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  • News: UN to consult on net governance body

    The UN will launch the first round of consultations next month on creating an internet governance body, as agreed by delegates attending the global net summit in Tunis last year.

  • News: Microsoft to end Mac support in Windows Media?

    Despite the new five-year deal between Apple and Microsoft, it appears at least one Redmond product team is being reshuffled: the Windows Media for Mac mob.

  • News: FBI warns of mining accident scam

    The FBI is warning internet users to be on the look out for a fraudulent email soliciting money for the only survivor of a mine accident in the US last week.

  • News: Microsoft patches two critical holes

    Microsoft has patched two critical holes this Patch Tuesday.

  • News: Boeing to adjust in-flight internet prices

    Boeing will adjust the prices it charges for internet access from the air via its Connexion by Boeing service later this month, it said today. The company will also make available four channels of live television to equipped aircraft during January and offer direct access to Yahoo's portal.

  • News: Student's website nears $1m mark

    When 21-year-old British student Alex Tew needed to raise some cash to pay for his university studies, he came up with an idea many might dismiss as wishful thinking: raise $1m by selling one million pixels of advertising space on his website for $1 each.

  • News: Murdoch predicts decline of portals

    Portals like those from Yahoo and Microsoft will fade in popularity as savvy users go directly to the content they want to view, publishing titan Rupert Murdoch said this week.

  • News: Accton to beat Netgear with Wi-Fi VoIP phone

    Taiwan's Accton plans to launch two wireless handsets by the middle of February that allow users to place calls over the internet at little or no cost.

  • News: Google eyeballs Microsoft and Apple

    Google has launched its latest effort to expand into desktop software with a bundle of freely downloadable applications.

  • News: Skype 2.0 with video feature available

    Skype Technologies SA has completed testing the latest version of its internet-telephony software with a new video feature and is now encouraging users to download it.

  • News: Opinion: betting on digital entertainment

    The world's largest consumer technology trade show has opened in the gambling kingdom of the US. Las Vegas may be an appropriate place for CES 2006 because, for users, buying the latest gadgets sometimes means betting against the odds.

  • News: Software can translate Yahoo IMs on the fly

    Communication among colleagues around the globe who don't speak the same language could become easier, with an open-source tool that translates Yahoo instant messages on the fly.

  • News: Microsoft tuning Windows Live for digital media

    A broader plan for Microsoft's Windows Live services portal is slowly emerging, as a Microsoft spokesman yesterday explained the link between Microsoft's internet-based services and its Windows Media Center Edition OS, intended to give users more access to content on their Media Center PCs.

  • News: Google to offer video, software downloads

    It has been reported that Google plans to announce a new service tomorrow that will allow consumers to buy and download videos from its website, as well as a downloadable bundle of software applications.

  • News: Gates shares vision of the digital lifestyle

    Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates shared his company’s future vision for seamlessly connecting users to personalised digital content through next-generation software, services and devices during his keynote speech at CES in Las Vegas yesterday.

  • News: Netgear, Skype developing Wi-Fi phone

    Skype users will be able to make calls from anywhere they can get a Wi-Fi internet connection when Netgear and the internet voice service provider begin selling a phone that Netgear will demonstrate at CES this week in Las Vegas.

  • News: HP aims for multimedia mesh

    HP released a host of TV, laptop PC and digital camera models today at CES, underlining the company's work to ease the sharing of videos, music and photographs between devices and the internet.

  • News: AMD goes live with digital home strategy

    Articulating its own vision of the digital home days before its major rival unveils a similar marketing initiative, AMD will announce plans today to brand AMD-based PCs designed specifically for home media networking, the company has said.

  • News: Virus claims to be MSN Messenger beta

    MSN Messenger users who may think they're getting a sneak peek at the latest version of Microsoft's instant messaging client are in for a nasty surprise, a Finnish security firm warned yesterday.

  • News: Happy Web 2.0 Christmas from Google

    With its seemingly meteoric rise to the top, Google has often been named as one of the last dot-com success stories. But if the company's Christmas media party was any indication, its corporate vibe is less reminiscent of the smooth movers and shakers of the internet boom than of a cafeteria full of mathletes.