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UK embraces mobile social networking

Using mobile phones to access social networking websites is the "next big thing" according to new research.

By Miya Knights, 12 May 2008 at 10:33

Internet/News

Windows Live Hotmail launches worldwide

MSN Hotmail's successor is now available in 36 languages following beta testing with more than 20 million users.

By Maggie Holland, 8 May 2007 at 14:57

Internet/News

New exploit hits MSN Messenger

New flaw could allow hackers to run remote code on victim's computer.

By Rene Millman, 29 Aug 2007 at 11:49

Internet/News

MSN Space sibling enters the world

Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces will help consumers communicate online in a more secure, more personalised fashion

By by Emerald Kaye, 4 Aug 2006 at 10:57

Internet/News

IM, chat and P2P network attacks up in 2007

New figures reveal uncontrolled growth of greynets on enterprise networks help numbers of attacks on MSN, Yahoo! and AOL, as well as non-IM vectors...

By Miya Knights, 11 Jan 2008 at 13:44

Security/News

Vulnerability forces Microsoft Messenger IM upgrade

Decision to force legacy users into upgrading both MSN and Windows Live Messenger to the latest unaffected release 'for users own good'.

By Miya Knights, 14 Sep 2007 at 13:08

Internet/News

Microsoft details four updates for Patch Tuesday

Microsoft issues patches to fix problems in Windows 2000, MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Services for Unix.

By Rene Millman, 11 Sep 2007 at 15:52

Security/News

Kaspersky warns of crossover IM worm

Organisations must ensure IM is included in their security policies to help guard against new worm threat

By Maggie Holland, 10 Aug 2006 at 12:19

Internet/News

Microsoft increases blogosphere presence

Following the launch of Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft releases beta of new blogging tool, Windows Live Writer

By Maggie Holland, 15 Aug 2006 at 15:33

Internet/News

Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion

The search giant silences recent rumours by acquiring video phenomenon YouTube for £880 million

By Maggie Holland, 10 Oct 2006 at 11:38

Internet/News

BT launches search engine marketing service

Web Clicks offers the smaller players a chance to get bigger by targeting new customers, according to the service's parent BT.

By Maggie Holland, 3 Sep 2007 at 16:15

Internet/News

Half of work web traffic is porn, gambling, downloads and webmail

New report finds workers too busy on net to work.

By Rene Millman, 23 Mar 2007 at 20:07

Security/News

Most workers to favour IM as comms tool by 2013

IM is gaining popularity as a core business tool and many users now feel it's as important as using the phone or email to communicate.

By Maggie Holland, 22 Jun 2007 at 14:42

Internet/News

Google grabs 78 per cent of UK search market

New figures from Hitwise show Google and Yahoo making big advances in the search market, but organic results rather than paid results are still the...

By Marcus Austin, 14 Nov 2006 at 16:35

Internet/News

Microsoft adds aQuantive to its ranks in $6bn acquisition

The software giant is spending $6 billion on acquiring aQuantive to help make its online advertising dreams a reality.

By Maggie Holland, 18 May 2007 at 17:45

Internet/News

Wikipedia takes on spammers with new links policy

The online encyclopaedia attempts to cut down on link spamming by tagging external URLs so that search engines will ignore them.

By Simon Aughton, 25 Jan 2007 at 12:49

Internet/News

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3 offers Skype to businesses

Skype-to-Skype calling and messaging from mobile phones to be available on a new business price plan, following the success of 3's consumer service.

By Danielle Nordine, 10 Jun 2008 at 05:45

Mobile & Telecoms/News

IM malware infections increase

Malware on IM networks increases seven per cent on quarter and industry-specific IM networks come under scrutiny of hackers.

By Rene Millman, 5 Apr 2007 at 17:29

Security/News

UK overtakes US in mobile internet use

New study reveals that the use of handheld technology to access the web is growing fast, with young men taking the lead.

By Emmanuelle Smith, 15 May 2007 at 16:05

Mobile & Telecoms/News

Thousands of ICQ users affected by account deletion

ICQ users left without access to messaging platform, forum flooded with complaints.

By Emmanuelle Smith, 11 May 2007 at 12:19

Internet/News

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