Stories by Carrie-Ann Skinner

Yahoo is thought to be in the process of wrapping up a deal to sell bookmarking service Delicious for US$1m.

Web users relying on Wi-Fi networks rather than fixed broadband connections to access the web experience slower speeds, says Epitiro.

Thousands of Gmail users have seen their old emails wiped from their inbox following a bug that affected Google's webmail service.

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News Corp, which owns MySpace, has revealed it is considering a sale, merger or even spinoff of the social network.

Microsoft is expected to offer a first look at its forthcoming OS, Windows 8, on a tablet PC at the onsumer Electronics Show next year.

The UK's national security advisor has warned that government websites used to upload tax returns or claims benefits are at risk of attack from hackers who support <a href="http://wikileaks.org">WikiLeaks</a>.

LimeWire will close for good on New Years Eve as it will shut its legitimate online music store permanently.

Opera has made a beta version of its mobile browser, Opera Mini 5.1, available for mobile phones running the Symbian S60 platform.

Social networkers who use location-based services such as Facebook Places should expect to see their home insurance premiums rise, says Confused.com.

Online auction site Craigslist is being urged to close its 'adult services' section on all of its global sites.

Hackers create 57,000 new web pages every week in a bid to infect web users with malicious software, says PandaLabs.

Microsoft has given web users a sneak peak of what Internet Explorer 9 will look like ahead of the launch of an IE9 beta on September 15.

MySpace has only half as many visitors as it had last year, says ComScore.

The use of Tabnapping, the recently-identified phishing technique, is on the rise, says Panda Labs.