Google to appeal court ruling banning Belgian reports from Google News

Google has said that it will appeal against a Belgian court ruling that its Google News services is illegal. The ruling followed a complaint by Copiepresse, which manages copyrights for the French and German language newspapers in Belgium. The court ordered to Google to stop reproducing content from La Derniere Heure, La Libre Belgique and Le Soir or pay a fine of €1 million per day. ...more

Web creator slams ICANN proposal for more top-level domains

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has launched an attack on the ICANN proposal to introduce a new series of top level domains. He argues that other expansions such as .info and . ...more

The phoenix-like Boo rises again

Boo.com rises today from the ashes of its much-publicised demise, thanks to US online clothes firm Fashionmall, which snapped up the rights to the Boo name. It hopes to capitalise on the familiarity of the name with 18 to 30-year-olds, claiming that even when the site had gone under, it was still receiving 35,000 hits a week. ...more

BBC to develop Mac version of iPlayer

The BBC has announced that it will provide a Mac version of its iPlayer video application, reversing an earlier decision to deny users of Apple computers access to its vast archive of video and audio recordings. During a speech to the MipTV conference in Cannes, Ashley Highfield, the corporation's director of Future Media and Technology, said that he wants to make iPlayer 'as widely available as possible'. 'Although [Apple's] proprietary and closed framework for digital rights management gives us headaches, it is one of our top priorities to re-engineer our proposed BBC iPlayer service to work on Macs,' he said. ...more

Internet Explorer to block pop-ups

The next version of Internet Explorer will include a facility to block pop-up ads, the company confirmed today. The feature will be included in Windows XP Service Pack 2, which is due to be released next year. Microsoft spokesman Darin Linnman told News. ...more