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News Archive February 2007
28th February
- Thumbs up for America's online child protection laws
- Windows adds 'maybe pirate' category
- Online addict dies after "marathon" session
- Social networking sites feed phishers
27th February
- Wireless users 'do more online'
- UK Open Source think tank opens doors
- Bombers strike at virtual world
- Google in video talks with Dow Jones and others
26th February
- Mobile talk moves to Web 2.0
- Petition demands Vista price cuts in U.K.
- Pipe dreams: who'll unclog the information superhighway?
- Google locked in legal rumbles over Gmail in Europe
23rd February
- Blogger gets four-year jail term for insulting Islam
- 90% of email will be spam by year's end
- UK budget aims to woo online gambling firms: paper
- Nine easy web-based collaboration tools
22nd February
- Twelve-step program aims to cure email addiction
- Ad-supported online video ‘losing ground’
- Cerf: Internet, both good and bad, reflects society
- Eurosport plans community site in league with Yahoo!
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
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?
19th February
- Web use spike in pandemic may make telework tough
- UK bank fined for losing customer data
- FDA warns about dangerous Internet drug mistake
- BBC urged to resist website ads
16th February
- Wireless USB to eliminate cables
- Travel websites clamp down on bogus reviews
- Webcams broadcast Israeli dig
- Hack lets intruders sneak into home routers
15th February
- Google opens up Gmail worldwide
- Court dismisses teen's suit against MySpace
- Data center energy consumption has doubled since 2000
- British hacker fights extradition
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
13th February
- Online video companies GoFish, Bolt merge
- Broadband switching set to ease
- IE and Firefox cough up hard drive contents
- Mexican drug wars find new battleground on YouTube
12th February
- Keeping secrets from web spies
- Online ads: the lovers' lost and found
- Creating the digital classroom
- Mobile Internet won't grow without effective mobile search
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
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
7th February
- Facebook moves into TV with Comcast's Ziddio
- Internet backbone at center of suspected attack
- Whistle blown on Wiki site for whistle-blowers
- Despite lawsuits, digital music downloads grow
6th February
- Internet video rules 'misguided'
- Apple and Beatles settle trademark squabble
- Net safety day marked worldwide
- Workers ignore data rules
5th February
- Leveling the playing field with VoIP
- Who watches the watchers in surveillance society?
- China unblocks Taiwan newspaper websites
- Google blurs key images of India
2nd February
- Google nearly trebles profits as it continues to grow
- Second Life's open source fairy tale
- Groceries, fashion rack up sales for Amazon
- Yahoo to launch 100 branded entertainment sites
1st February