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  • News: Windows PCs hit by Storm Trojan switch

    The group behind last week's massive Storm Trojan spam blast set up Windows users with a one-two punch by switching tactics in midrun, making the second stage's subject headings more believable, according to researchers.

  • News: Microsoft slams Google's Doubleclick deal

    The planned merger of two online advertising giants, Google and DoubleClick, has some rivals calling for regulatory intervention - but for customers, trust may be of greater concern than antitrust.

  • News: Amazon's Web Services unit losing money

    Amazon.com’s Web Services business isn't profitable, but it's growing very rapidly and the company expects it to make money eventually, chief executive officer Jeff Bezos said on Monday.

  • News: Government 'must improve UK's broadband'

    The BSG (Broadband Stakeholder Group) has warned Ofcom and the government that they must quickly map out a path for next generation broadband or see UK competitiveness fall away as a result.

  • News: Apple iTunes DRM ban proposed

    A small Norwegian political party has called on the government to ban DRM (digital rights management) and legalise file-sharing, responding to growing consumer opposition in the country to restrictive controls on downloading and duplicating content from the internet.

  • News: Adobe CS3 ships in the UK

    Adobe has begun shipping Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium and Standard editions and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and Standard editions in the UK.

  • News: Skype worm harvests email addresses

    A worm targeting Skype's VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) application is harvesting email addresses and directing users to a range of sites hosting other malicious software, security vendors said today.

  • News: Asustek launches £100 PC

    Asustek plans to launch a series of low-cost PCs later this year aimed at developing nations.

  • News: Google beats Yahoo & Microsoft to Doubleclick

    Google has agreed to buy DoubleClick for $3.1bn in cash, an acquisition that strengthens Google's status as an online advertising powerhouse.

  • News: Wikis, blogs, RSS aim for the workplace

    As businesses worldwide debate the pros and cons of using wikis, tagging, web mashups, syndicated feeds and blogs, the Web 2.0 Expo opened on Sunday in San Francisco with a gaggle of vendors betting these internet tools belong in the workplace.

  • News: Adobe Media Player preview on show

    Adobe has developed its first desktop media player and plans to give the industry an early peek at it at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas this week.

  • News: Microsoft's Silverlight takes on Adobe's Flash

    Microsoft will reveal new technology to deliver rich media applications on the Web this week as part of a broader strategy to go head to head with web and design tools powerhouse Adobe.

  • News: The 20 worst technologies of all time

    If you listen to vendors and the media, it may sometimes seem as though every new product, service, concept or even security threat will be the Next Big Thing. Some live up to all the fuss, but many don't - and some fail spectacularly.

  • News: iPod's dominance is only just beginning

    Generally, Apple has very little use for anniversaries. Recent milestones - like 2006's 30th anniversary of the company's founding, the Mac's 20th anniversary in 2004, and the iPod's fifth anniversary last autumn - passed without much official to-do from the company. But when Apple sold its 100 millionth iPod last week, the company made sure not to let the occasion go by without comment.

  • News: MSN, AOL & Joost to get CBS shows

    CBS will distribute its television programmes more widely over the internet, adding new deals with Joost – the service from the founders of Skype - Microsoft's MSN and AOL to existing agreements with Apple's iTunes and Google's YouTube.

  • News: Linux virus targets iPods

    As threats go this one is very small but the target happens to be one of the biggest in the digital world - someone has finally got round to writing an iPod virus.

  • News: Google Checkout comes to the UK

    Google has opened its Checkout online payment processing service to retailers in the UK, the first time it has been available to businesses outside the US.

  • News: iTunes subscriptions could be forced on Apple

    Macworld reports that the world's top music labels want to force Apple to launch subscription-based iTunes music services.

  • News: Google takes on PayPal

    Watch out PayPal and eBay… there's a Google about. The online search and advertising giant opened its Checkout online payment processing service to retailers in the UK today, the first time it has been available to businesses outside the US.

  • News: Record-breaking mobile to connect from Everest

    Mountain climber Rod Baber is preparing for the climb of a lifetime and hoping to reach the summit of Mount Everest in late May or early June.