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26 January 2006
News: Microsoft launches MSN research labs

The software giant has unveiled facilities aimed at rapidly developing and implementing internet technologies. The efforts are part of Microsoft's strategy to compete with rivals such as Google and Yahoo.
25 January 2006
News: Google, Lenovo, Sun back StopBadware Coalition

Technology giants Google, Lenovo and Sun are funding a non-profit effort to combat all of the nasty spyware and computer viruses that users don't want installed on their computers.
News: Microsoft takes aim as RIM battles in court

With RIM's BlackBerry handhelds in danger of a shutdown for patent violations, Microsoft is ready to exploit the opportunity with its own push email offering.
News: Cambridge prof warns of Skype botnet threat

VoIP apps could be used to cloak networks of zombies, used to launch denial-of-service attacks, a Cambridge professor has warned.
News: Beta 2.0 of Windows Vista due in April?

Microsoft will release the next beta of Windows Vista in April, according to a popular blog that follows the company.
News: Microsoft defends search data surrender

Microsoft is on the defensive over its decision to hand over search data to the US government, saying the company would never compromise the privacy of its customers.
News: Dell, Vodafone team up on wireless

Yesterday Dell said it plans to start building laptops that let users access the internet over Vodafone's wireless networks in the UK, France and Germany.
News: Google to launch censored Chinese search

Google plans to launch a search service aimed at Chinese users this week, but there's a twist: it will block results deemed sensitive to Beijing, a decision the company struggled with before deciding it's better to provide some service rather than none at all.
24 January 2006
News: Latest IE and Firefox details leaked

The latest beta of Internet Explorer 7.0 has leaked onto the net, revealing publicly some of the features Microsoft has been promising.
News: Google News emerges from beta

Google has added search-based features to its news site, which yesterday emerged from beta testing more than three years after its introduction, according to a company spokeswoman.
23 January 2006
News: Microsoft offers small-business resources

Microsoft will begin an eight-country rollout of a new set of online resources and technical support for its small-business customers today, a company executive said on Friday.
News: Nyxem worm to emerge on 3 February

Antivirus vendors are warning of a rapidly spreading worm that is carrying a potentially destructive set of instructions. Nyxem – also nicknamed the Kama Sutra worm – is programmed to overwrite all the files on computers it infects on 3 February.
News: Eight arrests over phishing operation

Authorities in Bulgaria last week arrested eight people who allegedly stole financial information using a variety of fake web pages carrying Microsoft logos, netting the group at least £28,000.
News: Google, Apple most influential brands

Google regained its title as the world's most influential brand in 2005, displacing Apple for the second time this decade, according to a poll.
22 January 2006
News: Tokyo Stock Exchange mulls system upgrade

An increase in trading capacity at the Tokyo Stock Exchange may happen earlier than planned after problems keeping up with volume forced a shutdown earlier this week, the market operator said.
20 January 2006
News: White House wrestles Google for search records

The US government is asking a California court to force Google to turn over information about usage of the company's search engine for finding pornography on the internet.
News: German court shuts down Wikipedia.de

A German court has ordered the shutdown of the German-language version of Wikipedia, the multilingual open-access encyclopedia available on the internet, after the family of a deceased hacker filed a lawsuit against Wikimedia for using the man's full name in an entry.
News: WiMax Forum certifies first batch of gear

The WiMax Forum reached a long-awaited goal yesterday, putting its first four seals of approval on a batch of products that use the new wireless broadband technology.
19 January 2006
News: Siemens turns stadium into high-tech temple

Football stadiums aren't the simple structures they once were. The sport's soaring popularity has led to the construction of a new generation of eye-catching, high-tech stadiums, equipped with the latest IT, security, energy and building management systems.
News: WiMax group acts to head off surprises

After last-minute clarifications to a standard delayed its first product certifications, the WiMax Forum has asked a task group of the IEEE to put off clarifications that may come for the upcoming mobile WiMax standard, according to the head of the forum.