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| Half a Million Computers Infected With 'malware' in Just Seven Days Internet analysts are warning surfers to be on their guard after a booby-trapped file outbreak |
Outlook Brightens for Weather Channel Once the butt of jokes, The Weather Channel and its websites now have a huge international following and are currently... |
| YouTube Rejects Calls to Monitor Videos Video sharing website YouTube is refusing to filter out threatening material, despite calls for more restrictions in the... |
Wikipedia Takes on the World For all his false modesty Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales has Google in his sights, and believes his online encyclopedia is... |
| Japan's Cyber-suicide Trend Takes Bizarre Twist Police in Japan have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering a woman who had paid him to kill her after contacting him... |
Google Urges Un to Set Global Internet Privacy Rules · Act now to avoid crisis of confidence, says web firm· Warning that development of net could be hampered |
| Google Earth Allows Computer Users to Join Hunt for Fossett · Satellite imaging program boosts search for aviator· Nevada state proves to be aircraft graveyard |
Yahoo! Sued Over Disclosure of Chinese Citizens' Identities Human rights group files lawsuit against internet company after arrests. |
| Website Logs Deaths of Myspace Users · Life can end at any moment, says founder · Accidents and drugs loom large among 3,000 entries |
Companies and Party Aides Cast Censorious Eye Over Wikipedia Editing your own entry on Wikipedia is usually the province of vain celebrities keen for some good PR. But a new website... |
| Six in 10 Us Blackberry Users Check Emails in Bed, Survey Finds They're doing it in bed, in the bath and in the back of cars. America's CrackBerry addiction has got worse. |
Rival Claims Facebook Stole Idea A court hearing opened yesterday into a claim that one of the founders of the social networking website Facebook stole the... |
| MySpace Bars Thousands of Sex Offenders Found Among Members The social networking site MySpace claims to offer a virtual replica of the real world. It provides a forum to meet old... |
Faceoff! In an American courtroom this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will stand accused of stealing the idea for the site from... |
| Social Networking Websites Expose Class Divide US academic says social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook are divided along class lines. |
Facebook Challenges Myspace As Place for the Cool Set to Hang Out Helping people stay in touch with friends online has become the latest battleground for moguls. |
| YouTube Launches Nine National Sites and Targets Every Mobile Video-share site confident in face of litigation - Plans for further worldwide expansion |
Gangs Infect 10,000 Websites to Steal Users' Bank Details 'Italian Job' is next stage in cyber identity crime - Viruses planted on charity and tourism pages |
| Watchdog Accuses Google of Invading the Privacy of Its Internet Surfers When it comes to snooping in cyberspace, internet giant Google is the online world's biggest brother, according to a new... |
Online Freedoms Under Threat, Says Amnesty Internet repression is eroding freedom of expression online as more governments block sites and arrest bloggers, human... |
| Keep Your Curtains Closed - or Google Will Take a Peep Has Google gone too far? That was the fear being expressed online yesterday after the internet giant launched Street View,... |
Murdoch Extends His Net to China As tycoon launches version of MySpace, human rights activists fear it will be abused by censors. |
| Web Attackers Used a Million Computers, Says Estonia Estonia said yesterday that at least 1m computers had been used to launch an unprecedented wave of cyber-attacks on the... |
Yahoo Plans to Drown Fans' Fuzzy Song Lines With Legal Lyrics Site Publishing deal to put authorised songs on net - Licensed lyrics may yield $100m annual revenue |
| Blogs Mark the First 10 Years After a quiet start they revolutionised the web; now one is born every second. |
Google to Erase Information on Billions of Internet Searches Google is to erase personal information on billions of internet searches in an attempt to secure the privacy of its users.... |
| China Bans Opening of New Internet Cafes China will ban the opening of new internet cafes from this July in a government campaign to clamp down on online addiction... |
Computer Hackers Attack Root Servers of Internet Hackers last night mounted the most significant attack since 2002 on the computers that direct traffic on the internet, it... |
| Apple Boss Calls for End to Music Download Restrictions Record companies should consider dropping the anti-piracy restrictions they impose on music downloads, the Apple chief... |
