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Article | 15/10/2009 Delta Air Lines sued over alleged e-mail hacking

Delta Air Lines is being sued for allegedly hacking the e-mail account of a passenger rights advocate supporting legislation that would allow access t...

Article | 14/10/2009 Google to send detailed information about hacked Web sites

In an effort to promote the "general health of the Web," Google will send Webmasters snippets of malicious code in the hopes infected Web sites can be...

Article | 2/10/2009 Web gurus reveal how to attract and keep users

Anyone who is building a Web-based community, whether it be a social network or other application, faces the same initial hurdle as sites such as Digg...

Article | 1/10/2009 Microsoft wins appeal in Uniloc patent case

Microsoft will not have to pay $388 million to a security software company for infringing on a patent, U.S. District Judge William Smith ruled Tuesday...

Article | 1/10/2009 Barrelfish OS will speed up future multicore systems

Without a radical change in the way much of it is written, software, sadly, just can't go much faster anymore.

Article | 30/09/2009 Android modder attempts to outmaneuver Google

The creator of a popular souped-up version of Android thinks he's found a way to avoid a further tussle with Google over distribution of the company's...

Article | 28/09/2009 Russian cybergangs make the Web a dangerous place

Russian cybergangs have established a robust system for promoting Web sites that sell fake antivirus software, pharmaceuticals and counterfeit luxury ...

Article | 24/09/2009 Microsoft set to fire up Dublin data center

Microsoft has opened up for business its new Dublin data center, a massive 550,000-square-foot facility dedicated to serving primarily European custom...

Article | 23/09/2009 Microsoft buys software to bolster its core ERP product

Microsoft is buying technology from four of its partners in order to bolster its Dynamics AX ERP (enterprise resource planning) product with commonly ...

Article | 23/09/2009 Facebook, Nielsen to ask users about display ads

Facebook is partnering with Nielsen on using a system that gathers feedback about whether online display ads are influencing Web users.

Article | 16/09/2009 Soon to sink, Pirate Bay's torrents come ashore

The old news kiosk in the center of Weimar, Germany, doesn't sell newspapers any more, but you can find pointers to plenty of other media there.

Article | 14/09/2009 Powerful tool to scour document metadata updated

A Spanish company has released an upgraded version of a powerful software application that can be used to perform intelligence gathering on a company'...

Article | 11/09/2009 Google plans to offer micropayments service to media owners

Google is promoting a payments system to the newspaper industry that would let Web surfers pay a small amount for individual news stories, an idea tha...

Article | 10/09/2009 Skype bungles software upgrade for the iPhone

Take a deep breath: Skype isn't working so great on the iPhone right now. But a fix should be available by Wednesday evening in Apple's App Store.

Article | 7/09/2009 Small English town outpaces others in likely online fraud

A town in England with a modest population of 10,000 or so has chalked up the highest percentage of online transactions flagged as fraudulent by a U.K...