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IDC Web site defaced by 'eco-terrorists'

The Web site of Global IT research firm IDC has been hacked by a group purporting to be Brazilian environmental terrorists to serve a message urging people to take action over global warming. Read more »

Italian develops first multi-site Web-mail worm

An Italian security researcher this week has developed the first Web-based e-mail worm capable of taking advantage of cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in multiple Web-mail services. Read more »

Java update warms to scripting languages

Sun Microsystems released on Monday a Java development kit that seeks to meld Java and scripting languages. Read more »

Study questions Google's future

The company's top spot in the search engine market could be under pressure from competitors that attempt to mimic the site and lure away advertisers, research shows. Read more »

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  • Staff Microsoft shows off IE9 preview

    This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Chris Duckett IE9's H.264 vote killed Ogg

    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

  • Staff Google launches Apps Marketplace

    Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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