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Facebook Used To Deliver UK Court Order

In a first for the UK, Facebook has been used as part of the process of forcing a debtor to pay up

Judge Closes Book On ACS:Law File-Sharing Cases

All cases against file-sharers bought by ACS:Law have been dismissed - but will Andrew Crossley be fined?

Proofpoint Launches Mobile Cloud Email Compliance

The Proofpoint Mobile email suite adds security, compliance and archiving capabilities to mobile devices

iPad Newspaper ‘The Daily’ To Hit Europe This Summer

iPad owners in the UK will get to read the world's first iPad-only newspaper 'The Daily' this summer

Google Docs Gets Discussion Feature

Collaboration powered by comment streams and integrated email - it's Google Wave reborn within Docs

RIM Puts Social Tools Into Public Beta

The first beta of BBM Social Platform is aimed at Java developers, with WebWorks support planned for April

BlackBerry PlayBook To Feature Video Calling App

RIM's BlackBerry Playbook will soon have its own video-calling app, expected to be released this month

Avaya Expands Collaboration Tools To SMBs

Avaya has extended Aura Branchto include medium-sized business and support more complex environments

Twitter Improves Security With HTTPS Encryption

Twitter is following on the heels of Facebook and Google with new HTTPS encryption features

How Did Japan’s Internet Service Survive?

Good planning and a “dense mesh” design kept the Internet intact in Japan despite the earthquake, says Wayne Rash

3UK Joins Orange And T-Mobile In Selling iPad 2

3UK will be selling the iPad 2 alongside Orange and T-Mobile, most likely with competitive data bundles

Twitter Ordered To Hand Over Data To US Government

Twitter has been ordered to hand over users' data to the US government in the ongoing Wikileaks investigation

Google Denies Rumours Of ‘Circles’ Social Network

Google has denied reports that it is preparing a Facebook competitor called Circles

Politician Is First Brit To Be Fined For Twitter Libel

Colin Elsbury has been ordered to pay damages and legal costs for a libellous tweet during a local by-election

Japan Earthquake Could Shake Up Semiconductor Industry

The recent earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan could have a major impact on the semiconductor industry

4chan Founder: Zuckerberg Is Wrong About Anonymity

4chan founder Christopher Poole says Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is wrong to equate anonymity with cowardice

Developers Lash Out Against New Twitter Restrictions

Twitter has restricted third-party programmers from building new client apps for the platform, causing uproar

London App Targets Grime Ahead of Olympics

Boris Johnson backs Lewisham's ‘Love Clean London’ tool for graffiti reports by iPhone and Android

eWEEK Research Rates Social Media For Buyers

Next month, eWEEK Europe will present new research into how social media affects IT buying

Red Hat Updates JBoss SOA Platform

Red Hat extends data services integration with JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1

EU Agency Report Targets Botnets

Cyber security agency ENISA has made recommendations on tackling criminal networks

Nimbula Director Cloud OS Prepares For Launch

Nimbula’s forthcoming cloud OS, Nimbula Director, will become generally available within a month

Rightmove House Info To Include Broadband Speed

What matters to buyers? Location, location and connection, says online estate agent

Unified Comms Gets Cultural

Unified communications vendors are finally waking up to the fact that the issues are social, not technical, says Bryan Betts

Windows Phone 7 Market Share Falls

Microsoft suffered a market-share fall in smartphones despite its launch of Windows Phone 7

Lord Sugar Appointed New Head Of YouView

Can Lord Sugar steer the much-delayed YouView video-on-demand project to success?

Facebook Joins Samaritans In Preventing Suicides

Facebook has launched a suicide alert system in collaboration with Samaritans to help suicidal users

IBM Touts Middleware Dominance

New benchmark results and advertising push aims to put distance between rival Oracle and its WebSphere suite

3UK Offers Unlimited Data To Pay-As-You-Go Users

3UK pay-as-you-go customers get to use all the data they want as the operator released new mobile bundles