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13 February 2007
News: Yahoo links Mail & IM app

Yahoo will soon start to fulfil a promise it made to users several months ago to tie its new web mail service with its instant-messaging application.
12 February 2007
News: Video traffic could cripple internet

User-generated content and the growth of services such as YouTube and Joost could cripple the internet, Google has warned.
News: Xerox invests in new Google killer

Xerox’s research subsidiary the Palo Alto Research Center has struck a licensing deal with a high-profile startup in the hopes of building a search engine that could one day rival Google.
News: Yahoo & LG partner for mobile search

Yahoo has reached a deal with LG Electronics that should see its "Go" mobile platform on the screens of tens of millions of LG mobile phone handsets shipped later this year.
09 February 2007
News: Redten runs out of 'free' PCs

Redten Internet has called a halt to its offer of a free Vista PC for customers who signed up for three years of broadband. A notice on the company's website explains that the firm has run out of free PCs, and that the deal has therefore been suspended temporarily.
News: Microsoft dumps Windows Live Mail

Microsoft has reversed its decision to kill off the Hotmail brand when it brings out its new web-based email service.
News: EC invites comments on web shopping rules

The European Commission has proposed a review of the rules designed to protect consumers buying goods and services on the internet, dismissing the current rules as ineffective
News: New Firefox 3.0 version released

Mozilla has released the second alpha release of Firefox 3.0, with the new Gran Paradiso build of the internet browser now available for web application developers to download.
08 February 2007
News: Vodafone & Orange deal to boost 3G coverage

Vodafone and Orange plan to boost high-speed mobile internet access coverage across the UK by merging their 3G networks.
News: Lycos launches video & social-networking tool

Lycos is set to go after a portion of the popular online-video and social-networking spaces today by launching a service that lets users create video playlists composed of footage from several websites.
News: Web host runs Windows & Linux concurrently

Netfirms, a Canadian web-hosting company, said yesterday that it would begin letting customers build and host websites running both Windows and Linux applications at the same time. The company said its decision was based on increased demand for such sites from web developers and their clients.
News: Banks could pass on phishing losses to customers

The failure of customers to secure their own money during internet transactions could potentially lead banks to pass off the responsibility of financial losses back to the customer. User education for online banking customers on how to avoid phishing scams has failed, according to Paul Henry, senior vice president of Secure Computing. This form of commonsense defence has failed to work time and time again, he added.
News: Microsoft tackles IE7 phishing flaw

Microsoft has quietly released a patch aimed at improving the performance of Internet Explorer 7's phishing filter ahead of the company's regular patching schedule, which occurs on the second Tuesday of every month.
07 February 2007
News: Google opens Googlemail to all in UK

Google has made its Googlemail web-based email service available to all in the UK, ending the invite-only policy it’s taken since launching in 2004.
News: Internet slows following DDOS attack

Online attackers briefly disrupted service on at least two of the 13 "root" servers that are used to direct traffic on the internet yesterday.
News: EFF opens European office

Consumers in Europe have another group looking out for their digital rights with the opening of a Brussels office by the US non-profit group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
News: Wal-Mart takes on iTunes

Wal-Mart joined a growing field of providers of digital video download services with the launch of an online movie store in the US.
News: Google urges governments to back free web

The internet has an ever-growing role to play in allowing free expression across the globe, but only if attempts to reign it in are unsuccessful, according to Google chairman and chief executive Eric Schmidt.
News: Amazon & Tivo in movie download deal

Owners of Tivo's digital video recorders (DVR) will soon be able to download films and television shows for rental and purchase from Amazon.com, the two companies announced today.
News: iTunes teams with Ticketmaster

Camping out for concert tickets has never been less attractive. With sales for summer concerts about to begin, Ticketmaster will give free music from Apple's iTunes Music Store to everyone who purchases event tickets at its US website, Ticketmaster said today.