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News Archive May 2005
31st May
- £1.50 a minute Net surfing scam
- China root out violence and porn from online games
- Glasgow gets its own television station online
- Microsoft approaches EU deadline
27th May
- MSN spam postman delivers twice
- Netscape 8.0 disables Internet Explorer
- Mozilla readies Alpha for Firefox upgrade
- NHS take patients online - a problem shared
26th May
- U.S. shuts down network that leaked 'Star Wars'
- Anti-phishing toolbar now available for Firefox
- Hacker holds computer files hostage
- UK no longer OECD's broadband laggard
25th May
- Online retail sales to rise 22 percent this year
- Time Warner consider selling off AOL
- Red Hat to open-source Netscape Directory next week
- Internet forces British banking industry to modernise
24th May
- MSN rolls out satellite mapping service
- Website flaws let spammers, phishers build profiles
- Google and Apple lift tech shares
- Checking your inbox is the new going out
23rd May
- Ask Jeeves buys Excite's European operations for £4.2m
- Underground showdown: defacers take on phishers
- Software antagonists square off in European Parliament
- Channel operators revamp Websites
20th May
- Travel sites see ‘highest level’ comparison shopping
- Campaigners quiz Google on China play
- Sith is attacked by the clones – online!
- Netscape offers 'hybrid' browser
19th May
- Sun has words for IBM and Red Hat
- Google push security in new enterprise desktop search
- Getting up to speed online
- Push Email gets pulled
18th May
- Mistrial in Overture ad patent dispute
- Microsoft hunts Web nasties with honey monkeys
- Two-thirds of software may be pirated in 5 years time
- IBM and Red Hat put the squeeze on Sun
17th May
- IBM urges employees to blog with care
- IE 7 tabs will be 'basic,' says Microsoft
- UK search market growing fast
- Till rolls fed a £350,000 con on Web
16th May
- Internet losing ground to travel agents
- Technology baffles 'old and poor'
- Microsoft launches desktop search tool
- New service to reduce 'click fraud'
13th May
- OpenOffice + free-software supporters make Java peace
- Mozilla updates Firefox to fix flaws
- Yahoo sued over Candyman child porn site
- Private networks on Web found vulnerable to attack
12th May
- Google's new search application for UK SME's
- Yahoo undercuts the competition on music subscription
- Sabre snaps up Lastminute.com in £577m deal
- Poachers turn over Microsoft Gatekeeper security test
11th May
- Cisco source code theft part of 'mega-hack'
- Symantec false alert floors Macs
- Watchdog targeting workplace porn
- Firefox inches ahead one more point
10th May
- Local councils get the hots for Linux
- Veritas plans to hand SEC $30m to end accounting saga
- Spam blacklist targets Telewest
- Singaporean shuts blog after libel threat
9th May
- Cisco packs security options in appliances
- Google's accelerator breaks Web apps security
- Banker jailed for software piracy
- How much is too much data loss?
6th May
- ‘Robin Hood’ gang facing jail for theft
- Firefox coins celebrate success
- Yahoo stoke rivalry with propelled video search
- Phishers dodge shutdowns by striking via 'Botnets'
- Bloggers lift the poll day boredom
5th May
- China to top US in Broadband subscribers
- AOL subscriber revenues slide
- Want to license a piece of Microsoft research?
- Teenager jailed for £45,000 eBay fraud
- IBM to axe 13,000 jobs worldwide
- Ofcom may have to police Internet content
4th May
- Blogging blossoms in British election
- Google eyes better news searches
- One in 20 'fall for online fraud'
- Verisign and .net: a winner all the way
3rd May