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News Archive April 2009

30th April

• Google stands by book search deal
• how Facebook mucks up office life
• NAO wants sustainable ICT procurement targets
• new European internet laws agreed

29th April

• Google offers tool to assess public data
• Facebook maps the swine flu hysteria
• Pentagon hack highlights web security
• French reject internet piracy law

28th April

• NHS patient record system 'losing waiting lists'
• Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 beta
• the Queen's message - by e-mail
• government scraps email 'super database'

27th April

• Facebook to open its feeds to developers
• Swiss woman fired over Facebook
• Pirate Bay lawyers demand retrial
• Conficker Virus Begins to Attack PCs: Experts

22nd April

• Yahoo warns of job cuts as Q1 figures are posted
• eBay officially not cheaper than High Street
• cryptography experts debate cloud-computing risks

21st April

• S. Korean Blogger Acquitted of Spreading Financial Falsehood
• Symantec acquires Mi5 networks to bolster web security
• Beeb pushes major new iPlayer release
• IBM to secure clouds and virtual networks

20th April

• Pirate Bay convictions are legally insignificant outside Swe
• Adobe's Flash comes to TVs, set-top boxes
• R&D decline will hurt competitiveness
• Ask brings back butler Jeeves

17th April

• ING examines cloud computing but finds licensing a problem
• Pirate Bay Quartet Jailed For One Year
• ISPs forced to keep user data at £48 million cost
• Phorm confident about take-up despite Amazon opt out
• Google's CEO predicts strong year for Android

16th April

• SixthSense blurs digital and the real
• teens reject Microsoft's Zune
• Pirate Bay confident of trial win
• Yahoo accepts eBay offer to buy Korea's Gmarket

15th April

• experts disagree over Conficker
• Android army marches into living rooms
• EBay to float Skype after selling StumbleUpon

14th April

• Amazon says listing problem was an error, not a hack
• 'A gigantic online swapshop'
• Google scales back YouTube Korea
• IDs for sale for 50p

9th April

• Intel Increases Its Atomic Power
• BT Broadband Blocks Over 30000 Child Porn Site Accesses Ever
• Morgan Stanley Growing Its Use of Linux
• Channel 4 4oD arrives on Mac
• Google Searches for Balance with Newspapers
• spam overwhelms e-mail messages

8th April

• Data on 33,000 children lost on unencrypted Council laptop
• Google, Yahoo Have a Message for iPhone Users
• Google urges newspapers to use technology

3rd April

• consumer group warns of rushed digital rights agency
• IBM debuts new generation server line
• IBM lowers its offer for Sun

2nd April

• Google admits data center podification
• new tactics in film piracy battle
• is my online data safe for ever?
• worm attack chaos fails to strike

1st April

• Online adspend up 17% in 2008 to £3.35bn
• Yahoo engineer ID'd in murder-suicide
• Is China stepping towards cyberwar?
• HP ponders Android netbooks