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13 April 2007
News: Windows Vista's OEM BIOS hacked

Microsoft's anti-piracy team has acknowledged that hacks against Windows Vista's OEM BIOS activation scheme are circulating, but seemed to say it has no plans to immediately counter the threat.
News: Apple's Leopard delayed due to iPhone

June's Mac OS X 10.5 launch has been cancelled as Apple focuses on the release of its highly anticipated iPhone handset
News: European .eu domain reaches first birthday

Europe's top-level internet domain, .eu, turns one year old this week and has already become the continent's number-three regional domain name.
12 April 2007
News: Download while you sleep

Broadband internet service provider Plusnet (www.plus.co.uk) today announced that it is offering customers the option of scheduling large downloads overnight when web connections are at less of a premium. Broadband Your Way, as Plusnet’s 1GB to 40GB per month-by-month broadband contracts are known, cost from £10 to £30 a month for access between 8am and midnight. Outside these hours, Plusnet customers can schedule large software, music and video downloads without affecting on their monthly broadband usage limits. The service goes live from today.
News: Linux USB stick can replace Windows

Now the geeks can have a full-featured Linux OS booted from a USB stick or thumb drive. Linux distributor Mandriva's Flash 4GB provides Mandriva Linux 2007 KDE 32bit, which needs no installation - being ready to boot off the USB 2.0 stick. Plug in the stick, turn on the PC, and Mandriva Linux is ready to use in a few seconds.
News: UK mobile phone ticketing breakthrough

Chiltern Railways has installed self-service scanners to read mobile tickets sent as barcodes to passengers' phones in the second phase of a pilot project.
News: MySpace blocks users' Photobucket content

Web mashups are all the rage, but sometimes they enrage, as evidenced by a spat between social-networking firm MySpace and Photobucket, which runs an eponymous photo and video sharing site.
News: Google, Yahoo & Microsoft upgrade Sitemap

The rare collaboration between search rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft over site maps has yielded its first result.
News: Google search boss 'punches' Microsoft exec

Microsoft and Google officials have traded comparisons of their enterprise search products to their rival's during a technology conference in San Francisco.
News: Free Opera update available now

Opera Software has released Opera 9.2, a new version of the company's free multiplatform web browser that's available for immediate download.
News: iTunes gets MGM movies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Apple on have announced that MGM is now offering its movies for purchase and download from Apple’s iTunes Store in the US.
11 April 2007
News: Wikipedia attacked by Larry Sanger

The education secretary, Alan Johnson, has come under fire for saying the Wikipedia is 'a force for good'. The site's own co-founder, Larry Sanger, said that the community that produces Wikipedia was "often dysfunctional", the content was unreliable and that Wikipedia had serious management problems.
News: Microsoft investigates Office 2007 flaws

Security experts have discovered vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word 2007, and other software. Hackers have not yet exploited the Word 2007 flaws, however.
News: Google to run worldwide developer day

Google is trying to encourage more developers to use its web services software platform by running a 27-hour-long "Developer Day" on 31 May.
News: Apple iPhone emulator available online

Before Apple's iPhone even hits the shelves, Pocket PC users can now get the look and feel of the iPhone.
News: Google launches 'genocide map'

Google yesterday joined up with the US Holocaust Memorial to unveil an online-mapping initiative aimed at educating users about genocide.
News: McAfee predicts cybercrime meltdown

Research from McAfee's Avert Labs predicts a nightmare future of more sophisticated cybercrime and the development of further technological means to carry out external attacks.
News: Microsoft releases critical Windows fixes

Microsoft yesterday released its regularly scheduled batch of security patches. This month's Patch Tuesday includes three fixes for critical flaws in Microsoft's Windows Vista OS (operating system).
10 April 2007
News: Windows flaw targeted by 2000+ websites

More than 2,000 unique websites have been rigged to exploit the animated cursor security flaw in Microsoft's software, according to security vendor Websense.
News: Cheap PS3 offers continue

UK retailers are offering cut-price PlayStation 3s (PS3s) just a month after the console launched.