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Article | 23/01/2006 Subpoena of search engine records irks users
The news that major search engine operators Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN division and America Online complied with a U.S. government subpoena that Google is...
Article | 20/01/2006 US government wrestles Google for porn records
The U.S. government is asking a California court to force Google to turn over information about usage of the company's search engine for finding porno...
Article | 19/01/2006 Google, Venter mum on collaboration reports
Google and the J. Craig Venter Institute are playing down highly publicized reports of a collaboration reported in a recently published book.
Article | 18/01/2006 Google Talk now interoperable with XMPP networks
Google has finished making its Google Talk instant messaging service fully interoperable with IM networks that support the XMPP protocol, the company ...
Article | 18/01/2006 Google buys radio ad provider
Google has reached an agreement to acquire dMarc Broadcasting, whose technology links radio stations and advertisers and automates various aspects of ...
Article | 12/01/2006 Google Earth for Mac released
Google has released a Mac OS version of Google Earth, extending to Apple Computer users the flashy mapping application that has been wowing Windows PC...
Article | 11/01/2006 AOL buys video search engine
As consumer demand for online video swells, America Online (AOL) announced Tuesday that it has acquired Truveo, a provider of video search, to boost i...
Article | 10/01/2006 Google increases lead over Yahoo in search
Google pulled away from Yahoo in search engine usage during November in a major way, according to comScore Networks.
Article | 9/01/2006 Microsoft defends its WMF response
A Microsoft official on Friday defended the company's response to the discovery of a security vulnerability involving Windows Metafile (WMF). This fla...
Article | 29/12/2005 Malicious hackers busy exploiting Windows flaw
Fully-patched systems running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 can be successfully attacked by malicious hackers, various security firms warned Tues...
Article | 21/12/2005 Yahoo's hosting clients get WordPress blogging software
Yahoo will make available to subscribers of its Web hosting services the open-source WordPress blog publishing software.
Article | 19/12/2005 Report: Google to pay US$1 billion for AOL stake
Google is poised to pay US$1 billion for a 5 percent stake in Time Warner's America Online unit, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday afternoon on ...
Article | 19/12/2005 Google backs multimedia standard for IM
Google is helping to extend an open instant messaging protocol so that IM (instant message) applications based on it will have a standard method for m...
Article | 14/12/2005 Del.icio.us users concerned about Yahoo acquisition
Many Del.icio.us users are fretting over the social bookmarking company's acquisition by Yahoo because they fear the Internet giant will alter their b...
Article | 12/12/2005 Yahoo buys social bookmarking firm Del.icio.us
Yahoo has acquired Del.icio.us, a New York-based startup that is considered a pioneer in social bookmarking, a type of online service that lets users ...

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