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News Archive March 2006

31st March

• Braving the wilds with wireless notebooks
• Google beefs up local advertising with logos
• Third-party IE patches as spam attack starts
• Beatles record label 'missed out'

30th March

• Beatles say 'Apple' is forbidden fruit
• Microsoft ready to do more for EU
• eBay urges High Court to 'Buy It Now'
• Government sites fail web tests

29th March

• BitTorrent search site hits back
• Microsoft hired ex-EU judges for mock trial
• Women to become biggest Internet users by 2007
• Sixty day extension for IE update

28th March

• BBC tackles Blue Peter badge sales on eBay
• ICANN tackles future of Internet
• Internet used to push fast food to children
• Israel jails spyware-for-hire couple

27th March

• Microsoft appeals South Korea antitrust ruling
• Web firm charged with selling confidential data
• IE under attack: Microsoft ponders emergency patch
• Blogger up for non-fiction award

24th March

• PayPal to offer paying by text message
• New web service looks to push Office off desktop
• Britannica takes a swipe at online upstart
• Teen craze over networking sites

23rd March

• B2B companies overlook the power of Internet ads
• Can distributed processing search for web pages?
• Firefox 2.0 'Bon Echo' takes its baby step
• Microsoft sets Apple straight on security

22nd March

• China forced to rethink online gaming limit
• Charity gets cash for web clicks
• France breaks iPod's dominance
• What's really behind the Windows Vista delay?

21st March

• Microsoft looks to give phishers the hook
• Forgotten password clues create hacker risk
• Google launches financial news, data, blog site
• B2B wins friends as consumer titles suffer

20th March

• Google ordered to hand over data
• Brazen botnets steal from e-shopping carts
• Alaska volcano's website becomes Internet hot spot
• IBM fires back at Microsoft ad campaign

17th March

• Say Hi to the mouse click capturing Trojan
• Judge dismisses Google copyright case
• Go on My Sun, says News Corp
• BBC and Google consumers' favourite Internet brands

16th March

• Microsoft Rethinks the Beta Process
• Google considers European retail push
• Viruses leap to smart radio tags

15th March

• Microsoft: beware of malformed Excel files
• AOL video service to debut with Intel, Kraft ads
• Two-thirds in U.S. have broadband; web video soars
• US judge ponders Google decision

14th March

• Microsoft to offer free parental web monitoring
• Met police warned on blogs
• Google set for court in data spat
• Chinese bank hosts phishing site

13th March

• Amazon, Hollywood studios in talks for downloads
• Clever phishers dodge spoofed site shutdowns
• Microsoft faces €2m a day fine for 'flouting' EU ruling
• Internet blows CIA agents' cover

10th March

• Google pays out $90m to 'click fraud' victims
• PIN scandal ‘worst hack ever;’ Citibank only the start
• Origami folds under expectation
• Google takes on MS Office with Writely buy

9th March

• Internet use outstrips TV viewing for the first time
• Microsoft accuses Office rivals of 'standards conflict'
• New standards for website access
• Google leak forecasts sharp decline in growth

8th March

• Microsoft revs up new search engine
• Search for answers continues at the OPA
• TV channels test net broadcasts
• Cole's lawyers question Google over gay connection

7th March

• Email worm threatens lawsuit against victims
• It's conference week and Intel has the floor
• Cyber criminals stepping up targeted attacks
• NBC Universal picks up women's Internet group

6th March

• French MPs vote on digital piracy
• eBay patent case may cast big shadow
• BlackBerry deal averts service shutdown
• AOL offers free guaranteed email to nonprofits

3rd March

• Classified - for everyone's eyes only...
• U.S. opens probe into online music pricing
• Big push for Chinese net domains
• Microsoft charges EU with collusion

2nd March

• AOL hits back on paid-for email delivery
• VeriSign holds .com control in ICANN deal
• Sting nets two spam scam suspects
• The search market has far to go

1st March

• Opposition grows against AOL's email plan
• US online piracy crackdown nets three guilty pleas
• Microsoft unveils "non-security" update for IE
• Google shares fall on slow growth