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  • News: Microsoft signs Flickr competitor for online ads

    Microsoft has reached a deal with Piczo, a photo-sharing and networking website for teenagers, to supply online advertising for their UK site, the companies said.

  • News: Vonage VoIP tech under threat

    A US federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service provider Vonage to stop it from using patented Verizon Communications technology.

  • News: Microsoft puts brakes on Soapbox

    Microsoft has put the brakes on its Soapbox video-sharing site while it implements new technology to detect videos uploaded by users that could have copyright restrictions.

  • News: Web 2.0 threat to businesses

    UK firms are at risk of data leakage through employees' increasing use of Web 2.0 technologies and social networking websites, security experts have warned.

  • News: Court dismisses lawsuit against Google

    A Belgian court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a company claiming a feature of Google’s search engine offers password-cracking tools and serial numbers to unlock their software.

  • News: Slingshot tool takes aim at Adobe's Apollo

    The race to provide web developers with a tool to bring some rich internet features to the desktop continued yesterday with the unveiling of Joyent's Slingshot framework for building online and offline Ruby on Rails applications.

  • News: Full extent of broadband blues revealed

    Ofcom reveals that twice as many people as it previously announced complained about UK broadband ISPs last year

  • News: Trojan targets Skype users

    Another Trojan horse is spreading through the internet telephone network of Skype.

  • News: Xbox hack: Microsoft staff stand accused

    Microsoft has blamed Xbox Live network account hacks on users' gullibility, but evidence shows that in some cases the gaming service's own support staff could be unwittingly helping hackers snare players' identities.

  • News: Disney sued over Apple iTunes deal

    Starz Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against Disney for copyright infringement and breach of contract. The lawsuit was filed because Disney began selling the same movies to Apple and Wal-Mart as it had previously offered exclusively to Starz.

  • News: Upgrade for Yahoo Widgets

    Yahoo has updated its free Widget software and touted the program's new automatic updating feature and its lighter appetite for RAM.

  • News: Murdoch's YouTube rival coming in Q3

    News Corp and NBC Universal will challenge Google's YouTube for online eyeballs and advertising dollars by launching a video-streaming website by the third quarter.

  • News: Google cleared of search 'conspiracy'

    A US District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Google by a company that accused it of dropping websites from search results for political and religious reasons and skewing results in favour of companies that compensate Google financially.

  • News: 'Inept' BBC bungles broadband survey

    The BBC’s Watchdog programme has been criticised for fumbling the presentation of its broadband ISP survey on television.

  • News: Apple to help define future of the web

    Apple has joined the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) standards body, the HTML Working Group. An entry on the Surfin' Safari blog notes that three lead Safari developers have joined the group, including lead Apple Safari and WebKit developer, Dave Hyatt.

  • News: Clinton's YouTube Apple mashup mystery

    The creator of the Apple ad mashup that paints Senator Hillary Clinton as a 1984-esque ‘Big Sister’ has not yet been identified. But earlier this month, the creator told a political blogger the idea came after a campaign contribution quarrel between Clinton, Senator Barack Obama and Hollywood producer David Geffen.

  • News: Mozilla fixes just one Firefox flaw

    Mozilla has taken the unusual step of patching a single vulnerability in its Firefox browser, but plans to resume regular multiple-fix security updates with the next release, which is slated to debut before 24 April.

  • News: Skype offers P2P PayPal payments

    Users of Skype’s internet telephone service will soon be able to use PayPal to transfer money to each other.

  • News: New stats show Firefox is more secure than IE

    Mozilla's Firefox suffered from 26 percent fewer vulnerabilities in the second half of 2006 than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, according to Symantec.

  • News: Google ups stakes in click fraud

    Google is expanding a test it began last year of pay-per-action ads, an ad format that’s similar to pay-per-click ads but that experts say is much less prone to click fraud.