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News Archive July 2005

28th July

• AOL tests cell-phone search site
• UK 'hacker' fights US extradition
• Red Hat holes less severe than Windows
• Cisco files suit to gag researcher

27th July

• Amazon profits dip as sales rise
• Microsoft early on Vista beta?
• Sun posts flat Q4
• Internet sports coverage gets on track

26th July

• Microsoft lowers boom on illegal Windows copies
• AMD's Opteron decimates Xeon market
• Search aims to aid world poverty
• Online sales lift Domino's profit

25th July

• Russian online retailers start small, but grow fast
• Windows Vista, server and IE 7 betas to arrive in synch
• UK police chiefs seek powers to attack terror Websites
• Student's role in £250m swindle

22nd July

• Online advertising drives Google
• Microsoft cautious despite record quarter
• China pleases tech with exchange reform
• Brazilians used Orkut as drug distribution network

21st July

• Ask Jeeves latest weapon in battle for search supremacy
• eBay ups forecast as profits jump
• Old dog learns new tricks
• Online pirates pounce on new Harry Potter book

20th July

• Trojan loose that takes on Windows vulnerability
• Search Wars - the Empire strikes back
• News Corp in $580m Internet buy
• Football to be shown on TV and Internet simultaneously

19th July

• BBC may sell downloads of programmes overseas
• IBM evens the keel in Q2
• Recent Firefox release needs fixing
• China's Baidu to remove pirated music links

18th July

• Amazon fetes 10th year with Bob Dylan and Norah Jones
• Yahoo heads to Berkeley for Internet research
• Nigeria jails woman in $242m Email fraud case
• 10yrs after birth of e-commerce, fear may curb growth

15th July

• Australian labels win piracy case
• UN panel fails to agree on how to govern Internet
• Online-only brands 'lack trust'
• The Sun is first national to feature daily video news

14th July

• Discovery launch to be aired online
• US court upholds AT&T verdict against Microsoft
• EU investigators raid Intel offices
• Phlooding attack could leave enterprises high and dry

13th July

• Hornby toys auction site to take on eBay
• Penalty plea on cyber criminals
• Mozilla updates Firefox to fix security gaps
• EU seeks to regulate television on the net

12th July

• Spammers most likely users of Email authentication
• IBM powers up dual core
• Trojans pose as London bombing video
• Longhorn following Unix on security?

11th July

• Microsoft rewards Sasser worm informants
• Police seek Emails and SMS from day of blasts
• Microsoft's Ballmer tells partners to stick it to IBM
• The patent vote: who won that round, exactly?

8th July

• Channel 4 to air all content on broadband
• Actor Freeman sells movies online
• IBM to Apple: eat these chips
• Web users flock to sites for London blast news

7th July

• Net users change habits to avoid spyware
• Google launch test version of Google Earth
• Opera adds BitTorrent to Web browser
• European Parliament rejects software patents

6th July

• eBay pulls illegal Live 8 DVDs
• German admits creating Sasser
• Microsoft 'Project Greenhouse' aims to break new ground
• AMD wins right to third party documents

5th July

• Pop-up smut tops spyware chart
• Lufthansa online activist found guilty
• Health Website launches online diagnosis
• File-share defender fired over TV show

4th July

• Microsoft settles antitrust claims with IBM
• Internet shoppers 'spending more'
• How schools can get free software
• Feds won't let go of Internet DNS

1st July

• Ofcom shames BT
• 'Timeshare Spammer' to plead guilty
• Microsoft woos world's scientists
• Internet retail advertising to double by 2007