Facebook today announced the first step in a broad plan to internationalize the site with translation into Spanish.

A survey conducted by IT security and control firm, Sophos, has revealed that 71 percent of people believe their local authorities should prevent staff from accessing confidential data about citizens, via laptops, blackberries, or other mobile devices when they are working away from the office, to ensure that the information does not fall into the hands of an opportunistic thief or hacker.

Google today announced Google Apps Team Edition as a way for groups of employees and students to collaborate within an organization using Google Apps.

In a first for the web hosting industry, Yahoo! Small Business announced a new service that gives small businesses unlimited room to grow online.

More than 40 security software technologists and anti-malware testers from around the world recently met in Bilbao, Spain to formalize the charter of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, or AMTSO.

Google today announced a series of security products powered by Postini that deliver message filtering, encryption and archiving for any business environment.

Opera Software announced the commercial release of Opera Mobile 9.5 — the latest version of its Web browser for sophisticated feature phones and smartphones.

Google recently issued a statement regarding Microsoft proposal for Yahoo!’s acquisition.

AOL today announced that it has acquired Goowy Media, a widget development and analytics tools company based in San Diego, Calif. Goowy will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL as part of the company’s Products division.

The transaction valued at approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock and provides 62 percent premium to current trading price for Yahoo! shareholders.

According to Sophos, three men that were raised $1.2 million out of a email scam were found guilty. Criminals pretended to have terminal illness in their attempt to con innocent users out of money.

Amazon.com today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Audible Inc.

Dpreview.com, a resource for reviews and original content regarding the latest in digital cameras and an Amazon.com subsidiary, announced today the launch of digital camera lens reviews.

Opera Software, today announced the official opening of its office in the Czech Republic.

Nominum, a provider of network naming and addressing technologies, and Afilias, a provider of domain name registry services, announced today that Paul Mockapetris, chairman and chief scientist, was the keynote speaker at an event hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute and Afilias.

TRUSTe, the leading Internet privacy seal-of-approval, in conjunction with the Ponemon Institute, have announced that HP, Intuit Inc. and AOL have been honored as the Most Trusted Companies for Privacy for 2007.

A new daily web comic for IT developers and pros debuted today at http://www.heroeshappenhere.com/comic.

Google introduces for public testing some mew ways of searching the web and displaying the results.

Sophos reports that police in Kyoto have arrested three men, who are said to have been involved in a plot to infect users of the P2P file-sharing network Winny with a Trojan horse that displayed images of popular anime characters while wiping music and movie files.

The Wikimedia Foundation and the Collaborative Creativity Group at UNU-MERIT (a joint research and training centre of United Nations University (UNU) and Maastricht University) are pleased to announce a collaboration to conduct the first-ever, comprehensive Wikipedia survey.

Opera today announced that Korea-based POSBRO has selected the Opera browser for what is labelled the world’s first portable WiMax gaming device.

The world’s most popular premium cable channel, HBO, is slowly entering the continuously developing market of Internet video.

IT security and control firm, Sophos, has published its Security Threat Report 2008 examining the threat landscape over the previous twelve months, and predicting emerging cybercrime trends for 2008.

The Wikimedia Foundation, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and Kaltura, Inc., a pioneer in Collaborative Media, announced today that the companies have begun a process aimed at bringing rich-media collaboration to Wikipedia and other wiki websites.

Yahoo! announced its support for the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework for all 248 million active registered Yahoo! users worldwide.