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A highly influential group of European privacy experts said last week that it will lead hearings with Google over claims that EU data protection laws do not apply to the search giant.

? The decision to have a huge UK database of the details of all phone calls, emails and internet use could be ?step too far for the British way of life?, according to the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas. ? Security minister Lord West responded to the warning, saying: “It is very early days as to [...]

? Adobe, Google and Yahoo have banded together to add dynamic web content and rich internet applications (RIAs) to search results. The two search giants will use an optimised version of Adobe?s Flash Player technology to improve their engines? abilities to index the Flash file format (SWF) and scan information contained within the files,. ? [...]

? Yahoo has launched two new domain names, rocketmail.com and ymail.com as options for personalised e-mail addresses. ? With 266 million active e-mail accounts, Yahoo is the worlds largest e-mail service. The company is hoping the new domains will give users more selections for simple and more memorable addresses that may already be taken on [...]

On Wednesday, Google held its annual I/O software developers conference in San Francisco and announced changes to its Google Earth 3D mapping software and Google Gears. ? Google Gears, or ?Gears? as it?s to be known, is a set of online development tools for webmasters. According to Vic Gundotra, the vice president of engineering, mobile [...]

This Thursday the internet search company Yahoo nominated nine of its existing 10 directors for re-election to the company?s board, setting the stage for a showdown with shareholders at its annual shareholders meeting. The annual meeting has now been pushed back to the end of July. The company, who have been embroiled in a battle [...]

Aberdeen Group have researched the use of usernames and passwords in business, and have found that many organizations are learning more about the benefits of deploying strong user authentication to increase the level of assurance for online identities as part of an overall approach to securing access to information and managing risk. ? The research [...]

A new study conducted by IDC and sponsored by Nortel has concluded that so-called hyperconnected workers account for 16 percent of global business users today and the percentage is set to grow to 40 percent within five years. ? Kelly Kanellakis, strategy and operations leader for the chief of technology officer in Nortel said, “The [...]

For the first time in three years the amount of pirated business software on UK computers has decreased. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) annual survey showed a 1 percent drop in UK piracy to 26 percent. The BSA reckons the fall in piracy is down to the increase of educational efforts and programs that tackle [...]

? TorrentSpy, the illegal file sharing site has been ordered to pay $110m in damages to the Motion Picture Association of America for copyright infringement. The ruling from a US court comes just a few weeks after the site was shut down. The MPAA first began legal action against the torrent site in February 2006. [...]