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Brad Smith, Microsoft’s senior vice president and general counsel, said of the new partnership, which was announced yesterday: “This agreement is even more anti-competitive than Google’s deal with Yahoo! in the United States and Canada that the Department of Justice found to be illegal. The 2008 deal would have locked up 90 percent of paid search advertising. “This deal gives Google virtually 100 percent of all searches in Japan, both paid and unpaid. It means … Read entire article »

Five tips that will help you get the most out of your mobile phone camera. 1 Get close More and more mobile phones have cameras with digital zoom technology but on most phones the results are disappointing. Avoid using the zoom to enlarge your subject or frame your picture and move in as close to the subject as possible instead. This will also help to make sure you think about the shot. 2 Keep still It … Read entire article »

Cybercriminals are increasingly focussing on money, a new report suggests, and improved organisation means that “toolkits” have been developed to methodically infect PCs so that illegally obtained information can be bought and sold. In a survey by security firm AVG, 165 internet domains were found to have attacked 12 million visitors over the course of two months. More than 1.2 million computers were subsequently infected. The research looked at criminals using the so called “Eleonore toolkit”, … Read entire article »

Google, which bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006, said the move to Google account logins would optional at first, but would later become mandatory. Between 2006 and May 2009, YouTube users could sign up to the site using one of two systems: the original, pre-acquisition account system, or the Google account system. From May 2009 onwards, Google required all new YouTube users to sign in using a Google account. Brett Hobbs, a software engineer at … Read entire article »

Facebook’s privacy policy is a whopping 5,830 words long. As the New York Times recently pointed out, the Constitution of the United States is just 4,543. In recent months, Facebook has made revisions to its privacy policy that makes a growing amount of information public by default; users must opt out if they want to keep their information private, or share it only with a trusted group of friends. The changes have caused something of a … Read entire article »

Microsoft Outlook will now integrate with Facebook, MSN Messenger, MySpace and LinkedIn, giving users access to a social version of email. The move aims to put Outlook, Microsoft’s premium email product, on a par with its web-based rivals, including Microsoft’s own Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Gmail, which already include chat capabilities. Last year, Microsoft launched the Outlook Social Connector plugin, which synchronises social networking feeds with Outlook contacts. The new Facebook integration includes pictures for contacts, … Read entire article »