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• 01 August 2007

• News: 'Sleazy' Zango under fire for adware

  An advertising software maker criticised last year by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is under fire again for allegedly not clearly labelling its software and informing consumers what it does on their PCs.

• News: Google tackles Google Analytics woes

  Google has resolved the latest data outage to hit Google Analytics, and promises to cut down on the frequency of technical problems affecting the website traffic-monitoring service.

• News: Xbox 360 beats Wii on web searches

  Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has become the most searched-for games console, surpassing the Nintendo Wii due to new games, price drop rumours, and inquiries about hardware issues.

• News: Accenture tests consumer website brands

  A new website assessment service launched by Accenture could help businesses get more bang out of the bucks they invest in their consumer sites.

• 31 July 2007

• News: Patch warning for Firefox users

  Mozilla has patched a pair of nasty flaws in its Firefox browser, two weeks after security researchers first started posting code that showed how the flaws could be exploited in attacks.

• News: Apple sells 3 billion songs on iTunes

  Apple claims that more than three billion songs have been downloaded from its iTunes Store.

• News: Leaked Vista hotfixes point to SP1 release

  Speculation about the imminent availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) has started again after two substantial collections of Windows Vista hotfixes leaked to the internet

• News: Ransomware secrets reveal single source

  New research from security experts Secure Science Corporation (SSC) suggests the two most prominent ransomware Trojans of recent times could be the work of the same people, or a related group of criminals.

• News: Adobe ColdFusion 8 ships in the UK

  Adobe has released the latest version of its ColdFusion tool for building dynamic websites and internet applications.

• News: New Microsoft group targets Google ads

  Microsoft hopes a new research group will help is keep up with Google by developing new search and advertising technologies and rapidly deliver them to advertisers and customers.

• 30 July 2007

• News: ID fraud on the up, says Fraud Prevention Service

  New stats from The UK Fraud Prevention Service (CIFAS) show that financial fraud surged in the first half of 2007 compared with the same period in 2006.

• News: Coming soon: the iPod washing machine

  LG Electronics, developer of the internet fridge, has set its sights on another appliance in its attempts to install consumer electronics functionality in the kitchen.

• News: Warning over 'critical' Yahoo Widgets flaw

  Yahoo Widgets users were warned last week that the web-based, gadget-like apps feature a critical flaw allowing hackers can use to hijack Windows PCs.

• News: IBM workers warned over Second Life behaviour

  IBM is hoping to avoid embarrassing incidents created by its staff in Second Life by publishing official guidelines governing employee behaviour in the IBM Second Life sales centre, according to reports by the Associated Press.

• News: Wikia search engine gains a web crawler

  Wikia's project to develop an open-source search engine got another boost with the acquisition of the Grub distributed web crawler, the company announced Friday.

• News: Microsoft expects new $400, 4GB PS3

  Sony is planning to release a 40GB PlayStation 3 (PS3) later this year, according to Microsoft's director of technical strategies, Andre Vrignaud.

• 28 July 2007

• News: Analysis: Facebook versus MySpace

  Will Facebook become the new MySpace? PC Advisor reviews the two biggest social networking sites on the web.

• How-Tos: How to battle the botnets

  Botnets - they're dangerous, deceptive, and very difficult to detect and deal with. What's more, according to recent surveys, the botnet threat is growing...rapidly.

• News: Emoticon inventor on 25 years of the 'smiley'

  The emoticon turns 25 years old on September 19 and man recognised as having typed the first one - Carnegie Mellon computer science professor Scott Fahlman - intends to mark the occasion with a cookie.

• 27 July 2007

• News: Microsoft invites 'hot fix' requests via email

  Microsoft says customers can now avoid the hassle of phoning the company’s support lines by requesting a hot fix by email.

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