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Watching television could help you pass your exams, say researchers at Reading University. Story in the education section of BBC News.

The world's favourite internet search firm, Google, confirms its long-awaited flotation on the Nasdaq or New York stock exchange, which could value the firm at $20bn.

The internet search engine is reported to be close to finalising plans for a long-awaited share sale.

Microsoft offers to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn in cash and shares.

Software giant Microsoft drops its bid to buy internet firm Yahoo after the two sides fail to agree a price.

Article covering the appeals lodged by four developing nations against the ratification of OOXML as an ISO standard.

Article on the German teenager whose Sasser worm caused global disruption.

US researchers make supercomputer out of cluster of PS2 game consoles, which use Emotion Engine 128-bit VLIW processors. [BBC News]

The future will be flexible, as screens you can roll up and take with you enter production, argues technology analyst Bill Thompson. [BBC News]