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18 January 2006
News: German football team tackle the web

Germany's national soccer team may not be the most tech-savvy in the world, according to its manager, but things could improve with the introduction of a web-connected bus to get them to and from matches.
News: Opera releases beta browser for Pocket PC

A few months later than planned, Opera Software announced today that it has released a beta version of its first web browser for the Windows Mobile Pocket PC.
News: Chinese internet users top 110 million

The number of Chinese internet users reached 111 million as of 31 December 2005, up from 94 million surfers one year ago, according to a survey conducted by the Chinese Internet Network Information Center.
News: WiMax standard certification held up

The standard for fixed WiMax products has not yet been agreed. Initial standards were released in November, but these have not yet been ratified, the WiMax Forum said yesterday
16 January 2006
News: IE 7.0 to have 'history flush' feature

Microsoft's forthcoming Internet Explorer 7.0 browser will have a 'flush' feature that clears its history and all associated files stored after a website is accessed.
News: Internet kiosk network scheme halted

BT has abandoned plans to build one of the world's largest public internet kiosk networks.
13 January 2006
News: Europe's 'Google killer' goes into hiding

Europe's future search engine doesn't want to be found just yet.
News: Court throws out Yahoo appeal in Nazi case

Yahoo lost a legal battle yesterday in its fight to make a French court's order against the company unenforceable in the US.
News: Light at end of fast Wi-Fi tunnel

An industry group seeking common ground on the emerging IEEE 802.11n high-speed wireless LAN specification has agreed on a compromise proposal that may form the basis of a final standard.
12 January 2006
News: Original Mozart manuscripts go live

Who says Mozart's original manuscripts are only for scholars of classical music to leaf through and relish? The British Library is offering some of the composer's most famous works to internet users for the first time.
News: UN to consult on net governance body

The UN will launch the first round of consultations next month on creating an internet governance body, as agreed by delegates attending the global net summit in Tunis last year.
News: Microsoft to end Mac support in Windows Media?

Despite the new five-year deal between Apple and Microsoft, it appears at least one Redmond product team is being reshuffled: the Windows Media for Mac mob.
News: FBI warns of mining accident scam

The FBI is warning internet users to be on the look out for a fraudulent email soliciting money for the only survivor of a mine accident in the US last week.
11 January 2006
News: Microsoft patches two critical holes

Microsoft has patched two critical holes this Patch Tuesday.
News: Boeing to adjust in-flight internet prices

Boeing will adjust the prices it charges for internet access from the air via its Connexion by Boeing service later this month, it said today. The company will also make available four channels of live television to equipped aircraft during January and offer direct access to Yahoo's portal.
News: Student's website nears $1m mark

When 21-year-old British student Alex Tew needed to raise some cash to pay for his university studies, he came up with an idea many might dismiss as wishful thinking: raise $1m by selling one million pixels of advertising space on his website for $1 each.
10 January 2006
News: Murdoch predicts decline of portals

Portals like those from Yahoo and Microsoft will fade in popularity as savvy users go directly to the content they want to view, publishing titan Rupert Murdoch said this week.
News: Accton to beat Netgear with Wi-Fi VoIP phone

Taiwan's Accton plans to launch two wireless handsets by the middle of February that allow users to place calls over the internet at little or no cost.
09 January 2006
News: Google eyeballs Microsoft and Apple

Google has launched its latest effort to expand into desktop software with a bundle of freely downloadable applications.
News: Skype 2.0 with video feature available

Skype Technologies SA has completed testing the latest version of its internet-telephony software with a new video feature and is now encouraging users to download it.