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• 20 January 2006

• News: TSST completes Blu-ray Disc development

  TSST (Toshiba Samsung storage technology) has moved a step closer to the commercialisation of a Blu-ray Disc drive for PCs with the completion of technical development work, it said yesterday.

• 19 January 2006

• News: AMD records profit after leap in CPU sales

  Intel's poor performance in the final three months of 2005 turned out to be good news for rival chipmaker AMD, which yesterday reported better-than-expected financial results for the period.

• News: Microsoft plays down Windows Wi-Fi 'anomaly'

  A design flaw in Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems with built-in wireless capabilities could be exploited by hackers to lure Wi-Fi users into connecting to malicious wireless networks, according to Microsoft.

• 18 January 2006

• News: 'No effect' from slow XP service pack

  Microsoft's plan to release a third service pack for Windows XP later than expected should not have much effect on sales of Windows Vista, the company's upcoming desktop upgrade, according to a market analyst.

• News: Slow desktop chip sales hit Intel

• News: PC memory prices rise as gadget RAM falls

• 17 January 2006

• News: Failed PC brand gets new lease of life

  Time is to make a reappearance, eight months after the receivers were called in and it shut up shop. Once the UK's largest home-grown PC reseller, the brand will re-emerge as a direct PC sales company going under the name of Time UK Factory.

• News: BBC warns 'smug' Mac users to stay secure

  A leading technology writer has issued a stark warning to Mac users: take an active stand to protect yourselves against viruses and malware.

• 16 January 2006

• News: Cisco to enter consumer electronics space

  A newspaper report today that Cisco plans to enter the mainstream consumer electronics market is only the latest sign of its ambitions to expand beyond computer networking equipment.

• News: Seagate shipping 160GB laptop drive

  The highest-capacity 2.5in drive on the market is now shipping, Seagate has announced.

• 15 January 2006

• News: Which is the most innovative country in Europe?

  Could Malta, a little island nation with a population of 400,000, be the most IT-savvy country in Europe?

• 14 January 2006

• News: Media Center to go mainstream in Vista

  Windows XP Media Center Edition OS may not yet be the standard home entertainment hub that Microsoft hopes it will be, but analysts said that could all change once the company releases the next consumer client version of the Windows OS later this year.

• 12 January 2006

• News: Microsoft to end Mac support in Windows Media?

  Despite the new five-year deal between Apple and Microsoft, it appears at least one Redmond product team is being reshuffled: the Windows Media for Mac mob.

• News: Passport Service struggles with facial recognition

  The UK Passport Service is suffering high rejection rates with its biometric facial recognition technology, it has admitted.

• 11 January 2006

• News: Microsoft speaks on Apple deal

  Microsoft and Apple's decision to sign a five-year deal that guarantees Office for Mac wasn't just a cosmetic arrangement - it's meant as a clear signal of the depth of the commitment between the two firms.

• News: Sky lets mobile, PC users download TV

  Certain digital cable subscribers in the UK and Ireland can begin downloading films to their computers and television programmes to their mobile phones without additional charges, Sky announced yesterday.

• News: Doctors not happy about NHS IT revamp

  The NHS is defending its IT restructuring programme after a survey found doctors in clinics were not well informed and had little enthusiasm about it.

• News: Microsoft patches two critical holes

  Microsoft has patched two critical holes this Patch Tuesday.

• News: Apple unveils raft of products

  Opening Macworld Expo San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced a new laptop and an iMac computer that use Intel's latest processor, six months ahead of the schedule outlined by Apple last year.

• 10 January 2006

• News: Apple to ship huge Mac TVs – analyst

  Apple will set the stage for the technology industry in 2006, an analyst opined yesterday.

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