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• 26 June 2006

• News: The battle of the spam

  A French-based Englishman, John Graham-Cumming, is about 666,666 clicks away from creating a weapon to kill spam for good.

• News: Microsoft dives into voice communications

  After years of dipping its toe in the waters of unified voice and data communications, Microsoft is ready to dive in head first.

• News: MessageLabs security services upgraded

  MessageLabs launched the latest version of its hosted web security services today, with an emphasis on speed and improved threat detection.

• News: Greener computers are what we want

  A survey has revealed that consumers would be prepared to pay higher prices for their PCs if the systems were more environmentally friendly.

• News: $30.7bn pledge made to Gates Foundation

  Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates may never see a more generous donation to the foundation run by his wife and hisself.

• News: Blu-ray starting to edge ahead of HD-DVD

  Sony chairman and CEO Howard Stringer today stated that the greater storage capacity of the Blu-ray Disc format is giving it an edge over HD-DVD.

• 25 June 2006

• News: HDTV kicks off World Cup games

  The World Cup tournament underway in Germany is history in the making, not only for the teams competing for the trophy but also for the engineers covering the event in HDTV format.

• 23 June 2006

• News: Computers could be 500 times faster

  A pack of European researchers are working to develop silicon chips that forego wires for carrying electric currents, an advance they say could lead to computers that run up to 500 times faster than today's models.

• News: WGA Notification 'spyware' can be killed off

  Microsoft's battle against software counterfeiting has been controversial at the best of times.

• News: FTC laptops containing personal data stolen

  The US Federal Trade Commission will shortly notify 110 people that two laptop computers containing their personal data were stolen from a locked vehicle.

• News: Vista to be aggressively promoted at Xmas

  Microsoft said yesterday that it will run promotions for Windows Vista to tie in with the Christmas shopping season in November and December.

• News: Rich-media ads to be tested on Google Video

  A public test to show display and video ads on Google Video, another step in the search giant's exploration of graphical ads in its own services, will be launched soon, according to internal sources.

• 22 June 2006

• News: Mio says more the merrier with latest GPS models

  Watch out - the Belgians are coming and they’re on a mission to keep us Brits on the straight and narrow.

• News: iTunes TV downloads now possible

  If Apple wishes to make a move to offer films and TV programs through its iTunes service in the UK then the door has been left wide open for it.

• News: Steganos launches Internet Anonym VPN

  Mobile workers and even private individuals will be able to take advantage of VPN security thanks to a service launched by Steganos.

• News: Yet another Excel attack posted

  On Tuesday, a hacker published code that takes advantage of an unpatched flaw in the Microsoft spreadsheet software, the third such exploit to be disclosed in the past week.

• News: Google's toolbar to be spread by Adobe

  Adobe will distribute Google's browser toolbar with some of its products, it announced yesterday.

• News: Wi-Fi driver used to hack laptop

  A way of seizing control of a laptop by exploiting flawed code in the system's wireless device driver has been discovered by security researchers.

• News: First HD-DVD recorder hits Japan in July

  Toshiba announced today that it will launch the first HD-DVD recorder in Japan next month.

• 21 June 2006

• News: Top Microsoft man quits suddenly

  Martin Taylor, best known for his role in leading Microsoft's anti-Linux 'Get the Facts' campaign, has abruptly left the company, Microsoft confirmed yesterday.

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