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Article | 19/02/2010 Outlook harnesses social networking

Microsoft is transforming Outlook from an e-mail client, or messaging platform, to a social networking hub with the addition of social connectors. The...

Article | 20/01/2010 Study: Click fraud rate relatively low in 2009's Q4

Click fraud, a practice that dilutes the efficacy of pay-per-click (PPC) advertising campaigns run in search engines like Google, stayed relatively lo...

Article | 13/01/2010 Google may pull out of China after cyberattacks

Google has decided to stop censoring its results in China and could end up closing its operations and shutting down its search engine there, the compa...

Article | 13/01/2010 Facebook joins Apache foundation

Facebook Tuesday joined the Apache Software Foundation as a Gold sponsor, looking to cement its commitment to open source and pledging to help drive t...

Article | 9/01/2010 W3C posts draft standard for local database storage

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has posted a draft set of APIs that Web applications could one day use to store structured content offline.

Article | 11/12/2009 Malaysian company acquires Friendster, bets on micropayments

Social networking site Friendster accepted a buyout offer from Malaysia's MOL Global, which hopes to generate revenue from the site using micropayment...

Article | 7/12/2009 Yahoo launches tool allowing users to control targeted ads

Yahoo has rolled out a new tool to allow users of its advertising networks to control what targeted ads they receive, in response to growing demand fr...

Article | 4/12/2009 Google goes with HTML5 over Gears

Google will end Gears, an open-source plug-in project it launched two years ago to allow Web applications to function even when a computer isn't conne...

Article | 17/11/2009 MasterCard to authenticate online transactions by phone

In the face of mounting threats from hackers, MasterCard will use mobile phones to improve security for online transactions, the company said on Monda...

Article | 13/11/2009 Flash flaw puts most sites, users at risk, say researchers

Hackers can exploit a flaw in Adobe's Flash to compromise nearly every Web site that allows users to upload content, including Google's Gmail, then la...

Article | 12/11/2009 IDC: Worldwide online ad spending drops slightly in Q3

Global online advertising spending fell slightly in the third quarter, but there are signs that the market may be recovering and could start growing a...

Article | 10/11/2009 No rush to adopt domain names written in Chinese in China

A global Internet governing body last month approved new languages for use in domain names, but at least in China some Web sites have hesitated to reb...

Article | 10/11/2009 Online publishing for the cheap and lazy

I'm a lazy cheapskate. And I'm often on the move. But as a columnist, I'm also interested in exposing as many readers as possible to my brilliant insi...

Article | 7/11/2009 IBM's 'enterprise Facebook' is a hit

Lotus Connections is "the fastest-growing software in IBM history when it comes to market adoption," said an IBM social software strategist on board t...

Article | 5/11/2009 New software detects bots scraping Web site data

Web sites such as job boards face a persistent problem: their data is constantly pilfered by automated bots.

Article | 30/10/2009 The Internet at 40: History Began With Its First Crash

Why do we today celebrate today -- October 29 -- as the Internet's 40's birthday? Because on this day in 1969, what would later became known as the In...

Article | 28/10/2009 ICANN: New TLDs debate to drag on

The debate has become heated at the ICANN meeting in Seoul this week over whether new generic Top-Level Domains should be approved and whether some ap...

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 | 2/10/2009 Google expands search control with new options

Google is adding new functionality to a side panel that could provide quicker access to relevant search results, the company said on Thursday.