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News Archive April 2005
1st April
- Microsoft files suits in fight against phishing
- Fans pile online for World Cup tickets
- ICANN imposes $2 Internet tax
- Iceland drops the net
4th April
- Google's Gmail grows again
- Search Engines face a different type of spam
- Travel search prepares for takeoff
- Intel faces the music in Japan
- Microsoft ex-employee sentenced for software theft
- China's Giant Pandas get broadband
- Vatican use email to announce Pope's death
5th April
- Microsoft aids anti-spam lawsuits
- .Net report was fudged
- Google wants your DIY porn videos
- Internet advertising 'comes of age'
- DMA launches e-commerce scheme to protect consumers
6th April
- TUI UK to double online sales in four years
- Hi-tech crime costs UK plc £2.4bn
- .Net report speared a third time
- Microsoft keeps up presence at open-source events
- Microsoft shares a little more
- Ask Jeeves advances onto the continent
7th April
- Browser bugs sprout eternal
- Phishers using e-postcards to trap consumers
- MSN adds VoIP, video calls to Messenger
- Google cuts price on search hardware licenses
- Viacom's MTV launches Web-based TV channel
8th April
- Bogus travel sites built to snatch credit cards
- Blair falls victim to Google Bomb
- Tide may be turning in war on spam
- More criticism piled on .Net report
- Bulldog service suffers performance issue
11th April
- Cyberspace is no place to put your X
- Agents losing out to Internet for business travel
- Warning over fake Window’s update
- Man gets nine years for spamming
- VeriSign responds to .Net criticism
- Homespun 'Podcasts' explore a universe of topics
12th April
13th April
- Apple bloggers get press support
- Wife murderer got ideas on the Net
- Florida wins first injunction against spammers
- Dot travel set for launch
- Viral marketing has key role in new Microsoft Ad campaign
14th April
- Murdoch warns of print's complacency over Internet
- Fake blogs are new cyber crime technique
- Online media archive moves step closer
15th April
- Cisco to buy server switch maker Topspin
- Europe's fastest supercomputer boots up
- 7 out of 10 banks are cyber-crime risk
- Conservative candidate phishes for support
18th April
- Microsoft’s massive advertising push begins
- Eight convicted in Denmark's biggest piracy case
- Web shops face tighter security
- Home workers 'pose security risk'
- Habits of an online teenager
19th April
- Opera ups security on new browser
- Microsoft wins battle in California but war goes on
- Containing spam across the water
- Linux on desktop needs better sales people
20th April
- Intel and Yahoo restore tech optimism
- Amazon to handle M&S online ordering
- Google to go local with Yell
- Project to open Internet to blind
- UK ISPs ordered to reveal IDs of 33 more filesharers
21st April
- Google sues for halt of Froogles.com
- Firefox experiments with keyboard navigation
- Web-savvy Danes rule Internet roost
- UK laws are failing to deter spam
- e-innovation nation
22nd April
- eBay 'most popular brand' online
- EU to launch its own Web domain
- Google Personal-Search Tracker raises privacy concerns
- Attack of the Chinese Zombies!
- 20 busted in e-pharmacy takedown
25th April
- Web Travel Award winners announced
- eBay steps into E.Europe with Polish site
- China detains Internet user for Japan protest plot
- Moore's Law original issue found
- Forgent hits Microsoft in patent bill
26th April
- Web server attacks 'growing fast'
- Internet map reveals the broadband divide
- Yahoo! hands over dead man's Email
- World Cup ‘06 organisers clash with eBay.de
- Virgin rail Website ‘charging double’
- Google extend advertising with display option
27th April
- Uber-blog raises a celebrity voice
- Main Website hackers are schoolboys
- Firefox used by 1 in 10 business professionals
- Yahoo launches personalized Web search
28th April
- Study show "net-illiterate" parents failing kids
- Beware How You Google
- Amazon profits go down the Swanee
- Web scammers sell Indian PM's house to American
- Bigamist's web of deceit
29th April
- eBay hacker off to jail
- Internet ad revenue surpasses dotcom boom
- Fancy a bit of "orgiastic vote-swapping"?
- EU warns to take steps if Microsoft doesn't comply
- Pipex snaps up another Web host outfit