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  • News: Vista users face wait for drivers

    Despite Microsoft's claim that Vista supports 30,000 devices, many components such as video cards, input devices or printers that work fine on XP don't work on Vista, according to Gartner analyst Michael Silver.

  • News: iPhone legal wrange continues

    Apple and Cisco have pushed back a deadline in their legal battle over the iPhone in order to keep working toward a settlement.

  • News: ID fraud down, except credit cards

    Despite widespread media coverage of data breaches over the past year, identity fraud is actually dropping in the US, Javelin Strategy & Research reported yesterday.

  • News: 30% of US internet users tag online

    Tagging, the emblematic activity of the "Web 2.0" and social computing era, appears destined for mainstream status, a new study concludes.

  • News: Vista hole opens door to 'shout hacks'

    Word spreads about a flaw that could allow remote attackers to take advantage of the new operating system's speech-recognition feature.

  • News: Porn goes Blu-ray

    Vivid Entertainment Group will become the first porn maker to put out a movie in Blu-ray Disc when it releases "Debbie Does Dallas...Again" in late March, but it's being secretive about who is helping it make copies of the discs.

  • News: Microsoft opens up Word to third parties

    Third-party companies have completed the first phase of a Microsoft-sponsored project to create software that can convert Microsoft Word documents between Open XML and Open Document Format for Office Applications file formats.

  • News: YouTube execs head to Japan

    Top executives from YouTube are due in Tokyo next week for talks with some of Japan's largest video content producers over copyrighted material available on the popular site.

  • News: Blu-ray test centre opens in Hollywood

    Panasonic will open a testing laboratory for Blu-ray Disc content in Hollywood today.

  • News: Storm hoax is top net threat

    Sophos has released its top ten chart of malware threats and email hoaxes. Dorf malware was the worst offender accounting for almost 50 percent of all malware seen during January, with Netsky coming in second place with 16.1% and Mytob in third with 9.8%.

  • News: iTunes TV coming to Europe

    Apple is to extend its platform for video sales in Europe.

  • News: PC stores hit new lows

    A customer satisfaction survey by the Consumers Association's Which? magazine has found that both PC World and Currys rank in the bottom ten stores.

  • Opinion: Printer in your pocket

    I'm in Palm Desert, California for the Demo show (run by a sister company of PC Advisor), and one of the first items unveiled here certainly fulfills Demo's mission of being a launchpad for truly innovative new products. It's a photo-printing technology that allows for truly pocket-sized printers - or even printers built into digital cameras - and which doesn't use ink.

  • Opinion: Vista arrives, coming ready or not

    It's just a few of days after the launch of Vista. I'd like to say that it's been a non-stop party - that I have no memory of Wednesday and simply woke up on Thursday in a motel bed filled with Brazilian women and day-old booze, my teeth fuzzy, a new tattoo on a personal body part, and a head that feels like it was buried under a stadium and then dug up with a jackhammer -- but I'd be lying.

  • News: BT spends £100m on US firm

    BT plans to extend its enterprise services offering in the US with the acquisition of International Network Services.

  • News: BBC on-demand given go ahead

    Top TV shows including Doctor Who will be available on-demand later this year, after the BBC wins approval for its new iPlayer service

  • News: Vista security is insufficent

    Kaspersky is the latest security firm to defend the importance of third-party security apps to work with Windows Vista, claiming that Vista’s new security features are unlikely to deliver long-term robust protection.

  • News: IBM reveals 'next five' IT breakthroughs

    Real-time language translation, medical monitoring via the mobile web and nanotechnology to purify water are some of the innovations IBM Labs thinks will be on the market within five years.

  • News: Microsoft's Zune boss quits

    A Microsoft executive who helped develop the company's new Zune music player and other products is leaving the company.

  • News: Google's profits triple

    Google beat Wall Street's expectations for its fourth quarter, which ended 31 December, 2006, as the company continued to sell search engine advertising much faster than its biggest rivals.