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Google old boys launch their own engine in global search for wealth
Call it internet treachery if you like but three former senior engineers from the Google campus are trying to usurp the search-engine crown from their former employer
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Ex-Google employees launch rival search engine
Monday, 28 July 2008
New search engine Cuil.com has gone live today, aiming to challenge the dominance of search giants Google.
Bad news for office time-wasters...
Saturday, 26 July 2008
If it were a David vs Goliath battle of wits played out on the instantly recognisable board at the centre of this fierce legal tussle, then Goliath has just set down all seven letters against a "K" on a triple word score. The word: "knockout" (107 points, thank you very much).
Cult classics take on the blockbusters as audiences switch on to internet downloads
Saturday, 26 July 2008
Geoffrey Macnab looks at how the web is shaking up Hollywood
How a fraudster stole my identity on Facebook
Friday, 25 July 2008
The victim of an online vendetta has won a libel case. Amol Rajan knows just how much damage can be done
Bidders let down the man who put his life on eBay
Friday, 25 July 2008
It is a question asked all too often – what price a life? In the case of divorcee Ian Usher the answer appeared simple if relatively unsubstantial: £192,000.
Music industry to tax downloaders
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Broadband users face an annual levy allowing them to copy as much – previously illegal – music from the internet as they want.
Businessman wins £22,000 over Facebook libel
Thursday, 24 July 2008
A businessman whose personal details were "laid bare" in fake libellous entries on the Facebook social networking website was awarded £22,000 damages today against a former friend who created the profile.
A real page-turner? No, but it may change the way we read
Thursday, 24 July 2008
An electronic gadget capable of storing hundreds of downloadable "ebooks" that could do for the written word what the iPod did for music is to be launched in over 300 stores across Britain
Google close to acquiring Digg for '$200m'
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
News aggregator site Digg is to be purchased by search giants Google at a price in the region of $200 million, according to technology blog techcrunch.com. The deal would see Digg become part of the Google News service.
BT unveils £1.5bn plan to bring faster broadband to millions
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
BT showed its hand on next-generation broadband yesterday with a proposal to spend £1.5bn bringing super-fast access to up to 10 million households by 2012, contingent on Ofcom's agreement to regulatory changes.
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