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• 31 January 2006

• News: Red Hat commits to MIT's $100 laptop

  Linux software vendor Red Hat plans to publicly confirm today that it has become a founding corporate member of the One Laptop Per Child organisation.

• 30 January 2006

• News: Digital home market belongs to Apple

  The battle for the digital home isn't taking place. It's already over, and Apple has won.

• News: Gates to unveil strategy for government IT

  This week Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is planning to unveil the company's strategy for the government IT market, an intensely competitive area that has seen open-source software gain a strong foothold.

• News: Windows Vista is finished

  Microsoft has finished development on Windows Vista and expects to ship the product by the end of the year.

• 27 January 2006

• News: Torvalds says no to new open-source licence

  The digital rights management provisions proposed for GPL v3, the new version of the GNU General Public License used by many open-source projects, have earned a thumbs down from Linux kernel developer Linus Torvalds.

• 26 January 2006

• News: Germany cracks down on software pirates

  Providers of illegal downloading services in several European countries are running for cover following a co-ordinated bust earlier in the week.

• News: EU: Microsoft offer may not be enough

  Microsoft's offer to license part of its Windows source code to competitors is "not necessarily enough" to head off €2m in daily fines for the company, an EC spokesman has said.

• News: Intel plans 45-nanometer chips next year

  Intel will enter the next era of Moore's Law in the second half of 2007, with commercial shipment of its first PC processors based on a 45-nanometer manufacturing process, the company said yesterday.

• 25 January 2006

• News: Google, Lenovo, Sun back StopBadware Coalition

  Technology giants Google, Lenovo and Sun are funding a non-profit effort to combat all of the nasty spyware and computer viruses that users don't want installed on their computers.

• News: Microsoft to license code to avoid EU fines

  Microsoft has agreed to license the source code for communications protocols in its Windows server software in a bid to avoid being fined €2m a day by the EC, the company's top lawyer said today.

• News: Beta 2.0 of Windows Vista due in April?

  Microsoft will release the next beta of Windows Vista in April, according to a popular blog that follows the company.

• News: Dell, Vodafone team up on wireless

  Yesterday Dell said it plans to start building laptops that let users access the internet over Vodafone's wireless networks in the UK, France and Germany.

• 24 January 2006

• News: EC grants extension for Microsoft

  Update: the EC has given Microsoft an additional month to comply with a part of its antitrust ruling that requires the firm to provide information allowing competitors' server products to interoperate with its software.

• News: iMac performance claims a fudge

  Steve Jobs' much publicised claim of a two- to three-times speed increase in the new Intel-based iMac is bunkem, according to the latest benchmark tests.

• 23 January 2006

• News: Microsoft to succeed Vista with Vienna

  Microsoft has announced a different codename for the Windows OS that will follow Vista: Vienna.

• News: Microsoft offers small-business resources

  Microsoft will begin an eight-country rollout of a new set of online resources and technical support for its small-business customers today, a company executive said on Friday.

• News: Tokyo Stock Exchange adds trading capacity

  The Tokyo Stock Exchange added capacity to its trading system over the weekend in the hope of avoiding another embarrassing market shutdown in the coming week.

• News: Google, Apple most influential brands

  Google regained its title as the world's most influential brand in 2005, displacing Apple for the second time this decade, according to a poll.

• 22 January 2006

• News: Tokyo Stock Exchange mulls system upgrade

  An increase in trading capacity at the Tokyo Stock Exchange may happen earlier than planned after problems keeping up with volume forced a shutdown earlier this week, the market operator said.

• 21 January 2006

• News: Expert warns of short life for burned CDs

  Opinions vary on how to preserve data on digital storage media, such as optical CDs and DVDs. Kurt Gerecke, a physicist and storage expert at IBM, has his own view.

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