.6 billion to go though the deal.

2004: Google unveils Gmail. It will change webmail… and a few other things as well.

Five years ago, if we wanted to talk to somebody halfway around the world, we'd open up Outlook, Eudora or some other bulky piece of software on our desktops and type an e-mail.

Most of us had webmail, which was a convenience on the road since we could access it from any computer, but it wasn't enjoyable. Web inboxes were slow and cumbersome, messy with checkboxes and radio buttons, and often so riddled with spam they had to be emptied frequently lest they reach capacity.

Gmail changed all that. It was fast and elegant just like a desktop app. There was so much storage, you never had to delete anything. In fact, you couldn't — there wasn't even a Delete button! And you didn't miss the Delete button since it was almost entirely spam-free.

Gmail was so slick and easy to use, many of us switched to it full-time and have never gone back.

On its fifth birthday, it's difficult to ignore the enormous influence Gmail has had not only on web-based e-mail services, but on rich web applications in general. Several of the concepts introduced by Gmail, which were at the time on the bleeding edge of application design, have since been adopted by the web's mainstream.


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Not that it's anything we think the New York Times Company should do, but we thought it was worth pointing out that it costs the Times about twice as much money to print and deliver the newspaper over a year as it would cost to send each of its subscribers a brand new Amazon Kindle instead.

Here's how we did the math:

According to the Times's Q308 10-Q, the company spends $63 million per quarter on raw materials and $148 million on wages and benefits. We've heard the wages and benefits for just the newsroom are about $200 million per year.

After multiplying the quarterly costs by four and subtracting that $200 million out, a rough estimate for the Times's delivery costs would be $644 million per year.

The Kindle retails for $359. In a recent open letter, Times spokesperson Catherine Mathis wrote: «We have 830,000 loyal readers who have subscribed to The New York Times for more than two years.» Multiply those numbers together and you get $297 million — a little less than half as much as $644 million.

And here's the thing: a source with knowledge of the real numbers tells us we're so low in our estimate of the Times's printing costs that we're not even in the ballpark.

Are we trying to say the the New York Times should force all its print subscribers onto the Kindle or else? No. That would kill ad revenues and also, not everyone loves the Kindle.

What we're trying to say is that as a technology for delivering the news, newsprint isn't just expensive and inefficient; it's laughably so.

How will other newspapers react to the Guardian opening up their content for free via 'Open Platform'?

If their website terms & conditions are anything to go by, they have a long way to go to embrace the internet.


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