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News Archive January 2009

30th January

• Mozilla delays Firefox 3.1 again
• iTunes Plus lets users upgrade individual songs
• Google fakes out Hotmail for Chrome support
• Amazon profits from festive sales

29th January

• Plans target Digital Britain push
• Google shamed by Low Countries search
• Sun, Yahoo Send Tech Stocks Soaring
• International Data Privacy Day Spreads
• Three myths of enterprise wiki deployment

28th January

• Security firm notes alarming rise in malicious codes
• UK will not legislate on piracy
• Movie channel to go live on Web before TV debut
• Yahoo CEO deflects talk of selling company
• Gmail Goes Offline - and That's a Good Thing
• The european demand for mobile broadband surges
• White House loses email connection

27th January

• Wikipedia editors may approve all changes
• The Pope goes YouTube
• NHS trust considers abandoning electronic records
• Microsoft steps up browser battle

26th January

• Government unveils UK net report
• Obama online team hired to help fight BNP
• Internet Crosses the Billion-User Mark
• Websites 'must be saved for history'

23rd January

• Google Beats Estimates, Profits Take a Hit
• 'Vista Capable' case could cost Microsoft $8.5B
• UK's top IT volunteers named
• Wife murdered for Facebook status

22nd January

• Apple posts best quarterly profit
• Sony warns of first loss in 14 years
• Internet audience shatters records
• Intel to shut four plants, lay off 6,000

21st January

• Clock ticking on worm attack code
• Vista Support Upped in Red Hat Ent. Linux
• IBM's Q4 Profits Rise 12%
• Google shuts off anti-phishing feature in Firefox 2.0

20th January

• Windows worm numbers 'skyrocket'
• EU Aims to Sever IE, Windows Link
• Microsoft releases Vista virtualization
• Fake reviews prompt Belkin apology

19th January

• Microsoft/Yahoo! meeting causes speculation
• Intel cuts prices on some chips up to 48 percent
• Internet generation leave parents behind
• Bartz looks to revive struggling Yahoo

16th January

• Nortel 'still committed to Olympics' despite bankruptcy
• Worries rise about recovery
• Clock ticking for hacker McKinnon
• Pirates win music download battle

15th January

• Steve Jobs a 'national treasure'
• Google lays off 100 recruiters
• Social networks threaten advertising growth
• Promise of universal broadband web access

14th January

• Brit porn filter censors 13 years of net history
• Yahoo goes for 'solid and safe' choice for new chief executi
• School's links to porn site end
• Gaza crisis spills onto the web

13th January

• Tech giants team on education push
• Scientist slams newspaper for Google CO2 report
• Experts trumpet '25 most dangerous' programming errors
• Paper trail to the past

12th January

• Latest Chrome a Step Closer to Linux, Mac
• EDS settles U.K. tax system fiasco
• IT gets tool to block IE8 downloads
• Carbon cost of Googling revealed

9th January

• Broadband speeds fail to hit advertised levels
• Fake CNN site from phishing e-mail hides a Trojan
• Yahoo reportedly near decision on new CEO
• Bad Economy Takes Pizzazz Out of CES

8th January

• ITV signs on-demand deal with Virgin Media
• Beware Microsoft Update E-mail
• Chinese PC giant to cut workforce
• Apple to end music restrictions

7th January

• Microsoft to do free Windows 7 upgrades
• Chinese web portal porn apology
• Spammers Help Push Google to Dubious Milestone
• Barclays cuts more IT jobs

6th January

• Beijing hits out at Google in web porn crackdown
• Online game attacked for raising student drop-out rates
• Google up, Microsoft down in November Web searches
• Former eBay boss prepares to run for office

5th January

• Wikipedia has funding to run until June
• Microsoft tells how it missed critical IE bug
• Pioneer of cyberspace honoured
• China cracks down on internet pornography

4th January

• Adobe will be hacker top target in 2010