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News Archive February 2007

1st February

• London police can't cope with cybercrime
• Tagging 'takes off for web users'
• Breaking down the Network Neutrality debate
• Vista has speech recognition hole

2nd February

• Yahoo to launch 100 branded entertainment sites
• Groceries, fashion rack up sales for Amazon
• Second Life's open source fairy tale
• Google nearly trebles profits as it continues to grow

5th February

• Google blurs key images of India
• China unblocks Taiwan newspaper websites
• Who watches the watchers in surveillance society?
• Leveling the playing field with VoIP

6th February

• Workers ignore data rules
• Net safety day marked worldwide
• Apple and Beatles settle trademark squabble
• Internet video rules 'misguided'

7th February

• Facebook moves into TV with Comcast's Ziddio
• Despite lawsuits, digital music downloads grow
• Whistle blown on Wiki site for whistle-blowers
• Internet backbone at center of suspected attack

8th February

• NBC chief Zucker enters into YouTube copyright argument
• UK to jail data thieves for two years
• Early DST means reprogramming at home as well as office
• College students find existence online

9th February

• RSA: US cyber counterattack: Bomb one way or the other
• £100,000 prize for digital hunter
• The future of online is not network TV Google warns
• Bunged up but bursting with promise

12th February

• Mobile Internet won't grow without effective mobile search
• Online ads: the lovers' lost and found
• Creating the digital classroom
• Keeping secrets from web spies

13th February

• Mexican drug wars find new battleground on YouTube
• IE and Firefox cough up hard drive contents
• Broadband switching set to ease
• Online video companies GoFish, Bolt merge

14th February

• Galliano, Westwood help launch fashion "MySpace"
• Unsecured Wi-Fi networks: Hiding place for online criminals
• Google drawn into piracy row over copyright allegations
• Microsoft warns of six "critical" security flaws

15th February

• Google opens up Gmail worldwide
• British hacker fights extradition
• Data center energy consumption has doubled since 2000
• Court dismisses teen's suit against MySpace

16th February

• Hack lets intruders sneak into home routers
• Webcams broadcast Israeli dig
• Travel websites clamp down on bogus reviews
• Wireless USB to eliminate cables

19th February

• BBC urged to resist website ads
• UK bank fined for losing customer data
• FDA warns about dangerous Internet drug mistake
• Web use spike in pandemic may make telework tough

20th February

• Best of Brit bloggers awards launched
• Iran shuts down website critical of president
• The mash-up future of the web
• Can comparison shopping tools be trusted?

21st February

• Viacom to launch YouTube rival in illegal content clampdown
• Home wi-fi systems vulnerable to hackers
• Minding the gap between click and conversion
• Racy emails could land sender on sex offenders list

22nd February

• Eurosport plans community site in league with Yahoo!
• Cerf: Internet, both good and bad, reflects society
• Ad-supported online video ‘losing ground’
• Twelve-step program aims to cure email addiction

23rd February

• Nine easy web-based collaboration tools
• UK budget aims to woo online gambling firms: paper
• 90% of email will be spam by year's end
• Blogger gets four-year jail term for insulting Islam

26th February

• Google locked in legal rumbles over Gmail in Europe
• Pipe dreams: who'll unclog the information superhighway?
• Petition demands Vista price cuts in U.K.
• Mobile talk moves to Web 2.0

27th February

• Google in video talks with Dow Jones and others
• Bombers strike at virtual world
• UK Open Source think tank opens doors
• Wireless users 'do more online'

28th February

• Social networking sites feed phishers
• Online addict dies after "marathon" session
• Windows adds 'maybe pirate' category
• Thumbs up for America's online child protection laws