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News Archive June 2006

1st June

• Virus that holds PCs to ransom reaches Britain
• Swedish police scupper Piratebay
• Google has no plan for its own Web browser
• Online safety survey spots big disconnect

2nd June

• Red Hat's Mugshot steps outside Enterprise Linux
• FBI wants Internet records kept 2 years
• Does Google expect quick cash from Dell deal?
• BBC website shows World Cup games

5th June

• Phishers aim to hook MySpace users
• MPs in digital downloads warning
• Swedish Police probe suspected Web attacks
• Mozilla patches 12 Firefox flaws

6th June

• Rare library books turn up on eBay
• Start-ups hit highest values since dotcom boom
• Google tests Web-based spreadsheet to organise data
• 9/11 conspiracy movie taken off the web

7th June

• Google founder lobbies for Net neutrality
• IE And Firefox sport new zero-day flaw
• The Times to launch TV service on the Internet
• Warning over 'illegal' MP3 site

8th June

• Yahoo takes 10% stake in Gmarket
• Man fined measly $2K over anti-spyware scam
• Net neutrality time on the floor
• Google 'compromised principles' over China

9th June

• EU warns China on piracy problem
• Channel 4 secures online deal
• Online video games set to get X-rated
• Google in row over E.U. distribution

12th June

• Net Neut nixed in Congress
• Microsoft makes security the 'ForeFront'
• BSkyB, BT favourites to buy AOL UK unit
• Google’s China wobbles

13th June

• Yahoo hit by worm
• eBay bids for online ad dollars with AdContext
• Windows gets big security update
• Data worries as consumers found to lie online

14th June

• MySpace to sell search function
• Yahoo quashes mail bug
• EBay signs up 200 millionth member
• Compromise in works for Net neutrality?

15th June

• Google's giant super-computing plant revealed
• Jot this down. eBay has a Wiki
• Netscape reborn as blog-era news site
• Broadband not yet for all

16th June

• Social-networking sites continue meteoric rise in May
• Google listens to screen routine
• Ozzie takes top Microsoft software job
• Piratebay sails back to Sweden

19th June

• Word of mouth is new ads message
• Web auctions, the new jackpot for middle Americans
• Yahoo's Chinese search engine is biggest censor
• Net students 'think copying OK'

20th June

• Apple in talks to offer movies at iTunes
• US pressured Sweden over Pirate Bay
• Web video content could be classified
• Yahoo! calls Germany 2006 first 'Internet' World Cup

21st June

• Dutch MP3 search site shut down
• MySpace bolsters defences, faces sex predator suit
• Most Microsoft workers search with Google
• Opera 9 browser provides a little drama

23rd June

• Google offloads Baidu investment
• Senate committee chairman says 'no' to Net neutrality
• Sex offender jailed after online report
• DVLA sacks 14 after email porn freezes computers

26th June

• Niche TV growing quickly online
• Crowdsourcing - an Internet extention of outsourcing
• Coming soon—mind-reading computers
• Cisco, AT&T buy Internet video foothold

27th June

• Wireless firms agree on rules for mobile Websites
• Junk mail scumbags in harvesting attack
• Is Browsezilla a malware magnet?
• Net gains for northern entrepreneurs

28th June

• Google online payment system could take on PayPal
• Red Hat CEO says Linux could become U.S. standard
• Users take Office 2007 out for online spin
• Three held over virus email plot

29th June

• BBC Websites to carry advertising
• Arguments and gunfire at ICANN Marrakech
• Judge approves Yahoo "click fraud" settlement
• Senate panel kills Net neutrality

30th June

• Yahoo! links up with 3 for mobile Internet deal
• Microsoft pushes back Office 2007 release
• IE, Firefox users at risk from new flaws
• Red Hat shows strong first quarter