Microsoft has joined with CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre) to report unsuitable messaging on its services.

Users of MSN messenger or Windows Live Messenger will now have a wonderful opportunity to take action against the dodgy messengers by clicking on a tab featuring the CEOP’s “report abuse” icon. On clicking the tab it will directly connect to online police services.

This wonderful plan will allow users, especially the teens, to report on apprehensive behavior and examples of improper contact of sexual nature. Safety tips on privacy and protecting the personal details will also appear next to the tab.

A web based photo community has been launched by Yahoo combining with US communications company AT&T. Through this users can easily share digital photo collections and can also enjoy photo-tagging, smart-albums, playlists etc.

Google Inc. is proffering Wi-Fi service to about 70,000 plus residents of its hometown at no cost. In addition it guarantees 100% high-speed Wi-Fi service, absolutely free.

Users can register using an existing Google account user ID and password, or make one on the soar. The network can be chosen up on any Wi-Fi-enabled device, like a notebook PC.

Google has announced that its Google Talk instant messaging platform will now allows its users to share files with other Google Talk users by dropping files or full folders into the client. Photo files will get special treatment, showing up in your client so you could even talk about them with someone else. Another feature newly included is music status which allows other Google Talkers to see what hip (or embarrassing) song you’re listening to, if you are using one of these supported players. Talk users already got these new features a few weeks ago. Now they are rolling out to everyone.

Google’s signed on a extremely important contributor that’s taking an liberal view of fair use: it is the entire University of California system. There can be number of factors noted, which make signing up UC a huge coup for Google. One factor is simply, expansion of system. Berkeley, the first UC campus, dates from 1868, and the system has since grown to contain 10 campuses, as well as several major research plans, such as those at San Francisco, Los Angeles (UCLA), Santa Cruz, and Davis.

Google’s library project was, in part, an effort to make certain that researchers in the sciences and other fields didn’t miss out on the vast store of information contained in the books of some major libraries, as well as the ones at Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, and the University of Michigan. The project aims to scan the contents of these libraries, digitize the text, and index the resulting information for typical Google-style searching. As with other Google book projects, the work has run into the clash between copyright concerns and fair use. In response to these problems, some of the institutions involved have limited the digitizing to works known to be in the public domain.

The quality of the collection is also predictable to be very important. Collectively, the UC schools considered the top public university systems in the US, and include some of the top research programs in the world. As such, the 34 million books in its collection would be a extremely significant addition. But UC is in fact following Michigan’s lead in allowing the scanning of their entire collection, rather than only those works that are definitely in the public domain. Hopefully, the combination of the UC collection and Google’s indexing skills would mean more researchers would have to rely less on luck to find older information.

Budding online joint venture Yahoo7 is aiming at offering “Internet-based voice service” by next year, it is a part of a plan to overhaul bigger competitor ninemsn. Yahoo7 is already offering its users with instant messaging services – the ability to call other computer users.

“Most of the stuff that is needed to do it is here”, Yahoo7 chief executive Ian Smith told Media. “We require working out the timing and the approach we are going to take to market.

“It has to be carefully analyzed – after all, the fundamental raison d’etre of voice over IP is that there is very little money to be charged. It would probably be 2007 unless a few other things come down the pipe.”

Yahoo has recently announced their latest service named Yahoo! “Search Builder”. This is designed specially to enable the user to make their own customized search engines.

Yahoo! Search Builder has been developed to permit users to choose a set of trusted sites and create a customized search engine for themselves.

This is great and perfect tool for the people running multiple websites and desires to offer a single search tool for their visitors. And it is perfect for contextual linking for Bloggers as well.

Google is on its way to build a new “traffic cop” layer into the search engine, it is made to help the internet users evade websites containing spyware and malicious code. When a user click on a link from Google’s search results to a site that is called to contain malware, they would soon be routed to a page that reads: “Warning – the site you are about to visit may harm you computer!”.

All the sites which Google recognizes as harmful are based on the reports from the StopBadware coalition that was set up Harvard Law School’s Berkman Centre for Internet & Society and Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute, Google, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems also hold partnership in the scheme.

The StopBadware website said its proposal was incoming a “new phase” with Google introducing the warning system to its search engine. Although Google has already introduced some warnings for several malevolent websites, a number of sites lately identified by StopBadware did not yet trigger a warning from the search engine. Given the company itself has not yet issued a statement on the proposal, it is not yet clear when the function would be fully operational.

First days of MSN’s improved Spaces blogging and social – networking service have been overwhelmed by troubles. The upgrade to Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces blogging and social-networking service has been a revise in what can go incorrect with a commencement.

According to the representative Spaces blog, the first 12 hours after the launch were overwhelmed by deprived presentation problems, counting matters connected to e-mail issues, statistics pages not functioning and emoticons from prior Spaces versions not functioning.

The blog entry went on to guarantee Spaces users that its team was on top of the problems and that feedback was asked.