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| Feb. 25 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft shuts down global spam network Microsoft has won court approval to shut down a network of computers which responsible for more than 1.5bn spam messages every day
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| Feb. 23 |
European Union |
Google in Brussels antitrust inquiry The European Commission has launched a preliminary investigation into Google's search engine and its search-advertising service
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| Feb.15 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft launches Windows 7 mobile Microsoft has launched the latest version of its mobile phone operating system, called Windows Phone 7 series
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| Feb.12 |
 Southern California |
Google: We won't pull out of China 
Co-founder Sergey Brin said he's optimistic that his search engine will not have to pull out of China over hacking and censorship issues
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| Feb.9 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google takes on Facebook and Twitter
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| Jan.29 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google phases out support for IE6
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| Jan.21 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple, music labels talk tunes in the cloud
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| Jan.16 |
 Berlin |
Germany issues Explorer warning The German Federal Office for Information Security has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer
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China |
Yahoo criticised by Alibaba for 'reckless'
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| Jan.12 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google reports China-based attack Google says pullout possible. The company and at least 20 others were victims of a highly sophisticated and targeted attack in mid-December
| Google has decided it is no longer willing to consider censorship of its site in China and may have to shut down its site and its offices in that nation
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| Jan.5 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google unveils Nexus One phone
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| Dec.23 |
USA |
BlackBerry users hit by eight-hour outage
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| Dec.1 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google to limit free news access
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| Nov.20 |
 Geneva |
Large Hadron Collider restarts The experiment has been re-started after a hiatus of 14 months. The team might even try to increase the £6bn ($10bn) collider's energy
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| Nov.19 |
Russia |
Corruption fight explodes on YouTube
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San Francisco Bay Area |
Google previews Chrome operating system
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| Oct.29 |
Global |
Internet addresses set for change
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| Oct.22 |
Finland |
Nokia suing Apple over the iPhone
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| Oct.21 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft unleashes new Windows |
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| Oct.15 |
Washington |
Call for rethink on data storage |
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| Oct.5 |
Microsoft |
Hotmail accounts 'posted online' |
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| Sep.30 |
USA |
US relaxes grip on the internet |
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| Sep.22 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo's new web portal goes live |
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Microsoft |
Microsoft increases search share |
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| Sep.19 |
USA |
US objects to Google book deal |
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| Sep.9 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Steve Jobs lights up Apple show |
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| Aug.21 |
Microsoft |
Tech giants unite against Google |
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| Aug.18 |
Japan |
Sony cuts price of PS3 consoles |
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| Aug.13 |
China |
Filtering software will not be required |
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| Aug.6 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Twitter site reopens after attack |
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| Jul.29 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft and Yahoo seal web deal 
Yahoo and Microsoft have announced a long-rumoured internet search deal that will help the companies take on chief rival Google
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| Jul.23 |
South Africa |
Cable - big promises for African Internet
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| Jun.30 |
China |
China delays internet filter plan |
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| Jun.10 |
China |
China's computers at hacking risk |
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| May.13 |
European Union |
EC fines computer chipmaker Intel $1.4B The European Commission found Intel guilty of violating European anti-trust rules and ordered that it pay a fine of 1.06 billion euros
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| Apr.17 |
 Sweden |
Court jails Pirate Bay founders | A court has jailed four men behind TPB, the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case | |
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| Mar.25 |
 China |
YouTube blocked in China China has blocked the popular video-sharing Web site but did not offer a reason for the ban
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| Feb.13 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft bounty for worm creator
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| Jan.6 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple to end music restrictions
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| Nov.17 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Jerry Yang to quit as Yahoo boss
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| Oct.28 |
Los Angeles |
Microsoft delivers pre-beta Windows 7
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| Sep.1 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google unveils free browser Chrome Google is releasing its own Web browser in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer
