A Russian company, Digital Sky Technologies (DST) is negotiating to buy ICQ instant messenger. Presently, owned by AOL, ICQ is one of the most leading instant messengers used today. The deal is supposed to be fixed between $200 millions to $250 millions.

Someone has discovered a problem on Microsoft’s MSN.com website and the question is being asked, “is a prelude or even the result of an attack on Microsoft’s website?”

On Friday morning, users while visiting Twitter encountered a message from “Iranian cyber army”, a group of some Iranian hackers. A similar thing was observed with Iran’s green movement website. It seems that these sites have experienced an attack of hackers. They call themselves “Iranian cyber army”. It was like a worldwide protest against green movement because it did not really appeared like a typical cyber crime which generally has some financial intentions. That really happened on Twitter was that the web page of twitter was redirected to a web …

Google was fined by a French court for $14,300 a day till it stops showing copyright books. A Paris based court ruled this judgment on Friday. Google inc. was also asked to pay $430,000 to a French publisher La Martiniere, who brought out the lawsuit on behalf of other French publishers.

Microsoft has finally come in peace with the European Union on the issue of the web browsers. The issue that started in 1998, was about Microsoft killing competition in the European browser market. Microsoft was criticized by the European Union for bundling their operating systems with their default web browser, Internet Explorer. Many felt that, this move of Microsoft could kill the competition in the web browser market and that users should be given the choice when it comes to choosing a web browser.

There are rumors that Apple is going to launch its touch tablet on 26th Jan 2010. Well if that is correct we are going to see an advanced touch tablet by Apple soon!

Parents in the UK can now clear their minds of any apprehensions when their kids use the internet as lessons on Internet safety are being taught at schools. This new initiative is just another part of the new strategy of the UK Government christened “Click Clever, Click safe” which is aimed at educating people and students about using the Internet safely. The Government has decided to make this Internet safety lessons, a part of the curriculum from the year 2011.

Here’s some interesting news for football fans. The regulation authority of the world’s most famous sport has decided to film the World cup 2010 to be held at South Africa is 3D. FIFA has announced that it will shoot around 25 of the matches with 3D cameras. Thought they haven’t said any plans about telecasting the matches in 3D, the governing committee has said that they have shelved the idea for now and will decide on it in the upcoming months.

One of the leading social networking sites Friendster.com is on its way to be sold to Malaysian company. With increasing competition in Social networking sites it was necessary to update Friendster.com to match the present day standards of content and privacy.

We have been seeing the war between Bing and Google search on web since Bing was launched by Microsoft. In a step further, now they are competing on mobile web also. Bing has an enthusiastic team that is ever modifying the features of this search engine to impress their users.
Though Google is leader of mobile web too, but the features offered by Bing, have brought it to compete with Google and even go ahead.