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Cuba and Iran lash out at Internet freedom

News The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, offers an Index of Economic Freedom. The index finds a close correlation between wealth and a stable, functioning government. Wealthy regions like Hong Kong, the US and Switzerland respect...

21 November 2005, 9:01

Yahoo search update angers Webmasters

News The search engine updates are aimed specifically at growing the list of relevant Web sites in Yahoo's search index, said Tim Mayer, director of product management for Yahoo Search. Yahoo introduced changes to its search engine this week that were...

25 July 2005, 8:19

Jaws drop as UK device records a week's TV

News The box was a prototype of a digital video recorder from Ascot start-up Promise TV that can record and index an entire week's worth of digital-television programming. When Cory Doctorow visited last weekend's OpenTech conference in London, he was...

28 July 2005, 10:21

'Wii Fit' gets UK pricing

News Wii Balance Board, which acts as a controller for the game and also calculates a person's body mass index. A week ago, Nintendo dated Wii Fit for Europe, saying the exercise game would arrive 25 April.

Tags: balance, board, released, europe

28 February 2008, 8:51

PC buyers not such a happy bunch

News Overall, consumers rated their satisfaction with the maker of their PC 3 per cent worse than last year, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, the annual quality study conducted by The University of Michigan released on Tuesday.

14 August 2007, 10:11

Online spending reaches "all time high"

News According to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index, released on Thursday, the run-up to The amount of money spent in the UK on Internet shopping last year was more than 50 per cent higher than the year before, the UK e-commerce industry body IMRG...

Tags: consumer, sales, shopping, cent

21 January 2008, 8:51

Google foils BMW.de's deception plot

News In a blog post, software engineer Matt Cutts said that Google had removed the German BMW site from its Web index after it included "doorway pages" that would automatically redirect visitors to a different URL.

7 February 2006, 9:57

Google Desktop moves to Linux

News Because the index is stored locally on the computer, users can access Gmail and Web history while offline. Google on Wednesday launched a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux in a sign of encouragement by the search giant for Linux on...

28 June 2007, 9:05

News.blog: Google music store up soon?

News But searching Google's index for 'google.com/music' yields a different result than the standard 'Sorry, no information is available for the URL' error message. There are some new hints that a Google music store, which could compete with Apple's...

24 May 2006, 10:58

Google launches blog search

News An upcoming feature will let bloggers who publish site feeds request inclusion in Google's search index. Google has launched a blog search feature, as it seeks to go head-to-head with archrival Yahoo in the booming blog market.

15 September 2005, 9:10

Yahoo hears call of audio search

News Independent publishers will be allowed to submit content to Yahoo's audio index, which will include more than 50 million audio files. Yahoo on Thursday introduced an audio search beta to help people track down music downloads, podcasts, newscasts...

5 August 2005, 11:10

Google entangled in anti-Semitism row

News Weinstock has launched an online petition asking Google to remove the site from its index. Search site Google has been drawn into a controversy during the week of Passover over a search listing that directs viewers to an anti-Semitic site when they...

7 April 2004, 8:05

Software giant seeks search

News Gates said the way search was currently done was "very low-tech," based around taking "a bunch of words and making an index. Microsoft plans to kick off a series of improvements to its search capabilities in July as it looks to compete with...

28 June 2004, 15:00

New Cisco flaw could pose threat to Net

News Cisco's warning prompted Symantec to raise its ThreatCon global threat index to Level 2, which means an attack is expected. A serious flaw in Cisco Systems software puts computer networks at risk of cyberattack and has prompted security vendor...

8 September 2005, 9:22

Christmas e-commerce breaks records?

News There's been a massive growth in wrapped gifts -- year-on-year our gift service index is up 150 per cent," Roper told CNET.co.uk's sister site, ZDNet UK. Britain's online spending in the run up to Christmas has exceeded expectations, according to...

3 January 2007, 9:17