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News Archive January 2005

31st January

• Love or hate the Marmite online initiative
• Dutch turn town into supercomputer
• Marconi break into Chinese market
• Spy on your neighbours with new online tool
• Inland Revenue site buckling under load

28th January

• The Great Briton who gave away the web
• Internet gaming site banks on floatation
• Amazon’s A9.com adds visual Yellow Pages
• Yahoo now send info direct to your mobile

27th January

• Voters flock to blog awards site
• 900 BT biz punters snagged by system
• Dell in domain name hall of shame!
• 118118 forge into online search business

26th January

• Google to do for TV what it did for Web
• Inland Revenue has bumper year online
• Watch out for bogus health and safety invoices
• Web police to fight paedophiles
• VW to sue Polo bomb Internet ad duo

25th January

• Tsunami email hoaxer gets six months
• Teen 'Angel' arrested in £20K web fraud
• Poland blocks software patents again
• STA Travel to bolster email list with competition
• Microsoft backs down in EU tussle
• US duo in first spam conviction

24th January

• Volkswagen furious at Internet hoax
• BA deny new online charge
• Microsoft link Hotmail and Outlook
• Internet Explorer faces defections over security
• ISPA UK Awards place UKFast as finalist

21st January

• BA to charge online ticket fee
• SA man heads back to eBay
• Format wars could 'confuse users'
• French court says Non! to Google's adwords
• China nabs 600 in online gambling raids

20th January

• Five left in fight for .net
• You've got mail dear!
• Toni & Guy's global e-vamp
• Downloads soar tenfold as 5.7m get music online

18th January

• VXers hit new low with tsunami-themed worm
• eBay users face fake emails risk
• Google plugs brace of GMail security flaws
• 2004 saw 77 billion emails sent per day
• Bill Gates wants change in Brazil’s software ethos
• Data-storage laws fall on deaf Euro ears
• FHM probes the online gambling market

14th January

• Internet Black Widow stalked pensioners on net
• Yahoo and Microsoft gain on Google
• New worms Tetris tactic

13th January

• Yahoo joins Apple in the list of baby names
• The chips are up for Intel
• Who owns your email when you die?
• London firm face US heat over porno spam

12th January

• Google's uneven share out
• Yahoo join desktop search race
• Ex AOL bosses face fraud charges

11th January

• IBM to release 500 software patents
• Spammers tax DNS infrastructures
• A non-commercial scrape with Google
• Community Broadband in London

10th January

• e-spend continues up in New Year Sales

9th January

• Google's portal to global surveillance cameras

7th January

• eBay secures against phishing
• Yahoo celebrate innovation and eccentricity

6th January

• 20% growth in Internet adspend for 2005

5th January

• Tsunami auction outrage
• Online donations speed on Tsunami relief

4th January

• Amazon’s stock rises as Woolworths’ plummets.
• Americans take action against Spyware
• Guilty plea for Tsunami email hoaxer
• Microsoft withdraws its Passport Service