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14 February 2007
News: Veoh announces peer-to-peer video service

Veoh has launched a new service that uses peer-to-peer technology to distribute DVD-quality video that can be published on sites such as MySpace.
13 February 2007
News: Google loses Belgian court case

A Belgian court today ruled that Google violated the copyright of Belgian newspaper publishers when it posted extracts from their stories on its Google News website.
News: British web surfers opt for .uk

British users are six times more likely to choose a .uk rather than a .com address when using Internet search engines, an online survey has found.
News: Spam and viruses planned for Valentines

Panda Software warns that this Valentine’s Day, instead of receiving flowers and chocolates, you may get a nasty virus on your computer.
News: Giuliani: Technology holds key in terror fight

Technology can help fight the war on terror, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said during an appearance in California's Silicon Valley yesterday.
News: MySpace blocks pirate video attempts

MySpace has launched a pilot programme to prevent its users from uploading unauthorised copyrighted video material to the site.
News: WSJ: Google sold ads to alleged pirates

Google sold advertising to two men who allegedly marketed an application designed to find and download pirated movies online, according to The Wall Street Journal
News: Yahoo links Mail & IM app

Yahoo will soon start to fulfil a promise it made to users several months ago to tie its new web mail service with its instant-messaging application.
12 February 2007
News: Video traffic could cripple internet

User-generated content and the growth of services such as YouTube and Joost could cripple the internet, Google has warned.
News: Xerox invests in new Google killer

Xerox’s research subsidiary the Palo Alto Research Center has struck a licensing deal with a high-profile startup in the hopes of building a search engine that could one day rival Google.
News: Yahoo & LG partner for mobile search

Yahoo has reached a deal with LG Electronics that should see its "Go" mobile platform on the screens of tens of millions of LG mobile phone handsets shipped later this year.
09 February 2007
News: Redten runs out of 'free' PCs

Redten Internet has called a halt to its offer of a free Vista PC for customers who signed up for three years of broadband. A notice on the company's website explains that the firm has run out of free PCs, and that the deal has therefore been suspended temporarily.
News: Microsoft dumps Windows Live Mail

Microsoft has reversed its decision to kill off the Hotmail brand when it brings out its new web-based email service.
News: EC invites comments on web shopping rules

The European Commission has proposed a review of the rules designed to protect consumers buying goods and services on the internet, dismissing the current rules as ineffective
News: New Firefox 3.0 version released

Mozilla has released the second alpha release of Firefox 3.0, with the new Gran Paradiso build of the internet browser now available for web application developers to download.
08 February 2007
News: Vodafone & Orange deal to boost 3G coverage

Vodafone and Orange plan to boost high-speed mobile internet access coverage across the UK by merging their 3G networks.
News: Lycos launches video & social-networking tool

Lycos is set to go after a portion of the popular online-video and social-networking spaces today by launching a service that lets users create video playlists composed of footage from several websites.
News: Web host runs Windows & Linux concurrently

Netfirms, a Canadian web-hosting company, said yesterday that it would begin letting customers build and host websites running both Windows and Linux applications at the same time. The company said its decision was based on increased demand for such sites from web developers and their clients.
News: Banks could pass on phishing losses to customers

The failure of customers to secure their own money during internet transactions could potentially lead banks to pass off the responsibility of financial losses back to the customer. User education for online banking customers on how to avoid phishing scams has failed, according to Paul Henry, senior vice president of Secure Computing. This form of commonsense defence has failed to work time and time again, he added.
News: Microsoft tackles IE7 phishing flaw

Microsoft has quietly released a patch aimed at improving the performance of Internet Explorer 7's phishing filter ahead of the company's regular patching schedule, which occurs on the second Tuesday of every month.