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News Archive June 2009

30th June

• UKFast creates new benchmark for client area
• blind phone hacker gets 11-year sentence
• Government IT to be key election battleground
• masked passwords must go
• Microsoft's mega datacenters coming online

29th June

• Google Voice to set standard in business telephony
• digital TV now in 90% of UK homes
• hackers break into celebrities' Twitpic accounts and pronoun
• most PC users have a dozen dangerous apps

26th June

• web slows after Jackson's death
• UK agency formed to tackle cyber attacks
• man hooks home into Twitter

25th June

• Google pitches faster web
• UK faces 'state-backed' hackers

24th June

• Google to highlight web's need for speed
• Habitat blasted by Twitter users for using Iran election tag
• Pentagon creates new 'cyber command'
• IBM takes on Google with social cloud apps

23rd June

• inside China's Spam Crisis
• DIGITAL BRITAIN: Lord Carter finalises Digital Britain's dra
• Apple chief Jobs 'back at work'
• Manchester council caned over school data breach

22nd June

• Google executives face Milan trial
• viral attacks aim to hi-jack Twitter's popularity
• Twitter message could be cyber criminal at work
• Steve Jobs - the man at Apple's core

19th June

• Amazon blunder cuts albums to 29p
• huge fine in US file-sharing case
• British Library press archive goes online
• IBM launches Wimbledon mobile app

17th June

• Ebay to adopt coupon selling policy
• Facebook's new search test
• UK Digital Britain - tax on phone lines to fund next gen bro
• Twitter becomes a lifeline to an Iran in turmoil

16th June

• internet advertising to reach 36% of all advertising by 2013
• 'Kosher' search engine launched in Israel
• Google cloud told to encrypt itself
• police blogger 'to be identified'

15th June

• France overturns online piracy law
• Lord Carter tipped to quit as Digital Britain report looms
• cyber security centre planned to deter foreign hackers
• Microsoft downloads drive by Dell site

11th June

• insider snooping on the rise: IT security survey
• Linux web hosting 'superior in most circumstances'
• EU set for new measures to tackle cybercrime
• French 'three strikes' piracy law dealt setback
• Linux Kernel 2.6.30 released
• First Linux USB 3.0 drivers unleashed
• Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04

10th June

• pirates 'ignore' warning letters
• Facebook to offer vanity URLs
• software exec found dead after hack
• business technology innovation outstripping security

9th June

• hacker renews extradition fight
• Microsoft Bing more popular than Yahoo
• Twitter launches 'verified account' service
• web host hack deletes 100k sites

8th June

• Dell ramps deduplication to any vendor's storage
• Report: China to require censorship software
• protest over growing ties between White House and Google
• Heathrow airport gets £137m IT revamp

5th June

• Google promises 'big improvements' to Docs suite
• Microsoft faces Russian antimonopoly hearing

4th June

• teens rate top tech brands
• media chiefs urge tougher action on internet piracy
• McAfee's new family shield
• UK to follow successful US data method

3rd June

• Google appliance now searching by the billion
• Bing muscles in on IE6 users
• Thousands of Web sites stung by mass hacking attack
• Britons say broadband 'essential'

2nd June

• Chinese government blocks Twitter
• spam volume back to McColo levels: McAfee
• servers crash after data centre overheats
• AMD ships dual-core CPU for thin'n'light laptops
• Microsoft's Bing targets UK users

1st June

• plan to publish UK scheme for cybersecurity