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  • News: Microsoft confirms departure of search boss

    A Microsoft executive has confirmed that the leader of its search team is leaving the company.

  • News: Firefox 3.0 could use Vista security

    Mozilla considers integrating Microsoft's Protected Mode into Firefox, but admits concerns about the security versus convenience balance

  • News: McAfee maps world's riskiest web domains

    A map unveiled by McAfee and based on data from its SiteAdvisor service marks Russia and Romania as the countries whose domains are most likely to host ‘drive-by’ exploits.

  • News: Report: Smaller ISPs provide better service

    A report by price comparison site moneysupermarket.com has revealed that customers of smaller broadband providers are more satisfied with the service they receive.

  • News: UK Police foil terrorist attack on internet

    Police have uncovered an Al-Qaeda plot to bring down Britain’s internet hub, according to a report in The Times.

  • News: Official: Microsoft Office won't go online

    Microsoft will deliver future versions of Office as software, not as a service, and as complete packages, not modules that do incremental updates, according to Jeff Raikes, president of the company's business group. In a talk before analysts at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco, Raikes discussed Microsoft's plans for Office. "The truth is, for the core of Windows and the core of Office, the most sense is to have them on a fairly predictable wave," said Raikes. "The reason why that's important [is that] most enterprises expect us to pull all the components together and thoroughly test them.

  • News: Seven ways to keep your search history private

    Follow these seven tips, and you'll go a long way toward keeping your search history private, no matter which search engine you use

  • News: 20 must-have Firefox extensions

    A freshly installed copy of Firefox is a great software package, but what makes this open-source browser so special is the ability to customise it via extensions and themes to really make it yours

  • News: Wikipedia-inspired search coming in Q4

    Wikia's open search engine hopes to provide a level playing field by taking aim at Google's 'vulnerable' strategy

  • News: Home Wi-Fi hotspot firm gets €10m

    Wi-Fi startup Fon Technology has secured an additional €10m (£7m) in funding for its plan to establish a global network of shared hotspots.

  • News: UK official calls for privacy standards

    The UK's information commissioner, Richard Thomas, has called for international harmonisation of privacy rules.

  • News: eBay accuses Microsoft and Yahoo of cybersecurity failure

    Phishing attacks remain a major concern at eBay and PayPal

  • News: 35 US spammers booted off trading floor

    The US SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) has suspended trading for 35 companies that allegedly benefited from spam email campaigns to hype their stocks.

  • News: Alien search-engine announced

    Big Blue is teaming with The Anomalies Network to offer 'UFO Crawler', a search engine specifically tuned to search for information about the paranormal, unexplained or bizarre. an online X-Files, if you like. The search tool employs IBM's OmniFind Yahoo! Edition enterprise search software.

  • News: New PS3 world takes on Second Life

    Sony has announced a new online community service for the PlayStation 3 (PS3).

  • News: Google Desktop gets an upgrade

    Google has released a new version of its desktop search tool, adding a preview feature to help find information more quickly and making some improvements to the interface design.

  • News: Adult spam reaches all-time low

    The amount of adult spam targeting inboxes has reached an all-time low, according to Symantec’s most-recent State of Spam report.

  • News: 27,000 complain about broadband services

    Ofcom, the body that regulates and oversees the telecommunications industry, says it received 26,926 broadband-related complaints from consumers in a 10-month period last year. Even British Gas comes in for censure.

  • News: Critical new Firefox fix available

    The Mozilla Foundation has published a fix for a ‘critical’ JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox browser and the SeaMonkey application suite.

  • News: Huge leap for domain name registrations

    Domain-name registrations reached 120 million in the fourth quarter of 2006, representing a 32 percent increase over the previous year, and an eight percent rise over the previous quarter.