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18 April 2006
News: Telecom, media companies protest EU plan

A European Union proposal to regulate internet TV and other new-media services has created an uproar among internet and telecommunications companies.
News: Burst.com sues Apple for patent infringement

Apple is facing a lawsuit over technology within its popular iPod digital music player and two related applications.
News: Microsoft initiates programme for healthcare

Microsoft has initiated a programme to push its software into the healthcare industry, the company announced at the World Health Care Congress, which began yesterday in Washington DC.
15 April 2006
News: Opinion: techno chefs in training

As a kid, my favorite cartoon was The Jetsons, and one of the show's most memorable images for me is Jane Jetson whipping up a five-course meal in a matter of seconds with a few taps of a button.
14 April 2006
News: Microsoft outs typo-squatting menace

Microsoft has released an Internet Explorer plug-in that reveals the true scale of the phenomenon of squatting popular URLs with misspelled equivalents.
13 April 2006
News: Yahoo accused of poor email service

A US security vendor claims to have discovered the reason for Yahoo’s alleged poor email delivery: as many as half of its email hosts can be "closed" at any one time.
News: Patent reveals Google Voice is on the way

A recently filed patent has provided a glimpse of Google's pending voice-activated search engine.
News: Is there life beyond search page three?

If your service or website isn't included within the first three pages of a search result, you need to act fast.
News: Google launches calendar service

Google has launched a web-based calendar service that will let users add meetings and events using their own words.
News: Fifa criticises data gathering at World Cup

Regardless of the outcome of the World Cup in Germany several weeks away, the games already have their place in history.
12 April 2006
News: Service deletes files on stolen laptops

Everdream has launched a service to delete or encrypt files on stolen PCs and laptops.
News: Microsoft goes Live with Google Scholar rival

Microsoft has released a search tool that will go head to head with the Google Scholar service.
11 April 2006
News: Toshiba heads for winners' enclosure

Hot on the heels of its launch in Japan, Toshiba has given the UK press its first look at the world's first HD-DVD player, the HD-XA1.
News: McAfee unveils threat centre portal

McAfee has jazzed up its website with an online portal designed to help users research a wide range of security problems.
10 April 2006
News: High expectations for eBay Express

Expectations for eBay Express are running high among experienced eBay sellers, who view the upcoming specialty site as a potentially significant new channel.
News: Service offers unconnected browsing

A Seattle company has introduced a service today that allows people with laptops or handheld computers to surf through a range of web content while they're offline.
News: Taiwan pans Google, Yahoo on free speech

Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has accused Yahoo and Google of allowing the prospect of corporate profits to lure them into compromising free speech in China.
09 April 2006
News: Anonymizer prepares to battle China's censors

Chinese internet censors take more than a week to identify and block access to sites that allow internet users to circumvent their controls, according to a top executive at Anonymizer.
07 April 2006
News: Freeview set to trial HDTV broadcasts

Freeview is searching for 450 volunteers in London to take part in a six-month trial of high-definition TV broadcasts through the free-to-air digital TV service.
News: Microsoft to patch IE, Windows, Office next week

Microsoft is set to release five security patches for its products next Tuesday, including a highly anticipated Internet Explorer fix that will address a bug that hackers have been exploiting over the past two weeks.