Al Shugart Obituary: Flamboyant father of the disk drive industry. |
| Virus Warnings As Microsoft Launches Vista Industry holds its breath over new Windows today - Shops planned midnight openings to sell system |
YouTube v Fox Pits Net Against Network Broadcaster's fury at leak of Simpsons and 24 - File-sharing site under pressure to disclose name |
| China Soon to Be World's Biggest Internet User Online leap reported despite heavy censorship - Web activity to surpass US within two years |
Laptop Charity Dismisses Commercial Sales Speculation that the so-called $100 laptop could be sold to the general public through eBay has been dismissed by the group... |
| The Jackson 45 - a New Search Angle for Google Internet portal opens door on 200 years of patents - Filings reveal inventive ideas from entertainers |
Number of Chinese Web Users Grows By a Third China's internet population increased by almost one-third during 2006, reinforcing the country's position as one of the... |
| Germans Pull Out of European Bid to Rival Google The war waged by French president Jacques Chirac against 'Anglo-Saxon' cultural imperialism suffered a blow today when the... |
Censorship Fears Rise As Iran Blocks Access to Top Websites Iran yesterday shut down access to some of the world's most popular websites. Users were unable to open popular sites... |
| EU Bars Online Duty-free Sales The European court of justice today effectively blocked online shoppers from buying cheap cigarettes and alcohol from... |
Don't Call Us, We'll Call Youtube, Agents Say · Hollywood scouts look to sign makers of hit videos · Creators worry about losing their indie appeal |
| Gates Heralds the Next Revolution The futuristic wall computers from Minority Report will soon be reality, Microsoft's chief tells David Smith. |
Google Defiant Over Censorship in China Internet giant steps into realm of politics with debate on freedom of speech. |
| 'The Google' Lets Homesick President Keep an Eye on the Ranch US president says the ranch on Google Earth reminds him of where he wants to be sometimes. |
Hacker's Sidestep Lets Ipod Play Tracks Not Bought From Itunes Apple may be forced to look again at security for the iPod after a renowned hacker claimed to have found a way of bypassing... |
| The Search for Influence: Google Becomes a Political Player The pre-eminent provider of information is moving into the 'real' world to protect its interests. |
Sony Recalls Vaio Batteries in Far East The global recall of Sony PC batteries grew again today when the consumer electronics giant said it would recall 90,000... |
| Google's Controversial Book Search Project Google has offered the first glimpse at the results of their controversial Book Search project, releasing the top 10... |
Yahoo Could Be Sued Over Jailed Emailer Lawyers are preparing to sue the internet giant Yahoo over the imprisonment in China of Shi Tao, a journalist convicted of... |
| Google to Appeal, As Court Rules News Site is Illegal · Internet giant removes links from Belgian site · Papers say content being used without permission |
Online Survey Axed After Most Reject Chinese Identity Chinese authorities have shut down an online survey that found most respondents would prefer a different nationality if... |
| Wikipedia Defies China's Censors The founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by its users, has defied the Chinese government by refusing to... |
'Google-creep' Strikes Again As Website Puts Itself Up for Sale An American online calendar company has been forced to put itself up for sale on eBay after the internet giant Google moved... |
| Revealed: World's Oldest Computer It looks like a heap of rubbish. But 102 years after the discovery of the calcium-encrusted bronze mechanism on the ocean... |
YouTube Takes on Music Giants With Free Video Downloads A little over a year ago it did not exist. Today it is viewed more than 100m times a day and has become one of the most... |
| Google Launches Home Town Wi-fi Network Google today announced that it would move into the provision of internet access for the first time, offering free wireless... |
Dell Urges Computer Users to Check Batteries After Laptops Catch Fire · US firm begins one of biggest product recalls · Helpline set up for owners of 4m suspect machines |
| Chinese Censors Target Internet Spoofs China is drafting new rules to block internet broadcasts of short films that satirise officially approved cultural product,... |
My Name is Earl - Be My Friend ... People who log on to the MySpace page for My Name is Earl can enter a competition to have their picture included in the... |
| AOL Admits Security 'screw-up' America On Line (AOL) admitted to 'a screw-up' yesterday which resulted in 20m search inquiries by more than half a million... |
