9 January – Five Stories You Need to Read

CNetNews.com reports that “Quaero, the pan-European search effort intended to rival Google, has seen the German government withdraw its support. At the same time, the EC has promised $11.05 million to a rival local search project, Pharos.”

In a different story, CNetNews.com writes that “Linden Lab on Monday released as open-source software the viewer used to access Second Life and plans to follow suit with the server software that powers the company’s virtual realm”.

According to the International Herald Tribune, Yahoo! Introduced a software called Go for Mobile 2.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas which it hopes will help the company “remain No.1 in the battle to deliver information and online services to mobile phones”.

The New York Times observes that “[a]lthough there is a wide range of estimates of the overall infection rate, the scale and the power of […] botnet programs have clearly become immense” in recent years. 

Reuters reports that “EMI Group Plc said on Monday it was reviewing its use of the controversial content protection technology used on CDs, known as digital rights management (DRM), but has not scrapped it altogether.”