Facebook forms safety advisory board
News The board consists of five internet safety organisations that will consult with the social-networking site [16:27 GMT]
Bing outage caused by testing error
News Microsoft says a change that was being tested was mistakenly moved onto the live site, causing Thursday night's sitewide outage [15:34 GMT]
Google rolls out translated search option
News The search giant is aiming to lower language barriers by offering a native-language view of the web through translated search results [15:19 GMT]
Google offers customised search for all users
News Previously, Google would only alter search results based on search history for those signed into Google accounts. Now, it plans to do that for everyone [09:30 GMT]
Yahoo, Microsoft finalise search agreement
News The US government still needs to give its approval, but Yahoo and Microsoft have otherwise finalised their deal to install Microsoft as the search provider on Yahoo's sites [08:50 GMT]
Google buys EtherPad online collaboration tool
News The search giant is bolstering its Google Wave project by acquiring AppJet, a smaller rival with an online collaboration service [08:34 GMT]
Google launches Public DNS
News Google has opened its internal Internet directory servers to public access, claiming they offer high performance and enhanced security for all [04 Dec 2009]
Spam leader fined $15m by US courts
News The US Federal Trade Commission has ordered Lance Atkinson to pay the fine for his role as head of a vast spam network [02 Dec 2009]
US gov't agencies sued over Facebook surveillance
News After agencies failed to provide info requested on policies for using Twitter, Facebook and other social networks in investigations, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has sued [02 Dec 2009]
eBay hit by £1.5m fine over LVMH injunction
News The online retailer has responded to the ruling by a French court, calling the injunction an 'abuse of selective distribution' that hurts consumers [01 Dec 2009]
Draft standard aimed at improving website interfaces
News The Files interface, now a draft at the World Wide Web Consortium, could lead to better uploading and other chores [25 Nov 2009]
Chrome extensions site now open for uploads
News Google is asking programmers to start adding their Chrome extensions to the new gallery, but browser users can't download them yet [25 Nov 2009]
Mozilla reveals 2008 revenue of $79m
News The revenue growth rate tapered off to five percent from 12 percent the previous year, while a search deal with Google still supplies the bulk of the Firefox backer's money [20 Nov 2009]
Google, Bing gain search share at Yahoo's expense
News In recent months, fewer and fewer searches have been performed on Yahoo's sites, with market leader Google and upstart Microsoft seeing the benefits [18 Nov 2009]
Facebook adopts revised privacy policy
News The social-networking site hopes the policy revision will make it more accessible and easier to understand [18 Nov 2009]
Microsoft sets January date for Azure
News On day one of PDC 2009, executives Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia filled in details about the launch of its Azure cloud platform [18 Nov 2009]
Antitrust concerns linger in Google Books deal
News Opponents of the revised Google Books settlement say the search giant will still have exclusive rights to digitise out-of-print works [17 Nov 2009]
Egypt bids for first Arabic top-level domain
News Six countries have now applied for internationalised top-level domains, including Egypt, Russia and Saudi Arabia [17 Nov 2009]
- Egypt uses MISR as top level domain - Adrian Bridgwater
Google Books revised settlement adds limitations
News The settlement allows the scanning of out-of-print works from only English-speaking countries, restricts future business for Google and gives copyright holders more rights [16 Nov 2009]
Microsoft declares Bing UK ready for action
News The company's search engine, which has a UK market share of just below three percent, is now out of beta [13 Nov 2009]
Google Voice acquires VoIP client Gizmo5
News Terms of the deal for the VoIP software company were undisclosed, but the acquisition will be used to help Google Voice [13 Nov 2009]
Verizon to trial campaign of 'copyright notices'
News The US company, known for its reluctance to intervene in anti-piracy cases, will forward copyright notices on behalf of the music industry to those suspected of illegal downloading [13 Nov 2009]
Google SPDY protocol could boost web speeds
News Researchers are playing with a new web protocol that could theoretically decrease the time it takes to load a web page by a significant amount [13 Nov 2009]
Google plans first-ever share buyback
News If the company's $750m acquisition of AdMob is allowed to go through, Google will offset the impact of issuing $750m in stock by buying back an equal amount [12 Nov 2009]
Apple issues security update for Safari
News Available for Windows and Mac, the Safari 4.0.4 update addresses multiple security holes in the browser [12 Nov 2009]
