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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Bobbie Johnson, San Francisco

Breakfast briefing: Amazon's publishing war, China's internet war and the Tory's broadband election

• This weekend's big story has been the row between Amazon and Macmillan, the publisher, over ebook pricing. After temporarily pulling all Macmillan books - including physical ones - from its site as they argued about who can set the price of ebook downloads, Amazon has now relented. The particulars may have come and gone over the course of a weekend, but this argument has only just started.

• The fallout from Google and China continues - mainly because a lot of people are now turning their attention to the subject of internet espionage and hacking. The latest piece of news? a leaked MI5 report, seen by the Sunday Times, which suggests that China "represents one of the most significant espionage threats to the UK".

• And we're finally seeing the war of promises ahead of an upcoming election in Britain touch on technology. To trump the government's plan to get everyone 2Mbps broadband by 2012 (announced a year ago), the Tories now say they want 100Mbps lines to the 'majority' of homes by 2017. What next? And will it change your vote?

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