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News Archive December 2006

29th December

• Ryanair loses bitch site name-grab claim
• Congressional aide fired after trying to hire hackers
• Web video games rich pickings for online advertisers
• US online shopping improved this Christmas
• Alliances key for search giants

21st December

• People react well to email marketing says new research
• US Internet giants fail to break lucrative Chinese market
• Season's greetings: it's spam for the holidays
• Hackers call on Skype to spread Trojan

20th December

• YouTube to meet Japan media on copyright protest
• Ebay suffers Chinese reversal
• Festive shoppers move online - but at their peril
• Nasa and Google form cosmic union

19th December

• Microsoft unveils global website for advertisers
• Amazon turns off Ireland's electronic Christmas
• Google buys better European maps
• EU should share web terrorism monitoring: Germany

18th December

• The future for Orange could be Google
• Russians do in blogs what few can in media: argue
• Skype team turns its attention to television
• Sturdier Botnets mean more spam in 2007
• 'You' named Time's person of 2006

15th December

• Kiters put the wind up web address system
• Personalised adverts on mobile TV
• AOL workers walk out over compulsory redundancies
• Buyer pays 1.5m pounds for vodka.com

14th December

• Blogging 'set to peak next year'
• 'Logic bomb' backfires on ex-UBS employee in U.S
• It's a Google thing: Online auctions for options
• The year I fell in love with social software

13th December

• China 'crackdown on online games'
• Cisco: The future is bright for video
• Hacker infiltrates data on 800,000 people
• Ransomware attack targets hotmail accounts

12th December

• Mozilla launches first Firefox 3.0 test
• Online gambling poised to pull $528bn
• Yahoo opens Panama ad system upgrade to newcomers
• US media giants consider rival service to YouTube

11th December

• ICANN conference bears much fruit
• Papers battle online news sites
• Sex.com thief released from prison
• One out of four ‘stealing’ music

8th December

• HP pays $14.5m to end 'spy' probe
• Six security fixes due from Microsoft
• Yahoo starts to think out of the box
• Internet gangs hire students for cybercrime

7th December

• Sky brings in Google to bolster broadband service
• Can banks elude online sharks?
• "Little Fatty" unlikely Internet hero in China
• Gowers: crack down on pirates

6th December

• Microsoft issues Word zero-day attack alert
• Cyber Santa shines light in Europe's retail gloom
• MySpace ups effort against sex offenders
• 'Most websites' failing disabled

5th December

• Online retailers failing to inform Christmas shoppers
• Ask gives local search a try
• Spam: now made in China
• Universal, MySpace set for landmark battle

4th December

• Search engine aids rights workers
• Manchester offers free wi-fi access over 400 sq miles
• U.N. agency sees risks to privacy, security online
• Christmas online sales hit £180m record day

1st December

• Second Life equal with first life
• Ballmer expects businesses to jump on Vista
• Top music website will be shut down, says Russia
• US warns of al-Qaeda cyber threat