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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