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| Jul.17 |
European Union |
EU hits Intel with fresh charges |
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| Jun.9 |
Kenya |
Safaricom soars on debut |
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| May.3 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft walks away from Yahoo
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| May.2 |
Cuba |
Home computer ban lifted |
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| May.1 |
Italy |
Income details posted on web |
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| Apr.9 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google and Yahoo to share web ads |
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| Mar.6 |
Washington |
Pentagon bans Google map-makers |
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| Feb.27 |
European Union |
EU fines Microsoft record $1.4bn
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| Feb.24 |
Pakistan |
Pakistan 'sparks YouTube outage' |
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| Feb.6 |
Morocco |
Facebook fraudster 'stole prince's ID' |
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| Feb.1 |
 United Arab Emirates |
Third undersea Internet cable cut| A cable was cut off the emirate of Duba, the third loss of a line carrying Internet and telephone traffic in three days. | |
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Microsoft |
Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company for $44.6bn in cash and shares. The offer is 62% above Yahoo's closing share price
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| Nov.13 |
China |
Yahoo settles dissidents suit |
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| Sep.28 |
Myanmar |
Internet cut as violence continues
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| Jun.18 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo boss steps down from post |
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| Jan.9 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple's 'magical' iPhone unveiled Users will be able to download music and videos with the phone, demonstrated by CEO Steve Jobs at the Macworld Expo
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| Dec.27 |
Taiwan |
Quake knocks Asia back to pre-Internet |
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| Oct.9 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn
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| Jul.21 |
Microsoft |
Zune challenge beckons for iPod |
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| Jun.15 |
Microsoft |
Gates to end daily Microsoft role |
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| Feb.1 |
U.S. Congress |
Internet firms 'bowed to Beijing'
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| Nov.16 |
 Tunisia |
Deal averts Internet showdown The US wins its fight to stay in charge of the internet at the World Summit on the Information Society
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| Aug.10 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft in $7m spam settlement |
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| Jun.27 |
 U.S. Supreme Court |
File-sharing suffers major defeat The Supreme Court has ruled that file-sharing companies are to blame for what users do with their software
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| Nov.9 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Mozilla Firefox browser launched
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| May.4 |
European Union |
Sasser worm 'hits 1m PCs,' |
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| Mar.24 |
European Union |
Microsoft hit by record EU fine |
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| Nov.5 |
Microsoft |
Anti-virus fight gets cash boost |
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| Sep.23 |
Global |
MSN shuts down its chatrooms |
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| Aug.21 |
 USA |
SoBig.F breaks virus speed records The computer virus has already overwhelmed hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide
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| Apr.28 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple launches online music service
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| Jan.29 |
New York |
AOL TW Posts Loss of Nearly $100 Billion
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| Jan.25 |
USA |
Computer worm blocks ATMs |
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South Korea |
Virus-like attack hits web traffic |
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| Nov.2 |
Washington |
Microsoft reaches anti-trust deal
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| Oct.25 |
Microsoft |
Windows XP hits the streets |
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| Oct.23 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
iPod: New digital music player
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| Sep.6 |
Washington |
Feds drop Microsoft breakup |
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| Jun.28 |
Washington |
Court vacates Microsoft ruling |
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| Nov.15 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
World News Atlas started Features World headlines linked to news articles
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| May.4 |
USA |
'I love you' virus disrupts computers Virus contained in e-mail messages is thought to be the fastest-moving and most widespread virus ever seen
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| Apr.4 |
Washington |
Microsoft loses antitrust suit Microsoft is confident that it will eventually overturn the decision by a judge that it violated anti-monopoly laws
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| Mar.10 |
USA |
Nasdaq reached 5048| Nasdaq's all-time high. Beginning of the end of the Internet stock boom | |
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| Feb.7 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo, eBay crippled by hackers |
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| Jan.24 |
USA |
AOL planned to purchase Time Warner
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| Jan.1 |
USA |
Y2K bug fails to bite A flaw in computer program that caused processing to operate incorrectly on and after January 1, 2000
| The Year 2000 problem caused concern that critical industries and government functions would cease operating at midnight, January 1. Companies and organizations upgraded their computer systems. When January 1 arrived there were problems generally regarded as minor
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