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European Union |
EU hits Intel with fresh charges| European regulators have filed fresh charges against the world's biggest computer chip maker over alleged abuse of its dominant market position | |
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| Jul. 8 |
Microsoft |
Internet security breach tackled Computer experts have released software to tackle a major glitch in the internet addressing system
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| Jul. 3 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google must divulge YouTube log US court: Google must divulge the viewing habits (which will be handed to Viacom) of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube
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| Jun. 30 |
 France |
Court fines eBay over fake goods A French court has ordered eBay to pay 40m euros to luxury goods group LVMH for allowing online auctions of fake copies of its goods
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| Jun.17 |
USA |
Firefox aims for download record
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| Jun.12 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo-Google agree online ad deal
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| Jun.9 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple announces cheaper 3G iPhone
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 Kenya |
Safaricom soars on debut Shares in mobile phone firm soared as much as 60% on their first day of trading after Kenya's biggest ever stock market flotation
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| Jun.6 |
USA |
IBM aims to cool chips with water
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| Jun.4 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Investor steps up Yahoo campaign
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Summit targets global food crisis
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| May.15 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Investor launches Yahoo challenge
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| May.3 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft walks away from Yahoo Microsoft has dropped its 3-month-old bid to buy internet firm because the two sides cannot agree on an acceptable sale price
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| May.2 |
 Cuba |
Home computer ban lifted The first legalised home computers have gone on sale, but a ban remains on internet access
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| May.1 |
 Italy |
Income details posted on web There has been outrage after the outgoing government published every Italian's declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet
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| Apr.9 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google and Yahoo to share web ads The world's two biggest search engines, have announced a 2 week experiment that will see them share advertising space
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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 The European Commission has fined US computer giant for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour
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| Feb.24 |
Pakistan |
Pakistan 'sparks YouTube outage'
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| Feb.7 |
UN |
Mobiles narrow digital divisions
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| Feb.6 |
Morocco |
Facebook fraudster 'stole prince's ID'
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| Feb.4 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google troubled by Microsoft move
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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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| Jan.31 |
India |
Internet failure hits two continents
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Police broken organ-trafficking scheme
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| Jan.15 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple announces ultra-thin laptop
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| Jan.11 |
China |
Blogger beaten to death |
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| Jan.4 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
One laptop project loses partner |
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| Dec.4 |
Microsoft |
'Kill switch' dropped from Vista |
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| Nov.13 |
China |
Yahoo settles dissidents suit
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| Nov.12 |
European Union |
Airline websites are 'misleading' |
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| Nov.5 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google pushes into mobile phones |
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| Oct.26 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple ready to set Leopard free |
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| Sep.28 |
 Myanmar |
Internet cut as violence continues 
Shots were fired to clear crowds defying a brutal crackdown as graphic new video footage showed troops using deadly force
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San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple iPhone warning proves true |
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Opera legend Pavarotti dies at 71
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| Jun.18 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo boss steps down from post
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Cyclone pounds Mideast oil region
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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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Energy crisis as Georgia freezes
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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 iTunes Music Store draws from all 5 major record labels in offering 200,000 songs at 99 cents a download
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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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