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  • News: Google's DoubleClick in FTC investigation

    Google has confirmed that the US Federal Trade Commission is investigating its proposed $3.1bn purchase of online advertising seller DoubleClick.

  • News: CD-Wow fined £41 million in damages

    The company responsible for CD-Wow, Music Trading Online, has been ordered to pay £41 million to the British Phonographic Industry.

  • News: Scotland tops UK broadband charts

    Aberdeenshire and Shetland are the first local authority areas in Britain to have more than half of their homes and businesses switch to ADSL broadband, figures released by BT reveal.

  • News: Finnish court rules DVD DRM 'ineffective'

    A Finnish court ruling is prompting questions over the wording of a European copyright directive that prohibits publishing information that could enable illegal DVD copying.

  • News: China develops cyberwarfare viruses

    The People's Liberation Army (PLA) continues to build cyberwarfare units and develop viruses to attack enemy computer systems as part of its information-warfare strategy, the US Department of Defense (DOD) has warned.

  • News: Nokia to open research centre in China

    Nokia will open its first research centre in Asia in partnership with a Chinese university, the company said on Monday.

  • News: eBay launches Thai auction site

    Fewer than six months after reducing its commitment in China, eBay will make a new foray into Asia, this time in Thailand, the company said on Monday.

  • News: Interview: Google stands behind news site

    Google News has become a major source of web traffic - and frustration - for many media companies. We spoke to product manager Nathan Stoll about ranking, fair use and the benefits the site provides

  • News: Facebook enters online video battle

    Facebook has become the latest entrant into the online video battle, opening its Facebook f8 platform to outside developers and partners in an effort to gain ground on social networking rivals.

  • News: How spam keeps coming

    Scott Weiss, founder and CEO of communications security company IronPort likens spammers to dumb, aggressive dogs. Now the anti-spam industry is picking up on new attacks, such as image spam.

  • News: How 'connected' are you?

    Talent agents and publicists have the most contacts in their online address books, according to a new survey. And Argentina has the best contacts in the world.

  • News: Internet tax war rages in US senate

    US senators offered resistance to a proposed extension to the ban on internet taxes during a hearing yesterday

  • News: Mozilla to pull Firefox support for Mac OS Panther

    Mozilla is considering dropping Firefox support for Apple's Mac OS 10.3, the three-and-a-half-year-old operating system also known as Panther, so that it can concentrate on creating a product that works well with the forthcoming Mac OS Leopard

  • News: US online advertising up 35 percent

    US online advertising revenue in 2006 was 35 percent higher than the previous year, according to an IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) official

  • News: Michigan man fined $400 for 'stealing' Wi-Fi

    A Michigan man who used a local café's Wi-Fi connection from his parked car to check his email and surf the web has been fined $400 and ordered to work 40 hours of community service

  • News: Amazon acquires audio book publisher Brilliance

    Amazon.com has acquired the independent audio book publisher Brilliance Audio. The purchase will allow Amazon to expand the number of audio books it produces and offer customers a wider variety of audio selections to choose from, Amazon said in a statement

  • News: Google must share code, open-source expert says

    Companies such as Google that build their business on software such as Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free software community, a prominent open-source advocate said yesterday

  • News: Critical Opera flaw plugged in 9.21 update

    Opera Software has updated its Opera browser to fix a critical flaw that allowed attackers to hijack Windows PCs by feeding them a malicious torrent file

  • News: Google launches 'Hot Trends' top searches

    Google has launched Hot Trends, a new feature on the Google Trends report that lets users see a list of the current top 100 fastest-rising Google search queries

  • News: China drops name-and-shame blog policy

    China's plan to require its bloggers to register using their real names, which carried worrying implications for free speech in the country, has been dropped