mobile search

Telecom services provider Hutch has partnered with Microsoft to offer live search for its mobile customers.The private Telco would provide the entire Windows live suite of services to its customers over a period of time. The live search for mobile box would be available on the Planethutch home page. Microsoft and Hutch would be extending this alliance to allow advertisers and content partners to reach mobile customers with advertising opportunities .

.XXX domain

The US-based internet governing body rejected a proposal to create an adults-only zone on the internet, or a .XXX domain.Supporters of an .XXX domain argued it would make it easier to confine sex sites and filter them out. Opponents argued it would make pornography on the internet easier to find.The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the internet's domain-name address system, decided to reject the application for .XXX sites at a meeting in Portugal.

ISRO

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), will launch Italian satellite, Agile, next month end. The satellite would look at galaxies and stars with the aid of X-ray detectors.India bagged the contract for carrying the Italian satellite for $11 million. ISRO had earlier launched small payloads of 50 to 100 kgs for foreign players as "piggyback." This was the first time that the agency would fly a 400 kg foreign satellite as a lone passenger.

google

Google released the new version of their popular free software bundle Google Pack this week. There are two rather interesting and highly useful additions included with this release. Symantec’s Norton Security Scan, a freeware virus scanner, which offers virus protection on a basic level.

social networking

Firms are at risk of data leakage through their employees' increasing use of Web 2.0 technologies and social networking websites, security experts have warned. A survey of more than 1,000 office workers in the U.K. found that 42 percent of those aged between 18 and 29 discussed work-related issues on social networking sites and blogs.More than a quarter of young workers spent three or more hours a week -- during their office hours -- surfing blogs and websites such as YouTube and MySpace, the research, carried out by polling firm YouGov for content security specialists Clearswift found. Nearly four in 10 admitted accessing such sites "several times a day".

unlimited e-mail storage

Yahoo Inc. plans to offer unlimited e-mail storage to its roughly quarter of a billion users, starting in May.The world's biggest e-mail service is scrapping its free e-mail storage limit of 1 gigabyte, or about a billion bytes of data, responding to explosive growth in attachment sizes as people share ever more photos, music and videos via e-mail.Microsoft has a 2 gigabyte free e-mail storage limit, while Google caps its Gmail service at 2.8 gigabytes.

online fraud

More than 3.5 million internet users in the UK have fallen victim to online fraud in the last year, a new survey has claimed. The government-supported Get Safe Online campaign says that the average amount of money lost to internet con-artists in 2006 was £875.