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  • News: Digital imaging speeds up NHS treatment

    Film-based X-rays are quickly disappearing in the UK, as its healthcare facilities switch to a digital system that can send images of broken bones and fractured ribs over a network instantly to different clinics.

  • News: Enterprise-friendly VoIP software prepared

    Skype is working to make its internet telephony service more enterprise friendly, and expects to introduce a beta version of its software with support for enterprise management functions within weeks.

  • News: Anti-botnet service launched by Trend Micro

    Trend Micro announced a service to help large organisations and internet service providers fight networks of zombie machines, known as 'botnets'.

  • News: Google brought to book by Belgian court

    Google has agreed to post a court order against the company on its Belgian website, dodging a potential fine of €500,000 (about £336,000) per day for not doing so.

  • News: Nearly 8m active bloggers in China

    Estimates offered by industry analysts about the amount of Chinese bloggers vary widely, ranging from a couple of million to more than 30 million, or roughly one-quarter of all Chinese internet users.

  • News: Browser bugs have surged in 2006

    According to Symantec's twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report, hackers found 47 bugs in Mozilla's open-source browsers and 38 bugs in Internet Explorer during the first six months of this year.

  • News: HP's Dunn resigns with immediate effect

    HP CEO and president Mark Hurd has confirmed that he approved a probe of HP employees, board members and journalists in an effort to find out who on the HP board was leaking confidential information outside of the company.

  • News: Google plans upgrade for search engine

    Google plans to extend the product search capabilities on its main Google.com search engine in the fourth quarter, in time for the holiday shopping season.

  • News: ATM cashpoints hacked via Google

    Breaking into an ATM cashpoint might not involve ramming it with a forklift truck after all. A security researcher has discovered it can be done using some thing much less violent – a Google search.

  • News: PSP gets camera and GPS add-ons

    Considering that the hype levels over the PlayStation 3 and Wii next-generation consoles – from Sony and Nintendo respectively – have already been cranked up to maximum, it's something of a relief to see that there's still room for the less pervasive handheld games consoles.

  • News: AOL sells AOL France

    AOL continued its strategy of separating its internet access and content businesses in Europe, with the sale of its French internet access business to Neuf Cegetel.

  • News: Symantec, Adobe lobby EU over Vista

    Two Symantec engineers will visit Brussels next week to discuss the antitrust threat posed to their company by the upcoming Microsoft Vista OS.

  • News: Microsoft praised for security offensive

    CodeRed, Nimda and Blaster. These high-profile worms, which exploited flaws in Microsoft's Windows operating system and other applications, made the software giant the butt of security jokes and forced the company to re-examine its approach to developing secure software.

  • News: BitTorrent: DRM is bad for iTunes

    In an interview with PC Advisor, the filesharing giant's founder spills the beans on its new movie download service, promising faster content and hardware partnerships.

  • News: Apple updates strengthen wireless security

    Apple has released a Security and AirPort update for Mac OS X that fixes vulnerabilities found in the company's wireless drivers. The issues found were the result of an internal audit of the software drivers, and Apple claimed that no known exploits exist for them.

  • News: Outlook vulnerable to critical VML bug

    A critical bug in the Internet Explorer browser also affects users of the Outlook 2003 email client, making it much more serious than previously thought.

  • News: Sony slashes PlayStation 3 price

    Sony kicked off the Tokyo Game Show with a surprise for Japanese consumers: a price cut for the yet-to-be-launched PlayStation 3 console.

  • News: Jailed Chinese journalist to sue Yahoo in US

    A Chinese journalist jailed in part due to email evidence provided by a Yahoo subsidiary plans to file a lawsuit in the US against the internet company within the next few months.

  • News: Major IE security hole about to go global

    An unpatched Internet Explorer exploit discovered in the wild this week could quickly spread to thousands of malicious websites as soon as this weekend, warn security researchers.

  • News: VeriSign dotcom contract slammed

    A contract that hands control of the dotcom registry to US company VeriSign indefinitely was attacked at a US Senate hearing yesterday.