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Archive of Internet : October,2005
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2005-10-31 - Coalition Outlines Strategies To Fight Spyware
By: iMark
The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC), an alliance of I.T. firms and public-interest groups, has finalized its de ...
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2005-10-31 - Online Shoppers Gearing Up For Holiday Season
By: iTech
Shopping-comparison sites experienced robust traffic in September, a good sign for the upcoming holiday seas ...
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2005-10-31 - Google Hooks IBM In Corporate Software Push
By: iMark
IBM has agreed to support within its OmniFind corporate search engine Google Inc.'s desktop-search software, ...
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2005-10-31 - Music video audience migrates to Web
By: iTech
On November 1, Internet media giant Yahoo will launch two music video services, and both efforts illustrate ...
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2005-10-31 - IBM to use Google desktop search deep inside firms
By: inet
IBM and Google Inc. are collaborating to make it easier for office workers not only to search for local docu ...
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2005-10-30 - eBay fraudsters jailed in Britain
By: iMark
Three Romanian fraudsters were jailed on Friday in London for a worldwide fraud carried out via Internet auc ...
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2005-10-30 - AOL deal, buyback in focus at Time Warner
By: iTech
AOL will take center-stage next week when Time Warner Inc. reports third-quarter financial results, as it ai ...
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2005-10-29 - Jackson Sunbathing Video Hits Internet
By: inet
Janet Jackson has been exposed — and this time, Justin Timberlake is nowhere to be se ...
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2005-10-29 - ISP identifier trips up S. Korean firm
By: iTech
South Korea's information ministry will allow cable network operator Powercomm to add new customers from Sat ...
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2005-10-29 - Google, IBM team on deep-research tool
By: iTech
IBM and Google Inc. are collaborating to make it easier for office workers not only to search for local docu ...
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2005-10-28 - Yahoo Doubling Price of Music Service
By: inet
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is doubling the price of its online music subscription service for portable MP3 p ...
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2005-10-28 - Remote Control Device 'Controls' Humans
By: iTech
ATSUGI, Japan - We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Groun ...
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2005-10-28 - Google tests potential online ad listings
By: iTech
Google confirmed on Tuesday the creation of Google Base, a service that potentially expands the company's re ...
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2005-10-28 - Amazon.com ending drugstore.com deal
By: iNext
Online retailer Amazon.com said Thursday its fulfillment services agreement with drugstore.com would end on November 9, ...
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2005-10-28 - Blogs on the job: US workers waste millions of hours online
By: iMark
That co-worker staring, eyes scrunched up, at his computer monitor may look like he's sweating through anoth ...
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2005-10-27 - US Internet search giant Google adds to China team
By: inet
Google increased its focus on China by hiring a sales veteran to lead the US Internet search powerhouse's ma ...
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2005-10-27 - Google Gives Peek at Classified Ad Service
By: inet
Google Inc. has unintentionally provided a sneak peek at what appears to be a looming expansion into classif ...
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2005-10-27 - US software giant Microsoft plans online book library
By: inet
US software colossus Microsoft announced plans to launch an online library of books and other written works. ...
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2005-10-27 - School Orders Students to Remove Blogs
By: inet
NEWARK, N.J. - A Roman Catholic high school has ordered its students to remove their online diaries from the ...
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2005-10-27 - Security fears on Internet cause big cuts in US Web usage: survey
By: inet
Nearly one-third of US Internet users are cutting back on Web usage and 25 percent say they have stopped buy ...
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2005-10-27 - Yahoo Tests Travel Planner
By: iNext
Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday launched in beta online tools for vacation planning.
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2005-10-26 - VeriSign to control ".com" domain until 2012
By: iMark
VeriSign Inc. said on Monday it would maintain control of the lucrative ".com" Internet domain until 2012 in ...
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2005-10-26 - Verisign, ICANN Settle Long-Standing Suit
By: iMark
NEW YORK - The Internet's key oversight agency said Monday it had tentatively agreed to settle a longstandin ...
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2005-10-26 - Skype targets businesses as growth accelerates
By: iMark
Internet telephony firm Skype, which is being bought by eBay, reported accelerating subscriber growth on Tue ...
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2005-10-26 - Swede fined for Internet file-sharing in landmark case
By: iNext
Excitement over a new class of programs that help consumers customize how they use the Web has fueled fears ...
