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  • News: Free Vista laptops backfire on bloggers

    Microsoft's efforts to build momentum for Windows Vista among the blogging community seems to have backfired – on the bloggers.

  • News: Google hails Official Blog stats

    Google has hailed its official blog as the “fastest way” to reach out to customers and partners, after reporting that it made more posts than ever to the site during 2006.

  • News: Wikipedia-like search engine planned

    The founder of Wikipedia, the user-edited online encyclopedia, is developing a wiki-based search engine to compete with established commercial search engines from Google and Yahoo

  • News: AT&T concedes on neutral networks

    Net neutrality advocates in the US are celebrating after AT&T said it would pledge to maintain a "neutral network" in exchange for US government approval of its proposed acquisition of BellSouth Corp.

  • News: YouTube response to Japan 'not satisfactory'

    A group of Japanese content producers that asked YouTube to act on the large amount of copyrighted material on the popular site say a response received from the company was unsatisfactory.

  • 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.