Intellectuals Condemn Closure of Website More than 100 Chinese intellectuals have condemned the country's propaganda authorities for closing down a website they... |
| Authorities Close Down Century China Website More than 100 Chinese intellectuals have condemned the country's propaganda authorities for closing down a popular website... |
Kazaa Pays Out $100m to Music Business Internet filesharing network Kazaa has agreed to pay the music industry more than $100m (£54.1m) in a global out-of-court... |
| Fears Over China Rival to Google Ambassadors across Europe will attend a cocktail dinner in Paris this week heralding the launch of the continent's first... |
Google Signals U-turn Over Chinese Site Internet giant Google may reverse its decision to launch a censored version of its search engine in China, one of the... |
| NUJ Urges Yahoo! Boycott The NUJ is calling on its 40,000 members to boycott Yahoo! for allegations that it helped the Chinese government to... |
Internet Suicides Rise in Japan The number of Japanese people killing themselves in online death pacts rose alarmingly again last year, despite government... |
| How Google Became a Rude Word in China Gougou, Gugu, Gege, Goule or Guge? A furious online debate has opened up in China over the recent adoption of a Mandarin... |
Does France Really Need Its Own Search Engine? When French president Jacques Chirac announced that he was putting €450m (£310m) into a project to create the Quareo search... |
| Chirac Unveils His Grand Plan to Restore French Pride · President hopes to secure legacy with rival to Google · Six major projects to get £1.4bn state funding |
Microsoft Says Brussels Forced It to Sell Software Nobody Wants or Buys Microsoft delivered a devastating critique yesterday of the European commission's ruling that it abuses its dominance of... |
| Thousands Lose Out to Touts in Sale of .eu Web Addresses Internet touts have used a legal loophole to buy thousands of Europe's new internet addresses, thwarting attempts to crack... |
French Vote Could Widen Choice for Downloaders French MPs today voted for a law that would signal a revolution in choice for the country's online music buyers. By Chris... |
| Blogwars: Clooney Clashes With Huffington Over 'approved' Posting · 'Scoop' was assembled from two interviews · Star's publicist agreed words, says socialite |
Boost for Google in Internet Privacy Case Privacy campaigners in the US hailed a victory of sorts for internet search engine Google yesterday after a court case... |
| Google Privacy Battle Likely to End in Compromise A legal battle between the US justice department and internet giant Google looks set to end in compromise, after a US judge... |
Warning for Apple Users After New Security Scares Users of Apple computers are being warned to stay alert after being hit by the latest in a series of security problems. |
| Yahoo! Appeals for Support in Censorship Row The internet company Yahoo! yesterday sought to blunt criticism of its business practices in China in advance of what is... |
Internet Giants Announce Plans to Charge for Speedier Emails The egalitarian world of the internet faced a major new challenge yesterday with plans from two of the largest email... |
| Google Gets Its Videos in a Twist Google, the socially conscious internet search engine which could seemingly do no wrong, has owned up to a 'big mistake' in... |
Wikipedia Hoaxer Apologises The author of a Wikipedia entry that falsely implicated a prominent writer in both Kennedy assassinations and prompted a... |
| Wikipedia Bans Anonymous Contributors to Prevent Libel The online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been forced to change the way it operates after claims it had become a breeding... |
From Hens to Humans - the Cyber Hug Suit Fancy a hug but you're miles from your loved-one? Well fret not because soon you will be able to send your squeeze and... |
| Grokster Shuts Down File-sharing Service File-sharing company Grokster has shut down, four months after the US supreme court ruled that it could be sued by... |
Bill Gates at 50 Profile: As the so-called king of the nerds celebrates his 50th birthday, Bobbie Johnson takes a look back at some of the... |
| Gates Unveils His Vision of a Future Made of Silicon Bill Gates arrived in London yesterday to deliver his vision of the future and predict the eventual demise of paper at the... |
Irate Ipod Nano Users File Class Action Against Apple Irate iPod nano users have filed a lawsuit against Apple alleging that the firm launched the product knowing the screen of... |
| EU Says Internet Could Fall Apart · Developing countries demand share of control · US says urge to censor underlies calls for reform |
Writers Sue Google for Copyright Infringement · Plan to build searchable library of books attacked · Company says digitisation will benefit authors. |
