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  • 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.

  • News: Code to exploit second Excel flaw posted

    A second vulnerability in Excel has been discovered after a hacker posted code on the internet that could be used to exploit it.

  • News: NHS defends modernisation program

    The IT chief of the NHS yesterday acknowledged problems with its ambitious 10-year modernisation project, but cited progress in installing next-generation medical IT systems throughout England.

  • 20 June 2006

  • News: Frozen chip runs at 500GHz

    Researchers at IBM have run a silicon-based microprocessor at 500GHz, more than 250 times faster than a typical mobile phone chip.

  • News: Samsung sees strong demand for flat-panel TVs

    Strong demand for slim, big-screen televisions helped in part by this month's World Cup should lead the global flat-panel TV market to greater than anticipated growth this year.

  • 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: 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: 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 17 June 2006

  • News: Opinion: Computex highlights digital evolution

    The Computex show in Taipei used a lot of scantily clad young women as well as pen, mouse-pad, and mini-football giveaways to hype what amounted to incremental improvements in a range of digital devices.

  • 16 June 2006

  • News: Phishing scam uses PayPal secure servers

    A cross-site scripting flaw in the PayPal website allows a phishing attack to masquerade as a genuine PayPal login page with a valid security certificate, according to security researchers.

  • News: Auditors tell NHS to crack whip

    The NHS should terminate and replace contractors if they do not meet deadlines for its massive upgrading of England's healthcare IT systems, a government audit report released today said.

  • News: The wit and wisdom of Bill Gates

    As the personification of both Microsoft and geek success, Bill Gates has had plenty of opportunities to pontificate on a wide range of tech-related topics. Sometimes his insights have proved visionary. Other times, well, not so much.

  • News: Vulnerability found in Microsoft Excel

    A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program, just a few days after the company fixed problems with several of its applications in its monthly patch distribution.

  • News: Blu-ray Disc players, movies nearly here

    Next week, the high-definition video fight for consumers' hearts, minds, and wallets begins in the US.

  • News: Microsoft battles slavery in Asia

    Microsoft is donating $1m to several groups in Asia battling the modern human slave trade, which mainly targets women and children, to curb the trade and highlight the issue.

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