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  • News: Microsoft funds Virtual Earth research schemes

    Microsoft announced $1.1 million in funding for academic research programmes that will develop new applications using its Virtual Earth and SensorMap technologies.

  • News: Opinion: hacking Apple TV

    We've only just seen the release of the Apple TV, Apple's media-streaming box, but hackers across the world have already been able to turn the £199 multimedia box into a fully fledged computer

  • News: New hack threatens routers & phones

    A security researcher at Juniper Networks says he plans to demonstrate a new class of attack that can be used to compromise electronic devices like routers or mobile phones.

  • News: Google founders earn $1 a year

    The three top executives at Google are also the lowest paid employees at the company, and they prefer it that way, according to a company filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

  • News: HP takes on PS3, Xbox and Wii

    Any lingering image of HP as a stodgy company was dispelled yesterday in San Francisco as the company called ‘Game On’ in its bid for a piece of the online gaming industry.

  • News: Ofcom rules could hobble UK VoIP

    Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony will be subject to stricter regulations that any other communications technology, service providers have warned.

  • News: Phishing foe fights web fraudsters

    Ben Jackson's goal is to stymie people who develop phishing sites - misleading websites designed to steal people's personal information.

  • News: Apple working on European iPhone launch

    Apple’s plans to release the iPhone in Europe have begun in earnest after the company started advertising for a senior executive to handle the iPhone’s European operations.

  • News: Unfair iTunes punishes music fans

    The European Commission's complaint against Apple and the major record labels over a possible violation of European rules on cross-border trade has served to highlight the inconsistencies in how music is released and priced online.

  • News: Google Desktop finally hits Macs

    Google has released a Mac version of its Google Desktop tool for the first time. Mac users already have a search tool with Apple’s Spotlight, but Google said its utility will work alongside the Mac OS X 10.4 feature perfectly.

  • News: Google hunts down runaway snake

    Employees at Google's New York offices can rest easier now that Kaiser, a 3-foot-long ball python, has been captured after disappearing from his tank on Sunday, a Google spokeswoman said yesterday.

  • News: Apple backed by DRM-free competitors

    While EMI's Monday event announcing the coming availability of DRM-free digital music focused on the iTunes Store, that won't be the only online service to benefit from the record label's new policy.

  • News: DRM-free iTunes to revolutionise music

    News of a pending announcement was buried among the April Fools Day fake stories on the techie Web sites. EMI, the world's third largest music company, and Apple were going to hold a joint press conference in London on April 2. It turned out that the press conference was real but there still may be a joke in here for someone.

  • News: AJAX poses Web 2.0 security threat

    Many web applications written using the popular AJAX programming technique are vulnerable to a JavaScript hijacking attack, security company Fortify Software has claimed.

  • News: European commission signs up to BT

    The European Commission’s directorate general for IT has signed a framework contract with BT for the supply and management of internet access services.

  • News: Skype offers cut-price phone sex

    Skype is slashing the price of premium-rate phone calls made via its broadband-based calling service. From now on, anyone using its VoIP (voice over internet protocol) service to dial a UK number with an 09 prefix will be able to do so for less than if they dialled from a standard analogue landline.

  • News: Virgin Media launches free digital TV

    Virgin Media is to offer customers 40 free-to-air channels and 25 digital radio stations through a set-top box. However, the service is limited to those who sign up to a Virgin Media broadband package.

  • News: UFO hacker loses extradition appeal

    A British hacker who broke into US military computers looking for evidence of UFOs lost another extradition appeal on Tuesday in London's High Court.

  • News: Apple sued over UK iTunes pricing

    The European Commission (EC) has charged Apple’s iTunes store and several big record companies with restrictive pricing practices in the European Union, a spokesman for the Commission confirmed today.

  • News: Porn promise crashes magazine's server

    An influx of curious men, eager to get a glimpse of Australian model Lara Bingle in the buff, crashed the GQ Germany website after it published nude photos of the popular model.