Google change triggers uproar

By Elise Ackerman
Mercury News

Article Launched: 12/27/2007 01:35:58 AM PST

A small change to Google Reader has caused a big stir among users of the online service, which lets people gather updates of blogs and Web sites onto a single Web page.The new feature announced Dec. 14 seemed innocuous enough: It took blog posts or articles [...]

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Netscape Navigator, the web icon set to be discontinued

Netscape lost ground to Microsoft’s internet Explorer

Web icon set to be discontinued
The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users.
Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said.
In [...]

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Social Networking Sites

Don’t be lonely at Christmas time

Social networking sites could eventually eliminate entirely the need for the offline socialising that has become the cornerstone of the festive season. Most people have heard of Facebook but there are plenty of rivals vying for its crown. The BBC News website dips into some [...]

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Call to rethink NHS database plan

Computer discs containing patient details have gone missing.

Plans for a national health database of should be reconsidered after it emerged nine NHS trusts lost patients’ confidential records, the Tories say. It comes after the Department of Health admitted 168,000 people had been affected by the data losses.
Shadow [...]

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Computer knowledge ‘undervalued’

The UK is looking to address a shortfall in workplace skills

Computer skills are still undervalued in the UK board room, according to software giant Microsoft. It surveyed 500 UK business leaders and found that a knowledge of information technology (IT) was seen as the seventh most important workplace [...]

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Antivirus firm says detects Google text ad trojan

Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:11pm GMT

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Advertisements placed by Google in Web pages are being hijacked by so-called trojan software that replaces the intended text with ads from a different provider, Romanian antivirus company BitDefender says. The trojan redirects queries meant to be sent to Google servers to a rogue server, which [...]

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MP doubts his existence over Facebook ban

Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:04pm GMT

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By Luke Baker
LONDON (Reuters) – An MP has had his Facebook account suspended after the site decided he wasn’t real.
Steve Webb, a member of the Liberal Democrat party, tried to log on on Monday but received a message saying his account had been disabled [...]

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Google Takes Aim at Wikipedia

By SCOTT MORRISON
The Wall Street Journal, December 15, 2007; Page A6
Google Inc. is taking aim at popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia with a new service that will let users write authoritative entries on subjects they know about — and provide the Internet search engine with more content that can carry its ads.
The new platform, which is [...]

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Ulteo Online Desktop

desktoplinux.com
Do you really like OpenOffice.org as your office suite? Would you like to be able to use it on any computer with an Internet connection? If you answered yes to both those questions, you’ll be interested in Ulteo’s beta of Ulteo Online Desktop, which allows the use of OpenOffice.org over the Internet as SAAS (software [...]

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Half of antivirus software fails lab tests

PcPro
Tuesday 4th December 2007
 
Virus Bulletin, an independent certification body, has revealed that 17 out of the 32 antivirus products it tested in its latest survey failed to pass certification. Virus Bulletin runs its VB100 study every two months, pitting a range of antivirus products against a range of viruses selected from the WildList, a [...]

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