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• 20 June 2006

• News: German (robots) win the World Cup

  The RoboCup 2006 championship in Bremen ended on Sunday with Germany winning 11 of the 33 robot football categories.

• News: Microsoft enters the robotics market

  Microsoft released the preview version of a software toolkit for building robot applications today, pledging to ignite the robot market in the same way it did the PC market some 20 years ago.

• News: Broadband operator Be bought by O2

  O2 became the third UK mobile operator in the last month to branch out into fixed-line broadband services, with an announcement today that it has bought broadband operator Be.

• News: Windows Live Messenger rolls out

  Windows Live Messenger, the next-generation version of Microsoft's instant-messaging service for consumers, is available to download.

• News: Yahoo Messenger opened up for developers

  Yahoo's IM network is being opened up to external developers so they can create more applications to improve its functionality.

• News: Secret Google data centre near completion

  On the banks of the Columbia river in Oregon, Google is about to complete work on a data centre. But what exactly the project is all about is proving difficult to fathom.

• News: Chinese film industry suffers from piracy

  Sixty-one percent of film producers, exhibitors and distributors surveyed in China believe that piracy will increase, according to a study announced by the Motion Picture Association yesterday.

• News: EC to continue sharing passenger data with US

  After Europe's highest court overturned a European Union agreement to share passenger data with American authorities, the European Commission has proposed a law that does much the same as the one that was annulled.

• News: Protect yourself from the Excel bug

  Microsoft yesterday offered users advice on how to protect themselves from the critical bug in Excel.

• 19 June 2006

• News: Origami feedback mixed, says Samsung

  Citing a mixture of reactions from customers who bought its Q1 device, Samsung has said that the pre-launch teaser campaign run by Microsoft about the Origami project may have been misleading.

• Opinion: Bill Gates' letter to the troops

  Bink.nu has a copy of an email Bill Gates sent to his employees about his transition.

• Opinion: Scariest USB drive… ever

  Why is teddy stuck in the PC, mommy?

• News: Google Pages used to host Trojan

  Google's hosting service, Google Pages, is being used by hackers attempting to steal money using a malicious program, according to security vendor Websense.

• News: 'Ethical hacking' degree offered

  A Scottish university is to offer a degree in 'ethical hacking'.

• News: Nokia and Siemens to merge some operations

  Nokia and Siemens will merge their telecoms infrastructure units to form Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture with estimated annual revenues of €15.8bn for 2005, the two companies announced today.

• News: Microsoft to challenge iPod and iTunes?

  A music and video service, as well as a media player, is being developed by Microsoft to compete with Apple's iPod and iTunes, according to Reuters.

• News: Tough network challenges tackled by Fifa

  Fans of the Olympics might argue that the football World Cup is not the single biggest sporting event in the world. Even more contentious is the assertion that the tournament is the home to the world's biggest communications network for a single event.

• News: McAfee Falcon takes flight

  McAfee has released a beta version of its next-generation antivirus software, codenamed Falcon.

• News: BuysUSA.com operator faces jail

  BuysUSA.com's owner has pleaded guilty to selling pirated software worth nearly $20m through the mail, the US Department of Justice said on Friday.

• 18 June 2006

• News: Clever ideas accompany clever players

  Germany is using the World Cup games to show that the country hasn't only produced some great players such as the iconic Franz Beckenbauer, but also some brilliant minds including Albert Einstein.

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