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2005-10-26 - Motorola's Rokr Fails To Impress Users
By: inet
Motorola's Rokr is not living up to the hype that accompanied the recent launch of the first iTunes mobile p ...
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2005-10-25 - AT&T to double Internet capacity
By: iMark
AT&T said Tuesday that it will open a San Jose data center to double its Bay Area capacity for handling ...
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2005-10-25 - Google streams sitcom premiere
By: inet
Google unveiled its first significant partnership with a television network Monday, a deal that allows it to ...
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2005-10-25 - UPS agrees not to ship cigarettes to US consumers
By: iNext
United Parcel Service Inc. on Monday said it will stop delivering cigarettes to consumers in the United Stat ...
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2005-10-25 - Real Estate Ads Finding More Space Online
By: inet
A company created by mapping and instant message pioneer Perry Evans is set to make a deal that highlights t ...
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2005-10-25 - Congress Wants U.S. To Retain Grip On Internet
By: iMark
A trio of lawmakers in the House of Representatives has joined a Senate colleague in calling for the U.S. to ...
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2005-10-25 - Co. to Launch Internet-Based HDTV Service
By: iTech
ROSEVILLE, Calif. - A company that has linked more than 80,000 Northern California homes to a fiber-optic ne ...
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2005-10-25 - FAST Desktop Search Platform Comes Gunning for Google
By: iNext
Enterprise search vendor Fast Search & Transfer ASA has designs on your desktop, onscreen real estate th ...
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2005-10-24 - Publishers to build own online book network
By: inet
German publishers, keen to defend their copyrights as Internet search engines seek to put the world's litera ...
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2005-10-24 - Online Retailers Cashing in on Halloween
By: iMark
NEW BERLIN, Wis. - Jalem Getz used to dislike the lack of seasons in his native California. Now he uses the ...
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2005-10-24 - Movies.com boosting editorial coverage
By: iNext
Movies.com, the Walt Disney Co. online destination for movie fans that once had ambitious plans to deliver f ...
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2005-10-24 - Webisodes return, now as advertising
By: iNext
The Wyndales are a typical American sitcom family. Dad is a dolt, and his college-age rock musician son writ ...
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2005-10-23 - Possible cover-up a focus in CIA leak case: lawyers
By: iMark
Prosecutors investigating the outing of a covert CIA operative opened a Web site on Friday to post possible ...
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2005-10-23 - Legal online ticket portal set up for 2006 World Cup
By: iMark
Football's world ruling body FIFA and the 2006 World Cup organizing committee have agreed to set up an inter ...
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2005-10-22 - Google's 3Q Profit Seven Times Higher
By: iMark
SAN FRANCISCO - When Google Inc. commanded $85 per share in its August 2004 initial public offering, the pro ...
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2005-10-22 - Interior Wants Computer Shutdown Reprieve
By: iNext
WASHINGTON - The Interior Department won a reprieve Friday from a judge's order to disconnect from the Inter ...
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2005-10-22 - USA Today's Top 25 US Bestsellers
By: inet
The top 25 U.S. bestsellers, based on sales through Sunday, October 16, as reported by USA Today (Britney Spears says posted baby photos were stolen
By: inet
Pictures of Britney Spears and her infant son surfaced on the Internet on Friday, but the singer said they w ...
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2005-10-21 - PayPal customer records sought in tax evasion probe
By: iTech
The Internal Revenue Service has asked a San Jose federal judge for access to eBay's PayPal customer records ...
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2005-10-21 - SBC sees little threat from Skype, Net calling
By: iTech
SBC Communications Inc. sees little challenge to its traditional telephone business from services such as Sk ...
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2005-10-21 - Publishers become retailers by selling online
By: iTech
Major book publishers have quietly begun selling directly to customers over the Internet, in a move that cou ...
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2005-10-20 - U.S. court orders music site to change its tune
By: iTech
A U.S. court has ordered a Web site that bills itself as " Napster's Number One Replacement Software" ...
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2005-10-20 - Blogs take giant step toward mainstream
By: iTech
Internet "blogs" get a boost from the big search engines, which make the personal journals more accessible a ...
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2005-10-20 - Record Revenues Drive Jump in E-Trade
By: inet
NEW YORK - Profits at online financial services company E-Trade Financial Corp. climbed more than 35 percent ...
