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News Archive December 2005

23rd December

• Attorney general’s emails ‘aren't spam’
• Microsoft, Google settle Kai-Fu Lee lawsuit
• Microsoft may face daily EU fine

22nd December

• Bug bites McAfee Anti-Virus
• First UK retailer opens eBay shop
• Online travel bookers set to make mark with groups
• Subscriber love drives Red Hat in Q3

21st December

• Beeny site soars as online dating surges
• US 'winning war' on email spam
• Yahoo offers personal search shortcuts
• Computer worm traps child porn offender in Germany

20th December

• Hi-tech firms censured over China
• MS pulls plug on Mac IE
• Icahn attacks AOL-Google deal
• Fake VW ad is most downloaded viral in 2005

19th December

• Google 'in exclusive AOL talks'
• Dasher Worm on the prowl, infects 3,000 machines
• Softbank, Yahoo start Internet television service
• Microsoft sues resellers over MAPs 'abuse'

16th December

• Science journal supports accuracy of Wikipedia
• Britney Spears tops Yahoo's annual Buzz Index
• Rivals back Internet research lab
• Google joins the music club with new search facility

15th December

• Europe agrees to keep phone data
• Virtual pageant honours beauty... and the bust
• Google keeping busy with Enterprise
• Influentials agree: 'Chairman Bill is the best'

14th December

• Swiss Govt switches 3,000 systems to Linux
• Google to generate 600 jobs in Dublin expansion
• Microsoft patches critical bugs in Internet Explorer
• Architect of new Time Warner says it must split

13th December

• Wikipedia joker eats humble pie
• Out of the cold, on to the web
• Intel's CSI to outperform AMD's Hypertransport
• China overtakes U.S. as global IT export leader

12th December

• Yahoo offers Movable Type for bloggers
• Vista stakes its future on security
• eBay yanks listing for Excel bug
• Internet companies snap up new offices in West End

9th December

• US warns of fake Net domain data
• Consumers flock online to avoid Xmas crush
• Microsoft delays Explorer 7 release
• Cut software piracy, boost UK economy

8th December

• South Korea fines Microsoft $32m
• Google makes US brand top three
• Yahoo undercuts Skype, telcos on voice call rates
• A file format that's worth keeping - forever

7th December

• Google Desktop tweaked to avoid IE flaw
• Wikipedia tightens online rules
• Time Warner drops AOL sell-off for Microsoft deal
• Europe's own Internet space starts up today

6th December

• Blogger, Movie Studio spar over email list
• Investigations into ICANN transparency continue
• Internet body postpones decision on sex domain
• Intel earmarks $1B for India

5th December

• Mozilla looks to users for upgrade campaign
• Online tax credit system closed
• Madison Avenue faces Google fears
• Phishing with Google Desktop

2nd December

• IPA to take on Google over agency commission
• AOL Search service gone mobile
• ICANN kills .xxx porn domain
• Yahoo using online behaviour to target ads

1st December

• Euro-MPs agree offer to solve data storage deadlock
• Free Software Foundation to revise GNU license
• Firefox is rekindled with faster, slicker revamp
• Grand webcast to honour Einstein