12:00AM | by Ben Woodhead
Internet regulator ICANN is working to head off a slew of potential intellectual property disputes as it prepares to open up the web to new top-level addresses that would compete with .com, .net and other traditional domains.

08:59AM | by Ben Woodhead
Microsoft has waded into a looming board stoush at Yahoo! and said it would be willing to reopen discussions with the one-time takeover target if its shareholders voted to oust a number of directors, including chief executive Jerry Yang.
06:26AM | by Lisa Carapiet
Power-hungry data centres and computer rooms are posing a major challenge to efforts to improve the green credentials of buildings.
12:00AM | by AP
A Lehman Brothers analyst downgraded the entertainment industry yesterday and slashed forecasts for its five major companies, saying digital downloads of movies and TV shows posed a huge threat to profits from DVD sales that the companies rely on.
12:00AM | by Ben Woodhead
Qmastor ups forecast
12:00AM | by The New York Times; The Guardian;
Call, not email, from Seoul
12:00AM | by Brad Stone; The New York Times
As we come to rely more and more on the internet, the pressure is on web companies to be error free, writes Brad Stone.

12:31PM | by Chris Jenkins
Queensland power distributor Energex Australia has completed a $12 million upgrade of its network control platform, installing new systems based on the open source Linux operating system.
12:00AM | by AP
As Facebook has blossomed into a hot internet hangout, its users have passed countless hours playing Scrabble with friends - or at least, an unauthorised version of the word game that Scrabble's owners have tried to shut down.