Bill Gates opens doors to new 'Gates Notes' site
News Microsoft's chairman is launching a website to offer his thoughts on matters from philanthropy to the climate [21 Jan 2010]
Critics dismiss Chrome bug bounty as 'too low'
News Google has followed Mozilla in launching a programme to pay researchers who find bugs, but some say it won't necessarily pay off [13:56 GMT]
Google expanding Gmail's social features
News Sources familiar with the company's plans say Google is ready to integrate status updates into Gmail in Twitter-like style [09 Feb 2010]
PayPal suspends service in India
News The online payment service provider has put some of its services in India on hold, and is reversing funds requested through PayPal India [09 Feb 2010]
YouTube adds support for IPv6 network
News By making its video site available over IPv6, Google has taken another step in the transition to the next-gen internet addressing system [08 Feb 2010]
Microsoft, Facebook revise search deal
News The global deal will see the social-networking giant sell its own ads and get more of Bing's features on its web results [08 Feb 2010]
FBI wants website visits recorded
News The head of the FBI's digital evidence section has said that internet providers in the US should keep logs for two years [08 Feb 2010]
Google files four web-app patent applications
News The search giant is seeking patents for technology it is building into Chrome to try to make the web a more powerful foundation for applications [08 Feb 2010]
Google seeking Middle East lobbyist
News The search giant reportedly wants to engage an Arab political professional to drive its policies on internet law and regulatory issues across the region [03 Feb 2010]
Police unit set up to combat terrorist websites
News The team has authority to take down sites providing information helpful to terrorists, and will be aided by reports submitted by the public [02 Feb 2010]
- Practicing Up for Big Brother. - Xwindowsjunkie
- Police unit set up to combat terrorist websites - ator1940
IE6 usage plummets, Chrome makes gains
News Microsoft's IE8 has surpassed its 2001 version for the first time in January, while Google's Chrome continued to rise [02 Feb 2010]
G Cloud app store trial to begin this week
News An app store that could help the government cut the cost of its IT infrastructure is to be trialled from this week [02 Feb 2010]
Report: Google preparing app store for businesses
News Third-party developers might soon be able to sell add-ons to the Google Apps suite of software for businesses through an online store [02 Feb 2010]
Google aims to speed up DNS requests
News The internet's address system can inappropriately route people to servers far away. Google is proposing a DNS change to try to fix it [01 Feb 2010]
Government shutters half its websites
News Following the recommendations of the 2006 Varney report, 907 of the government's 1,700 websites have closed [01 Feb 2010]
Mozilla launches first mobile Firefox browser
News Firefox 1.0 for Nokia's Maemo, previously code-named Fennec, has been released by Mozilla [01 Feb 2010]
Google Social Search moves into beta
News Friends on social-networking services who add links to their content inside their Google Profiles will start showing up in search results for Google users [28 Jan 2010]
Merchants lose £400k a year to online fraud
News A study has found that online traders consider fraud to be their top threat, while concerns about customer data theft have increased [26 Jan 2010]
Italian government targets internet videos
News A government decree, aimed at sites such as YouTube, would require the vetting of videos with sexual or violent content [25 Jan 2010]
Google sees Q4 revenue, earnings rise
News Revenue and earnings beat analyst estimates as the company also saw an increase in paid clicks and the average cost per click [22 Jan 2010]
Firefox 3.6 boosts speed, performance and visuals
News Mozilla has debuted the latest version of Firefox, introducing under-the-hood changes that make it faster and help it render content better [22 Jan 2010]
Councils urged to embrace Twitter, social media
News A report from Socitm Insight says the failure of councils to use social media is tantamount to ignoring the telephone at the end of the 19th century [19 Jan 2010]
- I cannot see it happening. - Gaderath
Google shows Wave talking to Novell's Pulse
News Google has given a public demo of how its Wave collaboration platform can integrate with Novell's rival Pulse system [18 Jan 2010]
Google rolls out online storage for all file types
News Google Docs users, who were previously only able to store certain kinds of documents in the company's cloud, will soon get 1GB of storage for any file type [13 Jan 2010]
BBC extends beta trial of iPlayer on freesat
News The BBC is offering a beta trial for the catch-up iPlayer service on freesat to any viewers with a Humax-branded freesat HD or freesat+ digital box [12 Jan 2010]
