It looks like we won’t be phoning home with a Google mobile anytime real soon. A top Google executive has denied outright that the company is developing a mobile phone.

In a bid to prop up its floundering Live Search search engine, Microsoft is planning to introduce a new program “Microsoft Service Credits for Web Search”, which will pay corporations kick backs, in the form of free services, if they switch to Live Search instead of Google or Yahoo.

Google has revised its privacy policy so that it will no longer keep your search results indefinitely.

Bloggers and social news site aficionados are accusing Wired News of trying to damage social news site Digg, after a story appeared on Wired News in which the journalist claimed she bought “diggs” to make her ridiculous story “popular” on Digg.

Apple has launched its first iPhone commercial during the television coverage of the Oscars. The iPhone is scheduled for launch in June.

A variant of the infamous Storm Worm is using blogs, forums and web mail to spread itself.

Piracy charges have been dropped against a 40-year-old Russian school principal who purchased 12 computers, found to contain pirate software, for his school. The judge ruling on the case, Vera Barakina, said the value of the pirate software is ”insignificant” when compared to Microsoft’s annual revenue.