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News Archive January 2007

31st January

• User-generated travel sites more trusted than agents
• IT waste extracted from UK.gov
• Napster boss eyes strong mobile future
• Sony settles secret Spyware suit
• Companies should ignore Web 2.0 at their own peril

30th January

• Internet Explorer at zero-day risk
• Microsoft tackling threat from Google model
• South Korean duo arrested for 1.6 bln spam emails
• Second Life embassy for the Swedes

29th January

• YouTube to share ad revenue with content creators
• Web TV downloads forecast to hit $6.3bn
• Rivals attack Vista as illegal under EU rules
• Internet to revolutionise TV in 5 years: Gates

26th January

• North Korea says South's Web ban violates freedom
• UK police 'not prioritising cybercrime', Microsoft says
• eBay buoyed by a strong Christmas
• News Corp to give up 50% stake in MySpace China

25th January

• Why I can never agree with adware and spyware
• Fox subpoenas YouTube after "24" clips posted
• Survey: Nobody really cares that Big Brother is watching
• It's so real, it's unreal, claim cyber engineers

24th January

• Online fraud 'now major concern'
• Global spend on mobile music to top $32bn by 2010
• China busts online vice ring catering to high brow
• Cadbury prepares for seven-figure online spend

23rd January

• Clinton campaign uses web power
• MySpace sues 'Spam King'
• Labour to resurrect website for complaints on red tape
• 'Storm' worm continues surge around globe

22nd January

• Slow downloads could delay advance of video-on-demand
• US tops spam relaying and malware leagues of shame
• Internet investment surges in Europe
• Two Linux consortia band together

19th January

• Teens' families sue MySpace for negligence
• What is this new service called Joost all about?
• Signs that Sky will go mobile?
• Yahoo's adds personal touch to finance

18th January

• Americans embrace politics online
• Google erases British bases in Iraq
• £100,000 on eBay…then off to jail
• Phisher faces up to 100 years in jail

17th January

• IE 7 tops 100M download mark
• An eventual plateau seen for online retail sales
• MySpace to offer parental notification software: report
• Yahoo! looks into TV service tie-up with BT Vision

16th January

• AOL could face competition in bid for TradeDoubler
• MI5 alert system dubbed a 'shambles'
• Online ads ‘shun user-generated video’
• Google, Yahoo gain share in U.S. web search market

15th January

• Bebo hires Google dealmaker
• 19th century Britain goes online
• Who does Net neutrality benefit?
• Internet should be run by key players: ITU boss

12th January

• Yahoo wades into hyperactive mobile search space
• Mozilla tweaks Firefox 3.0 feature set
• BBC to develop social networking websites
• Shy shoppers go online for Ann Summers sex toys

11th January

• Opera has words for Mozilla
• Spam sets record, accounts for 94% of email
• What have image spam and Captchas got in common?
• Cisco to sue Apple on iPhone name

10th January

• Net neutrality proposal revived in US Senate
• Mozilla takes aim at Opera security
• Brazil court revises ban on YouTube over sex video
• BT hails Internet phone call ‘explosion’

9th January

• Britain's MI5 spy agency to send terror alert emails
• Yahoo! social networking push on mobiles
• The Jackson 45 - a new search angle for Google
• SecondLife goes open source (sort of)

8th January

• Firefox nearly doubles and Safari gains in '06 browser wars
• Teens 'turn to social websites'
• Bill Gates says connected tech hype now reality
• IPTV will kill traditional schedules: new report

5th January

• Phishing fraudsters get flashy
• Democrat politico ventures into 'Second Life'
• Amazon boss shows off spacecraft
• Brazil court orders YouTube shut on celeb sex video

4th January

• Apple faces US iTunes lawsuit
• Online retailers winners in Christmas trading
• AT&T climbdown is a victory for net neutrality - or is it?
• Google vulnerability a sign of Web 2.0 weakness

3rd January

• Germans snub France and quit European rival to Google
• Happy New Malware
• Old media fights against titans of tech
• Italy enacts law to block child porn websites

2nd January

• Yahoo closes news forums
• Web wishes show contrasting French election styles
• Wikipedia creator turns to search
• The old-fashioned truth about e-commerce