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News Archive September 2005

30th September

• Net phoning starts to win friends
• eBay draws ire for sales of lenses
• US record industry sues hundreds for file-sharing
• EU deal threatens US dominance of Internet

29th September

• Google and Nasa in space venture
• Symantec and Microsoft bring down pirate
• MapQuest founder chases local search crown
• Public sector IT pros have their say

28th September

• AOL opens window on world of 10-year-olds
• Boom times for hi-tech fraudsters
• Who gets to run the Internet?
• Did you say dogging or blogging? Brits confused

27th September

• Does adCenter give Microsoft an edge?
• Police and NSPCC tracing web images of children
• Yahoo moves deeper into exclusive content
• Google dips a toe into data management

26th September

• Internet blamed as New York Times axes 500 jobs
• China sets new rules on Internet news
• Daily Mail enters the race to buy Friends Reunited
• IBM, amid layoffs, scours globe for IT talent

23rd September

• China steps up Web controls but investors untroubled
• Ask Jeeves to retire mascot
• Broadband use in UK surpasses US levels
• How Microsoft can 'kill' Google

22nd September

• EU executive unveils electronic data storage plan
• Google edges toward Telco territory
• Google Earth spots buried Roman remains
• Time Warner keeps faith with AOL

21st September

• Authors sue Google over book plan
• Microsoft shuffles organisation chart
• Market 'not ready' for UK.gov shared services push
• Deadline for Friends Reunited bids looms next week

16th September

• AOL and MSN discuss search and ad link-up
• Adobe Beats The Street
• Internet boss guilty of stealing Porter e-mails
• Red Hat up to high for a year

15th September

• Mozilla takes on Microsoft
• Demon Internet Founder In Court
• Last SQL Server Preview, Then Showtime
• Google blog search lives

14th September

• Ex-Microsoft exec able to work for Google
• Coins Into Amazon.com Cash
• Yahoo! hires top journalist to tour world's danger areas
• Broadband to rule the TV waves

13th September

• Portal bid drives eBay Skype deal
• How the web is taking off in China
• Linux migration to be fuelled by MS Vista: Novell
• Murdoch desperate to catch up in the internet race

12th September

• Google and GEICO settle AdWords dispute
• The cost of online anonymity
• Women are 'put off' hi-tech jobs
• EBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bln-source

9th September

• Googling Vint Cerf
• Ricky Gervais plans launch of downloadable chatshow
• Microsoft starts second EU appeal
• Computer error destroyed 1m UK tax records

8th September

• Yahoo! accused of helping China convict journalist
• Student flogs pixels to fund education
• Watt's up – Business Report
• Ballmer: Microsoft needs to woo midsize businesses

7th September

• Wikipedia eclipses CIA
• Web and text vote trials dropped
• Microsoft says Lee was Google's mole
• Friends Reunited attracts takeover attention

6th September

• Poker shares dip
• Business 'ignorant of DoS attack threat'
• 'Islamic Trojan' disrupts smut surfing
• BBC trials guidance labelling for online programmes

5th September

• Microsoft-Google battle heats up
• Australian court rules Kazaa users breach copyright
• Councils face huge workflow challenge
• Collaboration helps nab cybercriminals

2nd September

• Intel says AMD is to blame for its own problems
• Vista feature protects data from reboots
• UK home workers now 'in the millions'
• Opera web browser thinks small

1st September

• Google studies selling print ads to online clients
• Microsoft plans telephone service
• Second Sight - Is the Web a primary opinion former?
• Develop 'super-human' like powers... fast!