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News Archive August 2009

26th August

• Yahoo buys Arabic internet portal
• how open source levels all software market segments
• young 'cyber-mentors' step up

25th August

• Microsoft Family Pack coming to UK
• Facebook developer slams Apple censors
• UK.gov revives net cut-off threat for illegal downloaders
• Cisco wireless vulnerability threat to businesses
• recession helps Facebook to double its workforce

24th August

• Twitter loses bid to trademark 'tweet'
• rumors surround Apple's September event
• the cloud could be a boon for flash storage
• Microsoft warns of chaos if Word sales are halted

21st August

• rivals band to fight Google books
• online learning edges classrooms
• Phorm's shares dip on news of inquiry by Office of Fair Trad
• the enlightenment's operating system

20th August

• OFT to probe online advertising, pricing tactics
• video appears in paper magazines
• 70% of Canadians Have to Search Again

19th August

• Microsoft previews Azure cloud products
• exploding iPods prompt EU safety inquiry
• search engines pressed over drug ads policy
• Bing search share rises, Google and Yahoo slip

18th August

• why Twitter isn't pointless babble
• Google testing new storage system for 'Caffeine'
• when ISPs hijack your rights to NXDOMAIN
• US hacker charged with stealing 130m credit card IDs

17th August

• are hackers using Twitter to manage botnet?
• Labour appoints 'Twitter tsar'
• Georgia cyberattacks linked to Russian organized crime

14th August

• Matt James decides not to take Yahoo! sales role
• IBM gaining Linux customers at Sun's expense
• Microsoft puts Outlook in Mac Office
• 1 in 3 developers working on private cloud apps

13th August

• Nokia announce plans for a new version of Linux based OS
• AutoTrader website switches to Linux
• Red Hat to replace struggling CIT on S&P 500
• Linux is a threat to Windows
• Microsoft patches cause holiday headache for IT departments
• Twitter hit by second DDoS attack
• virus arms race primes malware numbers surge
• Microsoft's 'Custom XML' patent suit could put ODF at risk

12th August

• Microsoft to continue selling Word despite injunction
• Twitter hit again
• City University to develop anti-fraud mobile banking
• hacker threat prompts eBay password change

11th August

• councils and police make 1,500 snoop attempts daily
• Murdoch leads online content charge
• Facebook in challenge to Google

10th August

• Tories unveil NHS database plans
• should Starbucks ban laptops?
• Twitter attack looks politically motivated
• only a minority prepared to pay for online content

7th August

• TwitterFAIL! Why the microblog crashed
• tech gives humans animal senses
• Microsoft grabs Office.com domain name

6th August

• technology 'priority for Britons'
• Google bolsters internet video

5th August

• Google launches Chrome gallery
• after links to cybercrime, Latvian ISP is cut off
• Lord Carter's Digital Britain replacement named
• firms fail to measure IT value fully
• one in three Europeans never been online

4th August

• Silicon Valley's secret recipe
• Twitter rules for now, but what's next?
• Pirate Bay mouthpiece puts a zip on it
• PayPal goes offline again

3rd August

• Google's Schmidt resigns from Apple board
• Government 'would push for Gary McKinnon to serve sentence i
• Microsoft puts positive spin on sales drop
• 'fake UK sites' trick consumers