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News Archive March 2009

31st March

• Google launches investment fund
• EU 'to defend web users' privacy'
• YouTube to be revamped for advertisers
• Security experts eye worm attack

30th March

• 'Open cloud' plan sparks dissent
• Google Is Still Hiring Despite 200 Layoffs
• Chinese cyberspy network smashed
• Social sites dent privacy efforts

27th March

• Google cuts 200 sales and marketing roles
• Firefox exploit sends Mozilla into 'high-priority fire drill
• IBM to cut US jobs and expand in India
• Cisco CEO Touts Latest Collaboration Strategy

26th March

• IBM Poised For Major U.S. Job Cuts, Workers Say
• Survey urges councils to open up data
• Firefox fix due next week after attack is published
• iGoogle gets video game makers in on the action

25th March

• China blocks YouTube
• Google takedowns flawed, analysis shows
• A 3D web moves closer to reality
• Facebook criticises government monitoring plans

24th March

• Patrol watches Texas-Mexico border - from pub in Australia
• Ministers spending billions on unlawful databases
• Dell sees IBM rumor as chance to steal share from Sun
• Call to 'shut down' Street View

23rd March

• Google pulls some street images
• Illegal databases "should be scrapped"
• Skype targets businesses with new service
• New blade server is key to Cisco data centre plan

19th March

• Government funds IT security research
• Microsoft Ships Internet Explorer 8 Browser
• IE8 and Safari flaws exposed at hacker contest
• Quantum leap for faster computers
• UK in the Internet slow lane

18th March

• UK Broadband Internet TV Audience Grows by 10%
• CERN Scientists Toast Web's 20th
• Google UK leadership to change as Woodside moves to US
• Children work round web controls

17th March

• Pope Benedict watching over the internet
• Twitter growth explodes
• Warning over broadband target
• How the recession is reshaping IT ops

16th March

• Companies get checklist on PCI security rules
• Social networks 'are new e-mail'
• Government launches open source project
• 20% think ISPs should tackle illegal P2P

13th March

• AOL pinches Google sales boss
• It was 20 years ago today: The Web
• French police save millions with open source
• Android leads Linux mobile sales higher

11th March

• One third of people use 'same password' for every login
• Microsoft Still Has Eyes for Yahoo
• UK music row threat to websites
• Cybersecurity Hearing Prompts Calls For Leadership, Laws

10th March

• YouTube blocks popular music videos in UK after royalties ro
• NHS shakes up IT director roles
• Telegraph hack exposes subscriber details
• Polic data stick goes missing

9th March

• Courts' 20 year old IT system
• Firm sold workers details for £2.20
• Aaron Greenspan tells how he sued Google, and won
• Online brand abuse 'on the rise'

6th March

• Company sold workers' secret data
• Doctors try to stifle online patient reviews
• France to open up internet gambling
• America gets a CIO - but still no CTO

3rd March

• Faster broadband gets green light
• Computer lessons are lagging
• Reuters returns to video with online service
• Laptop shouts 'I have been stolen'

2nd March

• Online retail sales to expand 6% a year
• Vandals account for a quarter of web hacks
• Blogging etiquette gets personal
• Microsoft converging programming languages