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  • News: Critical Windows & Office patches now online

    Microsoft has released its May set of security patches, fixing critical bugs in Windows, Office and Exchange.

  • News: Yahoo closes Yahoo Auctions

    Yahoo UK and Ireland Auctions will be closing from 28th June.

  • News: Post Office adopts mobile phone cash scheme

    The UK Post Office has launched a barcode for cash service aimed at providing businesses with a way to offer their customers promotional incentives or payments cheaply and speedily.

  • News: Cheapest-ever PS3 launched in UK

    Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles are being sold at a discounted rate at online shop Globaldiscounts.

  • News: Is Google killing Microsoft?

    With the Microsoft-Yahoo megamerger now looking unlikely, what's next for Microsoft? Google's continued dominance in web-based services remains as strong as ever, and it raises questions about how Microsoft can avoid losing even more ground to the flourishing search company

  • News: Nigerian scammers mimic George Clooney flick

    A twist on the classic Nigerian email scam that steals from the plot of the George Clooney movie Three Kings is hitting inboxes, according to Symantec.

  • News: Google upgrades Google Analytics

    Google has revamped Google Analytics, improving and expanding the data reporting capabilities of the website usage monitoring service.

  • News: Apple share surges as Mac surfers double

    The portion of people surfing the web using a Mac has doubled in the past eight months, according to an internet metrics analyst, and represents an audience that can't be ignored by web application developers.

  • News: Slow-loading websites Britain's top web gripe

    Slow-loading websites are the biggest internet complaint for Great Britain's web users, according to research from 1&1 Internet. The average UK and Northern Ireland internet user wastes 2.5 days per year waiting for slow websites to load. Waiting for sites to load elicits a 'negative emotional response' from more than 52 percent of Britons. Such grumpy responses range from 'short temperedness' (35 percent) to 'physical aggression' (7 percent).

  • News: Microsoft fully releases upgraded Hotmail

    Microsoft has officially closed the public-testing period for Windows Live Hotmail. Now begins the lengthy process of migrating users to this major upgrade of Microsoft's Hotmail webmail service, Microsoft will announce today.

  • News: Microsoft-Yahoo deal may hurt Google ad sales

    A potential Microsoft-Yahoo merger probably doesn't have rivals at Google panicking just yet, but if a deal comes off Google may have to worry about its hold on the consumer search and online-advertising markets.

  • News: Internet Explorer 7.0 uptake stagnates

    Interest in Microsoft's IE 7.0 (Internet Explorer 7.0) has stagnated, according to a pair of metrics vendors that track browser usage.

  • News: RIM to offer BlackBerry plug-in for Visual Studio

    RIM (Research in Motion) is to allow developers to create applications for BlackBerry phones using Microsoft's .Net programming environment. RIM's move forms part of its efforts to broaden the capabilities of BlackBerry devices.

  • News: Samsung launches Q1 Ultra ultramobile PC

    Samsung Electronics has announced full details of the reduced price and upgraded performance for its Q1 Ultra ultramobile PC, first announced at CeBit in March this year.

  • News: Google starts paying YouTube contributors

    YouTube is allowing some of its most popular content creators to start earning revenue from videos they post.

  • News: Top 10 Firefox add-ons to avoid

    A couple of months ago, we helped you get started on your journey to browser perfection with our list of 20 must-have Firefox extensions. But the ability to tweak your browser is a double-edged sword. There are extensions best avoided – including some of the most popular.

  • News: Cracking Google's Pagerank secrets

    Rand Fishkin knows how valuable it is for a website to rank high in a Google search. But even he, president of an SEO (search-engine optimisation) firm, was blown away by a proposal he received when he was a panellist at an SEO conference in London, February 2007.

  • News: The top 8 Second Life virtual businesses

    I was standing in a spacious entryway, chatting with the chief science officer at Sun Microsystems. His short-cropped hair, V-neck sweater and glasses were a sure sign of technical prowess.

  • News: Microsoft in talks to buy Yahoo

    Having lost out to Google in a bid to acquire internet advertising company DoubleClick, Microsoft has initiated a new round of talks to acquire Yahoo, according to published reports Friday.

  • News: Yahoo launches mobile oneSeach beta

    Yahoo has launched the beta of its mobile search service, oneSearch, in the UK.