W3C opens secure web initiative

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Filed under: Phishing News, Web Development News, Security News, Internet News

The W3C has announced plans to try and make the web more secure for surfers. The aim is to try and develop a shared set of trust standards via its Web Security Context Working Group, that can help web users have ...

 

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IPTV video clips faces EU regulation

Link: IPTV video clips faces EU regulation
Filed under: IPTV News, Web Development News, Internet News

An EU directive currently in circulation threatens to force broadcasting regulations on the internet. The Television Without Frontiers directive threatens to force any website hosting video content - whether streaming IPTV, or simply hosting video clips - to broadcasting regulations. This would mean anyone ...

 

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Microsoft opens Vista for security

Link: Microsoft opens Vista for security
Filed under: Software News, Microsoft News, Security News

Microsoft has suddenly announced that it's new Windows Vista operating system will be open to third-party security software - such as McAfee and Norton - to help protect users against malware threats. This comes as a surprise as previously Microsoft had insisted that Microsoft ...

 

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Orange suffers broadband failure

Link: Orange suffers broadband failure
Filed under: Companies News, Technology News, Internet News

Telecoms operator Orange says that a major outage on its network has left a number of its broadband customers unable to connect to the internet. The problem apparently affects those originally on the Wanado service, which had been purchased by Orange. Orange has ...

 

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Google assures Christmas not cancelled

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Filed under: Google News, Ecommerce News, Webmaster News, Search Engine News, Internet News, Business News

Google has confirmed that it has no plans to apply a major change to how it ranks websites in its search results before this Christmas. This comes after the past two years have seen major changes implemented before the Christmas shopping season. In both previous ...

 

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Help for small business continues as Platinax celebrates 2 years online

Link: Help for small business continues as Platinax celebrates 2 years online
Filed under: Webhosting News, Web Development News, Ecommerce News, Marketing News, Internet News, Webmaster News, Business News

Platinax is a free business resource and mentoring service that celebrates 2 years helping SME's this month. Based in the Highlands of Scotland, Platinax is run by a volunteer staff of company directors from across the UK. The key aim of Platinax is ...

 

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British Telecom attempts to fight spam

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Filed under: Webmaster News, Security News, Internet News

ISP British Telecom has launched an automated email spam filtering system it hopes will help clean up it's network. This is especially as a number of BT's servers have been blacklisted for email spamming, leading to other large ISP's, such as ...

 

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Oil prices sink to new low

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Filed under: Finance News, Ecommerce News, Business News

Oil prices have continued to fall, with prices today reaching their lowest for 2006. The drop in oil prices has been gradual over the past few months, and uncertainty about production cuts by OPEC - coupled with a lowered projection of oil demand ...

 

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Top toys for Christmas

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Filed under: Ecommerce News

The Toy Retailers Association (TRA) has announced it's list of the top toys for Christmas. The list is compiled from predictations from its members as to which will be the best-selling toys. The TRA notes that fantasy elements are predicted to be strong ...

 

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AOL UK bought by Carphone Warehouse

Link: AOL UK bought by Carphone Warehouse
Filed under: Companies News, Ecommerce News, Internet News

Carephone Warehouse has won the auction for AOL UK. The company paid £370 million, which includes 2.1 million customers, 1.5 million of them on broadband. The agreement keeps the existing AOL UK management structure in place. It also allows AOL (USA) to manage advertising ...

 

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CBI criticises governments £150 billion spend

Link: CBI criticises governments £150 billion spend
Filed under: Business News

The CBI has attacked the way the government assigns contracts. It says the current system of tendering £150 billion is fundamentally flawed, by leaving key decision-making processes in the hands of civil services with insufficient skills or experience. The outome is that often civil servants ...

 

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Google buys YouTube

Link: Google buys YouTube
Filed under: IPTV News, Companies News, Ecommerce News, Google News, Technology News, Internet News

SPECIAL REPORT Google has bought the video-sharing community YouTube for $1.6 billion in stock. Almost simultaneously, Google and YouTube announced strategic content and advertising partnerships with TV network CBS and major media labels Sony BMG and Universal. This represents one of the most important internet ...

 

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Swear words in program code revealed

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Filed under: Software News, Programming News, Open Source News

A study using Google Code Search has shown how many times programmers insert expletives into the code of key open source software platforms. A search was conducted in Python, Perl, PHP, C++, C and C# for common expletives. These are not ...

 

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Minimum wage increases as age discrimination threat looms

Link: Minimum wage increases as age discrimination threat looms
Filed under: Employment News, Legal News, Business News

On Sunday the minimum wage was increased - while at the same time legislation came into force making it illegal to discriminate against workers according to age. This sets up a serious problem because the minimum wage discriminates by age group - bringing ...

 

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New gas pipeline offers secured gas energy stocks for UK

Link: New gas pipeline offers secured gas energy stocks for UK
Filed under: Business News, Economy News

Recent hikes in gas prices have been a real concern for UK businesses, as part of a general rise in energy costs over the past year. One of the key problems with UK gas supplies has been lack of supply to the UK from the ...

 

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Firefox faces serious security threat

Link: Firefox faces serious security threat
Filed under: Firefox News, Browsers, Security News

IMPORTANT: Turned out this story was a fraud. There are no security flaws, and Six Apart - who sponsored the defamation - are trying to play the whole embarrassing mess down as a "prank". The increasingly popular Mozilla Firefox browser has been found ...

 

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Security warnings over Windows Vista

Link: Security warnings over Windows Vista
Filed under: Software News, Companies News, Browsers, Microsoft News, Security News

SPECIAL REPORT Microsoft is coming under increasing fire over the security of its Windows software. While criticims of Windows security vulnerabilities are nothing new, Microsoft plans to take control of security on Windows Vista, their next release. This means that third-party software vendors could be prevented from ...

 

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