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  • Google excludes race hate, religious sites

    Google, the world's most popular search engine, has quietly deleted more than 100 controversial sites from some search result listings.

  • Google's chastity belt too tight

    Despite claims of "advanced proprietary technology," the search giant's opt-in porn filter proves no better than the primitive tools of the last decade, blocking many harmless sites.

  • Skype encryption too tough for German police

    VoIP provider Skype's encryption creates serious problems for the German Federal Police Office(BKA) according to Jrg Ziercke, BKA president.

  • German government to create 'police' Trojans?

    The German government wants to create Trojans that will spy on suspected criminals.

  • Facebook updates its own profile

    Ben Ling, director of product marketing for the Facebook platform, gave a brief peek of the upcoming profile page update and outlined Facebook's vision at Graphing Social Patterns conference.

  • Google bots speaking your language

    Google has expanded its ever growing kit of online tools with a new language translation service.

  • 2007: How was it for security?

    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

  • Fighting Office with open source

    Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.

  • Google's fight for the 'Gmail' name

    The search giant has been at war with a German venture capitalist over the right to use the term 'Gmail'.

  • Mozilla backtracks in eBay privacy flap

    The Mozilla Foundation has updated the German-language version of Firefox in a bid to defuse a growing controversy over the way its search toolbar handles private customer data.

  • Sober worm offshoot trades on Paris Hilton, FBI

    There is no Easter Bunny, and that's not a real Paris Hilton video in your e-mail box. Nor is the FBI likely to be e-mailing you to ask you questions about visiting illegal Web sites.

  • Gmail threatened by UK lawsuit

    A UK company is considering filing a lawsuit against Google over its use of the Gmail name.

  • Microsoft helps net Bulgarian phishers

    Eight people who allegedly ran online scams to pilfer personal information from Internet users worldwide were arrested in Bulgaria last week.

  • Customs solves ethnic name identification headache

    The Australian Customs Service is banking on a new identity checking system, which can distinguish between different permutations of foreign names, to help improve border security.

  • Germans crack down on Net Nazi music

    German police have swooped on the homes of more than 100 computer buffs in a new crackdown on the illegal trade of Nazi songs over the Internet.

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