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  • News: Disney sells 1.3m movies via iTunes

    Disney has announced that it has sold 1.3 million movies through Apple’s iTunes service in the US.

  • News: YouTube to take down 100,000 clips

    MTV, VH1, Nickelodean and Paramount programmes could be taken offline following copyright complaint from Viacom

  • News: Google Earth addresses Indian terrorist threat

    Google is in talks with the Indian government to allay concerns that Google Earth may be jeopardizing India’s security by showing high-resolution images of Indian defence and other installations.

  • News: ID fraud down, except credit cards

    Despite widespread media coverage of data breaches over the past year, identity fraud is actually dropping in the US, Javelin Strategy & Research reported yesterday.

  • News: 30% of US internet users tag online

    Tagging, the emblematic activity of the "Web 2.0" and social computing era, appears destined for mainstream status, a new study concludes.

  • News: YouTube execs head to Japan

    Top executives from YouTube are due in Tokyo next week for talks with some of Japan's largest video content producers over copyrighted material available on the popular site.

  • News: BBC on-demand given go ahead

    Top TV shows including Doctor Who will be available on-demand later this year, after the BBC wins approval for its new iPlayer service

  • News: Google's profits triple

    Google beat Wall Street's expectations for its fourth quarter, which ended 31 December, 2006, as the company continued to sell search engine advertising much faster than its biggest rivals.

  • News: Live Messenger for Vista now available

    Microsoft has released the final version of its new IM (instant message) client optimised for Windows Vista. The company says Windows Live Messenger 8.1 offers enhancements that make it more compatible with Vista, with updates in the IM client including new looks for emoticons, contacts and display photos that take advantage of Vista's new and improved user interface.

  • News: Microsoft has world's most-popular websites

    Microsoft drew the largest number of website visitors worldwide in December, a recurring accomplishment that makes the company's disappointing online ad business all the more disconcerting.

  • News: Gamers targeted by online thieves

    Gamers have been warned to be more security conscious due to the increasing number of online criminals stealing virtual assets and selling them on for real money.

  • News: Google boosts 'Mini' search tool

    Google has improved the security and search features of its Mini search device. Google Mini is a hardware box featuring Google software. It's aimed at small and medium-sized companies and at departments within large organisations.

  • News: YouTube to pay users

    YouTube co-founder, Chad Hurley, has confirmed plans to share advertising revenue with the millions users that upload content to the video-sharing site.

  • News: NEC tech blocks VoIP spam

    NEC has developed technology that can help prevent spam phone calls to VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) users.

  • News: MySpace muscles ISP over hacking site

    Internet service provider (ISP) GoDaddy.com has come under fire for pulling a popular hacking website down, allegedly at the request of MySpace.com

  • News: Google Maps & Google Books merge

    Google has started integrating its popular mapping service with its controversial books search engine, to let people plot on maps references to places they find in books.

  • News: EFF backs blogger against copyright threat

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has come to the aid of a liberal blogger whose website was taken down after a radio station complained that critiques containing on-air clips violated its copyright.

  • News: Silicon Valley finally recovers from dotcom bust

    The birthplace of global technology giants including Apple, Google and HP is growing again, adding new jobs for the first time since the dot-com bust.

  • News: Hackers exploit new Word attack

    Hackers are exploiting a new, unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word that could allow them to take control of a victim's computer, Symantec has warned.

  • News: YouTube subpoenaed over Simpsons video

    Twentieth Century Fox has subpoenaed Google’s YouTube over the availability of Simpsons and 24 episodes on the video-sharing site, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).