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  • News: allofmp3.com music site faces closure

    A man has been arrested for selling allofmp3.com vouchers. The recording industry has stepped up its battle to shut down allofmp3.com, announcing the arrest of the man.

  • News: QuickTime 'bigger security risk than Internet Explorer'

    Apple's QuickTime is three times more likely to pose a threat to your PC's security than Internet Explorer 6.0. QuickTime is six times riskier than Firefox, according to Secunia.

  • News: UK online shopping breaks £100bn barrier

    In the 12 years that we've been shopping on the internet, UK online retail sales have accounted for a whopping £100 billion ($197 billion).

  • News: Mobile phone marketing set to explode

    Adverts could start popping up on your mobile phone if a deal between Acuity Mobile and Acxiom Corp takes off. The Acuity and Acxiom deal is expected to be announced today.

  • News: Google may join forces with Salesforce.com

    Google and Salesforce.com are discussing an alliance that could see the two bundle web-based applications, according to today's Wall Street Journal.

  • News: Exposed: 5 hidden costs on every new PC

    You've been talking about it for months, and now you've finally taken the plunge and bought yourself a shiny new home computer. Or perhaps you're an IT manager who's just upgraded the systems for an entire department. Well, don't put your wallet away, because you've just started shelling out for all the things you'll need during the life of these computers.

  • News: iTunes and DRM-free music explained

    iTunes is finally selling DRM-free music, but how will these changes affect us? We explain all

  • News: Gov't-backed web censorship on the up

    An increasing number of governments around the world want to filter what people read on the internet, according to an academic study

  • News: Microsoft buys web ad firm for $6bn

    Microsoft plans to acquire aQuantive, a digital marketing services agency, for around $6bn in order to grow its internet advertising business, it was announced today.

  • News: IE7 crippled after Microsoft bug 'fix'

    Some users aren't able to use Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) after installing this month's six-bug patch, the Microsoft security team admitted as it published a work-around for the problem.

  • News: Google Korea to censor adult searches

    Google Korea plans to introduce an age-verification system to its search engine later this year that will restrict adult-themed searches to those 19 years of age and older, it said yesterday.

  • News: Amnesty International blogs for web freedom

    Human rights organisation Amnesty International is stepping up its efforts to raise awareness of online censorship issues with the relaunch of its http://irrepressible.info website and a worldwide debate on the fight back against internet repression.

  • News: Official opens up on Estonian DoS attacks

    A spree of denial-of-service (DOS) attacks against websites in Estonia appears to be subsiding, as the government calls for greater response mechanisms to cyber attacks within the European Union.

  • News: Google to link Gmail with Docs

    Google is exploring ways to integrate its email and instant messaging services with its hosted productivity applications.

  • News: MySpace refuses sex offender request

    MySpace.com has refused to turn over the names of registered sex offenders found using its social-networking site to a group of state attorneys general because it is prohibited by federal and state law, the company said.

  • News: Firefox better patched than IE & Opera

    Firefox users have something new to brag about. Security vendor Secunia ApS reports that users of the open-source browser are more likely to have installed the latest security updates than web surfers running Internet Explorer or Opera.

  • News: Google to revamp search engine

    Google's new 'universal search' approach will give users an integrated set of results composed of videos, images, news, maps, books and websites

  • News: Amazon announces iTunes killer

    Online retailer Amazon.com is taking on Apple's iTunes music service and the rest of the digital music industry by starting up its own online digital music store.

  • News: Porn.com sale misses net record

    Domain name registrar and reseller Moniker.com has announced that Porn.com has been bought by Detroit-based MXN Ltd for $9.5m.

  • News: Mozilla tests Firefox-based mobile web tool

    Mozilla developers are experimenting with a service that lets users store online content on a remote server and access that information on mobile phones.