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  • 24 November 2005

  • News: Google Space blasts off in Heathrow

    The web giant’s latest project, Google Space, made its debut in Terminal One of Heathrow airport today. An area where holidaymakers and business travellers can sample the company's various services, Google Space will be at the airport until 17 December.

  • News: Open-source vending machine 'gaining momentum'

    Meet the Freedom Toaster, a vending-machine lookalike that is providing open-source software in more than 30 locations in South Africa, including schools, libraries, science centres and shops.

  • News: IBM employees play with podcasting

    What do you get when you hand 320,000 employees the tools and corporate podcasting guidelines to internally publish their audio creations? In IBM's experience, lower phone bills and better, more informal internal communication.

  • News: Analysis: will net governance ever change?

    For the past two years, engineers and government policy makers have been engaged in a frequently acrimonious debate on how the internet should be governed. That debate reached its zenith at the UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia last week, when both sides declared victory.

  • 23 November 2005

  • News: Microsoft making RSS a two-way street

    Microsoft is extending the popular RSS 2.0 web syndication format to make it 'multidirectional', allowing it to be used for synchronising information such as contacts and calendar entries across different applications.

  • News: Chinese man detained over fake eBay baby ad

    Chinese police are detaining a man after he posted an offer on eBay's Chinese website to sell babies over the internet, according to a local press report.

  • News: Google adds local search to Froogle

    With the Christmas shopping season approaching, Google has improved its Froogle product search and comparison shopping engine with a feature that lets buyers find not only products available online but also local merchants that sell the desired products offline.

  • News: AOL updates IM software

    In a move set to intensify the competition between instant messaging service providers, AOL has updated its IM service with an online address book and the ability to send text messages direct to mobile phones.

  • 22 November 2005

  • News: Apple's iTunes edges out music stores

    Apple's popular iTunes online music store edged out three traditional music retailers between July and September to become the seventh-largest US music retailer - and it's likely to displace more stores by the end of the year, according to the NPD Group, a market research company.

  • News: Microsoft adds email, IM hosting to Windows Live

    Microsoft has introduced a test version of a hosted email and instant messaging service as part of the beta release of Windows Live.

  • 21 November 2005

  • News: Chinese web users find their voice

    The internet promises to reshape political life in China, giving people more opportunities to criticise their government, according to a survey conducted by a Chinese researcher.

  • 20 November 2005

  • News: Opinion: desktop search - just what you need

    Many years ago, in the heyday of DOS, Lotus brought out a desktop-search program called Magellan that did several amazing things. It indexed your entire hard drive and kept that index up-to-date. It let you search for anything in any file on the drive, no matter what the format. And it displayed the contents of what it found in a handy preview pane located right next to the list of relevant files.

  • 18 November 2005

  • News: Hooky Pentium 4s sold for $78

    Shenzhen Chuanghui Electronics isn't shy about offering re-marked Intel processors for sale: the company is openly selling them through a major Chinese website and brags that its re-marked Pentium 4 chips look just like the real thing.

  • News: WSIS: net will enable interactivity with common objects

    Imagine things like doorknobs, toasters and lightbulbs communicating with each other in a network that far exceeds anything we know today. The concept, often referred to as ubiquitous computing, isn't new. What's new is that technologies are now emerging to make it happen sooner than many of us imagine.

  • News: Google Print renamed

    Google's controversial Google Print offering has a new name, but even a Google product marketing manager doesn't expect the new name to placate critics.

  • 17 November 2005

  • News: Google gets to first Base

    To help feed its insatiable hunger for information, Google has begun publicly testing Google Base, a service designed to host and make searchable "all types of online and offline content".

  • News: WSIS: US, EU at odds over net governance

    Both the US and the European Union are claiming victory in an agreement reached late on Tuesday over internet governance.

  • 16 November 2005

  • News: WSIS: US caves over internet monopoly

    The US has agreed to consult with other governments over top-level domain names in a major shift in the US policy on control of the internet, EU officials confirmed on Wednesday.

  • 15 November 2005

  • News: EBay drops some API fees for developers

    EBay is removing some fees for using APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) in its web services-based eBay Developers Program.

  • News: McAfee unveils antispyware software

    Yesterday McAfee unveiled antispyware software for business desktops and servers to block and eliminate what the company calls “potentially unwanted programs”, including adware, dialers, keyloggers, cookies and remote-control programs such as bots.

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