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  • 07 May 2007

  • News: Google starts paying YouTube contributors

    YouTube is allowing some of its most popular content creators to start earning revenue from videos they post.

  • 04 May 2007

  • News: Top 10 Firefox add-ons to avoid

    A couple of months ago, we helped you get started on your journey to browser perfection with our list of 20 must-have Firefox extensions. But the ability to tweak your browser is a double-edged sword. There are extensions best avoided – including some of the most popular.

  • News: Cracking Google's Pagerank secrets

    Rand Fishkin knows how valuable it is for a website to rank high in a Google search. But even he, president of an SEO (search-engine optimisation) firm, was blown away by a proposal he received when he was a panellist at an SEO conference in London, February 2007.

  • News: The top 8 Second Life virtual businesses

    I was standing in a spacious entryway, chatting with the chief science officer at Sun Microsystems. His short-cropped hair, V-neck sweater and glasses were a sure sign of technical prowess.

  • News: Microsoft in talks to buy Yahoo

    Having lost out to Google in a bid to acquire internet advertising company DoubleClick, Microsoft has initiated a new round of talks to acquire Yahoo, according to published reports Friday.

  • 03 May 2007

  • News: Yahoo launches mobile oneSeach beta

    Yahoo has launched the beta of its mobile search service, oneSearch, in the UK.

  • News: Google re-opens Belgian newspaper links

    Google is including links again to some of Belgium's most popular French- and German-language newspapers, although their copyright lawsuit against the US search company remains pending.

  • News: Firefox gets eBay auction add-on

    Mozilla is asking users to test a new add-on for the Firefox browser that lets users monitor their deals on eBay's auction site in real time.

  • News: Internet Explorer 8.0 to focus on security

    Microsoft dodged questions this week at the Mix07 Web developer conference about when it plans to update its Internet Explorer (IE) browser to Version 8 (IE8).

  • News: Internet2 knocked out by homeless man

    A fire started by a homeless man knocked out service between Boston and New York on the experimental Internet2 network on Tuesday night.

  • News: Microsoft buys mobile ad firm ScreenTonic

    Microsoft has agreed to buy ScreenTonic SA, a company that specialises in delivering location-based ads to mobile devices.

  • News: DDoS attacks die off, but spam returns

    Symantec has noted a sharp decline in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, where a network of remote-controlled bots overloads a target's system and takes it offline.

  • News: Microsoft launches first national email archive

    Microsoft is collaborating with the British Library to create the first archive of British emails.

  • News: Windows users hit by 'bug-a-day' threat

    Another bug-a-day campaign called the "Month of ActiveX Bugs" has emerged, this time targeting Microsoft. Although some researchers have already dismissed the project as copycat, others are warning its findings might put Windows users at risk of attack.

  • News: Dell asked to preinstall Firefox

    Firefox users are drawing on Dell's user-driven IdeaStorm site to push the computer maker to preinstall the open-source browser.

  • News: iGoogle bug grief continues

    Google renamed and upgraded its Personalized Home Page this week, but one thing the update couldn't shake was a bug that began upsetting many users last Thursday and persisted until yesterday.

  • News: Yahoo Web Messenger uses Adobe Flash

    Yahoo has launched a new browser-based version of its Messenger instant messaging service, so that users can access their accounts without needing the PC application on the machine they're using.

  • News: Symantec's business AV product slips back

    Symantec is slipping on its target delivery time for the next major upgrade of its security product for enterprises, code-named Hamlet, while it irons out final code wrinkles during beta testing.

  • 02 May 2007

  • News: SpeedBit speeds up YouTube & iTunes

    Anyone who watches videos on the internet is familiar with this problem: You go to one of the big video sites such as YouTube or Metacafe, you see a video you like and that can be downloaded immediately, but after a few seconds the film suddenly stops and you find yourself staring at a motionless movie player. Of course, you can fiddle with the pause button or make a cup of coffee while the player downloads a few more seconds of film, but the viewing experience has lost some of the excitement.

  • News: Uk gov't urged to act on 'virtual goods'

    The UK government must ensure that funds exchanged in online communities or ‘virtual worlds’ are protected by existing anti-fraud laws and regulations, an independent watchdog has warned.

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