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Computer maker ASUS has touted design and innovation as the core focus for the company, and this year was no different. Jonney Shih, chairman of the Taiwanese company, took the podium at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to declare that ASUS is focused on becoming one of the top three portable-PC vendors by 2011.

Shih wasted no time in sharing the company's latest products and new Waveface initiative. Waveface focuses on flexible-screen technology in three forms -- a wrist PC, a folding tablet and keyboard, and an HDTV entertainment center.

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Think of the most popular brands in celebrity news, and you'll probably come up with a small list that includes Entertainment Tonight, US Weekly and People.

Consider the most successful celebrity news destinations online, and something else jumps to the top. For more than a year, one site has attracted more eyeballs than any other in the realm of celebrity gossip: Yahoo Inc.'s omg.

China's most popular search engine Baidu apologized Wednesday for hosting links to pornographic content after it was criticized by the government, saying it was sorry for the negative impact on society.

The Chinese government blocks access to many Web sites it considers subversive or too political, and Internet companies regularly self-censor to keep from running afoul of the authorities.

Hoping to continue building momentum for its Silverlight technology, Microsoft announced Monday that major content providers are coming aboard and it unveiled a new digital-rights management (DRM) system.

The announcement, at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas, said Silverlight technology will be used by Madison Square Garden Interactive, Tencent, Abertis Telecom, Terra Networks Operations, SCSi, MNet, and Yahoo Japan.

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