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  • News: Yahoo's Taiwanese blog assault approved

    A purchase of popular Taiwanese blog site Wretch.cc by Yahoo Taiwan will not adversely affect competition in the local internet market, Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission has ruled, paving the way for the completion of the deal.

  • News: Google TV under development in UK

    Google is coming to your television set. The web search giant is hiring a team of software engineers to develop products for television and is building a sales team that will secure advertising for Google's TV offerings

  • News: 'IE 7.0 beta 2' download virus hits inboxes

    A virus is doing the rounds disguised as a test version of Microsoft's current web browser Internet Explorer 7.0. If you get an email offering a download of IE 7.0 Beta 2, delete it.

  • News: Icann rejects '.xxx' sex domain name – again

    Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has rejected for the second time the creation of a ".xxx" top-level domain. The overseer of the internet's addressing system again voted against the proposal, which is seen by some as a way to isolate adult content on the internet.

  • News: IT fault means 400,000 UK workers don't get paid

    Problems with the Bacs clearing system have left up to 400,000 UK workers without their wages.

  • News: Can Mac OS overtake Windows?

    Should Microsoft fear Apple's Macintosh? Maybe not quaking-in-your-boots scared, mind you, but Redmond should certainly be concerned. I'll tell you why. Apple has got smarter about how it competes with Microsoft. Clearly the underdog, Apple has to make moves that can be seen as both supportive of the Windows market and good for its Mac customers at the same time.

  • News: Microsoft previews Windows Mobile browser

    The latest entry in the growing mobile browser wars is Deepfish. Microsoft has announced a technology preview of the new mobile browser, which is designed for delivery of content such as web pages to Windows Mobile devices.

  • News: PS3 helps Blu-ray outsell HD DVD

    News from the front in the format wars: just two weeks after its release, 100,000 copies of the Blu-ray edition of Casino Royale have shipped in the US, the first time any high-definition DVD title has hit that benchmark.

  • News: Experimental battery for $100 laptop

    For economic reasons, most of the components created for the One Laptop Per Child project’s $100 notebook computer are innovations on tried-and-true tech, not state-of-the-art. That is, except for one aspect of the device: how the laptop generates and stores power.

  • News: eEye fix released for Windows zero-day flaw

    Security vendor eEye Digital Security has released an unofficial fix for the unpatched flaw in Windows, currently being exploited by online criminals.

  • News: TK Maxx cardholders' details stolen

    In a statement to the US SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission), the company which owes UK clothing outlet TKMaxx - TJX - revealed that hackers have stolen information from at least 45.7 million customer payment cards.

  • News: Mobile YouTube coming to handsets

    YouTube said it will launch a mobile website to allow its mobile partners to integrate YouTube videos into their offerings.

  • News: Arrested virus author fails to fix worm

    The accused mastermind behind the Panda Burning Incense worm has not done a very good job of making amends, according to security vendor Symantec.

  • News: Critical Windows bug targets surfers

    Microsoft yesterday revealed that Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000 contain a critical, unpatched vulnerability. The flaw can be used by attackers to usurp Windows PCs when Internet Explorer users surf to malicious sites. According to one expert, users running Firefox 2.0 are safe

  • News: Dell commits to Linux laptops & desktops

    After floating the possibility last month that it might begin selling some of its laptops and desktop PCs preloaded with Linux, Dell has announced that it will definitely offer Linux on select desktop and notebook computers due to consumer demand.

  • News: iPod & iPhone market to double

    The iPod-dominated market for media and music players to double between 2005 and 2010, according to researchers at iSuppli.

  • News: Google adds new YouTube features

    New services available on YouTube could reflect growing influence of its parent company Google.

  • News: Apple offers iTunes discounts in the UK

    Apple has added a new feature called 'Complete My Album' to boost album sales at the iTunes Store. This service allows customers to turn individual tracks into a complete album at a reduced price by giving them a full 79 pence credit for every track they have previously purchased from that album through iTunes.

  • News: Web fraud costs UK victims £875 each year

    Internet fraud victims lost an average of £875 in the past 12 months, according to a safety campaign fronted by the UK government, and sponsored by eBay, Microsoft, HSBC and BT, among others.

  • News: Boot Camp enables first Vista-based Macs

    Apple has released its latest Boot Camp 1.2 beta, delivering support for 32-bit versions of Windows Vista. Boot Camp is Apple software that lets users run Windows in a separate partition on their Intel-based Mac.