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EU to hold Google Books hearing

21 July 2009, 14:16

Europe schedules a fact-finding exercise to look into the European antitrust implications of the settlement.

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Barnes & Noble takes on Amazon with eBookstore

21 July 2009, 10:39

Claims to be the world’s largest and is compatible with a wide range of devices.

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Microsoft Yahoo! search deal may still happen

20 July 2009, 16:43

Deal reportedly close to being finalised as large Yahoo! shareholder says he’s keen.

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EVE Online bank gets ripped off

3 July 2009, 13:54

Boss of a virtual bank in the MMO steals pretend money to turn into real-world cash.

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Google books deal to be investigated

3 July 2009, 10:06

The US Department of Justice has opened an antitrust investigation into the settlement with publishers.

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YouTube increases maximum size of video uploads from 1GB to 2GB

2 July 2009, 13:11

YouTube's now accepting large uploads of up to 2GB, but that doesn't exactly mean you can upload longer videos.

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Parliament not convinced by Digital Britain report

1 July 2009, 13:29

Announces new investigation to investigate findings of previous investigation...

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Joost loses out to Hulu

1 July 2009, 11:33

CEO steps down as strategy shifts to providing white label online video platforms for media companies.

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The Pirate Bay acquired by Global Gaming Factory X

30 June 2009, 14:03

Infamous file-sharing site sold for approximately £4.7 million. New owners outline plans for a legal future.

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VMware drops the ball with Microsoft attack

16 June 2009, 12:24

Virtualisation market leader forced to publicly apologise over Hyper-V YouTube attack.

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Universal and Virgin to offer unlimited music downloads

15 June 2009, 13:18

The inevitable has finally been acknowledged with subscription service launched planned by Christmas.

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Vanity URLs coming to Facebook this weekend

10 June 2009, 11:28

Want a custom Facebook URL? Sign up this Saturday.

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With a Bing and a Wave, the Microsoft Google battle continues

28 May 2009, 18:07

Microsoft claims Bing moves beyond search engines, while Google unveils Gmail on steroids.

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Microsoft to fight Google's search dominance with Bing?

27 May 2009, 15:07

Microsoft's keeping its next-gen search engine under wraps, but the Kumo codename may not stick.

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US video streaming site Hulu set for UK launch

22 May 2009, 10:47

Popular free US TV streaming service is reported to be planning to launch over here in September.

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Wolfram Alpha goes live

18 May 2009, 11:06

New ‘knowledge engine’ occupies the space in between Google and Wikipedia.

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Google admits to “embarrassing glitch”

15 May 2009, 09:23

Millions of Google and Gmail users suffered a compromised service yesterday due to a Google error.

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Google intros new means of Googling

14 May 2009, 11:51

Global search giant adds new options to introduce interactivity with search results.

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Google ramps up Chrome marketing

11 May 2009, 10:21

The start of a TV ad campaign implies Chrome isn’t getting the market share Google hoped for.

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Twitter and the realtime web

8 May 2009, 18:44

As Twitter’s popularity grows, we speak to web entrepreneur Loic Le Meur to find out why we should care.

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BBC to roll out iPlayer HD

21 April 2009, 16:50

High-definition content for the masses.

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The Pirate Bay loses court case

17 April 2009, 11:02

High profile bittorrent tracker site reported to have lost its case and the founders sentenced to a year in prison.

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Group including IBM and Oracle joins EC case against Microsoft

15 April 2009, 18:32

Pressure grows on Microsoft as interoperability group offers support to EC in browser anti-trust case.

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Virgin Media gets into bed with Google

15 April 2009, 10:47

Collaboration with Google Apps part of strategy to offer extra bells and whistles to broadband customers.

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European Commission opens proceeding against UK and Phorm

14 April 2009, 12:57

Controversial behavioural advertising technology’s implementation in the UK to be investigated.

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eBay sells StumbleUpon back to its founders

14 April 2009, 10:51

Website recommendation engine reverses $75 million eBay acquisition after just two years.

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Associated Press and the ‘fair use’ of news content

9 April 2009, 15:38

The news cooperative wants to clamp down on the use of its material online, but it’s not going to be easy.

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Google to snap up Twitter?

3 April 2009, 09:22

Still at the rumour stage but the acquisition of the hottest property on the web by Google makes sense.

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Avanquest unveils free mobile phone photo sharing service

31 March 2009, 18:01

SendPhotos represents the software vendor’s first move into the Web 2.0 market.

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Google Street View: the coast is no longer clear

20 March 2009, 15:20

Young Brummy caught in the act by Google's tech marvel.

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Apple iTunes now selling HD movies

20 March 2009, 11:50

Not quite up to the quality of Blu-ray, but useful for those not wanting to leave the couch.

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Google and Sony to announce eBook partnership

19 March 2009, 17:07

Google’s store of out of copyright scanned books is expected to be made available on the Sony Reader.

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Google Street View launches in the UK

19 March 2009, 13:35

Invasion of privacy, or making the best of modern technology?

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