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News Archive October 2005

3rd October

• BBC site wins e-democracy honour
• Opera tunes up to overtake Firefox
• Yahoo backs new digital book group, invites Google
• Microsoft to build PDF support into Office 12

4th October

• Web helps criminals trap victims
• Big Brother is watching you
• £1bn boom in adverts on the Net
• Sarcasm on ABC News blog earns criticism

5th October

• SpreadFirefox.com shut down after security breach
• India eyes semiconductors
• Kaspersky in heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability
• Sun, Google to push Java, Toolbar

6th October

• Site protects rights of snappers
• ‘Star Trek' spoof gaining Internet fame
• 'DEC hacking' trial opens
• AOL to buy Weblogs network

7th October

• Hackers sent to jail
• Sober worm comeback poses as schoolfriend pic
• Microsoft and Time Warner resume AOL-MSN talks
• A new security strategy for Microsoft?
• Breaking America's grip on the Net

10th October

• Intel to unveil new chips for servers Monday-WSJ
• Dutch police arrest suspected computer hackers
• VeriSign buys Weblogs.com
• Wales sold on online procurement

11th October

• Google plugs security flaw in AdWords
• Net power struggle nears climax
• EBay buys VeriSign's payment gateway unit
• Inland Revenue threatens EDS over tax fiasco (again)

12th October

• Google funds "social entrepreneur" program
• Yahoo! elevates blogs to stand alongside traditional news
• Microsoft pays RealNetworks $761m
• Data on billions of web pages made available

13th October

• Our failures are behind us, promise ministers
• Level 3, Cogent partners shocked by Internet disruption
• Yahoo, Microsoft to link IM networks
• Google 'could bid for AOL stake'

14th October

• MI6 boost recruitment prospects by launching website
• Feds claim 'largest ever' CD piracy bust
• Windows 2000 exploits raise worm attack fears
• Judge stays Google suit against Microsoft

17th October

• Nigerian e-mail frauds targeted
• Future bright for online video
• Satellite firm BSkyB to buy ISP Easynet - source
• HP recalls 135,000 laptop batteries

18th October

• Online smut peddler takes guilty plea
• West faces attacks from cyberspace
• Sun gives Unix giants a plus
• Beeny tries her luck with matchmaking website

19th October

• Internet leads as ad budgets elsewhere remain weak
• Blog spammers take aim at Google
• Yahoo earnings top market targets
• Ministers slammed on e-college waste

20th October

• Swift Mytob worm is back
• High-tech fair shows China bopping up value chain
• What does Microsoft's new shared source mean for you?
• Google is sued by book publishers

21st October

• The criminal failings of our justice IT system
• Google revenue doubles
• Spyware 'rampant' in UK computers
• China auction website offers babies for sale

24th October

• Extremist Islamist has returned - via Internet
• Flock spreads wings with beta version of new browser
• German publishers to build own online book network
• An online boom for Christmas

25th October

• BitTorrent guilty of net piracy
• Online publicity gives DIY pop stars first No 1
• Congress wants U.S. to retain grip on Internet
• VeriSign, ICANN settle dispute

26th October

• AMD nabs market share from Intel
• Amazon plays Scrooge
• Yahoo Travel lets users help each other plan trips
• Google tests its reputed eBay killer

27th October

• Trading on someone else's name
• Microsoft sees China, India competition in future
• Microsoft joins Yahoo on digital library alliance
• Net users told to get safe online

28th October

• Google targets Craigslist, eBay for destruction
• Microsoft misses – Financial news
• Amazon cuts costs for UK as growth slows
• Halfway to pixel perfection

31st October

• eBay fraudsters sentenced to jail
• IBM to use Google desktop search deep inside firms
• Google, Microsoft case over Lee stalls in California
• Time heals all dotcom wounds