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Over two million searcheable pages of 19th and early 20th century newspapers have been put online by the British Library. The archive houses 49 national and regional newspapers including The Illustrated Police News which covered the Whitechapel murders. Searches are free and downloads are available on a pay-as-you-go basis.

The BBC is in talks with Google to launch an international edition of iPlayer. At present iPlayer only allows TV programs to be seen in the UK. BBC content is also available on YouTube, but in short clip format only. This step would mean BBC shows could be seen globally in their entirety on the [...]

Microsoft is planning to strip out IE from the next incarnation of Windows 7 in Europe, CNET News has learned. The inclusion of a browser in Windows – something Microsoft has done for more than a decade -was a likely violation of European antitrust law. For computer makers that want it, Microsoft will offer a [...]