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Wikipedia child image censored Dec 8, 2008 A decision by a number of UK internet providers to block a Wikipedia page showing an image of a naked girl has angered users of the popular site. The blocked page of the online encyclopaedia shows an album cover of German heavy metal band Scorpions. ... Why Is Icahn Loading Up on Yahoo? Dec 1, 2008 Black Friday is usually a day of bargain shopping. The gift giving comes later. This year, for Yahoo (YHOO) shareholders, a small present came a little early. Friday, in a SEC-required “insider” filing, Yahoo director and major shareholde... Woman cleared of MySpace bullying Nov 28, 2008 An American woman, accused of driving a teenage girl to suicide by bullying her on MySpace, has been cleared of one of the most serious charges against her.Lori Drew, 49, was found not guilty of accessing a computer without authorisation to inflict e... Europe Yahoo chief flees the company Nov 28, 2008 Another top level Yahoo executive is leaving the troubled search company and the company has rushed to claim it is nothing to do with the resignation of CEO Jerry Yang.Toby Coppel has announced he is quitting as executive vice president and managing ... Yahoo, Microsoft make gains in search Nov 27, 2008 Yahoo and Microsoft outperformed the U.S. search industry's 7 percent increase in search results for the month of October, while AOL slipped further behind, according to a ComScore report released Wednesday.During the month of October, 12.6 billion s... Mozilla's Fashion Your Firefox Launch Features Foxmarks Nov 26, 2008 Foxmarks, Inc., one of the most popular browser add-ons in the world with more than nine million downloads, announced that it is a featured add-on in Mozilla's Fashion Your Firefox launch. In addition, the company formally announced that James Joaqui... Apple Safari, Google Chrome gain browser market share Nov 25, 2008 Apple's Safari is among the Web browsers that have gained market share in 2008, according to a new report from research firm OneSat. Since February 2008, Safari increased its browser market share by 0.24 per cent worldwide. That gives Safari a 2.42 p... Yahoo sells shopping service Kelkoo Nov 24, 2008 Yahoo has sold European comparison shopping service Kelkoo to a British investment firm, Kelkoo founder and former chief executive Pierre Chappaz said FridayChappaz, in a posting on his blog at wikio.fr, published a memo to Kelkoo employees from a Ya... Google mulls pre-installing Chrome browser on computers Nov 21, 2008 Google is considering pre-installing its Chrome browser on personal computers in the search giant’s latest challenge to the dominance of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.The move would significantly ramp up the browser war that Google launch... Google unveils customised search Nov 21, 2008 Google has unveiled a tool that will allow users to customise and refine their search queries.The company's SearchWiki lets users re-order, remove or add specific web search results.This means the next time they perform the same search, the personali...