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News Archive May 2009
29th May
- study reveals green data center focus
- McAfee lists web's most dangerous search terms
- calls for BT to ' light my fibre'
- seven million in the UK using illegal downloads
28th May
- Microsoft promises 'search 2.0'
- HP begins European jobs chop
- flood of fake Western Union emails hide trojan
- Gmail in real-time: Google does the Wave
27th May
- UK broadband 'notspots' revealed
- Vatican blesses iPope app for Jesus Phone
- former Bebo chief Joanna Shields leaves AOL
- PRS royalty cut prompts possible return of music streaming t
- 90 percent of e-mails are spam
- cybersquatters register domain names of 'Britain's Got Talen
26th May
22nd May
- new logo for Google's products
- phishers hit Twitter again
- YouTube flooded with porn
- Conficker infects 50,000 more PCs every day
- UK data breach costs swell
20th May
- wiping data 'hits flu prediction'
- Dell launches 'germ-free' netbooks for US schools
- Twitter plans to generate cash with business tools
- Yahoo talks success in delivering smarter search
19th May
- Firefox challenge to boost browser tabs
- one in five teens have access to hacking tools
- Google shows support for newspaper mergers
- database of all children launched
18th May
14th May
- Google wants to know if you're sick
- top 10 most heavily used UK internet websites - Facebook dom
- home sec: no more funds to e-crime unit
- 12 million brits hit by computer viruses over last 6 months
13th May
- NASA astronaut first to tweet from space
- Google's Mayer: 'We Don't Dominate Search'
- Greece bans Google's Street View over privacy fears
- Scientology web hacker faces prison after guilty plea
12th May
- internet users have 'trust issues' about shopping online
- Tesco IT upgrade causes till outage
- call to 'disconnect file-sharers'
- internet stalker jailed for life over murder
11th May
- security breach has cost Heartland £8.4m so far
- one in three is scared to shop on web
- Google launches first TV adverts
7th May
- Microsoft search to be powered by open source
- Twitter serious about search strength
- Duke Nukem developer goes bust
- execs reveal why newspapers don't block Google
6th May
- UK families would rather cut down on food than broadband
- Adobe plans patch for Acrobat zero day flaw
- US cyberbully bill 'a threat to free speech'
5th May