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News Archive July 2005

1st July

• Internet retail advertising to double by 2007
• Microsoft woos world's scientists
• 'Timeshare Spammer' to plead guilty
• Ofcom shames BT

4th July

• Feds won't let go of Internet DNS
• How schools can get free software
• Internet shoppers 'spending more'
• Microsoft settles antitrust claims with IBM

5th July

• File-share defender fired over TV show
• Health Website launches online diagnosis
• Lufthansa online activist found guilty
• Pop-up smut tops spyware chart

6th July

• AMD wins right to third party documents
• Microsoft 'Project Greenhouse' aims to break new ground
• German admits creating Sasser
• eBay pulls illegal Live 8 DVDs

7th July

• Net users change habits to avoid spyware
• European Parliament rejects software patents
• Opera adds BitTorrent to Web browser
• Google launch test version of Google Earth

8th July

• Web users flock to sites for London blast news
• IBM to Apple: eat these chips
• Actor Freeman sells movies online
• Channel 4 to air all content on broadband

11th July

• The patent vote: who won that round, exactly?
• Microsoft's Ballmer tells partners to stick it to IBM
• Police seek Emails and SMS from day of blasts
• Microsoft rewards Sasser worm informants

12th July

• Longhorn following Unix on security?
• IBM powers up dual core
• Trojans pose as London bombing video
• Spammers most likely users of Email authentication

13th July

• EU seeks to regulate television on the net
• Mozilla updates Firefox to fix security gaps
• Penalty plea on cyber criminals
• Hornby toys auction site to take on eBay

14th July

• Phlooding attack could leave enterprises high and dry
• EU investigators raid Intel offices
• US court upholds AT&T verdict against Microsoft
• Discovery launch to be aired online

15th July

• Australian labels win piracy case
• UN panel fails to agree on how to govern Internet
• Online-only brands 'lack trust'
• The Sun is first national to feature daily video news

18th July

• Amazon fetes 10th year with Bob Dylan and Norah Jones
• Yahoo heads to Berkeley for Internet research
• Nigeria jails woman in $242m Email fraud case
• 10yrs after birth of e-commerce, fear may curb growth

19th July

• China's Baidu to remove pirated music links
• IBM evens the keel in Q2
• Recent Firefox release needs fixing
• BBC may sell downloads of programmes overseas

20th July

• Trojan loose that takes on Windows vulnerability
• Search Wars - the Empire strikes back
• News Corp in $580m Internet buy
• Football to be shown on TV and Internet simultaneously

21st July

• Ask Jeeves latest weapon in battle for search supremacy
• eBay ups forecast as profits jump
• Old dog learns new tricks
• Online pirates pounce on new Harry Potter book

22nd July

• Brazilians used Orkut as drug distribution network
• China pleases tech with exchange reform
• Microsoft cautious despite record quarter
• Online advertising drives Google

25th July

• Student's role in £250m swindle
• UK police chiefs seek powers to attack terror Websites
• Windows Vista, server and IE 7 betas to arrive in synch
• Russian online retailers start small, but grow fast

26th July

• Online sales lift Domino's profit
• Search aims to aid world poverty
• AMD's Opteron decimates Xeon market
• Microsoft lowers boom on illegal Windows copies

27th July

• Internet sports coverage gets on track
• Sun posts flat Q4
• Microsoft early on Vista beta?
• Amazon profits dip as sales rise

28th July

• Cisco files suit to gag researcher
• Red Hat holes less severe than Windows
• UK 'hacker' fights US extradition
• AOL tests cell-phone search site