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- 22 January 2007
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News: Music labels target MySpace sales
A group of independent record labels behind artists such as The White Stripes and The Arctic Monkeys have joined to form Merlin, an agency which will sell music on sites such as MySpace, YouTube and the new advertising-funded SpiralFrog.
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News: Belgian newspapers go after Yahoo
Copiepresse, the association representing Belgian newspapers, has already accused Google and MSN of copyright violations and now it's got Yahoo in its sights.
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News: Microsoft & Google promote web freedom
Microsoft, Google and two other technology companies will develop a code of conduct with a coalition of nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) to promote freedom of expression and privacy rights.
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News: MySpace accused of failing to protect children
MySpace.com is facing pressure after a new round of lawsuits claim that it failed to protect minors, and experts say the cases will enter murky legal territory.
- 19 January 2007
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News: Home PCs predict grim future for our climate
ClimatePrediction.net, a project that uses the computing power of thousands of home PCs to run a computer model of future climate change, has reported its first results
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News: Jade Goody targeted by gambling site
A gambling website is encouraging attendees at tonight’s Celebrity Big Brother eviction to throw a custard pie at Jade Goody. Gottabet said it will pay £10,000 to the first person who throws “a real custard pie or foam pie” at either Goody, who is up for eviction tonight, or fellow contestants Danielle Lloyd and Jo O’Meara.
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News: Customers not satisfied by Google Checkout
Google's Checkout online payment service ranked well below rival PayPal in customer satisfaction in a survey of online shoppers conducted by JP Morgan Securities
- 18 January 2007
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News: Intel invests in Clickandbuy
Intel Capital has invested an undisclosed amount in Firstgate Holding, owner of hosted online payment system provider ClickandBuy.
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News: Linux gets Adobe Flash Player 9.0
Adobe has released Flash Player 9 for Linux, allowing users of the open-source operating system to create or use multimedia applications with the latest version of Flash.
- 17 January 2007
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News: IE7 installations reach 100 million mark
Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) reached its 100 millionth installation on 8 January, according to Microsoft’s official blog.
- 16 January 2007
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News: 'Skype TV' service renamed as Joost
The Venice Project, a service from the founders of Skype offering a new way to access video online, has now been renamed as Joost.
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News: Terrorists tap into Google Earth
Google Earth maps are being used by terrorists to locate and attack British bases in Basra, report Army intelligence sources.
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News: World's thinnest 3G clamshell launched
NTT DoCoMo has taken the wraps off a new line of mobile phones including two that jointly hold the claim to thinnest 3G (third generation) clamshell handset in the world.
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News: Netflix takes on iTunes for movies
US movie fans will be able to watch films they rent from Netflix directly through their PCs from today, the company said.
- 15 January 2007
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News: Beckham deal targeted by cybersquatters
Cyber squatters were quick off the mark to snap up domain names after last week’s announcement of David Beckham’s multi-million dollar move to join the Los Angeles Galaxy football team.
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News: File-sharing firm to buy own 'nation'
One of Sweden’s largest file-sharing sites, The Pirate Bay, is planning to buy its own nation in an attempt to bypass international copyright laws.
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News: Net downloads change face of UK charts
Koopa made history in yesterday’s music charts by becoming the first unsigned act to make it into the top 40.
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News: Search engine for 50+ age group launches
A new search engine hopes to generate cash from targeted ads by filtering data for 50-year-old-plus baby boomers who lack the patience to wade through pages of results.
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News: Piracy links to Googles Chinese partner
A Google partner in China has come under fire for allegedly encouraging piracy, according to the Motion Picture Association (MPA).
- 12 January 2007
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News: AOL ditches Music Now for Napster
AOL has named Napster as exclusive supplier of subscription music for its AOL Music site in the US, and plans to migrate all 350,000 paid accounts away from the existing service, AOL Music Now, over the next 60 days.
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