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News Archive March 2005

31st March

• Linux breaks through to the mainstream
• Militants play cat and mouse to post killings on the Web
• Teen Blaster Worm menace escapes fine but faces jail
• Microsoft RTMs Windows Server 2003 SP1
• Banhoff slams antipiracy ambush
• The slipperiest customer in poker

30th March

• Net can transform public services
• Online writing gets $18 million out of NY Times
• Searchable you with Yahoo 360
• Update on VeriSign’s renewed stewardship of .net
• AOL launches blog service for teens
• Long distance E-hero

29th March

• Whizz-kid takes Apple to court over Website
• Net fingerprints combat attacks
• Amazon gambles on the high street
• VeriSign wins back .net registry
• Dial N for Windows 'reduced'

24th March

• Google brings Froogle to the frontline against MSN
• Apple settles one Mac OS X lawsuit
• Yahoo search embraces content sharing
• Microsoft and EC row deepens
• Email is under-used in politics

23rd March

• Search engines pushing local newspapers out
• Apple could see a near doubling of market share
• AOL LatAM running out of cash
• Lufthansa to offer high-speed Internet
• Korean swingers face porn charges for Web pictures

22nd March

• Dillers deal confirmed for Ask Jeeves
• Advertising tool HotRecorder targets VoIP
• Rise of zombie PCs 'threatens UK'
• New report says Internet sites are best for Indie travel
• HP hooks Snapfish.com

21st March

• AFP sues Google
• Diller 'near to' Ask Jeeves buy
• Hackers target Web banks
• US and Germany prop up Internet use league
• Census for 1871 published online

18th March

• e-marketing enhances direct mail rather than replacing it
• UK and EU allies plan moves against terror Websites
• The strange decline of computer worms
• MIT backs Open Source for the Brazil poor
• Web Design hampers mobile Internet
• Police foil hi-tech bank robbery bid

17th March

• Pair convicted of Internet piracy
• Google loses French court appeal
• Asterisk – a star of the future?
• eBay may face injunction in patent case
• MSN confirms paid-search listings trials

16th March

• Doors open at EU's Microsoft case
• Cisco and Yahoo discuss authentication differences
• Former WorldCom CEO Ebbers found guilty
• A9.com opens search to syndication
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 details begin to leak

15th March

• Travel corporate’s hail booking online
• AOL: AIM conversations are safe
• eBay gets greener
• Email hacker who called police goes to jail
• China Telecom wins OK on web cafes
• Broadband top of Tories' IT election agenda

14th March

• AOL Terms of Service shake up
• Judge sides with Apple over product leaks
• Microsoft try to link PC’s and phones
• Alternative browser spyware infects IE
• TV's future down the phone line

11th March

• Mozilla drops development of namesake suite
• Google news your way
• Intel rewards optimists
• Online payment company settles privacy charges

10th March

• IBM sale to China gets clearance
• Broadband set to revolutionise TV
• Blogger makes White House debut
• Attack of The Red Hat Clones?

9th March

• Yahoo launches small business resource
• Arizona tags naughty file-trader
• UK climbs EU e-government league
• eBay launches classified ad sites

8th March

• Egg co-creators launch online lending exchange
• Intel warned by Japan antitrust watchdog
• Talk about Microsoft’s ‘Project Green’ is premature
• DNS based phishing attacks on the rise
• Worm chatter escalates on MSN Messenger
• EC OKs software patents
• Bloggers: a law unto themselves

7th March

• Internet passes radio for political news
• Google launches desktop search tool
• Open source technologies for developers highlighted
• Arrests of Internet paedophiles quadruple
• Apple wins first round of 'secret' war

4th March

• Illegal downloaders forced to pay the labels
• PC tax could replace TV licence
• MS-DOS paternity dispute goes to court
• Search Engines look beyond the Web

3rd March

• Online consumers are thorough creatures
• Court overturns $521m ruling against Microsoft
• Google search secrets – News feature
• AOL launch new Web-mail upgrade
• Intel look to dominate storage market
• Adobe opens source code kimono
• Hotspot users gain free net calls

2nd March

• Redbus power failure - companies voice concern
• E*Trade launches anti-fraud security program
• Gates to receive honorary knighthood
• Search Engines can’t claim a lock on loyalty
• Yahoo celebrates a decade online
• Seven die in latest Japanese online suicide pact
• Redbus apology materialises
• Home Internet link ''most vital''

1st March

• EIAA confirm online adspend will treble by 2008
• Service levels more important than e-gov deadlines
• New Firefox vulnerability pushes latest update
• Windows Media Player name game
• Bahrain arrests man over critical Website
• China forecasts 120m Internet users by year end
• Yahoo opens search developer program