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News Archive September 2006

28th September

• MySpace may be worth $15 billion
• More than 75,000 sign up for wireless Internet sites
• Yahoo acquires video-editing site Jumpcut
• Antivirus vendors raise threats over Vista in Europe

27th September

• AOL faces federal class-action suit in privacy snafu
• Study: Apple's exposure to Net threats rises
• Crash! Bang! MySpace! Wallop!
• Google Video to feature university lectures

26th September

• White House uses YouTube to tackle drug abuse
• China blogging leaps 30-fold in four years
• Hackers target home users for cash
• Arrival of ‘dotmobi’ domain raises concerns

25th September

• Web, wikis: models for business software
• Criminals flock to the Internet
• Internet's future in 2020 debated
• Online shows influence over consumer buying decisions

22nd September

• ICANN free in two years
• Microsoft mulls free web-based business software
• Yahoo! in talks to buy MySpace rival Facebook
• Whose content is it anyway?

21st September

• Orange pulls out of AOL UK bidding - report
• Browser flaw seen on porn sites
• YouTube builds mainstream model with music initiative
• ‘Internet generation’ fuels major travel growth

19th September

• YouTube? MSN calls it Soapbox
• US court case leads to confusion over spam
• Warnings grow over unpatched IE flaw
• Napster to explore sale, cites interest

18th September

• Google and Apple 'in video talks'
• Online music business model questioned
• Warner to open video library to YouTube
• Google News hit by Belgian ban

15th September

• Vista faces 'difficult position' in Europe
• Broadband report highlights 'two-speed' Europe
• Zotob virus writers face prison
• YouTube named fastest growing online brand

14th September

• Digg founder dismisses Web 2.0 'me tooism'
• Universal Music pressuring YouTube, MySpace
• Yahoo and Acer in display deal
• Is PHP the cure for the 'broken' web?

13th September

• Apple unveils movie downloads, iPod models
• Schoolkids shrug off enmities in cyberspace
• Once, twice, three times an IE patch
• HP chairman quits over 'spy row'

12th September

• Software pirate fined, going to jail
• AT&T to launch web TV service
• McAfee releases Windows Mobile security
• Microsoft to launch "Windows Live" search engine

11th September

• Fantasy site 2nd Life exposes user data
• Internet 'killing off town stores'
• Concerns over security software
• BBC signs download deal for Amazon's Unbox service

8th September

• Internet fear over film of naturalist's last minutes
• Google takes AdWords mobile in US and UK
• Microsoft in EU Vista stand-off
• Web social site Facebook hit by privacy protests

7th September

• Microsoft frees IronPython
• Zombies crawl over wiki exploits
• China shuts down outspoken website: editor
• Land Registry blocks plan for property website

6th September

• Google News adds historical newspaper archives
• UK solicitor pimped hookers on net
• Firms targeted in spam share scam
• Google, Microsoft blogging services driving web growth

4th September

• 'Adware' attack on privacy tool
• Spammed Trojans threaten users
• MySpace moves into digital music business
• Cost comparison sites ‘are baffling’

1st September

• What a tangled web we weave
• Web 2.0: if you're not on the list, you're not coming in
• Hunger striker quits bid for Internet access
• Internet Explorer for Linux?