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2005-10-20 - Google Mapping Service in Age-Old Dispute
By: inet
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s popular online mapping service has become entangled in a long-running territor ...
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2005-10-20 - Publishers sue Google over copyright dispute
By: inet
Five major publishers filed suit against Google Inc. on Wednesday, seeking to block plans to scan copyrighte ...
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2005-10-20 - Rivals Taobao, eBay clash on whether free is best
By: iTech
What's the better deal? Is free always better than cheap?
The two le ...
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2005-10-20 - Netflix to delay launch of online download service
By: inet
Netflix Inc. will postpone a test launch of its online movie download service indefinitely because of problems obtaining ...
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2005-10-20 - Voice phone calls to be free within years: eBay CEO
By: inet
In a few short years, users can expect to make telephone calls for free, with no per-minute charges, as part ...
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2005-10-20 - EBay's profit soars, but stock declines 5.7%
By: iTech
Online trading company eBay on Wednesday reported another strong quarter, with profit surging 40 percent, bu ...
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2005-10-19 - Blogs flesh out hit CBS shows
By: iTech
CBS.com is bringing viewers into the blog universe as a new way of giving its audience insider information a ...
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2005-10-19 - UltraDNS unveils shield for Internet attacks
By: inet
UltraDNS introduced an Internet security shield on Tuesday that the company said would help thwart denial of ...
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2005-10-19 - U.S. Online Consumers More Guarded Than Europeans
By: iTech
Consumers in Europe and the United States are spending more online than ever. But Americans are more worried ...
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2005-10-19 - EBay stops bird flu drug auction
By: iTech
Internet auction site eBay pulled the sale of Roche Holding AG's flu drug Tamiflu from its Web site on Tuesd ...
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2005-10-19 - Online advertising growth adds to Yahoo's profit
By: inet
Yahoo's dominance in the online advertising industry continued to pay dividends as the Sunnyvale company Tue ...
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2005-10-19 - Feds Want Banks to Strengthen Web Log-Ons
By: iTech
BOSTON - Federal regulators will require banks to strengthen security for Internet customers through authent ...
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2005-10-18 - N.Y. Spammer Sentenced in Closed Session
By: iTech
A New York man was sentenced Monday for sending more than 9 million spam advertisements in online instant me ...
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2005-10-18 - Yahoo, BellSouth Sell High-Speed Access
By: inet
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. and BellSouth Corp. are joining forces to sell high-speed Internet access, the la ...
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2005-10-18 - VeriSign acquires Moreover Technologies for $30 m
By: inet
VeriSign Inc. said on Monday it has acquired Moreover Technologies, a Web-based distributor of news and onli ...
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2005-10-17 - Skype sees Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL as main threats
By: iTech
Internet phone-calling phenomenon Skype, which was bought by online auction company eBay Inc. for almost $4 ...
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2005-10-17 - Goldman says Internet is back, but with provisos
By: iTech
The market for Internet companies to go public is back, the managing director of Goldman Sachs' high-tech gr ...
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2005-10-17 - AOL swings from dying relic to coveted partner
By: inet
At a recent industry conference in San Francisco, America Online CEO Jonathan Miller called his company the ...
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2005-10-17 - TBS' broadband GameTap service hits play
By: iTech
GameTap, Turner Broadcasting System's broadband-only video game entertainment network, will offer 300 games ...
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2005-10-16 - Locked Out Of Prime Sites, Clients Try New Avenues
By: inet
While increased Web advertising is causing inventory shortages in a few key categories, such as online video ...
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2005-10-16 - DeLay Uses Web Site to Attack Prosecutor
By: iTech
WASHINGTON - Stung by his recent indictment in Texas, Tom Delay is trying to turn his legal woes into a fina ...
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2005-10-15 - "Internet Spam Gang" Hit With $37 Million Fine
By: iTech
The Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General is looking for Leo Kuveyev, the leader of the "Internet Spa ...
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2005-10-15 - Japan's broadcaster faces fresh buyout pressure
By: iTech
TOKYO (AFP) - Major Japanese broadcaster TBS, already studying a merger offer from the country's top online ...
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2005-10-15 - Google To Host Home-Video Uploads
By: inet
-- Move over blogging -- here comes Internet-based home video, to a Google server near you. ...
