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News Archive May 2006

2nd May

• Pupils to sit first online exams
• Firms face new tax on staff email to friends
• Amazon switches to Microsoft from Google
• Pulitzer winner suspended for web pseudonym

3rd May

• Microsoft-Google browser war doubles down
• Hackers control bot client over P2P
• Windows Vista set for ‘further delays’
• Movie piracy losses bigger than expected: report

4th May

• Microsoft switches to own online ad broker service
• Firefox users can't shop with Windows Live
• Will licensing kill the radio star?
• Internet news sites command same trust as radio

5th May

• Ebay tries to allay fears of slowing growth
• Net censorship spreads worldwide
• Gates: 'We'll keep Google honest'
• Yahoo called Spyware Pusher in lawsuit

15th May

• Web search sites give new ways to find results
• US dismisses Google complaint, says IE 7 plays fair
• BBC starts to rock online world
• Email volumes tipped to catch direct mail this year

16th May

• Chinese Internet writer sentenced to 12 years
• High Court bounces Buy It Now injunction
• US man jailed for hacking supervisor's PC
• Burger King in TV web link-up

17th May

• Yahoo homepage gets make-over
• eBay anti-virus pirates sued
• Microsoft unveils new search tools for businesses
• AOL launches UnCut video service in beta

18th May

• The real Google search: lock in all the users
• Yahoo sees no boost from ad system before '07
• Judge OKs MS anti-trust extension
• ICANN's latest is .tel

19th May

• Wireless boost for British cities
• Google eyes China's mobile market
• World Cup fans warned off Ebay tickets
• Symantec sues Microsoft over storage technologies

22nd May

• Battle over .xxx porn domains to go to court
• Report: Shunned Yahoo shares poised for rebound
• Southeast Asian cyber attacks still way off
• Demise fears boosts traffic for AllofMP3.com

23rd May

• Online sales to rise 20 percent in 2006: report
• Stats say Google losing something
• MySpace seeks link with Google or Microsoft
• $15m backing to search for next Yahoo

24th May

• Web inventor warns of 'dark' Net
• Microsoft starts Windows test, launch on target
• Business software pirates cost UK £1bn a year
• Women hooked on Net betting

25th May

• South Korea rejects Microsoft's appeal
• Criminal prosecution for eDonkey file sharers?
• Mergers: next trend for big Internet companies?
• 'Hated' email marketing given hope in new survey

26th May

• Motion Picture Association accused of hacking
• Yahoo, eBay pact seen a step to global partnership
• Google and Dell in software deal
• Teen hackers charged over MySpace extortion bid

30th May

• Bulgarian police bust major European web pirates
• EU considers taxing emails and SMSs
• Apple dealt setback in suit against online journalists
• Amnesty to target Net repression

31st May

• Online ad revenue set to overtake nationals by 2007
• BBC chief outlines global ambitions
• China and US trade blows over Lenovo
• EU steps up battle against hackers and cybercrime