| Yahoo! Hires Top Journalist to Tour World's Danger Areas "One man. A World of Conflict." That is how the internet portal Yahoo! is announcing its move into the world of... |
China Gets Gung Ho With New War Against Japan ... But Only Online The Chinese communist party is reprogramming history with the development of a new internet game that encourages players to... |
| Music-playing Iphone Nears Launch First there was the iPod, then the mini-iPod, and after that the iPod on which you can store your photographs. Now its... |
Don't Mention the G Word Despite launching new innovations, Yahoo! faces an uphill task in cutting through the Google hype. Jane Perrone explains. |
| From Search Engine to Telephony Giant: Google Throws Down Gauntlet to Microsoft Is seven-year-old firm growing too large, too quickly? |
He Sent 38 Billion Emails and Called Himself the Spam King. Then Bill Gates Went After Him World's biggest spammer faces $7m bill after legal battle. |
| How 10 Quadrillion Sums a Second Will Make Computer the World's Fastest In the world of computers, it promises to be the biggest, fastest, and most mindboggling, of them all. Officials in Japan... |
Bush Administration to Keep Control of Internet's Central Computers The Bush administration has decided to retain control over the principal computers which control internet traffic in a move... |
| Coming Soon: Googling the Truth What does the truth look like? Google, the company last week confirmed as the biggest media firm on the planet, rather... |
Microsoft Helps China to Censor Bloggers Civil liberties groups have condemned an arrangement between Microsoft and Chinese authorities to censor the internet. |
| Arianna Huffington and Her Web Log Sucess That's me with... : She's been a TV pundit, a politician's wife and a best-selling biographer. Now Arianna Huffington has... |
Hacking Trail Leads to Swedish Teen A Swedish teenager is being questioned over a daring internet attack that penetrated thousands of computer systems in the US... |
| Ãœber-blog Raises a Celebrity Voice For some it is the end of the blog. For others, it is proof that blogging has earned its place in the media. Blogs, or... |
Girl Accuses Aol Chatroom Monitor He was hired to keep children in an AOL chat room safe from predators, but a lawsuit accuses him of grooming a Californian... |
| Harsh Reality of China's Fantasy Craze Online games blamed for thefts, suicides and murders. |
Gates Hires Ozzie the Wiz Microsoft yesterday announced a deal to buy a company run by the creator of IBM's Lotus Notes, Ray Ozzie, at the same time... |
| Brussels Furious With 'prevaricating' Microsoft The European commission is threatening to fine Microsoft 5% of its global revenue for failing to comply with the sanctions... |
Microsoft and Pfizer Fight Fake Viagra Spammers The flood of junk emails peddling "Viagra" could become a thing of the past after the drug maker Pfizer join... |
| Search and You Shall Find With the launch yesterday of MSN search, Bill Gates is taking Google on at its own game. But it's not just a fight for web... |
Microsoft Squares Up to Google Microsoft today launched an internet search engine which it hopes will challenge the global dominance of Google. |
| Bill Gates is an Intelligent Man Who Has Done Andrew Brown: Bill Gates wants software patents to protect his profit, not the public. So when he gets caught out in a... |
China's Angry Young Focus Their Hatred on Old Enemy Anti-Japanese fury is rising among internet users - a trend the state is keen to encourage. |
| EU Upholds Microsoft Anti-trust Ruling Software group must reveal technical information to rivals and unbundle Media Player from Windows. |
Judge Puts Microsoft Deal Under Scrutiny A European judge has called for a closed-door meeting today to discuss the peace deals hammered out earlier this month... |
| Gates Paid $20m to Adversary in Anti-trust Case Microsoft paid $20m (£10.6m) to one of its fiercest critics, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, after... |
JFK Murder Game Condemned A new computer game which allows players to recreate the assassination of John F Kennedy has been condemned as... |
| Guilty Plea in £31m Net Scam An internet fraudster has pleaded guilty to cheating 15,000 investors across 60 countries out of $58m (£31m), prosecutors... |
Bill Gates Gets 4 Million Emails a Day The Microsoft founder is the most spammed man in the world, with 4m emails arriving in his inbox each day. |
| Microsoft Takes on Google With New Search Engine Google could be facing its biggest threat yet after Microsoft yesterday made its long anticipated move into the internet... |
And Another Thing ... Emails From Beyond the Grave To some it is an opportunity to exact revenge from the grave, for others it means delivering a posthumous message to their... |
