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The next move for Microsoft and Yahoo 
Video CNET News.com's Dan Farber and Charles Cooper discuss what the near future might bring for each company and ask: could Microsoft be interested in Facebook too? [20 May 2008]
Google Health beta test launched
News The company has launched in the US a beta test of its Google Health service for archiving medical records and finding medical services [20 May 2008]
Developers launch anti-Phorm 'noise' tool
News A privacy group has launched an anti-targeted-advert tool in the shape of AntiPhormLite [19 May 2008]
Microsoft proposes alternative Yahoo deal
News The software maker is proposing a fresh transaction that would not involve the acquisition of all of Yahoo's assets [19 May 2008]
VeriSign will not revive Site Finder despite patent
News The controversial URL-typo redirection service will not make a reappearance, despite the belated award of a patent for the technique [16 May 2008]
More professionals to be allowed .pro domains
News RegistryPro, the company that exclusively runs the .pro top-level domain, says it is to widen availability to all accredited professionals [14 May 2008]
Google previews Friend Connect
News At the Campfire One event, the company unveiled a preview of Friend Connect, a way to add social features to websites without programming [13 May 2008]
Yahoo opens up geographic data to websites
News The company is letting outside websites use information from its own catalogue of geographic information as part of the Yahoo Internet Location Platform service [13 May 2008]
Carphone Warehouse to boost broadband business
News The company is selling half of its retail business to Best Buy, and plans to invest part of the £1.1bn proceeds in broadband infrastructure [12 May 2008]
ICANN: Start planning for IPv6
Video Paul Twomey, president and chief executive of ICANN, advises chief executives to start discussions with ISPs on moving to systems compatible with IPv6 [09 May 2008]
ICANN attacks 'fat and happy' IPv4 users
News Businesses need to begin thinking now beyond having IPv4 address space, says ICANN's president, or risk losing online customers [09 May 2008]
Auction site QXL going, going, gone
News Customers have been informed by email that the QXL.co.uk site will close down by the end of this month [07 May 2008]
Microsoft and Yahoo: The next step
Video CNET News.com's Dan Farber and Ina Fried discuss how a potential deal between the two companies fell apart and how they may now proceed [07 May 2008]
Yang: Yahoo open to renewed Microsoft talks
News Chief executive Jerry Yang says his company is still open to negotiations with Microsoft, as Yahoo shares suffer in the aftermath of failed takeover talks [06 May 2008]
Mozilla reveals mobile Firefox
Video Chairman of the Mozilla Foundation, Mitchell Baker, talks about the company's plans to enter the smartphone market with Fennec, a mobile version of its Firefox browser [28 Apr 2008]
Sun touts high-performance computing for Web 2.0
Video Chief executive Jonathan Schwartz talks about the company's new computing facility, and how Web 2.0 such as Facebook and Google are benefiting from high-performance computing systems [28 Apr 2008]
Businesses probe benefits of Second Life
News Organisations are still experimenting with the virtual world, with some now seeing it as a place to collaborate rather than a virtual shop front to do business [28 Apr 2008]
Yahoo talks up Open Strategy
Video At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, CTO Ari Balogh says he's 'rewiring Yahoo from the inside out' through the company's new developer platform [25 Apr 2008]
Google's search for business customers
Analysis A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory [23 Apr 2008]
Socitm calls on councils for web-accessibility checks
News The local government IT body says the outlook for council-website accessibility is 'getting bleaker' [21 Apr 2008]
eBay bolstered by Skype and PayPal results
News The subsidiaries have brought in good first-quarter results, with Skype now boasting the largest registered user base in eBay's portfolio [17 Apr 2008]
Internationalised domain names may launch in 2009
News According to an ICANN source, internationalised domain names could debut 'early next year', 10 years after the concept was first discussed [10 Apr 2008]
BBC proposes ISP 'broadband charter'
News With an increase in bandwidth-draining online video content, the BBC has called on ISPs to make it clearer to users what level of service they are paying for [07 Apr 2008]
UK company launches virtual private servers
News A low-cost virtual private server service aimed at small companies has been launched, which supports Windows and Linux [03 Apr 2008]
Lastminute development 'guru' joins Huddle
News Online collaboration website Huddle.net has snapped up Lastminute.com's director of software development Jonathan Howell to head up its technology practice as CTO [03 Apr 2008]
