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Article | 31/10/2008 ICANN delays shutting down spammy Estonian registrar

The overseer of the Internet's addressing system said on Wednesday it will delay shutting down a dodgy Estonian domain registrar pending a review.

Article | 31/10/2008 OpenOffice.org issues critical patches for older versions

OpenOffice.org has released two patches that repair older versions of its open-source office productivity suite.

Article | 27/10/2008 Russia blocks Google online advertising acquisition

Russian regulators will not let Google buy a local online advertising company, halting a $140 million deal agreed to in July.

Article | 17/10/2008 Microsoft's Fast Search charged with fraud in Norway

Norwegian police on Thursday charged Fast Search & Transfer with accounting fraud, an enterprise search company bought by Microsoft in January for US$...

Article | 15/10/2008 Google will appeal German copyright decisions

Google will appeal two German court decisions that found it violated copyright law by showing thumbnails of works by two artists in search results, th...

Article | 14/10/2008 Security software performs poorly in exploit test

Security software suites are doing a poor job of detecting when a PC's software is under attack, according to Danish vendor Secunia.

Article | 13/10/2008 US gov't proposes digital signing of DNS root zone file

The US government is soliciting input on a way to make the Internet's addressing system less susceptible to tampering by hackers.

Article | 9/10/2008 Firefox extension blocks dangerous Web attack

A popular free security tool for the Firefox browser has been upgraded to block one of the most dangerous and troubling security problems facing the W...

Article | 9/10/2008 Google extends e-mail archiving service to 10 years

Google is extending its hosted e-mail archiving service to hold messages for up to a decade, the company said Wednesday.

Article | 3/10/2008 Nokia takes aim at Apple with touch-screen phone

Finnish phone maker Nokia launched its first touch-screen phone on Thursday, intending to one-up Apple's iPhone on features and be competitively price...

Article | 1/10/2008 Prominent Web sites found to have serious coding flaw

Two Princeton University academics have found a type of coding flaw on several prominent Web sites that could jeopardize personal data and in one alar...

Article | 29/09/2008 New industry group takes aim at 'net pollution,' piracy

A group of technology and entertainment heavyweights is undertaking a public relations campaign to dissuade consumers from illegal file sharing, somet...

Article | 29/09/2008 Alcatel-Lucent loses $1.5B award in Microsoft patent suit

Alcatel-Lucent lost another round against Microsoft last week in a continuing court battle over patents for the MP3 digital music format.

Article | 26/09/2008 Yahoo launches long-awaited display ad platform

Yahoo rolled out part of a new advertising platform on Wednesday that's intended to streamline how digital ads are bought and placed across the Web.

Article | 17/09/2008 Google shows Android running on a phone in Europe

Google provided a glimpse of its Android operating system running on a mobile phone for the first time in Europe on Tuesday, in a limited viewing ahea...