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News Archive August 2007

31st August

• Firefox has 3 add-ons designed to appeal to schools
• Workers should be allowed to use Facebook in work
• YouTube and UK songwriters signs royalties

30th August

• Monster says millions of users' data may be stolen
• Windows Server 2008 delayed again
• Red Hat puts systems management online
• Online, some things are freer than others

29th August

• ICANN's efforts to forge a compromise ended last week
• Don't let your boss catch you reading this
• Complexity of data security decreased by firm
• Two China virtual police to patrol online for porn

28th August

• Late-night Internet and TV makes you more tired
• Yahoo in China human rights case
• Spammers using YouTube to distribute Storm Trojan
• Users overlaod China anti-graft game

24th August

• The TV Is Dead, Long Live the Web?
• Server load balancing hits a record

23rd August

• The internet has a new user
• UK internet user held over Wireless broadband theft
• Storm worm continues to sweep through Internet
• Today's data centers require a jack-of-all-trade

22nd August

• Celestial view given to Google Earth
• UK IT managers buying more storage than they need
• Survey: U.K.'s tech-savvy young lack basic literacy skills
• Zoho office productivity suite gets offline mode

21st August

• Older people allegedly flummoxed by new-fangled things
• Internet slows down due to damage from gunfire
• YouTube channel used for Animation site
• Home networks have an obvious appeal

20th August

• Students grades to be posted online
• Who needs 'frenemies' when you've got Google
• Convincing phishing mail seeds bank account-stealing
• The push for greener PCs

17th August

• Yahoo! Messenger! users! face! attack! by! video!
• Writer jailed in China for subversion
• Bargain hunters attracted to niche e-tailers
• Facebook friends helped by Bluetooth

16th August

• Breached pupils' right to privacy
• CIA involved in editing Wikipedia entries
• E-mail Space Race Begins
• Chinese come up with unique way to name baby

15th August

• Computers cooled by tiny wind engines
• Green IT Goes Untapped by Enterprise, Vendors Say
• Microsoft publishes 9 sets of patches for 14 vulnerabilities
• Internet Nazi murder video: Russian detained

14th August

• UK police data stolen in server heist
• UK Linux users lose to US and Europe
• Facebook source code inadvertently exposed
• Sensitive info could be divulged by Firefox leak

13th August

• UN site defaced by 'hackers'
• Farmer kidnapped after walking into Internet bride scam
• Mozilla is looking to help users defend themselves
• Wikia's & open source reduce cost setting up search engine

10th August

• Overseas firms cutting into UK's online revenue, survey says
• Microsoft renames online storage service
• UK Government ignoring e-crime, says Lords
• Banks condemned as internet becomes 'lawless Wild West'

9th August

• Self-contained data centers already being sown
• More security for Firefox 3.0
• Gambling adverts banned from websites
• Egyptian police hold Christians for work on website

8th August

• China tries to cure net addicts at summer camp
• Protect your own data says UK Information Commissioner
• Green Grid to measure power & cooling in data centres
• Microsoft previews Windows upgrades

7th August

• IBM tool to aid data integration
• Parties join against Google copyright infringement
• Will you meet customers online expectations?
• Hire experts to clean up your online image

6th August

• Linux systems' power consumption is top concern
• Data leak programs are flawed
• Websense offers honey to Web 2.0 hackers
• Web networking safe for work?

3rd August

• Storm Worm Siege Escalates and fear of DoS
• Firms pull Facebook ads after link with BNP material
• Mobile phone venture by Google
• Public Wi-Fi even more insecure

2nd August

• Do people behave better in virtual worlds?
• Customers Test Security with BreakingPoint Systems
• Election body in bid to halt e-voting
• Net speed tests failed by Britain

1st August

• Possible replacement for today's internet
• IT concerns regarding Zero-day attacks
• Tools to protect your kids online
• Firefox updated ahead of Black Hat