Firefox 3.5 released for download
News The major upgrade to the popular open-source browser provides private surfing, location awareness and support for HTML 5 features such as open-standards video [30 Jun 2009]
Swedish company to buy Pirate Bay
News Global Gaming Factory, which develops distribution software for use in internet cafes, has announced it will buy the file-sharing site for £4.7m [30 Jun 2009]
HTML 5 drops open-source video codec
News The next version of the web-coding language will specify neither H.264 nor Ogg Theora as its native video codec, due to a lack of agreement between browser makers [03 Jul 2009]
Yahoo's Delicious is added to Chrome
News Chrome's extensions framework has matured enough for Yahoo to release an alpha version of an add-on to use its social-bookmarking service [02 Jul 2009]
Services launched for Ubuntu-based clouds
News Canonical will provide services to support companies building 'private cloud' infrastructures behind their corporate firewalls [02 Jul 2009]
China puts brakes on internet-filter rollout
News Hours before the policy was due to start, China has delayed indefinitely a plan to force manufacturers to bundle internet-filtering software with PCs sold in the country [01 Jul 2009]
Jackson death prompts malware alert at Google
News The spike in searches related to Michael Jackson was so 'volcanic' that it triggered an anti-malware mechanism at Google, the company says [26 Jun 2009]
UK drops in ICT league table
News The US and the UK have fallen in an 'e-readiness' ranking list, as the downturn harms the ability of many countries to use ICT for social and economic development [19 Jun 2009]
Ballmer: Microsoft putting investment behind search
News Microsoft is willing to invest up to 10 percent of its operating income in its internet search business for up to five years, according to chief executive Steve Ballmer [19 Jun 2009]
Google's censorship struggles continue in China
Analysis At some point before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Google changed its method for censoring search results, yet it will not discuss the new method [17 Jun 2009]
Experts ask Google to boost privacy
News Following a request from 38 security experts, Google says it is considering offering encryption by default for Gmail and other apps if it doesn't slow down performance too much [17 Jun 2009]
Firefox 3.5 to 'upgrade the web', says Mozilla
News The latest version of Firefox, on track for release at the end of the month, promises features such as faster performance, built-in video and new graphics technology [17 Jun 2009]
Opera Unite turns browser into door to PC
News The Opera Unite alpha lets people invite others to use a browser to see content on their PC, but security experts have called its reliance on simple passwords an 'avenue to disaster' [16 Jun 2009]
Opera: Microsoft's browser move not enough
News The software maker's move to strip IE from Windows 7 in Europe will not restore competition in the browser market, says Opera chief technology officer Håkon Wium Lie [15 Jun 2009]
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Google Native Client moves beyond research phase
News Satisfied with its security approach, Google has begun broader development of its technology for more powerful web applications [12 Jun 2009]
French court curbs internet piracy legislation
News A law aimed at punishing internet pirates, backed by French president Nicolas Sarkozy, is ruled undemocratic by France's top constitutional court [11 Jun 2009]
Will the cloud help or hinder open source? 
Video Experts weigh up the impact of cloud computing on open-source software and Linux [10 Jun 2009]
HP, Intel, Yahoo team up on the cloud
News The tech giants have announced that three new research organisations will join their Open Cirrus cloud-computing research effort [10 Jun 2009]
Businesses unaware of web-domain changes
News Two-thirds of businesses don't know they will be able to use their own name in place of extensions such as .com when internet domains are liberalised next year, a survey has found [09 Jun 2009]
Experts highlight barriers to cloud adoption
Video Cloud-computing pundits spell out the issues that are holding back the technology [08 Jun 2009]
PayPal, Picnik partner up with Yahoo Mail
News The latest partners in the Open Strategy offer ways to help you make payments from your email inbox, offering users yet more to do from within Yahoo [08 Jun 2009]
Who is really moving to the cloud?
Video A panel of experts offer their take on what types of organisation are taking up cloud-computing services [05 Jun 2009]
Google debuts Chrome for Mac, Linux
News Google has started taking Chrome beyond Windows with new versions for Mac OS X and Linux, but the company warns they are works in progress [05 Jun 2009]
Microsoft tightens up Bing search settings
News Following criticism of Bing's video-preview feature, which allowed viewing of adult content in the browser, Microsoft has come up with 'a short-term workaround' [05 Jun 2009]
Google squares up to complex searches
News Google Squared, now available for public evaluation, is a Labs project that presents results in a new, spreadsheet-like format [04 Jun 2009]
