German government warns against using MS Explorer
The German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security. The warning from the Federal Office for Information Security comes after Microsoft admitted IE was the weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems. Microsoft rejected the warning, saying that the risk to users was low and that the browsers' increased security setting would prevent any serious risk. However, German authorities say that even this would not make IE fully safe.
BBC News

Yahoo criticised by Alibaba for 'reckless' China stance
Yahoo's partner in China has called the US internet giant "reckless" for supporting Google in its stand-off with Beijing over alleged cyber-attacks. Yahoo said it was "aligned" with Google's position that the violation of internet privacy was deeply disturbing and something that had to be opposed. But an Alibaba Group spokesman said on Saturday it did not "share this view".  Beijing has tried to play down Google's threat to pull out of China because of attacks by hackers and censorship.
BBC News

Jury clears British 'Pirate Bay' operator of fraud charge
The first person in the UK to be prosecuted for online music sharing has been acquitted of conspiracy to defraud, scuppering the music industry's hopes that it would have a homegrown equivalent of last year's high profile Pirate Bay case in Sweden with which to deter British music pirates. Alan Ellis, 26, was accused of making hundreds of thousands of pounds from the Oink website, which he operated from his flat in Middlesbrough. Before it was shut down in a police raid in 2007, the website had more than 200,000 members who had downloaded more than 21m music files.
The Guardian

Google picks up Nexus One support
Google appears to be trying to boost its customer support for Nexus One customers, posting replies to many more queries on its online forum. Google has come under fire since the launch of the Nexus One after hundreds of messages were posted with complaints or questions about the phone. Many customers said that after calling T-Mobile they were referred to HTC, the phone’s maker, or the reverse. Google does not have a customer service phone line, and customers sending emails were being told to wait one or two days for a reply.
Techworld

Facebook users banned for Haiti spam
Some Facebook users sending messages about the Haitian earthquake may have been a bit dismayed at times this week to find that they'd been booted off the site for suspicion of spamming. Facebook acknowledged today that some users had been dropped from the site because they had been sending out so many messages after an earthquake struck Haiti that the site mistook them for spammers. Facebook's mechanism to automatically detect potential spammers was triggered by an avalanche of messages going out about Haiti, said Andrew Noyes, manager of public policy communications at Facebook.
Techworld

Amazon MP3 store comes to Android 2.1
Google's latest update to its phone OS - Android 2.1 - has finally arrived in the UK, courtesy of the Google Nexus One handset and with it a number of new UK-specific features. One of the more interesting things is that now you can get direct access to the Amazon MP3 store from the phone, something the US has had since the G1. The service comes preloaded on the Nexus One and offers up information on the latest songs and albums and how much they cost.
Techradar

Phones to be world's most popular web browsers by 2013
The latest forecast from the analysts at Gartner shows that mobile phones are set to overtake PCs as the most common web browsing device by 2013. The increasingly popularity (and decreasing cost) of smartphones such as the recently-launched Google Nexus One and Apple's iPhone, means one thing mainly - the widespread availability of fast and easy-to-use mobile web browsers. And with those rumours of a soon-to-be-launched iPhone 4G building up a head of steam, the smartphone market is sure to get even more interesting (and busy) later in 2010.
Techradar

CBS launches local news apps for iPhone
US broadcast network CBS has announced the launch of 13 new iPhone apps, delivering local news and video from its stations around the US. Markets covered include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Miami, among others. The apps will offer text and video news, local weather forecasts, Twitter feeds from local reporters and news anchors, as well as content from CBS' national operation.
Mobile Entertainment

Report: $1 trillion of mobile service revenues in 2013
The mobile industry will generate more than $1 trillion of mobile services revenues globally in 2013, according to a new report from Informa Telecoms & Media. The analyst firm predicts that data revenues will account for more than $330 million of that, helping to make up for a fall in voice revenues. "The growth in data revenues is being spurred by the rise in take-up of more advanced technologies and mobile broadband services, as well as new handset interfaces and mobile content strategies based on application stores rather than walled gardens," says chief research officer Mark Newman.
Mobile Entertainment