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  • 16 December 2005

  • News: On Dasher!

    Just in time for the festive season, a worm called Dasher has hit the internet. The malicious software, which primarily targets Windows 2000 systems, is one of three new attacks targeting Microsoft's software that has emerged in the last 24 hours. Two other recently posted attacks can crash or slow down the Internet Explorer browser.

  • News: Xbox 360 Japan launch sales estimated at 44,000

    Microsoft's Xbox 360 console sold just under 44,000 units in its first two days on sale in Japan, a market research company said today.

  • News: Visto sues Microsoft over wireless email patents

    Visto has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of improper use of patented Visto technologies in Microsoft's software for accessing email from phones and other wireless devices.

  • News: Orange to launch Wi-Fi in UK

    Orange plans to launch a Wi-Fi service in the UK on Monday, the company announced yesterday. It also said it will deliver a unified mobile data and Wi-Fi service in the UK, modelled on an existing service offered by the firm in France, starting in January.

  • 15 December 2005

  • News: Google tunes up music searches

    With a revamp of its web search engine announced on Thursday, Google is aiming to make it easier for users to find music-related content such as lyrics and track listings. But the firm is pushing into an area that has been raising eyebrows among record labels.

  • News: Kazaa owners face contempt charges in Australia

    Executives of Sharman Networks, operator of the Kazaa peer-to-peer filesharing system, could face jail time after record companies asked an Australian judge to find them in contempt of court, saying Sharman has failed to implement certain filtering technologies by a court-ordered early-December deadline.

  • News: Xbox team to play bigger role at Microsoft

    Microsoft plans to restructure its entertainment division and hand more control over its strategy in this area to executives that oversaw the development and launch of the Xbox 360 game console, The Wall Street Journal reported today.

  • News: Adobe launches monthly security patch

    Adobe is taking a leaf out of Microsoft's book. Next year, the Californian company will begin releasing security patches on a predictable, monthly basis, much as Microsoft has been doing since October 2003.

  • News: Microsoft: one open document standard good, two better

    Microsoft believes a future with more than one open document standard is preferable to a single standard.

  • 14 December 2005

  • Opinion: Who's your villain?

    On 23 February ISPA - that's the Internet Services Providers' Association to you - hosts its seventh annual Internet Industry Awards. There's several awards up for grabs, including the Best Consumer ISP, Best Hosting Provider and Best Streaming Service, to name but a few.

  • Opinion: Searching for Magellan (Behind the news, February 06)

    This column appears in the February 06 issue of PC Advisor, onsale now at all good newsagents.

  • News: Software 'pirate' pleads guilty to charges

    A California man who operated a website selling millions of dollars of pirated software has pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal copyright infringement, the US DoJ (Department of Justice) said.

  • News: EU approves two-year data retention policy

    Telecommunications companies and ISPs face a massive increase in data storage requirements after EU lawmakers voted today to require companies to keep data for up to two years.

  • News: Opera struck by bizarre hidden hole

    A bizarre security bug in the Opera web browser could trick users into running malicious code, security experts have warned. The hole is similar to one discovered in Internet Explorer and patched by Microsoft only yesterday.

  • News: Blogger gets blocked again in China

    Access to Google's free weblog service, Blogger, appears once again to be blocked by official censors in China, less than two months after the service became accessible to users here.

  • News: Quanta to build £59 laptop

    Taiwan's Quanta, the world's largest maker of notebook computers, will manufacture an ultra-low-cost laptop developed by Nicholas Negroponte, the chairman of the MIT's (Massachusetts Institute of Technology's) Media Lab.

  • News: Toshiba hints at HD-DVD delay

    Toshiba will probably delay the commercial launch of its first HD-DVD player because a group in charge of the copy-protection system for the format has yet to complete its work, the company said yesterday.

  • News: Microsoft fixes critical IE problems

    Microsoft has now fixed a widely reported flaw in its Internet Explorer browser that had been used by attackers over the past few weeks to take over the PCs of unsuspecting users.

  • Opinion: Not that I condone this sort of behaviour

    I try my best to live a good and honest life. I don't have any secrets from anyone, and I don't like people to keep secrets from me.

  • 13 December 2005

  • News: Honda debuts latest Asimo robot

    Honda announced the latest Asimo humanoid robot at its plant in Tokyo today. Almost a year to the day that the previous Asimo was shown off, the latest generation is a faster and more capable robot than its predecessor, Honda says.

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