[CNET] -- CNet is reporting that a Dutch software dealer filed a complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft, arguing the company charges more in Europe than it does in the United States, a policy that violates Europe's antitrust laws. "At this stage, we are asking the court to accept that there has been a violation of the relevant European law," Samir Abdalla, company owner, said on Friday. "Clearly, the commission does not enter into a discussion at this point." [...]

Sources from both Microsoft and Yahoo confirm that a Sunday Times of London story suggesting 20 billion dollars partnership between the two about to happen is "fictitious wholly". The story details the deal that Microsoft would obtain a 10-year operating agreement to manage the search business and it would also receive a two-year call option to buy the search business for $20 billion leaving Yahoo to run its own e-mail, messaging, and content services. Jonathan Miller, ex-chairman and CEO of American ...

Grappling with the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, US online shoppers tend to spend more on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday for better prices. Yesterday, comScore reported that, for the holiday season-to-date, shoppers has spent $10.41 billion online, 4% decline in comparison to the corresponding days last year, while Black Friday saw $534 million in online spending, up 1%. Gian Fulgoni, comScore chairman, commented: Early reports suggest that Black Friday sales in retail stores were slightly better than anticipated in ...

In the next few days current users of Google's Chrome will automatically receive another beta update, version 0.4.154.25, but new users can immediately download the new release from Chrome official site now. Chrome's latest beta will, apart from bug fixes, introduce new features like better bookmark manager and enhanced privacy control. The new book manager will allow user searching bookmarks, creating folders and drag-n-dropping bookmarks to new locations, according to Mark Larson, Google Chrome Program Manager. Other important updates focus on Web privacy ...

Mozilla is rushing to release Firefox 3.1 but not to sacrifice the quality of the emerging browser. In a post to the Mozilla development forum, Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox, said that the third beta will added to the development schedule for Firefox 3.1 as one more opportunity for developers to test new features and fix bugs before final release. Although version 3.1 of the browser is not a major upgrade like previous version it is much anticipated when Google's Chrome ...

Yesterday the world largest BitTorrent tracker, The Pirate Bay, celebrated its 5th anniversary. It was a long trip for the Sweden-based crew confronting numerous of cannon firing from lawsuits, efforts (and rumors) to take its ship down, yet it is now still standing and appears stronger than ever. Just last week, the site's tracker reached 25 million peers which means "at any given point in time, more than 25 million people actively trade files thought the Pirate Bay tracker" explained Ernestor, ...

μTorrent, the world most popular BitTorrent client which Windows users have been using for long, is now officially released for (Intel) Mac OS X though still in a beta. μTorrent is designed to use minimal computer resources while still efficient. Mac version, said, continues being as lightweight and speedy as Windows counterpart. "The main reason I like uTorrent so much is because downloads are considerably faster in it than in any other BitTorrent client. This held true when I compared uTorrent Mac ...

Socked and angry! Over ten hours ago terrorists attacked Mumbai, the commercial capital of India, killing at least 80 civilians, police officers and many people including US citizens are being taken hostage. Mumbai is at war! Interestingly, the first news came to the world was not from CNN or from any other news agency but from Twitter's magical 140-character text messages. TechCrunch, leading tech blog, could capture picture of the first news updated on Twitter here. "Forget CNN, which so far has ...

Like the evil force in "Lord of The Rings" famous story, spam which was once defeated now has gathered its strength and is on the rise again! Two weeks ago when the command center of spam called McColo, a Web-hosting company that ran sites for several chief spammers, was forced to shut down the world had enjoyed a short moment of victorious air seeing spam sent over the Internet down to 80%. There were lucky days when many people on Earth ...

Canada is now the second country Twitter will no longer supports outbound SMS alerts (the first is UK where outbound SMS was stopped in August, 2008) citing changes to the company's billing and costs that are doubling every month: Unexpected changes in our billing have forced us into a difficult situation with our Canadian SMS service. We can't afford to support this service given our current arrangement with our providers (where costs have been doubling for the past several months.) Canadian however ...