| Microsoft Fights Eu Windows Curbs Microsoft was close to a deal with the European Commission earlier this year which would have revealed more of its secrets... |
Forget the Bloggers, It's the Vloggers Showing the Way on the Internet One step up from the now familiar internet blogger, vloggers upload personal video clips of everything from the US... |
| Web Porn Engulfs Pacific Islands Two Pacific island countries have become global centres of the internet porn industry, according to a new report. The report... |
AOL Engineer Sold 92m Names to Spammers A software engineer working for America Online was last night charged with stealing the internet service provider's entire... |
| Email Anxiety, the Search for a Cure The readers' editor, Ian Mayes, on coping with email without closing the door. Several Guardian journalists seem to be... |
Mobile Phone Virus Sounds Alarm in Moscow The world's first mobile phone virus, capable of sending itself between handsets, has been discovered by an internet... |
| Microchips Keep Vatican Library Tidy Custodians of the Vatican library, fed up with having to spend a month a year putting wayward items from their collection... |
Hacker Offers to Shut Putin's Website In the spirit of the free market computer hackers in Russia have put their services up for sale, offering to "take... |
| Broken Windows Let Light in on Microsoft At the end of a terrible week for Microsoft, Neil McIntosh wonders whether recent security scares will seriously damage its... |
China Tightens Net Around Online Dissenters 30,000 web police are thought to be monitoring chatrooms and sites. The man shadowing the internet activists on the street... |
| Worm Closes Us Software Website MyDoom, one of the fastest-spreading internet worms ever produced, hit its target yesterday and shut down the American... |
Bush Bombs 'miserable Failure' in Cyberspace Battle A new front has opened up in the battle for the White House - on the internet's leading search engine. The practice of... |
| Mike Rowe No Soft Touch A 17-year-old Canadian high school student is facing calls from the US computer giant Microsoft to change the name of a... |
How Do You Like Those Apples? The fortunes of the innovative computer company have been transformed by the success of its digital music player, the iPod,... |
| Playboy Hits Aol With Internet Suit Playboy Enterprises, the adult entertainment group, was given the go-ahead yesterday to sue internet service provider AOL... |
'Kill the Haitians' Game in the Dock Legal action seeks a ban on best-selling US computer adventure which encourages players to go on a deadly spree of... |
| Bollywood Gambles on Kazaa Sixty million Bollywood fans will soon be able to download full-length features with the file-sharing software Kazaa |
File-swap Students Convicted Three students in Sydney have been convicted of swapping music files over the internet, in the first case of its kind in... |
| Microsoft Brings Out the Big Guns Microsoft launched a last gasp attempt to appease Europe's regulatory authorities yesterday, wheeling out a crack team of... |
US Giant Puts Up $5m to Trap Hackers The FBI and Microsoft combined forces yesterday against the shadowy teenage world of the computer hacker by offering $500... |
| Microsoft Runs Search for a Way to Take Over Internet Giant Google The phenomenal success of Google, the internet search engine, has attracted the attention of the biggest name in hi-tech... |
America Online goes Latino to net growing Hispanic dollar AOL Time Warner responded to the changing ethnic make-up of the United States when it launched a Spanish language version... |
| Sony misses out as PlayStation fails the computer test Sony appeared yesterday to have lost a long-running battle to get its popular PlayStation 2 games console recognised as a... |
Rivals Condemn Microsoft Chatroom Closure Internet giant accused of moving users to more profitable service. Rival companies have accused Microsoft of cynical... |
| Microsoft chatrooms to close after abuse fear Microsoft is pulling the plug on all its UK chatrooms, used by more than 1.2 million people a month, amid growing concerns... |
Piracy costs 'will double' in five years The value of lost sales to the music industry from file sharing networks such as Grokster and Kazaa will nearly double over... |
| Away from the core We are currently in the middle of a fairly Apple-intensive fortnight. At one time, the company's chief executive, Steve Jobs... |
Mother Settles Piracy Case American music industry officials have agreed to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit against a 12-year-old New York... |
| Amnesty offered for music file sharers The American music industry yesterday filed the first 250 lawsuits against consumers for allegedly breaking copyright laws... |
Google Internet search engine Google is five years old this week. Here's our guide to all the net has to offer on the website... |
