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Goo-Hoo! faces EU anti-trust probe
The European Union's Competition Commission is investigating the proposed search advertising tie-up between Google and Yahoo!. "In mid-July, we decided to open a preliminary investigation on our own initiative into potential effects of the Google...
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China's nonstop music machine
Baidu versus business http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/13/baidu_investigation/
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Google goes after 3 billion with super satellite
Hella lotta Gmail Google has hooked up with Liberty Global and HSBC Principle Investments to start funding a satellite network aimed at connecting the three billion people who still can't get access to the internet, at least those living near the...
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Google publishes Chrome patch details
Carpet-bombing fix looks threadbare Google has belatedly released details of a security update to its newly released Chrome browser, days after it actually pushed out the patch. The update was published on Friday and users of Chrome were automatically...
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Comcast files FCC impotence suit
'We will comply without complying' As expected, Comcast has appealed the landmark FCC order that sanctioned the American ISP for secretly blocking BitTorrents and other peer-to-peer traffic. But the meatpuppetting cable outfit says it will comply...
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Secure Computing snaps up user control firm Securify
Pimp My Firewall Security appliance firm Secure Computing has bought user access monitoring and control firm Securify, in a deal valued at up to $20m ($15m guaranteed in cash and stock, plus an earn-out of up to $5m). Securify's appliance-based technology...
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Scammers skirt spam shields with help from Adobe Flash
The Viagra two step Online scammers have found a new way to skirt anti-spam filters, this time by making use of Adobe Flash files hosted on free websites. Spam messages with innocuous-looking content contain links to Flash-based files on ImageShack.com...
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McAfee slaps Trojan warning on MS Office Live
McAfee has apologised after an anti-virus update released on Monday night incorrectly identified a plug-in for Microsoft Office Live Meeting as a Trojan. The signature update file mistakingly flagged LMCAPI.exe (a component of Live Update) as a Trojan...
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History shaped Google's Trojan Horse
Analysis When people buy software - buy it in seriously large amounts - it isn't just today's binary they're choosing. They're buying what they think is a bit of the future - they're buying a piece of risk insurance. This explains...
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A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP
Vista’s death march picked up some pace yesterday, after a metrics researcher revealed that nearly 35 per cent of PCs built to run the Windows operating system have been downgraded to XP. In a survey of more than 3,000 computers, performance testing...
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Rooster Cogballmer
Microsoft virtualization splash on Monday? Rember Rooster Cogburn, that aggressive old man with one last stand left in him? Word is that Microsoft will make a splash on Monday around Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager with a host of supporting...
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Google restores Chrome's shine
Polishes up its EULA Google has acted with speed and retracted the objectional sentences in Chrome's EULA, so that any content you post via Chrome is yours and yours alone. The ruckus was caused by our old friends, the paralegal firm Cut 'n'...
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Microsoft charts security vuln MAPP
More transparency, better protection Microsoft has announced plans to share additional details about security vulnerabilities in its products in an attempt to prevent attackers from exploiting them before patches are released to its customers. Under one...
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Mythbusters RFID episode axed after 'pressure' from credit card firms
Bust this Discovery Channel prevented the exploration of RFID security by Mythbusters , the popular science television show, after allegedly coming under pressure from credit card companies. Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage said a planned segment of the...
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Burned by Chrome
Burned by Chrome Your copyright goes up in smoke Astute Reg readers have pointed out a Chrome condition of service that effectively lets Google use any of your copyrighted material posted to the web via Chrome without paying you a cent. Here's the...
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Carpetbomb bug tarnishes Google Chrome
Carpetbomb bug tarnishes Google Chrome Shiny new vulnerabilities winkled out already Google Chrome isn't officially out yet, but security researchers have already picked the browser apart to discover a security vulnerability. The WebKit engine used...
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Google's Austro-Hungarian ambitions laid bare
Chrome recruits Maximilian von Hapsburg Our shock revelation yesterday that Google had redrawn the map of Europe to apparently cede several European nations to a Greater Germany provoked a flurry of comments suggesting what on God's Green Earth the...
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Zombie network explosion
The number of compromised zombie PCs in botnet networks has quadrupled over the last three months, according to figures from the Shadowserver Foundation. Shadowserver tracks botnet activity and the number of command and control servers. It uses a variety...
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Tue, Sep 09 2008 9:37 PM
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Google cedes Belgium to Germany
We've got some rather shocking news this afternoon for those of you who've spent years believing you're Austrian, Belgian, Danish or Dutch - you're not. In fact, you're German, as this map from Google's comic book guide to Chrome...
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Tue, Sep 09 2008 9:32 PM
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FTC wants to hit the spyware guys where it hurts
FTC wants to hit the spyware guys where it hurts Calls on Senate for civil penalties The Federal Trade Commission told a US Senate committee it could bring new vigor to the fight against spyware by making spyware purveyors pay civil penalties. Under current...
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