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  • News: Apple ships Core 2 Duo MacBooks

    Apple has upgraded its range of MacBooks with Intel Core 2 Duo processors, with the new configurations immediately available across all sales channels.

  • News: Vista delay causes motherboard pile-up

    Sales of motherboards used in desktop PCs continue to decline ahead of the launch of Windows Vista OS, a sign that could foretell bargains for users in coming months

  • News: Google hits users with malicious worm

    Google accidentally sent out email containing a mass mailing worm to about 50,000 members of a discussion list focused on its Google Video Blog

  • News: AOL wanted to buy YouTube

    AOL has revealed that it wanted to buy YouTube, but couldn't match Google's $1.6bn valuation of the video-sharing phenomenon

  • News: Image spam doubles 'email tax'

    Spam levels have spiked over the past month – some say as much as 80 percent – with a new breed of email nuisance credited with the upsurge

  • News: Sony plans PlayStation 3 update

    Sony will offer the first software update for the PlayStation 3 on Saturday to coincide with the release of the console in Japan

  • News: Windows Vista code released

    Microsoft finally completed work on its Vista client operating system yesterday, and plans to release the code to corporate users this month

  • News: Date set for end of Firefox 1.5

    Users of Firefox 1.5 should plan to upgrade their browser by 24 April next year at the very latest, according to Mozilla

  • News: Microsoft to combine Vista with VoIP

    Microsoft is going to ramp up its efforts to supply voice over IP services at the beginning of 2007, with a communications feature in Windows Vista

  • Opinion: Wish hunt

    "Ok guys, this truly is freaky, the phone literally rang as soon as I read the last word of this email!!!!!"

  • News: Sharp rise for online banking fraud

    UK banks reported a 55 percent increase in losses from fraudulent online transactions for the first half of the year, mostly from phishing scams, according to an industry trade group.

  • News: Skype 3.0 beta coming today

    Skype is preparing an upgrade of its free communications software that can automatically detect phone numbers in web pages and initiate calls.

  • Opinion: Does this mean I have to buy security software?

    Here's a dirty secret. I work for PC Advisor, and I own a Mac. Actually, I have a PC too. I may struggle with the luxuries (nice clothes, good food, a roof…) but I've got two computers. And some time ago I unhooked the PC from the web, choosing to use only my Mac to surf. Why? Instant freedom from malware and the constant effort to keep net nasties off my system. But such days are long gone.

  • News: IEEE plans safer laptop batteries

    The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) plans to revise its standard for laptop battery production. The organisation - globally recognised as a standards-setting body - is doing so to "further safeguard the reliability" of batteries used in laptop computers.

  • News: Intel joins Web 2.0 revolution

    Intel is spearheading the assembly of a software suite that includes blogging, wiki and content syndication software, in yet another sign that Web 2.0 technologies are finding their way from the consumer space into workplace.

  • News: Skype targets businesses

    After winning over millions of consumers to its largely free internet telephony service, Skype is preparing to go after businesses eager to reduce their communication costs.

  • News: Yahoo tests mobile banner ads

    After US mobile subscribers have paid their carriers for data plans, advertisers on Yahoo mobile services this week will start trying to sell them other things.

  • News: Google CEO: take your data and run

    Google wants to make the information it stores for its users easily portable so they can export it to a competing service if they are dissatisfied.

  • News: NY Times expands citizen journalism

    The New York Times plans to add capabilities to the website of its flagship newspaper so that readers can submit more content to it, like photos and reports from the field.

  • News: E-voting glitches are a 'national disgrace'

    Technology glitches hamper US mid-term elections, with "significant" incidents of votes being incorrectly recorded