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  • Australian to head WIPO

    Australian Francis Gurry has been nominated as the next director general of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

  • Search engines face drug test

    A major U.S. pharmacy trade group is pressuring Web-based search engines to ban advertisements from unlicensed drug dealers, highlighting growing pains for the Net's newest marketing powerhouses.

  • Shutting of MSN chat rooms may open up IM

    In announcing it would shutter free chat rooms, Microsoft highlighted problems with spammers and pornographers. But analysts said there may be benefits for the software giant, which is trying to shunt customers to paid services across its network.

  • Yahoo finds itself in search spotlight

    Yahoo's US$1.63 billion buyout of Overture Services signals a dramatic shake-up of the Web search market that could wake a sleeping giant: Microsoft.

  • Microsoft, Google may go head-to-head

    Microsoft's path to expand the Windows empire is leading directly to search king Google.

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  • MSN offers look at new consumer IM

    Microsoft's MSN unit shows screen shots of its new messenger application and sets a mid-year timeframe for its release.

  • Microsoft's biggest Office XP fear: Pirates

    Pirates ahoy! Microsoft prepares to do battle. When Microsoft releases Office XP in a few months, the company will face off against its two toughest competitors: software pirates and, well, Microsoft.

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