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Cybersquatting OK for 'freedom of speech' sites

News The World Intellectual Property Organization is seeing increasing support for cybersquatters who use domain names for criticism of businesses [06 Dec 2007]

Christmas online spending to break £5bn barrier

News UK payments body Apacs has warned a 55 percent rise in online spending in December means there will be more potential fraud victims [03 Dec 2007]

Flying the Google flag for good causes

Flying the Google flag for good causes

Q&A Dr Larry Brilliant, executive director of not-for-profit Google.org, heads the search giant's efforts to fight global warming and poverty and aid public health [30 Nov 2007]


Berners-Lee discusses future of the internet Video icon

Berners-Lee discusses future of the internet

Video Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee speaks about where he sees the web going in the next five years [29 Nov 2007]


Zoho takes on Microsoft and Google Video icon

Zoho takes on Microsoft and Google

Video Chief executive Sridhar Vembu outlines Zoho's Web 2.0 office strategy and discusses how his company plans to compete in the office software market [29 Nov 2007]

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'Friendly rootkits' proposed for safe e-commerce

News A security researcher believes benevolent rootkits served by retailers might make e-commerce more secure than SSL certificates [28 Nov 2007]

Jobs hailed as most powerful person in business

Jobs hailed as most powerful person in business

News Steve Jobs heads Fortune magazine's 2007 list of the most powerful businesspeople, while Bill Gates has dropped to seventh place [28 Nov 2007]


Online library offers 1.5m books for free

News The Universal Digital Library, backed by several major libraries worldwide, is more about preservation and less about getting clicks [28 Nov 2007]

Google-DoubleClick deal: A hard sell in Europe

Google-DoubleClick deal: A hard sell in Europe

Analysis The search giant may have a tougher time getting what it wants in Europe than the US, as EU antitrust regulators scrutinise the planned $3.1bn merger [22 Nov 2007]

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Broadband prevails for UK internet

News The latest quarterly survey from the Office for National Statistics has revealed that nearly nine out of 10 connections to the internet in the UK are now made via broadband [21 Nov 2007]

Mozilla releases Firefox 3 beta

News A number of significant features have been added to the open-source web browser that aim to improve security, ease of use and accessibility [20 Nov 2007]

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Australia sets date for Google keyword case

News The Australian competition regulator's allegations of misleading and deceptive advertising practices by Google will be heard in June [19 Nov 2007]

ICANN to fast track internationalised domain names

News The organisation has announced plans to speed the development of internationalised country-coded top level domains using non-Latin characters [15 Nov 2007]

Intel chief welcomes Web 2.0 momentum Video icon

Intel chief welcomes Web 2.0 momentum

Video Paul Otellini talks about how new collaborative social-networking tools will fuel the next wave of IT inside the enterprise [14 Nov 2007]


EC extends Google-DoubleClick probe again

News Google has raised concerns that it is being put at a disadvantage following the EC's announcement of an extensive second-phase review [14 Nov 2007]

Businesses warned: Be ready for digital natives

News Gartner has said businesses will need to cater to the demands of the new generation of office workers for online Web 2.0 portals [12 Nov 2007]

Judges reveal best (and worst) politicians' websites Camera icon

Judges reveal best (and worst) politicians' websites

Photos At the inaugural MP Website Awards, hosted by the British Computer Society at the House of Commons, MPs were told who really cuts the mustard online [09 Nov 2007]


Windows Live finds its feet

Windows Live finds its feet

Q&A Corporate vice president for Windows Live, Chris Jones, talks about the two-year-old product and comments on another youngster — Apple's iPhone [07 Nov 2007]


US Congress berates Yahoo in cyberdissident row

News The company's provision of information to the Chinese authorities used to convict a journalist has been branded 'despicable' [07 Nov 2007]

The virtual mall strikes back Video icon

The virtual mall strikes back

Video TheMall.tv hopes to succeed where others have failed, thanks to photo-realistic graphics and big-name clients [05 Nov 2007]


IMRG: Online retail is in 'hypergrowth' Video icon

IMRG: Online retail is in 'hypergrowth'

Video Interviewed at E-Commerce Expo, James Roper of the e-commerce trade body IMRG explains how online retail could weather an economic downturn [02 Nov 2007]


Webcredible on usability and accessibility Video icon

Webcredible on usability and accessibility

Video Lisa Halabi from Webcredible explains why e-commerce websites need to work much harder on making their sites usable and accessible [02 Nov 2007]


Elertz: Bringing 'morality' to online marketing Video icon

Elertz: Bringing 'morality' to online marketing

Video At E-Commerce Expo, Steve Saunders from Elertz explains the advantages of contacting customers via opt-in alerts rather than email-based marketing [02 Nov 2007]


Law Lords: Banks liable for overseas purchases

News People buying goods from overseas will now enjoy the same credit protection that covers purchases made in the UK [01 Nov 2007]

Beijing Olympics ticket system crashes

News Domestic ticket sales have been halted after eight million hits and 200,000 orders per second overwhelmed the booking system [01 Nov 2007]