| Same old story The views from the top of the BT tower, in central London, were as extraordinary as ever. However, to some of those present... |
Web users 'must endure' pop-up ads Internet users will continue to be plagued by unwanted pop-up adverts after a US judge ruled websites can do nothing to... |
| Sony joins battle for music downloads Sony, the consumer electronics firm, yesterday added its muscle to the growing market for legal music downloading by... |
Amazon moves to tackle alleged email fraudsters Amazon is seeking millions of dollars in damages against 11 email marketing companies for allegedly using its identity to... |
| Virus Writer Used Porn Site to Flood Internet FBI investigators have tracked the source of the biggest virus attack in history to a porn website in Phoenix, Arizona. |
New warning over SoBig.F virus An internet security company has issued an urgent warning that the email virus SoBig.F could cause further mayhem by... |
| Fraudsters Bring Email Chaos Fastest-spreading computer virus ever may have been launched by spammers, IT experts say. Criminals and fraudsters are... |
Rolling Stones put 500 tracks online The Rolling Stones, once happier to sue than share, have agreed to make their 40-year back catalogue accessible legally for... |
| How to beat the webworm Step-by-step guide to removing the MS Blast worm from your PC. "This system is being shut down in 60 seconds by NT... |
Microsoft Beats Apple to the Music Microsoft has stolen a march on rival Apple by signing a deal with a digital music company backed by singer Peter Gabriel... |
| Email users warned of new virus A worm that spreads through email is threatening to become one of the biggest viruses of 2003, antivirus firm Sophos warned... |
Why downloading is music's saviour 'The times they are a-changin'," growled Bob Dylan back in 1963. And while the grizzled old legend probably won't take... |
| Australia tries to can spam Australia is attempting to outlaw what its minister for communications calls "the mosquitoes of the internet" -... |
Re: your pointless email Are you wasting hours of your time sending and managing too much worthless email? Pointless email messages are costing UK... |
| Rude words As broadcasters are accused of promoting swearing on television, read our very polite guide to profanity on the net. |
Virtually Addicted Thailand's government is taking steps to combat dependence on online games, as Rhianna Pratchett explains. |
| Hackers Find Way for Porn Sites to Hijack Computers Hackers, possibly based in Russia, have hijacked the computers of unsuspecting internet users for pornographic websites.... |
Judge may have to force open Windows The US government "remains concerned" that Microsoft is making it difficult for rivals to access Windows despite... |
| Let the playground pirates rule Anyone considering illegally downloading an MP3 file today should think twice. According to a cover article in the current... |
Can it, Spam firm tells American software makers A legal battle for the right to incorporate the word spam in the trademark of software companies has begun in the US. |
| Spread the Gospel Bloggers in America are aiming to spark a that will be delivered political revolution by the web. Neil McIntosh... |
Ex-Intel man cleared in email trial A Californian court has cleared a former Intel worker of wrongdoing for using the microchip maker's email to fire off... |
| Pressure grows over spam filtering A third of all unwanted emails received by children are hardcore pornography, according to new research released today as... |
Coral island to become world's first wire-free internet country Until a few years ago, telecommunications on the Pacific island of Niue consisted of a few hand-cranked telephones. But... |
| US Music Industry to Sue Individuals in Drive Against Net Piracy The American recording industry yesterday threatened to take legal action against individuals for illegal file sharing of... |
Israel Checks Out Website Run By Russian Racists The Israeli attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into a local neo-Nazi website that jokes about gas... |
| Net Closes on Italian Web Pirates More than 180 people have been charged and a further 10,000 are being investigated by the Italian police after a series of... |
You've got spam Another day, another 14.5bn unwanted emails. Junk messages waste our time and clog the internet, so how can the epidemic be... |
| AOL jumps on iTunes bandwagon with plan for music downloads AOL Time Warner is following the successful launch of Apple's iTunes service by selling music downloads featuring artists... |
Computer chip plan to fight banknote fraud The European Central Bank is considering tagging high denomination euro notes with microscopic forgery-proof computer chips... |
