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  • News: 20 best PC downloads for 2007

    Download the best free applications for your PC now, using PC Advisor's guide

  • News: Google upgrades Blogger

    Google is offering some users of its Blogger service an upgraded version, adding new tools such as user-definable templates, tagging of posts, multiple authors, and faster publication of new posts.

  • News: Jordan & Beckham are web's favourite celebs

    Glamour model Jordan, footballer David Beckham and actor Orlando Bloom are the British celebrities with the longest shelf life on the internet, according the 2006 Windows Live Search report from MSN.

  • News: Germany pulls out of euro search engine

    A politically inspired partnership between the German and French governments to develop advanced multimedia search technologies, Quaero, appears to be falling apart over strategic and cultural differences.

  • News: iTunes video outpaced by P2P downloads

    A new study by the NPD Group shows that peer-to-peer (P2P) digital video downloads reign supreme in the US, outpacing legal alternatives such as the iTunes Store by five to one.

  • News: Japan continues fibre-optic broadband lead

    The number of fibre-optic broadband internet subscriptions in Japan reached 7 million in the third quarter, according to figures from Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC).

  • News: Yahoo China wins case against rival

    Yahoo China has won a Chinese court case it brought against rival Beijing Sanjiwuxian Internet Technology for unfair competition

  • News: Icann faces transparency review

    A UK governance organisation will review Icann, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, as it tries to increase transparency after criticism of its close US government ties

  • News: First update of Firefox 2.0

    Mozilla has released the first update for the Firefox 2.0 browser. The latest version fixes eight security vulnerabilities

  • News: eBay pulls back from China

    eBay today confirmed it will replace its China auction site with a joint-venture site run by partner Tom Online in 2007

  • News: Report: eBay China to close

    After failing to gain significant market share in China's consumer auction market, eBay will join Tom.com in creating a Tom.com-operated site in its stead, according to The Wall Street Journal.

  • News: Yahoo fixes IM flaw

    Yahoo has resumed promoting a Yahoo Messenger upgrade after fixing a bug in the program that altered users' email preferences without their consent.

  • News: MySpace now on US mobile phones

    MySpace has launched a service in the US that lets Cingular Wireless subscribers use many features of the social-networking portal on their cell phones.

  • News: Google Earth boosts European maps

    Google has acquired portions of a Swiss company called Endoxon in order to improve the European maps in its Google Earth PC application and Google Maps online search service.

  • News: YouTube to tackle copyright concerns in Japan

    YouTube said it’s ready to discuss copyright issues with some of Japan's largest producers of video content after they complained earlier this month about the amount of their material on the popular video website.

  • News: Google & NASA plan 'major' announcement

    NASA’s Ames Research Center plans a "major announcement involving Google" today, and although the pair have provided no details, the announcement could relate to a previously signed deal signed calling for Google to develop up to 1 million square feet of NASA's allotment at their site.

  • News: Google releases customised IE 7

    Google has released a customised version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) browser in which Google, not Windows Live Search, is the default search engine.

  • News: Google to sell domain names

    Google has announced that a domain name search and registration service will be added to its Google Apps for Your Domain package.

  • News: Microsoft to display Baidu paid search results

    Microsoft has announced that it will display paid search listings from Baidu.com among the search results of certain Microsoft websites.

  • News: Wireless devices to work Europe-wide

    The European Commission is harmonising radio frequency bands across the European Union in order to spur use of a wide range of wireless devices such as wireless computer keyboards, headphones and garage door openers.