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EU says most technology e-tailers fall short

9 September 2009, 14:58

Europe pokes its nose into the continent’s biggest consumer electronics e-tailers and finds them wanting.

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Spotify launches on iPhone and Android

7 September 2009, 10:52

Streaming music service comes to mobile phones, but only if you have a premium account.

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Amazon gets legal on Google Books

3 September 2009, 12:17

The much disputed Google Books settlement receives another blow as Amazon files a formal objection.

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Police discover Internet - launch e-crime strategy

2 September 2009, 13:35

England’s police association lays out its approach to online crime, but it’s immediately condemned as too little, too late.

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Friday quirky: national press fooled by fake website

28 August 2009, 14:50

Clever hoax reported as fact by The Guardian and The Independent.

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What we're downloading from P2P: 54m for Heroes

28 August 2009, 11:13

The top-10 lists for TV programs and films. Makes for interesting reading.

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Facebook addresses privacy concerns, plans to tighten control over user information

27 August 2009, 17:07

Following a review by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Facebook has announced plans to improve privacy.

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Wikipedia to clamp down on articles relating to living people

25 August 2009, 11:33

A new Wikipedia feature will require an experienced editor to sign off on any changes to articles on living people.

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McAfee names Katie Price as Britain's "most dangerous celebrity in cyberspace"

25 August 2009, 10:44

Googling for Katie Price? McAfee warns that one in six results could contain malware designed to infect your PC.

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Government can’t wait to start punishing file-sharers

25 August 2009, 10:14

Decides 2012 is too long to wait to start obliging ISPs to act on illegal peer-to-peer activity.

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Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo! gang up on Google

21 August 2009, 11:31

The ramifications of Google’s settlement with US authors and publishers for Google Books continue.

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MySpace to buy social music service iLike

18 August 2009, 11:15

Online social media competition hots up further as MySpace reciprocates recent Facebook acquisition.

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New web browser backed by Netscape founder

14 August 2009, 15:12

There are also signs that the browser could be made in cooperation with Facebook.

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Twitter used as command channel for botnet

14 August 2009, 14:05

A new botnet spreads itself by using twitter updates containing downloads or executables.

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Next-gen Google gets a caffeine rush

11 August 2009, 10:18

Google has unveiled a next-generation architecture for its hugely-popular search engine.

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Facebook acquires FriendFeed

11 August 2009, 09:45

The social media world consolidates as message and file aggregator is swallowed up by social networking giant.

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Gloggy arrives as the micro-blogging alternative to Twitter

7 August 2009, 14:25

Wait for the leading micro-blogging site to suffer a denial-of-service attack, then launch one of your own? Sounds a good idea.

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Twitter attack designed to silence one blogger?

7 August 2009, 11:28

The denial of service attack that affected social media sites was reportedly targeting a single person.

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Twitter goes down – world copes

6 August 2009, 16:54

Internet phenomenon du jour Twitter suffered a denial-of-service attack today and was down for an hour or so.

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News Corp to charge for all news websites

6 August 2009, 11:14

After announcing a full-year net loss of $3.4 billion, Rupert Murdoch decides things need to change online.

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Microsoft launches free UK TV service

30 July 2009, 10:27

MSN Video Player beta will be ad funded and stream older TV programmes from the BBC.

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Microsoft Yahoo! search deal expected to be announced today

29 July 2009, 10:18

Bing will become the default search engine on Yahoo! but Yahoo! will handle the sales.

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Twitter purges follower numbers

24 July 2009, 12:12

Online egos take a bettering as spammers are automatically removed from Twitter accounts.

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IE8 tip: analyse performance by checking add on load times

22 July 2009, 11:38

Want to know what could be slowing down your IE8 browsing experience? Read this.

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Microsoft to pull the plug on Soapbox

22 July 2009, 11:05

Microsoft's alternative to YouTube will be discontinued at the end of August.

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Yahoo gets a new look

21 July 2009, 16:44

Yahoo, one of the world's most popular web portals, has been given an overhaul.

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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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