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Google Opens Click-Fraud Site

Google Inc. has unveiled a Web site "resource center" focused on the thorny issue of click fraud, which many consider a potential threat to the company's main source of revenue: pay-per-click advertising. Click Here To Know More

Nokia Warns Consumers Of Battery Overheating Risks

Nokia (NOK1V.HE) warned consumers that 46 million batteries used in its mobile phones could overheat and offered to replace them for free while it negotiates with battery maker Matsushita (6752.T) over who would bear the costs. Click Here To Know More

Google Joins Effort To Ward Off Patent Challenges To Linux

Google is joining IBM and Oracle in rallying around Linux. The company last week joined the Open Invention Network, a group that cross-licenses Linux patents as a means of discouraging infringement challenges to Linux. Click Here To Know More

Google Charges For Extra E-Mail Storage

Forget the battle between Microsoft Word and Google Apps for a minute, and set aside the notion of search engine supremacy. Microsoft and Google are now battling for technology enthusiasts in yet another area: online storage. Click Here To Know More

Google Key To Latest ITunes Challenge

Add gBox Inc. to the growing list of online music services hoping to chip away at iTunes's dominance. Click Here To Know More

Nokia Launches Mobile Social Networking Beta

Just over two weeks after buying media sharing site Twango Inc., Nokia Corp. launched a closed beta of a new mobile social networking site. Click Here To Know More

Yahoo's President Snaps Up $1.1 Million In Stock

Yahoo Inc. President Susan Decker purchased about $1.1 million of the Internet company's shares this week just after the stock hit a three-year low. Click Here To Know More

Top 3 Mobile Services To Sell Motorola's Razr 2

The top three U.S. wireless service providers said on Friday they would start selling the successor to Motorola Inc's Razr phone, which includes a 2 Megapixel camera and a music player. Click Here To Know More

Can Linux Overtake Windows In OS War?

While Novell's CEO is calling for Linux to expand its market, the Linux Foundation's executive director is declaring that the open-source OS is moving into its second stage of growth. Click Here To Know More

Microsoft Tests Dashboard View Of Online Offerings

Microsoft Corp started testing on Thursday a new dashboard view for its various Windows Live online services. Click Here To Know More

The Future Of Social Networking

Will special-interest sites with social-networking capabilities be the next big thing? Click Here To Know More

Aquantive Approves Microsoft Buyout

Shareholders of online advertising company aQuantive Inc. approved a buyout offer from Microsoft Corp. Click Here To Know More

Hackers Bite Into "Cookies" To Plunder User Data From Websites

Hackers and computer security specialists gathered in Las Vegas on Friday took aim at popular social networking websites, exposing ways to plunder data from software "cookies" used to track users. Click Here To Know More

"Doom" Creator Unveils Its New Video Game, "Rage"

The creator of classic computer game "Doom," id Software, unveiled on Friday its eagerly anticipated next game, "Rage," in which players fight an oppressive government in a post-apocalyptic world. Click Here To Know More

Kittens Could Solve Spam

An executive at Microsoft Corp. has an unusual idea for beating spammers. Powerful software tools and supercomputers aren't involved, but kittens are. Click Here To Know More

Printers Found To Kick Up Particles

Should laser printers come with a surgeon general's warning? Click Here To Know More

Texas Company Files Suit Against Microsoft, Adobe

A Texas-based company has filed a suit against Microsoft and Adobe for allegedly infringing on two patents for technologies that display content in a Web browser in key software products, including Microsoft's Windows Vista. Click Here To Know More

Mozilla Shares Scanning Tool, Firefox 3 Features

Open source browser maker Mozilla has developed a wide array of secure coding analysis tools as part of its internal development process, and now it's beginning to share those programs with the outside world. Click Here To Know More

Is Google Really Planning An IPhone Killer?

Google has developed a prototype cell phone that could be in the hands of consumers within a year, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The Journal indicated that Google plans to offer free mobile subscriptions, subsidized by ads in search results and software applications. Click Here To Know More

Open Source Joins The Mainstream

As more than 11,000 attendees converge on San Francisco for the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, beginning Monday, one industry analyst says customers are evaluating open source software the same way they evaluate proprietary software: It has to be priced right and work right. Click Here To Know More

Storm E-Mail Worm Evolves As It Wreaks Havoc On Net

Like a summer cyclone gathering force, the Storm e-mail worm is casting an expanding shadow on the Internet. Click Here To Know More

It's Super V-chip To The Rescue Of Kids

The Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation Thursday asking the Federal Communications Commission to oversee the development of a super V-chip that could screen content on everything from cell phones to the Internet. Click Here To Know More

Online Sharing Videos, Music Can Attract Hackers

Online sharing of videos and music at the heart of today's Internet lifestyle gives hackers dangerous new avenues for attacking computers, security specialists said Thursday. Click Here To Know More