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News Archive September 2005

1st September

• Develop 'super-human' like powers... fast!
• Second Sight - Is the Web a primary opinion former?
• Microsoft plans telephone service
• Google studies selling print ads to online clients

2nd September

• Opera web browser thinks small
• UK home workers now 'in the millions'
• Vista feature protects data from reboots
• Intel says AMD is to blame for its own problems

5th September

• Collaboration helps nab cybercriminals
• Councils face huge workflow challenge
• Australian court rules Kazaa users breach copyright
• Microsoft-Google battle heats up

6th September

• BBC trials guidance labelling for online programmes
• 'Islamic Trojan' disrupts smut surfing
• Business 'ignorant of DoS attack threat'
• Poker shares dip

7th September

• Wikipedia eclipses CIA
• Friends Reunited attracts takeover attention
• Microsoft says Lee was Google's mole
• Web and text vote trials dropped

8th September

• Ballmer: Microsoft needs to woo midsize businesses
• Watt's up – Business Report
• Student flogs pixels to fund education
• Yahoo! accused of helping China convict journalist

9th September

• Computer error destroyed 1m UK tax records
• Microsoft starts second EU appeal
• Ricky Gervais plans launch of downloadable chatshow
• Googling Vint Cerf

12th September

• EBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bln-source
• The cost of online anonymity
• Women are 'put off' hi-tech jobs
• Google and GEICO settle AdWords dispute

13th September

• Murdoch desperate to catch up in the internet race
• Linux migration to be fuelled by MS Vista: Novell
• How the web is taking off in China
• Portal bid drives eBay Skype deal

14th September

• Broadband to rule the TV waves
• Yahoo! hires top journalist to tour world's danger areas
• Coins Into Amazon.com Cash
• Ex-Microsoft exec able to work for Google

15th September

• Mozilla takes on Microsoft
• Demon Internet Founder In Court
• Last SQL Server Preview, Then Showtime
• Google blog search lives

16th September

• AOL and MSN discuss search and ad link-up
• Adobe Beats The Street
• Internet boss guilty of stealing Porter e-mails
• Red Hat up to high for a year

21st September

• Deadline for Friends Reunited bids looms next week
• Microsoft shuffles organisation chart
• Market 'not ready' for UK.gov shared services push
• Authors sue Google over book plan

22nd September

• EU executive unveils electronic data storage plan
• Google edges toward Telco territory
• Google Earth spots buried Roman remains
• Time Warner keeps faith with AOL

23rd September

• China steps up Web controls but investors untroubled
• Ask Jeeves to retire mascot
• Broadband use in UK surpasses US levels
• How Microsoft can 'kill' Google

26th September

• IBM, amid layoffs, scours globe for IT talent
• Daily Mail enters the race to buy Friends Reunited
• China sets new rules on Internet news
• Internet blamed as New York Times axes 500 jobs

27th September

• Google dips a toe into data management
• Yahoo moves deeper into exclusive content
• Police and NSPCC tracing web images of children
• Does adCenter give Microsoft an edge?

28th September

• Did you say dogging or blogging? Brits confused
• Who gets to run the Internet?
• Boom times for hi-tech fraudsters
• AOL opens window on world of 10-year-olds

29th September

• Public sector IT pros have their say
• MapQuest founder chases local search crown
• Symantec and Microsoft bring down pirate
• Google and Nasa in space venture

30th September

• EU deal threatens US dominance of Internet
• US record industry sues hundreds for file-sharing
• eBay draws ire for sales of lenses
• Net phoning starts to win friends