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News Archive December 2006
1st December
- US warns of al-Qaeda cyber threat
- Top music website will be shut down, says Russia
- Ballmer expects businesses to jump on Vista
- Second Life equal with first life
4th December
- Christmas online sales hit £180m record day
- U.N. agency sees risks to privacy, security online
- Manchester offers free wi-fi access over 400 sq miles
- Search engine aids rights workers
5th December
- Universal, MySpace set for landmark battle
- Spam: now made in China
- Ask gives local search a try
- Online retailers failing to inform Christmas shoppers
6th December
- 'Most websites' failing disabled
- MySpace ups effort against sex offenders
- Cyber Santa shines light in Europe's retail gloom
- Microsoft issues Word zero-day attack alert
7th December
- Gowers: crack down on pirates
- "Little Fatty" unlikely Internet hero in China
- Can banks elude online sharks?
- Sky brings in Google to bolster broadband service
8th December
- Internet gangs hire students for cybercrime
- Yahoo starts to think out of the box
- Six security fixes due from Microsoft
- HP pays $14.5m to end 'spy' probe
11th December
- One out of four ‘stealing’ music
- Sex.com thief released from prison
- ICANN conference bears much fruit
- Papers battle online news sites
12th December
- US media giants consider rival service to YouTube
- Yahoo opens Panama ad system upgrade to newcomers
- Online gambling poised to pull $528bn
- Mozilla launches first Firefox 3.0 test
13th December
- China 'crackdown on online games'
- Cisco: The future is bright for video
- Hacker infiltrates data on 800,000 people
- Ransomware attack targets hotmail accounts
14th December
- The year I fell in love with social software
- It's a Google thing: Online auctions for options
- 'Logic bomb' backfires on ex-UBS employee in U.S
- Blogging 'set to peak next year'
15th December
- Buyer pays 1.5m pounds for vodka.com
- AOL workers walk out over compulsory redundancies
- Kiters put the wind up web address system
- Personalised adverts on mobile TV
18th December
- 'You' named Time's person of 2006
- Sturdier Botnets mean more spam in 2007
- Skype team turns its attention to television
- Russians do in blogs what few can in media: argue
- The future for Orange could be Google
19th December
- EU should share web terrorism monitoring: Germany
- Google buys better European maps
- Amazon turns off Ireland's electronic Christmas
- Microsoft unveils global website for advertisers
20th December
- Nasa and Google form cosmic union
- Festive shoppers move online - but at their peril
- Ebay suffers Chinese reversal
- YouTube to meet Japan media on copyright protest
21st December
- Hackers call on Skype to spread Trojan
- Season's greetings: it's spam for the holidays
- US Internet giants fail to break lucrative Chinese market
- People react well to email marketing says new research
29th December
- Alliances key for search giants
- US online shopping improved this Christmas
- Web video games rich pickings for online advertisers
- Congressional aide fired after trying to hire hackers
- Ryanair loses bitch site name-grab claim