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• 16 March 2006

• News: Windows XP now boots on Intel Macs?

  Developers have taken less than a month to make it possible to run Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac.

• 15 March 2006

• News: Microsoft asks for public antitrust hearing

  Microsoft said yesterday that it has asked for a public hearing to present arguments that it is complying with the European Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling.

• 14 March 2006

• News: Workers duped by simple CD ruse

  To office workers trudging to their desks, the promotion looked like a chance at sweet relief from the nine-to-five grind.

• News: Apple exec plays down threats

  There has been much discussion recently about how secure Mac OS X really is and how much Mac users have to be concerned about security.

• News: McAfee antivirus update wreaks havoc

  A faulty antivirus update from McAfee that mistakenly identified hundreds of programs as a Windows virus has resulted in some companies accidentally deleting significant amounts of data.

• 13 March 2006

• News: Warnings over serious Apple flaws

  Security company eEye has warned of two serious bugs in Apple media software, putting both Windows and Mac OS X systems at risk.

• News: Acer joins group making 3G laptops for Vodafone

  Acer has built two notebook computers that can connect to the internet and download data using 3G mobile networks.

• News: USB drives find a world of uses

  A USB memory stick that doubles as a portable VoIP phone and a 16GB personal storage device the size of a credit card were just two of the devices shown off at CeBit that combine flash memory and USB in interesting ways.

• 11 March 2006

• News: EU hits back at Microsoft antitrust complaints

  Facing accusations by Microsoft that it has colluded with the company's rivals in its ongoing antitrust case, the European Commission has hit back.

• 10 March 2006

• News: Blu-ray backer LG preparing HD-DVD drive

  LG, one of the main backers of the Blu-ray Disc format, has started working on a player for the rival HD-DVD format.

• News: Samsung shows flash-based laptop

  Samsung has developed a higher-capacity version of its solid-state disk, a flash-memory based replacement for hard-disk drives.

• News: NEC demonstrates HD-DVD-R burning

  NEC is demonstrating at the CeBit trade show in Germany this week a recently developed optical disc drive that can write to HD-DVD media.

• News: MSI displays solar-powered laptop and MP3 player

  MSI is showing off a laptop and an MP3 player at CeBit that use on-board solar panels to recharge and extend battery life.

• News: Apple dispels dual-boot MacTel rumours

  Intel Macs are "unlikely" to be able to run Windows Vista, Apple said yesterday.

• News: AMD to launch more CPUs by mid-year

  AMD plans to launch its first desktop and laptop processors that support DDR2 memory chips by the middle of the year.

• News: Market ripe for Origami device, creator says

  Now that Microsoft has officially unveiled its Origami project, the big question is what sort of market acceptance will greet devices based on the ultramobile platform.

• News: Microsoft to issue one critical update

  In its monthly patch release next Tuesday, Microsoft will issue one critical security bulletin concerning the Office suite and one bulletin on Windows that is rated important.

• 09 March 2006

• News: Sony to launch Blu-ray Vaio PCs in mid-year

  Sony is planning to launch desktop and laptop PCs with Blu-ray Disc drives in the middle of this year, an executive said at the CeBit trade show in Hannover today.

• News: Intel, Microsoft team up on ultramobile PC

  Intel and Microsoft today announced the first three devices developed around the new ultramobile PC form factor they teamed up to develop over a year ago, in a project code-named Origami.

• News: Intel, AMD stumble toward the living room

  Leaders at Intel and AMD are racing to deliver platforms by mid-2006 that allow consumers to share digital media between disparate devices throughout the house.

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