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BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of blog sites in China reached 34 million last month, a 30-fold increase from four years ago, state media said on Tuesday, despite a series of curbs on media and dissent.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Social-networking Web site Facebook said on Tuesday it has expanded to enable anyone with a valid email address to join the service.

Microsoft is set to announce the worldwide launch of a coordinated advertising business, Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions, in a push to leverage the software company's user base and combat Google in the advertising space.

Symantec's latest bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report has identified home computers, generally poorly-protected, as the target of 86 percent of all targeted attacks, followed by financial services businesses.

Microsoft, which has been increasingly dabbling in the hardware space in recent years, plans to release a range of premium-end PC peripherals optimized to work with its new Windows Vista operating system.

According to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, consumers with a 5 Mbps broadband connection will be able to download iTunes movies in 30 minutes and start watching after 1 minute. Unfortunately for most US (and Australian) internet users, 5 Mbps is a pipe dream. A quick check of the Verizon site will reveal that somewhere between 768 kbps and 3 Mbps is what's on offer, depending on what you want to pay.

Apple's media event titled Showtime is fast approaching and the whole industry is abuzz with rumours, speculation and supposedly inside information. However, nobody outside of the inner circle really knows whether come September 12, we'll get a movie downloads service, a new iPod video device, an Apple TV set-top box, a new portable combo device that can connect to your TV and stereo system or some subset combination of all of these things.

While a new study from Reporters Without Frontiers moans about oppressive regimes around the world censoring freedom of speech online, there is a growing movement among the more conservative elements in the US Government to censor the Web in the land of the free.

While a new study from Reporters Without Frontiers moans about oppressive regimes around the world censoring freedom of speech online, there is a growing movement among the more conservative elements in the US Government to censor the Web in the land of the free.

The Victorian Government has attacked the Federal Government's Higher Bandwidth Incentive Scheme (HiBIS), claiming it is seriously flawed, according to a report it commissioned.