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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Napster Inc., the digital music service, on Tuesday opened the world's biggest MP3 download store with more than 6 million songs in a direct challenge to Apple Inc's iTunes store.

AUSTRALIA's presence at CeBIT's parent show in Hannover, Germany will be ramped up by the Rudd Labor government.

Former About.com general manager Mark Josephson is now in charge of the local news and community start-up.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - google Inc dominates internet searches across the world with a major exception of Russia, a gap which Russian-born co-founder Sergei Brin is keen to fill, he said in a newspaper interview.

PASSWORDS, patching and anti-virus software are well past their use-by date, experts told participants at the AusCERT 2008 conference.

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IAC's latest purchase of GirlSense shows its faith in burgeoning teen market, signals that media conglomerate's snap-'em-up strategy may be back on track.

Music-focused social networks Imeem and Buzznet are also growing fast, the numbers found, and Facebook continues to grow but not as quickly as one might expect.

ObsessionArt, the UK-based online retailer specializing in erotic art, has selected zanox to develop an affiliate marketing campaign aimed at building sales for the retailer.

German hotel reservation service hotel.de has selected the Lixto Online market Intelligence solution to research and report on hotel price compliance and competitors' offerings.