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News Archive May 2009

29th May

• study reveals green data center focus
• McAfee lists web's most dangerous search terms
• calls for BT to ' light my fibre'
• seven million in the UK using illegal downloads

28th May

• Microsoft promises 'search 2.0'
• HP begins European jobs chop
• flood of fake Western Union emails hide trojan
• Gmail in real-time: Google does the Wave

27th May

• UK broadband 'notspots' revealed
• Vatican blesses iPope app for Jesus Phone
• former Bebo chief Joanna Shields leaves AOL
• PRS royalty cut prompts possible return of music streaming t
• 90 percent of e-mails are spam
• cybersquatters register domain names of 'Britain's Got Talen

26th May

• Microsoft pulls out of anti-trust hearing
• internal emails reveal BBC views towards blocking phorm

22nd May

• new logo for Google's products
• phishers hit Twitter again
• YouTube flooded with porn
• Conficker infects 50,000 more PCs every day
• UK data breach costs swell

20th May

• wiping data 'hits flu prediction'
• Dell launches 'germ-free' netbooks for US schools
• Twitter plans to generate cash with business tools
• Yahoo talks success in delivering smarter search

19th May

• Firefox challenge to boost browser tabs
• one in five teens have access to hacking tools
• Google shows support for newspaper mergers
• database of all children launched

18th May

• Sharks aim for top with record sponsorship

14th May

• Google wants to know if you're sick
• top 10 most heavily used UK internet websites - Facebook dom
• home sec: no more funds to e-crime unit
• 12 million brits hit by computer viruses over last 6 months

13th May

• NASA astronaut first to tweet from space
• Google's Mayer: 'We Don't Dominate Search'
• Greece bans Google's Street View over privacy fears
• Scientology web hacker faces prison after guilty plea

12th May

• internet users have 'trust issues' about shopping online
• Tesco IT upgrade causes till outage
• call to 'disconnect file-sharers'
• internet stalker jailed for life over murder

11th May

• security breach has cost Heartland £8.4m so far
• one in three is scared to shop on web
• Google launches first TV adverts

7th May

• Microsoft search to be powered by open source
• Twitter serious about search strength
• Duke Nukem developer goes bust
• execs reveal why newspapers don't block Google

6th May

• UK families would rather cut down on food than broadband
• Adobe plans patch for Acrobat zero day flaw
• US cyberbully bill 'a threat to free speech'

5th May

• Apple and Google 'probe launched'
• 12 million new IP addresses have been hijacked by botnets
• Microsoft to cut 150 jobs in UK
• Facebook subject to second Phishing attack