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2005-10-15 - A GamePad Preview
By: inet
GamePad won't launch for another few weeks, but the new gaming service is up and running on the show floor a ...
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2005-10-15 - EBay completes acquisition of Skype
By: iTech
Internet auction giant eBay on announced the completion of its acquisition of online telecom company Skype f ...
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2005-10-15 - Hollywood Calls for Cut of Video IPod Pie
By: iTech
In a show of unity, five unions representing actors, writers and directors issued a joint call for talks to ...
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2005-10-15 - Broadband Subscriber Growth Slows
By: inet
Broadband subscriber growth started to slow in 2005, according to a new study from Kagan Research.
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2005-10-14 - Myanmar Uses Filters for Private Intranet
By: inet
NEW YORK - Myanmar uses Internet software filters from a U.S. company to essentially create a private intran ...
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2005-10-14 - U.S. online travel agencies look abroad for growth
By: iTech
U.S. online travel agencies like Expedia and Orbitz are increasingly setting their sights overseas, especial ...
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2005-10-14 - U.S. Gains in Fight Against Spam
By: iTech
The majority of Internet spam still is coming from the U.S., but the country is making headway in fighting m ...
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2005-10-14 - MTV acquires IFILM to expand Web presence
By: iTech
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - MTV Networks on Thursday said it acquired IFILM, an Internet provider of short films ...
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2005-10-14 - Portal Strategy Is Key to Interest in AOL
By: inet
NEW YORK - A year ago, America Online Inc. was seen as an ailing dinosaur of the dial-up era, its Internet a ...
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2005-10-13 - EU introduces single online music sales license
By: iTech
Companies that want to sell music online in the European Union can now get a single license to operate in al ...
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2005-10-13 - Disney offers next-day iTune downloads
By: iTech
ABC's unprecedented plan to offer next-day downloads of its biggest prime-time hits for $1.99 per episode vi ...
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2005-10-13 - Japan to Offer VoIP for Cell Phones
By: inet
TOKYO - Japan is readying a new network for cell phones that will allow people to connect to the Internet to ...
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2005-10-13 - Comcast, Google Said in Talks Over AOL
By: inet
Google Inc. and Comcast Corp. are talking with Time Warner Inc. about acquiring ownership stakes in America ...
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2005-10-12 - BBC seeks funding boost for new digital services
By: iTech
The BBC, Britain's publicly funded broadcaster, said on Tuesday it wants more than 1.6 billion pounds ($2.8 ...
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2005-10-12 - Yahoo is betting podcasts will sizzle
By: inet
A year ago, few Internet users had ever heard the word ``podcast,'' let alone listened to one.
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2005-10-12 - Google Commits Funds to Philanthropic Arm
By: iTech
Google Inc. is financing its promise to make the world a better place with an initial commitment of nearly $ ...
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2005-10-11 - AT&T to double Internet capacity
By: iTech
AT&T said Tuesday that it will open a San Jose data center to double its Bay Area capacity for handling ...
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2005-10-11 - EBay's PayPal to buy VeriSign unit for $370 mln
By: iTech
EBay Inc. will buy VeriSign's payment processing business for $370 million and merge it with its PayPal unit ...
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2005-10-11 - Yahoo Adds Blogs to Its News Section
By: inet
Yahoo Inc. online news search tool on Monday added Internet journal entries as a supplement to professional ...
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2005-10-11 - NTT DoCoMo, Rakuten to tie up in online auction business
By: iTech
Japan's top mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo and Internet commerce giant Rakuten said they have formed an al ...
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2005-10-10 - 2 search engines, 2 different outcomes
By: iTech
Wall Street has narrated a strange tale of two search engines: One was the best of stocks and the other, the ...
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2005-10-10 - Britney Spears Cancels Auction of Bra
By: inet
Britney Spears' jewel-encrusted bra has been taken down from eBay, but this time, it's Spears who made the d ...
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2005-10-10 - Yahoo accused of raiding workers
By: inet
Nuance Communications, a Menlo Park maker of speech-recognition software, has sued Yahoo for unfair competit ...
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2005-10-10 - Google streams sitcom premiere
By: iTech
Google unveiled its first significant partnership with a television network Monday, a deal that allows it to ...
