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News Archive August 2006
1st August
- YouTube overtakes MySpace
- Media heir wants ‘Airbus of the web’
- Boomer's social website comes with death alerts
- Social network sites face US ban
2nd August
- Huge European iTunes giveaway
- AOL’s obstacle to planned sale of its British arm
- McAfee patches critical bug in security software
- Black box of our lives
3rd August
- Net companies seek standard on click count
- Microsoft launches Live Spaces
- 'How's my healing?'
- CNN boosts 'citizen journalism' with showcase site
4th August
- Podcasting sampled by almost two million people
- ID cards protect children in Internet chat rooms
- AP, Google confirm online news deal
- Napster sale a possibility
7th August
- EBay helps stop mobile phone thefts
- Record labels sue LimeWire
- Virus program incurs church wrath
- UK users pick Google when it comes to web search
8th August
- Britons online '50 days a year'
- Viacom considers bid for Bebo
- AOL draws fire after releasing user search data
- Google goes sole searching with MySpace, Fox
9th August
- Google warns on 'unsafe' websites
- UK rejects proposal to regulate online video
- US court rules against man in porn-at-work case
- Microsoft fixes a dozen security flaws, nine critical
10th August
- Western Internet firms "act as censors" in China
- Disney rules out big Internet partnerships
- US Senator claims campaign site 'hacked'
- The age-old battle for power and sex.com
11th August
- Damien Hirst locked in cybersquatting battle
- Lebanese use blogs to vent frustration at war
- HSBC to 'review' online security
- Networked generation turns off TV
14th August
- Calls over Internet predicted to soar
- 20th Century Fox to sell movies on IGN, MySpace
- Amazon may use customer info for 'gift clustering'
- The web’s unlikeliest new star – virtual grandad
15th August
- Microsoft launches AdCenter platform in the UK
- A new plane of users for AOL
- Thin-skinned China targets online pranksters
- UK bank details sold in Nigeria
16th August
- Time lists 50 'coolest websites'
- Microsoft delays 11 patches to push 1
- CBS to air TV shows online
- eBay traders boycott site over charges
17th August
- Yahoo and former China head in brewing legal battle
- YouTube plans music video archive supported by ads
- ICANN awarded net administration until 2011
- Has the time finally come to stop using Google?
18th August
- Travel agents warn of holiday web scam
- Report: Vietnam tightens its grip on web content
- Web to be made hostile ground for terror
- Net supply switch 'to be easier'
21st August
- Yahoo! homes in on Orange deal
- UK online sales set to double by 2010
- British police arrest two over web scams
- Google loses ground while AOL continues to freefall
- Pairing the odd couple
22nd August
- Chinese company fined for bulk junk email
- YouTube in push to link with advertisers
- AOL executive leaves after breach
- MSN encourages kids to identify dodgy messengers
23rd August
- Web safety ad 'linked to porn'
- Microsoft in land-grab ad deal with MySpace rival
- Google gives open access to Japan version of GMail
- US authorities had free rein over world's bank data
24th August
- Brazil lawyers lean on Google
- Sacked boy’s 5m revenge emails
- Google opens up its base
- Metcalfe's law under attack as experts square up
29th August
- Spammers manipulate stock markets
- Revamped AOL unveils web-based music store
- Most damaging attacks rely on stolen log-ins
- Google and eBay join forces for advertising partnership
30th August
- Windows Vista goes on sale at Amazon
- Universal Music backs ad-funded download service
- Patent rulings could destroy open source software
- Web ads sector lacks experienced staff
31st August
- Norwich pioneers free city wi-fi
- Google offers printable books online
- Search results - top of the heap
- Ashes tickets cancelled after Internet investigation
