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• 02 March 2006

• News: Skype cordless uses Bluetooth

  A Bluetooth handset designed for Skype will arrive in the UK in April.

• News: Teenager claims to find Gmail vulnerability

  A teenage blogger claims to have discovered a flaw in Google's Gmail service that allows JavaScript to run.

• News: Consumers are confused by IPTV, study finds

  Almost half of consumers don't understand what IPTV is, although many of them want some of the features it has to offer, according to a new study released today.

• News: Wikipedia goes mega

  The English version of Wikipedia now contains more than one million articles, according to the Wikimedia Foundation.

• News: Google moving search records out of China

  In an effort to protect users of its Google.cn website, Google is moving search records out of China and into the US, a company executive said this week.

• News: China won't split the internet in two

  Western media was abuzz yesterday with reports that China plans to create a set of Chinese-language domain names as part of a bid to split itself off from the internet. Just one problem: it's not true.

• News: Microsoft issues expected browser updates

  Microsoft has issued several expected changes to how Internet Explorer deals with interactive content on web pages, an update stemming from a long-running patent infringement dispute.

• 01 March 2006

• News: Critics rip into AOL's pay-to-send email system

  A variety of non-profit groups launched a website and a campaign on Tuesday to fight AOL's plan to add a certified, pay-to-send email scheme to its infrastructure.

• 27 February 2006

• News: Google Base adds e-commerce functions

  Google is adding e-commerce transaction capabilities to its Google Base service, providing a platform for buyers to purchase items from sellers using credit cards.

• News: Ask Jeeves to unveil improvements

  Ask Jeeves will today unleash its most aggressive attempt in years to increase usage of its search engine, rolling out a broad set of new and improved features and a drastic rebranding of the service.

• News: Microsoft to announce Origami device this week?

  Is Microsoft planning to announce details of a portable device codenamed Origami later this week? That is the question raised by a website called Origami Project.

• News: Microsoft confirms Vista editions after leak

  A week after the information prematurely appeared on the company's website, Microsoft has officially confirmed the editions for Windows Vista.

• 26 February 2006

• News: Rivals unite against AOL/Yahoo email plan

  Both sides of the US political spectrum have found an issue to unite them: free email.

• 25 February 2006

• News: Opinion: Google Page Creator

  Google Page Creator is live, at least at the moment. It's a very, very simple website designer that works in your browser.

• 24 February 2006

• News: MPAA suits expand war on illegal filesharing

  Widening its legal assault on copyright infringement, the Motion Picture Association of America has filed seven lawsuits in US federal courts against search engines and news groups affiliated with P2P networks.

• News: UK EU presidency is 'Internet Villain of the Year'

  The Internet Service Providers' Association has condemned the UK presidency of the EU as 'Villain of the Year'.

• News: Windows Live parental controls trialled

  Microsoft is testing a web-based service that will allow parents to control their children's online activity and block access to sites that are not appropriate for kids.

• News: Microsoft posts online response to EU charges

  In an unexpected move, Microsoft yesterday posted on its website its formal response to the EC's Statement of Objections in the antitrust case against the company.

• 23 February 2006

• News: Skype offers online and prepaid payment methods

  Internet telephone company Skype has signed on three providers of online payment services and will offer scratch cards to make it easier for consumers to pay for its services electronically or in cash, the company said today.

• 22 February 2006

• News: Google faces injunction over image search

  A federal judge said yesterday that an adult-entertainment company is likely to prevail in at least one aspect of a copyright-infringement suit against Google, and he ordered the companies to work out the wording of a possible preliminary injunction.

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