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Vietnam arrests third blogger in a month

Posted by :admin On : June 17, 2013
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Police in southern Vietnam have arrested the third blogger in less than a month on charges of abusing democratic freedoms, local media reported Monday.

Dinh Nhat Uy, 30, who runs a business fixing computers and photocopy machines, was arrested in Long An province on Sunday for posting blog articles ”distorting the reputation of government agencies,” the Ho Chi Minh City Law newspaper reported.

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Microsoft opening mini-shops in Best Buy stores

Posted by :admin On : June 14, 2013
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Microsoft on Thursday announced that it is expanding its real-world retail push with mini-shops inside 600 US and Canadian stores operated by consumer electronics chain Best Buy.

Each ”store-within-a-store” will feature devices powered by Windows operating systems as well as the US technology titan’s Xbox videogame consoles and packaged software offerings.

”The Windows Store offers a large-scale, hands-on customer experience that will show customers how Windows and Microsoft devices and services can make it easier for them to work and play,” said Windows marketing chief Tami Reller.

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Reducing photo sizes made easy

Posted by :admin On : June 6, 2013
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The photos taken by modern digital cameras tend to be huge, which is convenient for printing but not for emailing or uploading. The free programme Irfanview allows amateur photographers to reduce the file size of a bunch of photos in one batch.

Users can choose a range of photos and specify a new size for them. They can also rotate the images and change the colours and other details.

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Lenovo hopes to start selling smartphones in Western Europe in 2014

Posted by :admin On : June 5, 2013
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Chinese computer maker Lenovo is working up plans to enter the Western European smartphone market in 2014, with Africa and the Middle East already in its sights for the middle of this year, Lenovo manager Gianfranco Lanci has told dpa.

Western European markets are notable because of the high levels of incentives offered by mobile phone operators, who offer discounted phones to attract customers to user plans, whereas phones tend to be sold separately at full price in African and Russian markets.

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