Lawyers, analysts: ICANN vote will cause URL chaos
News The decision to let custom top-level domains be created will result in a 'nightmare' for brand managers, according to observers [27 Jun 2008]
- This was predictable - harpless
Yahoo hits refresh with exec shake-up
News The web giant has reorganised its upper management in a bid to improve its products, underlying technology and operational execution [27 Jun 2008]
YouTube user privacy at risk in Google-Viacom suit 
Video CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss whether YouTube users' privacy will be threatened as a result of a US ruling that Google must turn over user data to Viacom [04 Jul 2008]
Google asks Viacom to respect YouTube user privacy
News The search giant has urged Viacom to allow the anonymisation of YouTube user data that must be handed over following a US court ruling [04 Jul 2008]
Gartner: Hosted email to boost cloud-services uptake
News The analyst house claims increasing business use of internet-hosted email services will boost uptake of other IT apps provided over the web [04 Jul 2008]
Google wins source-code ruling in Viacom lawsuit
News A US judge has ruled Google does not have to reveal its search source code, but must surrender YouTube users' details, to Viacom [03 Jul 2008]
Microsoft seeks allies for fresh Yahoo bid
News According to The Wall Street Journal, the software giant has approached Time Warner and News Corp to aid another play for Yahoo's search business [02 Jul 2008]
Adobe helps uncover 'invisible' Flash web content
News The company has given Google and Yahoo technology to help them better index dynamic web content and rich internet applications [01 Jul 2008]
ICANN relaxes domain-name rules
News The organisation has accepted a proposal allowing companies, cities and others to use almost any suffix they want for a web address [27 Jun 2008]
BBC launches iPlayer 2.0 beta
News One year after its intial launch, the on-demand TV service has undergone a major facelift designed to make it more appealing and easier to use [26 Jun 2008]
ICANN to vote on internationalised domain names
News An ICANN voting session on Thursday could see internationalised domain names, trademark domain extensions and .xxx become a reality [23 Jun 2008]
Facebook overtakes MySpace globally
News The latest comScore figures show Mark Zuckerberg's social network has overtaken its News Corp rival for worldwide unique visitors [23 Jun 2008]
ISPs face renewed threat of file-sharing laws
News The government has threatened to introduce legislation forcing ISPs to control illegal downloading and file-sharing, while the industry warns against 'cumbersome regulation' [19 Jun 2008]
FCC urged to act on net neutrality principles
News AT&T and Verizon say the US Federal Communications Commission must take action against Comcast for slowing down peer-to-peer traffic to prove net neutrality legislation is not necessary [18 Jun 2008]
Yahoo agrees search-ad deal with Google
News Yahoo believes getting search ads supplied by Google will raise revenue by $800m in its first year — but the deal could give Google more power [13 Jun 2008]
Schmidt: Making ads work is Google's duty
News Google's CEO says the company has a 'moral imperative' to help publishers with high-quality content find an ad-based business that works on the internet [12 Jun 2008]
Google sets its sights on the enterprise cloud
News The search giant says the lessons it's learned in the 'Darwinian' consumer market give it an edge as business computing moves online [11 Jun 2008]
Amazon blames outage on complicated systems
News The company has blamed its complicated infrastucture for a site outage that left Amazon.com inaccessible to many US visitors on Friday [09 Jun 2008]
Yahoo opens up address-book interface
News Opening the address book API is the second major plank in the Yahoo Open Strategy and seeks to tie the company more closely to other web services [05 Jun 2008]
Yahoo sets stage for proxy fight with Icahn
News With a date set for the annual shareholders meeting, Yahoo is preparing to fight billionaire shareholder Carl Icahn over the make-up of the company's board [04 Jun 2008]
Google lets businesses control site search
News Through its revamped Google Site Search service, the company will grant more control to those customers who want to use its search technology on their own websites [03 Jun 2008]
Joining Google's journey through search
Analysis Its spartan home page and lists of results may appear simple, but Google has offered some insight into the complex experiments and testing that help them build their product [30 May 2008]
Google's Gears turns one
News The project formerly called 'Google Gears' is increasingly being used to make online apps function when connectivity is unavailable [29 May 2008]
Google faces £40m copyright demand
News A group representing Belgian newspaper publishers is demanding Google pay damages related to a lawsuit alleging the search giant linked to and cached news stories in violation of copyright law [28 May 2008]
Google claims Viacom lawsuit 'threatens' net
News In a legal response to Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube, the search giant says it could affect "the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information" over the web [27 May 2008]
