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News Archive July 2008

31st July

• Mediaset sues Google for $800m copyright infringement
• BT shares plummet on margin pressure

30th July

• DNS patches slow down servers
• Microsoft shows off new technologies
• Hacker loses extradition appeal

29th July

• Fabrik launches 'eco-friendly' bamboo hard drive

28th July

• Newcomer lines up to take on Google
• Survey: Economy pushing users to open source

25th July

• Microsoft seeks closer ties with Facebook

24th July

• Intel revamps its system on chip designs
• Microsoft's online woes hint at larger vulnerability
• Internet piracy deal will target parents

23rd July

• Yahoo! profits drop 19% despite revenues rise
• Hackers preparing to exploit DNS flaw
• Complex in-house software costing companies dearly
• Mozilla 3.1 preview due this week

22nd July

• IBM and Oracle sued on server software
• Details of DNS bug posted by accident
• Apple's rising costs won't slow future product launches

21st July

• AMD says it's still in low-power chip game
• Google beats Microsoft to become UK's top consumer brand
• On the Mark: How green is your UPS?

18th July

• Google profits trigger concerns
• Microsoft results hit its shares
• Insiders are a bigger security fear than hackers

17th July

• Microsoft eyes AOL takeover
• eBay sees difficult times ahead

16th July

• BT bets on faster broadband
• AOL talks with Microsoft and Yahoo heat up

15th July

• BT to pump £1.5bn into broadband
• UK businesses ban IM over security concerns

14th July

• Yahoo rejects joint takeover bid

11th July

• Intel to launch Centrino 2 next week
• Microsoft offers free help for Vista downgrades
• Developer fixes 33-year-old Unix bug

10th July

• Internet bug fix spawns backlash from hackers

9th July

• Moneysupermarket.com partners with MSN

8th July

• IPS ditches e-passport system
• Online risk due to browser flaws
• Microsoft open to Yahoo acquisition "with new board"

7th July

• Jobsite hack used to market identity harvesting services
• Google defends Street View tool

4th July

• Google told to hand over YouTube users' data
• Ask.com closes acquisition of Dictionary.com
• Microsoft flogs subscriptions to the unwary and confused
• Would a data notification law improve UK data security?

1st July

• Macs fit into enterprises says industry group
• Apple patches 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities
• Microsoft adds licensing option for businesses