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News Archive April 2005

29th April

• EU warns to take steps if Microsoft doesn't comply
• Fancy a bit of "orgiastic vote-swapping"?
• Internet ad revenue surpasses dotcom boom
• eBay hacker off to jail
• Pipex snaps up another Web host outfit

28th April

• Beware How You Google
• Bigamist's web of deceit
• Web scammers sell Indian PM's house to American
• Amazon profits go down the Swanee
• Study show "net-illiterate" parents failing kids

27th April

• Yahoo launches personalized Web search
• Main Website hackers are schoolboys
• Uber-blog raises a celebrity voice
• Firefox used by 1 in 10 business professionals

26th April

• Google extend advertising with display option
• Virgin rail Website ‘charging double’
• World Cup ‘06 organisers clash with eBay.de
• Yahoo! hands over dead man's Email
• Internet map reveals the broadband divide
• Web server attacks 'growing fast'

25th April

• Moore's Law original issue found
• China detains Internet user for Japan protest plot
• eBay steps into E.Europe with Polish site
• Web Travel Award winners announced
• Forgent hits Microsoft in patent bill

22nd April

• 20 busted in e-pharmacy takedown
• Attack of the Chinese Zombies!
• Google Personal-Search Tracker raises privacy concerns
• EU to launch its own Web domain
• eBay 'most popular brand' online

21st April

• e-innovation nation
• UK laws are failing to deter spam
• Web-savvy Danes rule Internet roost
• Firefox experiments with keyboard navigation
• Google sues for halt of Froogles.com

20th April

• UK ISPs ordered to reveal IDs of 33 more filesharers
• Project to open Internet to blind
• Google to go local with Yell
• Amazon to handle M&S online ordering
• Intel and Yahoo restore tech optimism

19th April

• Linux on desktop needs better sales people
• Containing spam across the water
• Microsoft wins battle in California but war goes on
• Opera ups security on new browser

18th April

• Habits of an online teenager
• Home workers 'pose security risk'
• Web shops face tighter security
• Eight convicted in Denmark's biggest piracy case
• Microsoft’s massive advertising push begins

15th April

• Cisco to buy server switch maker Topspin
• Europe's fastest supercomputer boots up
• 7 out of 10 banks are cyber-crime risk
• Conservative candidate phishes for support

14th April

• Online media archive moves step closer
• Fake blogs are new cyber crime technique
• Murdoch warns of print's complacency over Internet

13th April

• Viral marketing has key role in new Microsoft Ad campaign
• Dot travel set for launch
• Florida wins first injunction against spammers
• Wife murderer got ideas on the Net
• Apple bloggers get press support

12th April

• Google.co.uk goes local
• eBayers demand money for old rope

11th April

• Homespun 'Podcasts' explore a universe of topics
• VeriSign responds to .Net criticism
• Man gets nine years for spamming
• Warning over fake Window’s update
• Agents losing out to Internet for business travel
• Cyberspace is no place to put your X

8th April

• Bulldog service suffers performance issue
• More criticism piled on .Net report
• Tide may be turning in war on spam
• Blair falls victim to Google Bomb
• Bogus travel sites built to snatch credit cards

7th April

• Browser bugs sprout eternal
• Phishers using e-postcards to trap consumers
• MSN adds VoIP, video calls to Messenger
• Google cuts price on search hardware licenses
• Viacom's MTV launches Web-based TV channel

6th April

• Ask Jeeves advances onto the continent
• Microsoft shares a little more
• .Net report speared a third time
• Hi-tech crime costs UK plc £2.4bn
• TUI UK to double online sales in four years
• Microsoft keeps up presence at open-source events

5th April

• Internet advertising 'comes of age'
• DMA launches e-commerce scheme to protect consumers
• Google wants your DIY porn videos
• .Net report was fudged
• Microsoft aids anti-spam lawsuits

4th April

• Vatican use email to announce Pope's death
• China's Giant Pandas get broadband
• Microsoft ex-employee sentenced for software theft
• Intel faces the music in Japan
• Travel search prepares for takeoff
• Search Engines face a different type of spam
• Google's Gmail grows again

1st April

• Iceland drops the net
• ICANN imposes $2 Internet tax
• Fans pile online for World Cup tickets
• Microsoft files suits in fight against phishing