| Oracle in hostile $5bn bid for PeopleSoft The technology sector burst into life yesterday when Oracle launched a hostile $5.1bn (£3.2bn) takeover bid for rival... |
Viruses and worms How do you know if your computer has contracted a worm or a virus? |
| Palm and rival shake on deal Palm yesterday announced the $170m (£106m) acquisition of rival Handspring, bringing together two of the pioneers of the... |
Web users desert AOL Troubled US media giant AOL Time Warner today admitted its internet subscribers were quitting the service at a faster rate... |
| Email fraud targets 2m UK online customers Customers of eBay, the biggest e-commerce website in Britain, have been targeted with a sophisticated new email fraud... |
China Jails Internet Dissidents Four internet activists have been jailed in Beijing for "inciting subversion" by posting messages calling for the... |
| Star of India Guides It Boom Azim Premji is one of the world's richest men and a global tech tycoon. But he has an asceticism inspired by his hero... |
California tries to can the spam menace It should gladden the hearts of everyone who has had their fill of spam - "unsolicited commercial email" to give... |
| The blog clog myth "If you want to be in Google," wrote Dave Winer, the doyen of the weblogging classes, on Saturday, "you... |
Apple looks to iTunes Europe After years enjoying the pleasures of illegally downloaded songs, music fans are starting to enjoy an unexpected pleasure... |
| Don't mention the location We already know that the net is great for people wanting sell things to other people. While the big budget dot.coms... |
Extra, extra, read all about it It is as thick as three human hairs, can be rolled into a cylinder, bent, twisted and, say its developers, the latest... |
| Online joy as Slate chalks up a profit One of the pioneers of online publishing, Slate magazine, can claim another online publishing breakthrough: it has actually... |
Court win for music-copying software Hollywood and the American record industry have suffered a major defeat in their campaign against the illegal sharing of... |
| EMI gets serious about web sales Music group EMI yesterday made the industry's most significant move yet towards selling music on the web by putting more... |
Online ID scheme to target paedophiles An electronic age verification scheme designed to crack down on paedophiles who use the internet to groom child victims was... |
| No mere mega mall for Meg@eBay The millionth item sold on eBay is on display behind a glass cabinet in the lobby of the company's headquarters, like a... |
All features great and small All hail the rise of the smart phone. This new breed of mobile is, as the name suggests, rather more clever than your... |
| $200m China Internet Venture Put on Hold Almost two years after promising an online service that would have "a profound impact on the China internet... |
Pay-as-you-listen Apple is all set to launch its own music download service, according to rumours sweeping the net, probably started by a... |
| Place your bets: 49 bucks says Saddam's had it Having lost a fortune gambling on the New York stock markets many Americans have now taken to gambling on the war on Iraq.... |
The 'snoopers' charter' explained What is the snoopers' charter? It's a plan to give state agencies access to your telephone, internet and email records.... |
| Email of the specious I've had some interesting discussions on spam since writing Online's cover story on the subject last month. The question on... |
Google takes the plunge For all dedicated web-heads, there's been just one story dominating the online world for weeks: Google has bought Pyra... |
| The right stuff There has never been a better time to buy a PC for business use: they have never been so fast, so reliable, so small, or so... |
Napster rises from the grave... again Controversial song swapping site Napster, the former nemesis of the music industry, is set to relaunch before the end of... |
| Lights, camera, distraction It is not often I get second thoughts about first impressions. Today is different. Let me explain. A couple of weeks back,... |
Dial R for revolution Radio listening on the net, currently the preserve of tech-savvy web users, is about to go mainstream thanks to a new tuner... |
| Californian law would charge $500 a time to smother the taste of spam Spam - the unwanted email which clogs up mailboxes with offers of anything from porn to miracle diets - could be made... |
The numbers game From time to time the net adopts a big idea. The collective intelligence absorbs a new concept and, for a while, no one... |
| Microsoft v Symbian at 3gsm The battle for control of the operating system market has already kicked off at the 3GSM conference in Cannes, says Richard... |
