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  • 21 April 2006

  • News: HP recalls 15,700 laptop batteries

    HP is recalling 15,700 laptop batteries after reports that they overheated, causing minor property damage and, in one instance, a minor burn injury, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said yesterday.

  • News: Jury orders MS and Autodesk to pay up

    A jury in Texas on Wednesday awarded z4 Technologies. $115m (about £65m) from Microsoft and $18m (£10m) from Autodesk to settle a patent-infringment suit filed in September 2004.

  • News: Google tests updated results page

    Google is testing a different page format for its general web search results that lets users significantly expand the content provided below website links.

  • News: Panasonic to launch Blu-ray drive in June

    Panasonic plans to begin selling a Blu-ray Disc drive in Japan in June for use in desktop computers, the company said today.

  • Opinion: Mac or PC?

    climberdan asks: my wife and I are planning to get a new computer. She wants a Mac, but I think this has more to do with how they look than anything else. I have always been a PC user and although traditionally I understand Macs have been pretty safe from viruses etc, I’ve heard recently that they too are now becoming more susceptible to attack. Which in your opinion would be safer?

  • 20 April 2006

  • News: China heading for top spam spot

    The US is still the top spam-relaying country, but its share of the global bane continues to drop, security vendor Sophos has reported in its latest statistics.

  • News: AMD plans antihyperthreading

    What's better than two processors? Normally the answer might be four processors but, according to a leak from AMD France, the processor maker is instead working on a multicore CPU that acts like one CPU.

  • News: LCD screen prices falling

    A string of new factories being built, combined with slow demand for notebook and desktop PC screens, caused LCD prices to fall during the first three months of the year.

  • Opinion: A view of Vista

    Microsoft has delayed Vista until January 07 – but while that seems like bad news, it gives you more time to prepare and Microsoft more time to polish its new arrival.

  • News: Opera releases public beta of latest browser

    Opera released the first public beta of Opera 9.0 today, giving users the go ahead to put its latest web browser through its paces.

  • News: Panasonic to sell 103in PDP TV this year

    Panasonic will sell a flat-panel TV with a 103in screen by the end of the year, the company said yesterday.

  • News: Yahoo helps arrest another Chinese dissident

    A media rights group has identified a third dissident who the Chinese government arrested based on information apparently supplied by a Yahoo subsidiary.

  • News: PC growth strong in Q1, analysts say

    Worldwide PC unit shipments worldwide grew strongly in the first quarter, research companies Gartner and IDC reported yesterday.

  • News: Alpha brand name for Sony's digital SLR cameras

    Sony will use the Alpha brand name for its range of digital single lens reflex cameras that are due to launch from the middle of this year, it said today.

  • News: Yahoo mulls Wi-Fi access for IM users

    Yahoo is considering giving users of Yahoo Messenger free access to tens of thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide so they can engage in instant messaging, including voice communications, while unplugged from their regular home or office internet connection.

  • News: Fujitsu announces four laptops

    Fujitsu announced four laptops this week, all powered by chips from Intel and all designed for business users.

  • News: Cross-platform virus prompts Linux fix

    The hacker who created a widely reported cross-platform virus that could affect both Windows and Linux PCs may have inadvertently done some free bug testing for the Linux operating system.

  • 19 April 2006

  • News: Apple iPhone 'logical and inevitable'

    The release of an Apple-branded iPod mobile phone is "logical and inevitable", according to analysts at Visiongain.

  • News: Samsung develops 2GB phone memory card

    Samsung said today it has developed a tiny, 2GB memory card for use in mobile phones, just three months after it announced a card with half of that capacity.

  • News: Google upgrades business search tools

    Google plans to revamp its enterprise search devices today when it announces an updated version of Google Mini for small and medium-sized businesses and an upgrade to its Search Appliance for larger organisations.

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