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News Archive February 2010
26th February
- EU cautions Google over Street View photos
- Bug causes Facebook messages to misfire
- Google sets out search ranking explanation
25th February
- Web designers hold wake for Internet Explorer
- British Library warns UK's web heritage 'could be lost'
24th February
23rd February
22nd February
- E-waste to hit developing world hard
- Chinese universities deny role in Google cyberattack
- US school accused of web spying
19th February
18th February
- Google gives Wikipedia £1.3 million
- Massive hack attack hits 75,000 PCs
- What Google needs to learn from Buzz backlash
- Mozilla patches old version of Firefox
17th February
- Adobe patches PDF vulnerabilities
- Google ready to add Flash to Android
- Facebook faces class action over privacy changes
16th February
- Adobe to launch AIR and Flash Player on mobiles
- Socitm slams government IT strategy
- Google tweaks Buzz after privacy complaints
15th February
- YouTube's fifth birthday
- Google in fresh retreat on Buzz
- Adobe joins Linux-phone group to spread Flash
10th February
9th February
- Microsoft, Google split over browser bug bounty
- Student file sharers allegedly extorted
- Bill Cosby hasn't died, but rumours fuel hacker attack
- PayPal suspends payments to India
8th February
- One fifth of companies to ditch IT infrastructure in 2010
- China shuts down training website for hackers
- Google working on speech translation for phones
- Demand rises for IT-related university courses
5th February
- Mozilla confirms Firefox add-ons slipped through security
- EU awards supercomputing strategy contract
4th February
- Apple, Google, and the importance of Bing
- Carbon trading phishing scam nets 3m euros
- Old security holes bigger threat, says TrustWave
- Twitter forces password reset to protect some accounts
3rd February
- Microsoft integrates Visual Studio with security tools
- IT workforce is "crucial to the UK's recovery"
- Apple patches critical flaws in iPhone, iPod Touch
- Police hit by Conficker worm virus
2nd February
- China hacking laws to get tougher
- Spam via social networks rises sharply
- Twitter resets passwords after phishing attack
- Google Hot Search is 'useful security tool'
- Pressure mounts to phase out Internet Explorer 6
- Apple's 27-Inch iMac displays get firmware fix
1st February