Google gets Blogger and better Google has bought Blogger. Forget those peace protests around the world on Saturday: there is nothing more interesting to... |
| Yahoo! lines up BT deal The European chief of internet giant Yahoo! has agreed a multimillion pound deal with BT to promote a raft of new broadband... |
Ministers of sound Music, like love, is best experienced in the flesh. Sometimes, alas, it's not so convenient - while driving, for instance -... |
| Yahoo! cleared in Nazi case A Paris court yesterday cleared the internet giant Yahoo! and its former president of condoning war crimes and crimes... |
Microsoft Under Fire on Two Fronts in Europe Microsoft is to be forced to fight its regulatory battles in Europe on two fronts after a powerful coalition of technology... |
| Evolution, not revolution In 1996 I rode in a minicab up the M40 to Oxford to take part in one of the Oxford Union's famous debates. My debating... |
Internet brings together Americans against war This Saturday hundreds of thousands of Americans will be protesting in the streets against the possibility of war in Iraq... |
| Live the iLife Amid all the fuss about Apple's new web browser, Safari, launched at last month's MacExpo, not enough was made about the... |
PowerPoint of view Microsoft estimates that at least 30 million PowerPoint presentations are delivered every day around the world. The vast... |
| Secret of their success These days I blog a great deal, and I read other people's weblogs all the time. I've noticed that good blogging is a kind... |
Microsoft Wins Eu Stamp of Approval for .net Passport Microsoft's protracted regulatory problems in Europe eased yesterday after the firm struck a deal with privacy watchdogs... |
| Worm Attack Effects 'under Control' The aftershocks of the latest worm to attack the internet continue to be felt around the world this morning, although... |
Stolen details of 6m phone users hawked on Moscow streets One of Russia's most extensive and sensitive databases, which contains the mobile phone numbers, home addresses, dates of... |
| Download day aims to hit online piracy Tracks from artists including Eminem and Kylie Minogue will be given away free to internet users as part of a major... |
Why the net won't dampen record sales It is difficult to pick up a paper these days without being bombarded with fresh evidence of the cataclysmic effect that... |
| Model workers It is half past four in the afternoon, the 16th arrondissement. In a bleak industrial corner on the outskirts of Paris, the... |
Gadgets get the good times rolling In spite of slow economic growth, a potential war against Iraq and the ongoing fear of terrorism, there is one part of the... |
| Gates gets wired to FM-based tech Microsoft yesterday took another step away from the desktop PC world as founder and chairman Bill Gates announced plans for... |
Gates keeps an eye on the time His software drives the majority of the world's PCs, and you will also find it on many electronic personal organisers and... |
| Apple Launches Surprise New Range Against all predictions, Apple unveiled a number of new products at the Macworld conference. Neil McIntosh looks at the... |
Apple Chief Keeps Them Guessing Speculation surrounds the content of Steve Jobs' keynote speech to Macworld today, writes Neil McIntosh. |
| Apple Faces a Mac Attack The annual Macworld conference finds Microsoft's oldest foe with little new to promote and a potential backlash on its hands... |
Chat room danger prompts new safety code Internet chat room operators should provide virtual panic buttons and prominent safety messages for child users to protect... |
| Website Pays Price for Indian Bribery Exposé Tarun Tejpal is sitting amid the ruins of his office. There is not much left - a few dusty chairs, three computers and a... |
The year ahead Simon Jeffery gazes into his crystal ball to find out what the web is predicting for 2003. |
| Blow to US digital piracy laws The US government's copyright piracy legislation suffered an embarrassing blow when a court acquitted a Russian software... |
Dot con Chris Morris' satirical TV news show the Day Today once had a sketch with prison authorities responding to the revelation... |
| 'Why did I do it? For fun' When an earnest, slightly nerdy 29-year-old called Eric Weiss applied for a job in 1994 as an administrative assistant at... |
Initiative predicts 50% hike in online ad spend The beleaguered internet industry will stage a major recovery next year with online advertising rising by nearly 50%,... |
| Details going twice in auction scam Internet shoppers were last night warned of an attempted sting designed to steal the credit card details of the 55m people... |
Thanks, Mait, say punters as virtual tipster manages to beat the bookies Having sucked millions of pounds from punters' pockets with internet gambling, the high priests of the computer age may be... |