Google extends its AdWords programme

Google is making changes to its AdWords programme. Advertisers now have the option of picking the sites where they want adverts to appear. Google is also moving beyond the familiar text only ads and will be supporting a range of graphical ads. ...more

All quiet on the Nyxem front

Finnish security company F-Secure says that so far there are no signs of the Nyxem worm nuking everyone's Office and pdf files, which it is programmed to start doing today. 'So far today we haven't received any significant Nyxem damage reports,' writes F-Secure's Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypp?nen. However, this could be the calm before the storm. ...more

Mobile web domains get first date

The Mobile Top Level Domain (mTLD) has announced that the .mobi Internet address will go live on 22 May. The domain is designed to identify websites that have content targeted at mobile devices. ...more

Carrera finds a buyer

UK PC manufacturer Carrera Technology has found a buyer. The company was plucked from the jaws of the receivers by Birmingham-based Digital Network. A PR spokesperson confirmed that Digital Network would respect Carrera customers' warranties for six months, but was unable to speculate as to whether or not the Carrera brand would be maintained. ...more

VeriSign in dispute with China over Web addresses

American corporation takes on communist China's government. It's not yet a doomsday scenario, however, as the dispute concerns the Web-based registration of Chinese domain names. It was last week that a test scheme for multilingual domain names was launched, under the auspices of VeriSign, which allows registrations using Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters. ...more