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News Archive May 2005

31st May

• £1.50 a minute Net surfing scam
• China root out violence and porn from online games
• Glasgow gets its own television station online
• Microsoft approaches EU deadline

27th May

• MSN spam postman delivers twice
• Netscape 8.0 disables Internet Explorer
• Mozilla readies Alpha for Firefox upgrade
• NHS take patients online - a problem shared

26th May

• U.S. shuts down network that leaked 'Star Wars'
• Anti-phishing toolbar now available for Firefox
• Hacker holds computer files hostage
• UK no longer OECD's broadband laggard

25th May

• Online retail sales to rise 22 percent this year
• Time Warner consider selling off AOL
• Red Hat to open-source Netscape Directory next week
• Internet forces British banking industry to modernise

24th May

• MSN rolls out satellite mapping service
• Website flaws let spammers, phishers build profiles
• Google and Apple lift tech shares
• Checking your inbox is the new going out

23rd May

• Ask Jeeves buys Excite's European operations for £4.2m
• Underground showdown: defacers take on phishers
• Software antagonists square off in European Parliament
• Channel operators revamp Websites

20th May

• Travel sites see ‘highest level’ comparison shopping
• Campaigners quiz Google on China play
• Sith is attacked by the clones – online!
• Netscape offers 'hybrid' browser

19th May

• Sun has words for IBM and Red Hat
• Google push security in new enterprise desktop search
• Getting up to speed online
• Push Email gets pulled

18th May

• Mistrial in Overture ad patent dispute
• Microsoft hunts Web nasties with honey monkeys
• Two-thirds of software may be pirated in 5 years time
• IBM and Red Hat put the squeeze on Sun

17th May

• IBM urges employees to blog with care
• IE 7 tabs will be 'basic,' says Microsoft
• UK search market growing fast
• Till rolls fed a £350,000 con on Web

16th May

• Internet losing ground to travel agents
• Technology baffles 'old and poor'
• Microsoft launches desktop search tool
• New service to reduce 'click fraud'

13th May

• OpenOffice + free-software supporters make Java peace
• Mozilla updates Firefox to fix flaws
• Yahoo sued over Candyman child porn site
• Private networks on Web found vulnerable to attack

12th May

• Google's new search application for UK SME's
• Yahoo undercuts the competition on music subscription
• Sabre snaps up Lastminute.com in £577m deal
• Poachers turn over Microsoft Gatekeeper security test

11th May

• Cisco source code theft part of 'mega-hack'
• Symantec false alert floors Macs
• Watchdog targeting workplace porn
• Firefox inches ahead one more point

10th May

• Local councils get the hots for Linux
• Veritas plans to hand SEC $30m to end accounting saga
• Spam blacklist targets Telewest
• Singaporean shuts blog after libel threat

9th May

• Cisco packs security options in appliances
• Google's accelerator breaks Web apps security
• Banker jailed for software piracy
• How much is too much data loss?

6th May

• ‘Robin Hood’ gang facing jail for theft
• Firefox coins celebrate success
• Yahoo stoke rivalry with propelled video search
• Phishers dodge shutdowns by striking via 'Botnets'
• Bloggers lift the poll day boredom

5th May

• China to top US in Broadband subscribers
• AOL subscriber revenues slide
• Want to license a piece of Microsoft research?
• Teenager jailed for £45,000 eBay fraud
• IBM to axe 13,000 jobs worldwide
• Ofcom may have to police Internet content

4th May

• Blogging blossoms in British election
• Google eyes better news searches
• One in 20 'fall for online fraud'
• Verisign and .net: a winner all the way

3rd May

• Click fraud threatens rising online Ad revenue
• Sober virus preys on World Cup soccer fans
• Microsoft recruits Longhorn bloggers
• Papal succession fuels April religious spam blitz