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• 08 March 2006

• News: Toshiba planning HD-DVD notebook for April

  Toshiba is planning to launch its first laptop computer with an HD-DVD drive in Europe in April, the company said yesterday.

• 07 March 2006

• News: PCs 'twice as expensive to maintain as Macs'

  Network World has declared Macs to be half as expensive to run as PCs.

• News: Sony to ship Blu-ray recordable media this month

  Sony Europe's Recording Media and Energy division today announced that its first Blu-ray Disc media will ship in Europe this month.

• 06 March 2006

• News: Microsoft antitrust battle turns bitter

  Microsoft has asked three US courts to force Sun, Oracle, IBM and Novell to produce documents pertaining to the EU's antitrust case against the software vendor.

• 03 March 2006

• News: EU acted 'in a manner detrimental to Microsoft'

  Microsoft yesterday accused the European Commission of actively working with the company's rivals and failing to act as an independent regulator in its ongoing antitrust case against the software giant.

• News: Microsoft offers a few more 'Origami' details

  Despite the buzz being generated by its Origami Project, Microsoft plans to give it only brief mention at the upcoming CeBit trade show.

• 01 March 2006

• News: Mac mini goes Intel

  Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced the availability of an Intel-powered Mac mini, confirming: "50 per cent of our entire product line is now available with Intel processors, in less than sixty days."

• 28 February 2006

• News: Blu-ray Disc player, movies coming on 23 May

  The Blu-ray Disc high-definition optical format will launch in the US on 23 May, when the first player and movies will become available, backers of the format said yesterday.

• 27 February 2006

• News: Microsoft confirms Vista editions after leak

  A week after the information prematurely appeared on the company's website, Microsoft has officially confirmed the editions for Windows Vista.

• 24 February 2006

• News: Former Apple video chief calls for HD boycott

  Mike Evangelist, a former director of video product marketing at Apple, is calling for a boycott of next-generation HD video products.

• 23 February 2006

• News: Skype offers online and prepaid payment methods

  Internet telephone company Skype has signed on three providers of online payment services and will offer scratch cards to make it easier for consumers to pay for its services electronically or in cash, the company said today.

• News: All features in place in latest Vista beta

  Microsoft yesterday released the first feature-complete beta of its Vista client OS, focused on corporate users.

• 22 February 2006

• News: Third worm hits Mac OS X

  Security researchers have confirmed what may be the worst-yet security flaw for Apple's Mac OS X, following the appearance of two Mac worms in a single week.

• News: Epson sues more ink cartridge resellers

  Epson has filed more lawsuits against companies making or selling third-party ink cartridges that it believes infringe upon its intellectual patents.

• News: Fully featured beta of Vista due this week

  Microsoft is expected this week to release another build of its Windows Vista OS, one that should be feature-complete, according to a plan laid out by Jim Allchin, co-president of the firm's platforms, products and services division, in January.

• 21 February 2006

• News: Windows Vista to be available in six flavours

  Over the weekend, Microsoft revealed the six editions into which it plans to package Windows Vista – only to remove the information from its website a day later, and deny that it has yet made a final decision.

• 20 February 2006

• News: Apple systems hit by second worm

  A second Mac security threat has appeared.

• News: Microsoft faces another antitrust suit

  A computer services and hardware retailer has filed a US federal civil suit accusing Microsoft of continuing to violate antitrust laws.

• 17 February 2006

• News: Sophos poll underlines virus threat to Mac

  A stunning 79 per cent of computer users believe that Macs will be targeted more often in the wake of the Leap-A Trojan.

• 16 February 2006

• News: World's first OS X virus hits Apple

  Apple’s Mac OS X software has been hit by a mischievous IM virus – the first ever to target the platform.

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