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News Archive July 2006

31st July

• China crisis for web's biggest names
• Wi-fi boost plan for rural areas
• Blair seeks secret of Silicon Valley's success
• Zango targeted MySpace as adware channel

28th July

• Kazaa site becomes legal service
• Bebo challenges MySpace with launch of music offering
• Judge approves deal in Google click-fraud case
• Amazon makes foray into movie business

27th July

• Lifting the veil on Internet voices
• AOL expected to scrap charges
• Will all software go open source?
• Google unveils technology to fight click fraud

26th July

• Amazon Japan mulling virtual shopping mall
• Trojan spoofs Firefox extension, steals IDs
• Thirteen arrested in pay-per-view child porn raids
• Hearing planned on domain names

25th July

• Government acts on cyber-bullies
• U.S. atop 'Dirty Dozen' spam list
• Yahoo, Symantec unveil Internet security service
• Ransomware getting harder to break

24th July

• Blind charities praise Google for accessible sites
• Microsoft takes on Apple with Zune digital player
• Broadband 'nightmare' for Talk Talk
• MySpace closed after power outage

21st July

• Google hails 'impressive' growth
• Microsoft in $20bn share buyback
• Web groups ‘ignore’ human rights in China

20th July

• Microsoft tops the list of UK's top 500 Superbrands
• Dear diary: I lost my job because they don't like my blog
• Google tests Web search for blind
• Microsoft 'opens to competition'

18th July

• Microsoft sues resellers over piracy
• Tiny wireless memory chip debuts
• Criminals exploit net phone calls
• Google's SEO advice for your website: Content

17th July

• Companies learn value of blogging
• Bogus clicks undermine internet advertising
• YouTube serves up 100 million videos daily online

14th July

• Apple gives up on hunt for moles
• This time, it'll be a Wikipedia written by experts
• The greatest error message of all time?
• Yahoo, newspapers mulling partnership: report

13th July

• Legal threat to wiki listing site
• Microsoft hit with 280m euro fine
• Microsoft and Yahoo to link up messaging
• IT security spending to increase: survey

11th July

• Zango adware found on MySpace
• Spitzer says AOL customer woes remain an issue
• Online gambling addict destroyed building firm
• New types of online advertising fuelling growth

10th July

• Now PayPal tricksters go phishing by phone
• Gone from PayPal: Google checkout, Jordan
• 'iPod rival' speculation dampened
• EU tough stance, fine prompt movement by Microsoft

7th July

• Trojans on the march
• Ebay shake-up responds to Google threat
• AOL mulls free services: source
• Capitalism encroaches on virtual utopia

5th July

• BBC to offer 'personalised' radio
• Online paedophiles to lose their credit cards
• Paris wants wireless Internet access across city
• Ebay looks to cash in on blogs

4th July

• Image-based spam on the rise
• UK lawsuit proceeds against Russian MP3 site
• Music industry to sue Yahoo China
• Rank outsider sues Google over zero score

3rd July

• France approves iTunes rights law
• Lazona, Elhood give Latinos their online space
• US government funds social network snooping
• Two new IE vulnerabilities discovered