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• 24 August 2007

• News: Site blocks Firefox over Adblock Plus

  A website owner has blocked Firefox users from accessing his site in protest of a popular browser extension that blocks text and display ads.

• News: MySpace & MTV line up Presidential candidates

  US Presidential candidates are to continue their Web 2.0 onslaught by appearing in a new series of events backed by MySpace and MTV.com.

• News: Choosing Google office is a 'career-limiting move'

  Google's $50 (£25) Google Apps Premier Edition hosted office productivity suite could be one of the cheapest mistakes a large business makes, according to research firm the Burton Group.

• News: Fix available for Yahoo Messenger video exploit

  Yahoo Messenger has been updated to fix a bug that hackers could exploit by sending video chat invitations to unwary users.

• News: First 7.2Mbps HSDPA phones launched

  Three South Koreans mobile phone giants are speeding the path to higher speed data downloads over wireless networks.

• News: AOL phisher faces seven years in prison

  A man who targeted AOL users in the US in a phishing scam faces seven years in prison.

• 23 August 2007

• News: Hackers force Monster to shut down server

  Job-hunting website network Monster has suffered a massive data breach caused by hackers, and has shut down a rogue server that had been used to gather personal details of job seekers.

• News: Skype pays for outage with 'free week' offer

  Skype is hoping to appease those hit by the widespread VoIP outage last week by offering a week of free service to paying customers

• News: Storm Trojan to target Mexican hurricane

  The Storm Trojan horse which sent fake news accounts of a massive series of wind storms that struck Europe earlier this year may soon start touting Hurricane Dean, the Category 5 storm that slammed into Mexico this week, security researchers said.

• News: Revamped Google provides richer search

  Google's revamped search model – which allows users to search across content sources including news, videos and maps - represents a major change for the company, a Google official said at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose.

• News: Nokia phones get Windows Live tools

  Microsoft and Nokia have struck a deal which will see certain Nokia handsets delivering Windows Live services in Europe and the Middle East.

• News: User revolt over new YouTube InVideo ads

  Google's YouTube video-sharing site might need to rethink its new InVideo advertising scheme based on initial feedback from users.

• News: Wi-Fi broadband 'thief' arrested in London

  A man in Chiswick, London has been arrested for 'stealing' Wi-Fi.

• 22 August 2007

• News: Google's Blogger taken offline

  Google's Blogger blog publishing and Blogspot blog hosting services went offline today. Among the organisations affected by this apparently widespread outage was Google itself, which hosts its official company blogs on Blogspot.

• News: Google Earth plug-in adds space exploration

  Google is offering a new add-on for Google Earth, called Sky, that lets users explore space and see photos of the precise star formation overhead based on their locale.

• News: Zoho beats Google to offline office tool

  Offline editing capabilities are being added to the free web browser-based Zoho office productivity suite.

• News: MTV merges Urge with RealNetworks' Rhapsody

  MTV Networks will invest $230m in advertising on its cable television networks as part of its investment in the Rhapsody America venture it launched on Tuesday with RealNetworks. MTV to merge MTV's Urge online music service with RealNetworks' Rhapsody

• News: Google News launches YouTube clips

  Google has started to provide video clips in Google News, a feature it had been widely expected to add to its article search and aggregation site and which Yahoo and AOL already offer in their news sites.

• News: First YouTube InVideo adverts go live today

  YouTube is to launch a new way to advertise on videos hosted at its popular website.

• News: Microsoft readies unified communications service

  Microsoft is working on a 'service in the sky' for unified communications, an executive said yesterday at the VoiceCon conference in San Francisco.

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