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2005-10-10 - Yahoo to Introduce Tools for Podcasts
By: inet
SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to tune into the latest craze in digital media, Yahoo Inc. is introducing tools for f ...
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2005-10-08 - VeriSign Acquires Weblogs.com for $2.3M
By: inet
Internet services company VeriSign Inc. said Friday it has acquired Weblogs.com, a service ...
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2005-10-08 - Blog subscribers seek out small universe of sites
By: inet
The Web publishing phenomenon known as the blogsphere has millions of sites but only a small number gain sig ...
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2005-10-08 - Top Three Portals Account For 80 Percent Of Online Searches In August
By: iTech
The total number of online searches in August top 5 billion, with the leading three Web portals accounting f ...
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2005-10-08 - Retailers Improve Image Online
By: iTech
Retailers overall are doing a slightly better job at treating their customers online, compared to six months ...
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2005-10-06 - Internet gaming -- not a bubble waiting to burst
By: iTech
Last week's jittery flotation of Internet casino 888 highlighted the fraught nerves of investors who fear th ...
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2005-10-06 - Ikanos launches public offering
By: iTech
Ikanos Communications in Fremont went public Thursday on the promise of rising sales of its semiconductor ch ...
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2005-10-06 - Study: 32 Percent of Adults Offline
By: iTech
NEW YORK - Despite progress getting Americans online — particularly through high-speed connections ...
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2005-10-06 - AOL to buy Weblogs Inc. network for $25 mln-source
By: inet
America Online Inc. has agreed to buy Weblogs Inc. -- a network of Internet diaries focused on niche topics ...
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2005-10-06 - Google Localizes Online Maps Service
By: iTech
Google Inc. is combining its popular online maps with its local search features, continuing a quest to incre ...
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2005-10-06 - Video Game Addicts Concern S.Korean Gov't
By: inet
SEOUL, South Korea - Jun Mung-gyu remembers the throbbing pain in his head and shoulder aches from spending ...
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2005-10-05 - Google and Sun to challenge Microsoft's Office
By: iTech
Google, the most-used Internet search engine, and Sun Microsystems said Tuesday that they would jointly promote Sun's wo ...
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2005-10-05 - Online Lawsuits Fuel Debate in France
By: inet
PARIS - Attorney Jean-Marc Goldnadel knew he was going to make waves when he launched classaction.fr — ...
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2005-10-05 - Mercury Interactive sees revenue down
By: iTech
Software maker Mercury Interactive Corp. (Nasdaq:MERQE - news) said on Tuesday it expects third-quarter reve ...
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2005-10-05 - Yahoo Inc. Acquires Upcoming.org
By: iTech
Yahoo Inc. has acquired Upcoming.org, an online event planning site that's expected to infuse the Internet p ...
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2005-10-05 - Finnish "Star Trek" spoof prospers on Internet
By: iTech
A Finnish spoof of the sci-fi classic "Star Trek" has boldly gone where no feature film has gone before, rel ...
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2005-10-04 - Yahoo takes on rival Google with controversial digital library plan
By: iTech
US Internet giant Yahoo! Inc. unveiled plans to take on its arch-rival Google by launching an ambitious digi ...
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2005-10-04 - Sun, Google Form Alliance
By: iTech
Sun Microsystems and Google will unveil a new software-based relationship this week.
Scott McN ...
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2005-10-04 - Travel Industry Gets New Online Domain
By: inet
A new online domain for the travel industry is open for business. Airlines, theme parks, restaurants, touris ...
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2005-10-04 - China Shuts Down Web Sites in Crackdown
By: inet
Chinese authorities have shut down an online discussion forum that reported on anti-corruption protests in a ...
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2005-10-04 - WiFi competition in S.F.
By: iTech
Google may have the cachet, but it faces nearly two dozen competitors -- some of them serious players in the ...
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2005-10-03 - Google Morphs Into Multifaceted Juggernaut
By: inet
In just seven years, Google Inc. has morphed from a bare-bones online search engine into a technological oct ...
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2005-10-03 - Yahoo-Backed Alliance to Open Web Library
By: iTech
Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. is setting out to build a vast online library of copyrighted books that pleas ...
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2005-10-03 - What's Google's Next Move?
By: iTech
In just seven years, Google Inc. has morphed from a bare-bones online search engine into a technological oct ...
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