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News Archive November 2006

30th November

• Snapshot of the true content generators
• Internet usage on the increase across Europe
• Digital downloads set for a boost
• Beatles and Apple could come together over iTunes

29th November

• Google catches phishing flaw in appliances
• Canada experts find path round Internet firewalls
• 100 police disciplined for email
• YouTube to show video on Verizon mobiles

28th November

• Online video 'eroding TV viewing'
• BT Vision on standby as main feature hits interference
• US consumer security fears cost e-commerce $2 billion
• Advertisers stand to gain from viral video trend

24th November

• UK firms come to embrace Internet
• IE and Firefox blighted by fake login flaw
• French film producer sues Google France
• Enterprises eye potential for Second Life

23rd November

• Consumer Reports rates Apple best place to shop
• Microsoft files new antitrust documents with EU
• Web petitions offer a voice, but who's listening?
• How engineers tamed the Internet's Tower of Babel

21st November

• Libel ruling boosts net providers
• IBM worker says he was fired for chat room addiction
• Worm creates havoc on Second Life
• Judge to rule on landmark Internet porn law

20th November

• MySpace sued by Universal Music
• Yahoo internal memo urges major shake-up
• Nigeria emails cost £150m a year
• Bullies move into cyberspace

17th November

• Microsoft goes on web offensive
• Channel 4 to put all programmes on Internet
• EMI bosses express concern over YouTube copyright
• Website of missing paedophiles launched

16th November

• Google and Microsoft in mobile search race
• Google, Microsoft and Yahoo - Partners?
• Free software developers get protected
• Gates leads Microsoft's charm offensive in Europe

15th November

• AOL upgrades messenger, integrates social network
• Meet the world's most prolific spammers
• Britain kills EU attempt to regulate net video clips
• Vodafone and Yahoo! link up for mobile ad agreement

14th November

• Free broadband users 'less happy'
• Google introduces customized home pages for groups
• Sun releases Java to open source development
• Online shops ‘don’t deliver’

10th November

• Websites face four-second cut-off
• Government shuns press to put jobs ads online
• BT loses share of broadband
• US phishers pick $2.8 billion from consumers' pockets

9th November

• Why spam is out of control
• Microsoft becomes master of others' domains
• Britons seek U.S. relations online
• Path to Firefox 2.0 is cleared

8th November

• MySpace plans Japanese network
• Microsoft sees gamers online as key to growth
• Google drove political hits during midterm campaigns
• 'Enemies of the Internet' named

7th November

• Chile snares suspects in global website attacks
• Adobe makes ActiveScript engine open source
• Big Brother to debut in Second Life
• Company fined $3m for adware use

6th November

• Google 'will be able to keep tabs on us all'
• Google to broker print ads in U.S. newspapers
• German football latest to threaten YouTube
• Cyber bullying rises in S Korea

3rd November

• Web inventor fears for the future
• Utube sues YouTube
• Microsoft patent talks with competing Linux vendors
• Real-time arrest made in Internet porn case

2nd November

• The tangled web of government
• Ad Networks Violating Privacy?
• Google to beat TV in race for ad revenues
• Spammers go island hopping to bypass filter

1st November

• Pepsi Max builds YouTube channel
• Online gambling to be regulated
• Black arts of politics move into cyberspace
• Virus writers target web videos