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• 18 August 2006

• News: Few violations found at Chinese iPod factory

  An investigation by Apple into the manufacture of iPods in China has unearthed several violations of the company's supplier code of conduct.

• News: US wiretapping ruled illegal

  A US judge has ruled that a US NSA programme to wiretap telephone and internet traffic of US residents is illegal and must be stopped.

• News: Microsoft adds patches for Vista flaws

  Microsoft has released two patches for its Vista operating system, saying that it too is affected by flaws that were disclosed during the company's 8 August security updates.

• 17 August 2006

• News: ID authentication to be pushed in Vista

  Microsoft chief identity and access architect Kim Cameron believes the inroads Microsoft is making into creating 'trusted identities' through the online identity verification tool in Vista, CardSpace, will solve consumer-level security and identity authentication issues.

• News: Japan and US will share Blu-ray region code

  Blu-ray Disc players and movies expected on sale later this year in Japan and the US will share the same region code, according to a report in a Japanese newspaper.

• News: AMD fails to steal Intel's crown

  AMD launched its Opteron line of processors for workstations and servers this week, but tests show the dual-processor model is still significantly less powerful than Intel's latest Xeon chip.

• 16 August 2006

• News: Microsoft patches Microsoft patch

  Microsoft will update a patch by next Tuesday that's causing a version of Internet Explorer (IE) to suddenly crash.

• News: Sony laptop battery woes not over

  Faulty batteries produced by Sony like those that caused Dell to initiate the biggest recall in consumer electronics history this week could be present in laptops from other companies.

• News: Sony will help pay for Dell recall

  Sony has promised to share the cost of a massive battery recall announced by Dell on Monday after a series of laptops burst into flames.

• News: Dell changes laptop battery supplier

  Simplo has already won orders for around 400,000 laptop PC batteries from Dell amid that company's massive battery recall prompted by fires in several notebooks.

• 15 August 2006

• News: Michael Dell's Australian nightmare

  Unhappy customers have had Dell founder Michael Dell on the back foot since he arrived in Australia this week.

• News: 120GB iPod-ready HDD coming from Seagate

  A 120GB hard drive that's suitable for iPods should be released by Seagate by December this year.

• News: Microsoft blogging tool beta available

  A desktop application from Microsoft, now in beta, lets bloggers see the look of a blog posting before uploading it online.

• News: Lenovo announces Linux-based ThinkPad

  Lenovo announced today the availability of the ThinkPad T60p, its first laptop computer preloaded with the Linux operating system.

• News: AMD launches Rev F Opteron server chip

  AMD today released an updated version of its Opteron processor, the popular server chip that has made the firm a serious competitor of rival Intel.

• News: US state sues movie download service

  The US state of Washington has sued the owners of Movieland.com, alleging that the company used spyware to strong-arm users into signing up for its paid movie download service.

• News: Dell recalls 4.1m 'fire hazard' batteries

  Dell will recall 4.1 million laptop computer batteries because of a potential fire hazard, the company announced yesterday.

• 14 August 2006

• How-Tos: How to organise files and folders

  Start by decluttering. If you've got files strewn all over your desktop, find them a permanent home in an appropriate folder.

• News: OS X Leopard leaks out online

  Copies of the current build of Mac OS X 10.5 – also known as 'Leopard' – have begun to leak on to the web.

• News: Unpatched Windows PCs beware

  Hackers are actively using exploit code to target a flaw in Microsoft's software that generated a special warning from the US government last week.

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