Shoppers blocked from buying across EU borders
News The European Commission calls for more progress on simplifying cross-border online shopping, after its study shows that 60 percent transactions cannot be completed [23 Oct 2009]
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Company boards must stop dawdling over IPv6
Comment Those working in IT may know the importance of IPv6, but that awareness must spread beyond the tech community, says Axel Pawlik [01 Dec 2009]
The private cloud is no mirage
Comment Strict definitions may deny the possibility of private clouds, but reality reveals a very different picture, says Lori MacVittie [15 Oct 2009]
- The private cloud is no mirage - ator1940
Firefox 3.6 can detect computer orientation
News In a new step to advance web-programming abilities, Mozilla's next Firefox will be able to detect how a user is tipping their computer [13 Oct 2009]
France pushes ahead with 'three strikes' internet law
News The anti-piracy legislation, which calls for persistent file-sharers to have their internet connection cut off, is a revised version of earlier legislation struck down by the courts [16 Sep 2009]
Microsoft may help News Corp vanish from Google
News Rupert Murdoch's media empire is talking with the tech giant about having its websites removed from Google search results, according to a Financial Times report [23 Nov 2009]
Google adds Native Client to Chrome
News Google has built into its browser the ability to tap directly into a computer's native processing power through software called Native Client [05 Oct 2009]
Google gadget translates sites into 51 languages
News The gadget, which is powered by Google Translate, allows any website to be automatically translated into the language of the viewer's choice [01 Oct 2009]
Microsoft attacks Google's Chrome-in-IE plan
News The software maker says Google's Chrome Frame plan raises security issues and is 'not a risk we would recommend our friends and families take' [25 Sep 2009]
- Irony - Tadpole
Google ties up with Twitter for real-time search
News A new section of Google's search results page will be dedicated to so-called 'real time' searches with automatically refreshed updates from sources such as Twitter [08 Dec 2009]
Akamai defends web apps in the cloud
News The company's new Web Application Firewall managed service is aimed at reducing the risk from massive, distributed application-layer attacks [15 Dec 2009]
- Cloud apps - ator1940
DNS error takes down internet in Sweden
News A typo during a routine maintenance update at Sweden's top-level domain registry shut down the internet for an hour or so [14 Oct 2009]
Icann gains independence from the US
News The organisation that oversees domain names and IP addresses is now accountable to the internet community worldwide [30 Sep 2009]
Chrome beta comes to Mac, Linux
News Google has issued the first beta versions of its browser for Mac OS X and Linux, while the stable version is due next month [09 Dec 2009]
- Chrome Beta for Linux - Moley
Goodbye, GeoCities: It's the end of an era
Comment Yahoo's decision to close its once-powerful GeoCities hosting service says much about the web, says Bruce Lawson [11 Nov 2009]
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White House unveils cloud computing initiative
Analysis The effort, aimed at reducing spending on IT infrastructure, cutting environmental impacts and streamlining government IT, is likely to take years to implement [16 Sep 2009]
Google releases stable version of Chrome 3.0
News Google has completed work on a stable version of its one-year-old Chrome browser, officially adding support for new web video technologies and tweaking a few key features [16 Sep 2009]
Apple changes its UK terms of sale
News The manufacturer is now explicitly liable for faulty or misdescribed goods, after concerns raised by the Office of Fair Trading prompted a revision of Apple's terms and conditions [27 Nov 2009]
Firefox moves closer to 3D web graphics
News Programmers have begun building WebGL technology into developer-oriented versions of Mozilla's browser, while the 3D-acceleration technology is also coming to WebKit [22 Sep 2009]
Google introduces Fast Flip news service
News The new service, being tested in partnership with 36 publishers, lets users read web pages of magazines and newspapers as though they were flipping through an old-fashioned paper copy [15 Sep 2009]
Google introduces 'Go' programming language
News A Unix co-creator is among those behind a new, open-source programming language project which Google hopes will boost computing power and programmers' abilities [11 Nov 2009]
