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News Archive June 2006

30th June

• IE, Firefox users at risk from new flaws
• Microsoft pushes back Office 2007 release
• Yahoo! links up with 3 for mobile Internet deal
• Red Hat shows strong first quarter

29th June

• Arguments and gunfire at ICANN Marrakech
• BBC Websites to carry advertising
• Judge approves Yahoo "click fraud" settlement
• Senate panel kills Net neutrality

28th June

• Three held over virus email plot
• Red Hat CEO says Linux could become U.S. standard
• Google online payment system could take on PayPal
• Users take Office 2007 out for online spin

27th June

• Net gains for northern entrepreneurs
• Wireless firms agree on rules for mobile Websites
• Junk mail scumbags in harvesting attack
• Is Browsezilla a malware magnet?

26th June

• Crowdsourcing - an Internet extention of outsourcing
• Coming soon—mind-reading computers
• Cisco, AT&T buy Internet video foothold
• Niche TV growing quickly online

23rd June

• DVLA sacks 14 after email porn freezes computers
• Sex offender jailed after online report
• Senate committee chairman says 'no' to Net neutrality
• Google offloads Baidu investment

21st June

• Opera 9 browser provides a little drama
• Most Microsoft workers search with Google
• MySpace bolsters defences, faces sex predator suit
• Dutch MP3 search site shut down

20th June

• Yahoo! calls Germany 2006 first 'Internet' World Cup
• Web video content could be classified
• US pressured Sweden over Pirate Bay
• Apple in talks to offer movies at iTunes

19th June

• Word of mouth is new ads message
• Web auctions, the new jackpot for middle Americans
• Yahoo's Chinese search engine is biggest censor
• Net students 'think copying OK'

16th June

• Social-networking sites continue meteoric rise in May
• Google listens to screen routine
• Ozzie takes top Microsoft software job
• Piratebay sails back to Sweden

15th June

• Google's giant super-computing plant revealed
• Jot this down. eBay has a Wiki
• Netscape reborn as blog-era news site
• Broadband not yet for all

14th June

• Compromise in works for Net neutrality?
• EBay signs up 200 millionth member
• Yahoo quashes mail bug
• MySpace to sell search function

13th June

• Data worries as consumers found to lie online
• Windows gets big security update
• eBay bids for online ad dollars with AdContext
• Yahoo hit by worm

12th June

• Net Neut nixed in Congress
• Microsoft makes security the 'ForeFront'
• BSkyB, BT favourites to buy AOL UK unit
• Google’s China wobbles

9th June

• EU warns China on piracy problem
• Channel 4 secures online deal
• Online video games set to get X-rated
• Google in row over E.U. distribution

8th June

• Yahoo takes 10% stake in Gmarket
• Man fined measly $2K over anti-spyware scam
• Net neutrality time on the floor
• Google 'compromised principles' over China

7th June

• Warning over 'illegal' MP3 site
• The Times to launch TV service on the Internet
• IE And Firefox sport new zero-day flaw
• Google founder lobbies for Net neutrality

6th June

• Rare library books turn up on eBay
• Start-ups hit highest values since dotcom boom
• Google tests Web-based spreadsheet to organise data
• 9/11 conspiracy movie taken off the web

5th June

• Phishers aim to hook MySpace users
• Swedish Police probe suspected Web attacks
• Mozilla patches 12 Firefox flaws
• MPs in digital downloads warning

2nd June

• BBC website shows World Cup games
• FBI wants Internet records kept 2 years
• Red Hat's Mugshot steps outside Enterprise Linux
• Does Google expect quick cash from Dell deal?

1st June

• Virus that holds PCs to ransom reaches Britain
• Online safety survey spots big disconnect
• Google has no plan for its own Web browser
• Swedish police scupper Piratebay