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  • 16 December 2005

  • News: Opera dismisses Google takeover talk as rumour

    An Opera spokesman said on Friday that the Norwegian browser company has not been approached by Google about a possible acquisition.

  • News: Visto sues Microsoft over wireless email patents

    Visto has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of improper use of patented Visto technologies in Microsoft's software for accessing email from phones and other wireless devices.

  • News: Orange to launch Wi-Fi in UK

    Orange plans to launch a Wi-Fi service in the UK on Monday, the company announced yesterday. It also said it will deliver a unified mobile data and Wi-Fi service in the UK, modelled on an existing service offered by the firm in France, starting in January.

  • 15 December 2005

  • News: Google tunes up music searches

    With a revamp of its web search engine announced on Thursday, Google is aiming to make it easier for users to find music-related content such as lyrics and track listings. But the firm is pushing into an area that has been raising eyebrows among record labels.

  • News: Kazaa owners face contempt charges in Australia

    Executives of Sharman Networks, operator of the Kazaa peer-to-peer filesharing system, could face jail time after record companies asked an Australian judge to find them in contempt of court, saying Sharman has failed to implement certain filtering technologies by a court-ordered early-December deadline.

  • 14 December 2005

  • News: Software 'pirate' pleads guilty to charges

    A California man who operated a website selling millions of dollars of pirated software has pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal copyright infringement, the US DoJ (Department of Justice) said.

  • News: EU approves two-year data retention policy

    Telecommunications companies and ISPs face a massive increase in data storage requirements after EU lawmakers voted today to require companies to keep data for up to two years.

  • News: Opera struck by bizarre hidden hole

    A bizarre security bug in the Opera web browser could trick users into running malicious code, security experts have warned. The hole is similar to one discovered in Internet Explorer and patched by Microsoft only yesterday.

  • News: Blogger gets blocked again in China

    Access to Google's free weblog service, Blogger, appears once again to be blocked by official censors in China, less than two months after the service became accessible to users here.

  • News: Microsoft fixes critical IE problems

    Microsoft has now fixed a widely reported flaw in its Internet Explorer browser that had been used by attackers over the past few weeks to take over the PCs of unsuspecting users.

  • 13 December 2005

  • News: South Yorkshire cops offer seasonal podcasts

    Podcasts from South Yorkshire's police force have earned a friendly wink from the Home Office.

  • News: Microsoft, MCI tackle SkypeOut

    Microsoft and telecoms provider MCI today announced a multi-year partnership to offer software and services that will allow users to call from a PC to almost any phone in the world.

  • News: Attack targets known Mozilla bug

    Computer users who have not upgraded to the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox browser may now have an extra incentive to do so, thanks to a hacker going by the name of Aviv Raff.

  • 12 December 2005

  • News: VMware releases Player, teams up with Mozilla

    Virtualisation software vendor VMware made two announcements today: the release of its VMware Player and a partnering deal with Mozilla on another free product, Browser Appliance, a virtual machine powered by Mozilla's Firefox web browser.

  • News: Microsoft tightening security defaults in IE7

    Microsoft has detailed several changes in the way its upcoming Internet Explorer 7.0 browser will classify websites for security, aiming to reduce the likelihood that users will fall victim to malicious code.

  • 11 December 2005

  • News: Opinion: top predictions for 2006

    Boldly going where we should know better than to go, we humbly offer our top predictions for IT in 2006…

  • 10 December 2005

  • News: Broadband mobile wireless standard approved

    The standard for the broadband wireless technology known as mobile WiMax has been approved this week. Mobile WiMax networks will allow customers to wirelessly access the internet anywhere in a city.

  • 09 December 2005

  • News: Microsoft plans one critical patch on Tuesday

    Microsoft is planning two software fixes – at least one of them rated as critical – as part of December's release of security updates.

  • News: Mozilla claims Firefox 1.5 hole poses minor risk

    The first Firefox 1.5 security vulnerability, made public yesterday, is not as critical as initially perceived, but a patch will be available to fix it early next year, a Mozilla executive said.

  • 08 December 2005

  • News: Virgin Mobile spurns NTL advance

    Virgin Mobile has rejected a takeover offer from cable operator NTL on that grounds that the offer price was too low, the firm announced today.

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