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News Archive November 2009

30th November

• EU waits for wise men to deliver digi-books plan
• Scottish independence? The SNP have an app for that
• Tough commissioner to rewrite Europe's data protection laws
• YouTube to promote its TV shows with press and bus ads

27th November

• Social media 'could transform public services'
• Gov net disconnections could breach EU law
• iPhone hacker given developer job, Sophos amazed

26th November

• The dark side of the internet
• Windows 7 saves Dixons
• Virgin Media to trial filesharing monitoring system

25th November

• Man marries video game character
• iPhone users 'happier to pay online'
• A different kind of cell division at IBM
• Murdoch attempts to weaken Google

24th November

• Google Maps navigation GPS comes to Android 1.6 smartphone

23rd November

• EU ministers agree e-government aims
• Spotify extends mobile reach with Symbian app
• Murdoch puffs Microsoft over Google
• Twitters address-less delivery concept

20th November

• YouTube introduces automatic captions for deaf viewers
• Police open up to social media
• Adobe's Acrobat.com reorganizes, gets mobile app

19th November

• IBM greases mainframe app pipe
• Google remaps Earth for iPhone
• LinkedIn to integrate with Microsoft email
• YouTube launches Shows site to generate ad revenue from VoD
• Online gaming's dirty little secret

17th November

• Age of cyber warfare is 'dawning'
• EU sweeps up dodgy ringtone companies
• HP releases TouchSmart SDK to lure developers
• Orange touts free tweets

16th November

• YouTube steps up high res videos
• Murdoch's rants put Cameron on collision course with Google
• UN slated for stifling net debate
• IBM launches private business analytics cloud

13th November

• Switzerland takes Google to court
• How the web will look in five years according to Google
• Flash flaw affects nearly every web user say researchers
• Bing moves out of beta for imminent full UK launch

12th November

• UK's cyber warriors go into battle in March
• Government consults possible £500,000 data breach fine
• HP in deal to buy 3Com for $2.7bn(£1.6bn)
• Bing's marketing blitz pays off as it gains search share, wh

11th November

• Bing hit by costly security loophole
• New PC to encourage older users
• Microsoft to launch SQL Server modeling preview
• White hat hackers break into Facebook groups

10th November

• Cisco crafting telepresence Rosetta Stone
• Firefox turns five, as security firm claims browser is least
• UK.gov denies innocent will be hit by filesharing regime

9th November

• Yahoo follows Google onto China's porn offense list
• Firefox tops vulnerability list
• Security, speed and the trouble with transparency
• Cuban blogger abducted by state agents

6th November

• Facebook: We're going after scammy ads, too
• Does Wine make Linux too loose?
• Domain auction house says top exec juiced bids
• Ballmer: Yahoo Bing deal will be global

5th November

• MPs in call for Govt job ads to go online
• Google centralises privacy control
• Vendors scrambling to fix bug in Net's security
• EU block to Mandelson's filesharing laws removed

4th November

• Open University talks clouds with MS and Google
• Wallace and Gromit's make Google doodle
• Google adds bookmark sync to Chrome browser
• Android phone sports 8.1-megapixel camera

3rd November

• Video gamers face malware deluge
• Euro Commission steps up UK legal
• Worms back at top of Microsoft threat list
• Big Blue red-faced over Congestion charge crash
• Competition watchdog looks into Friends Reunited sale