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  • News: AMD sales chief steps down

    AMD's sales chief Henri Richard will leave the company in September, an announcement which comes shortly after AMD reported its third straight quarterly loss. But the company said that Richard, chief sales and marketing officer, left of his own accord and on amicable terms.

  • News: New Fujitsu laptop has biodegradable chassis

    Fujitsu has launched a launched a laptop with a biodegradable chassis which results in 15 percent less carbon emissions. The biodegradable Fujitsu LifeBook, which is made out of plastic derived from cornstarch, is only available in Japan at the moment, according to reports.

  • News: Zoho beats Google to offline office tool

    Offline editing capabilities are being added to the free web browser-based Zoho office productivity suite.

  • News: PC World launches laptop range for children

    PC World hopes to capitalise on the rush to kit out kids for the new school year with a range of laptops aimed specifically at children

  • News: Toshiba plans 2.5in 320GB laptop drive

    Toshiba is working on the first 2.5in 320GB hard-disk laptops, and plans to release it by the end of the year.

  • News: Women unlikely to tackle tech problems

    Men are three times more likely to try and solve an IT problem themselves than women, according to new research which BT says highlights the 'digital gender divide'.

  • News: Windows Home Server to launch next week

    Microsoft has revealed that its new operating system designed to link multiple home PCs, gadgets and the Xbox 360 will launch next week

  • News: Tilera's 64-core chips on show at Hot Chips

    The annual Hot Chips forum on semiconductor research, beginning today at Stanford University, usually draws industry leaders like IBM, Intel and AMD, but also new companies with ambitions to take on the big firms.

  • News: Confusion over Vista PatchGuard update

    Microsoft update to Windows Vista's PatchGuard, a kernel protection scheme designed to keep malicious or unproven code at arm's length, has nothing to do with recent hacks of another Vista defence, Microsoft claims.

  • News: PCs & laptops boost HP's Q3

    HP's PC business and software sales from its Mercury Interactive acquisition helped produce net profit of $1.8bn, for a 29 percent increase, with a 16 percent boost in revenue in the fiscal third quarter, according to financial results released yesterday.

  • News: Survey shows drop in Dell customer satisfaction

    A new US-based survey suggests customer satisfaction levels at Dell have fallen again.

  • News: Windows Vista still ignored by businesses

    Nine months after the release of Windows Vista and businesses are still snubbing Microsoft's operating system, according to analyst Forrester Research.

  • News: Vista gadget attack embarrasses Microsoft

    An embarrassing flaw in Windows Vista's sidebar gadgets could allow enable a 'remote execution attack' allowing attackers to gain control of an affected PC.

  • News: Microsoft beefs up 64-bit Vista defences

    Microsoft has upgraded up a key defensive feature of 64-bit Windows Vista to help protect the operating system against hacks that have plagued it for weeks.

  • News: Eight 'critical' Windows & Office fixes released

    Microsoft has patched 14 flaws in Office, Internet Explorer and every edition of Windows in a monster Patch Tuesday including eight ‘critical’ fixes.

  • News: Ionic wind engine to cool PC chips

    Purdue University researchers have demonstrated an ionic wind engine designed to reduce the heat generated by semiconductors at a substantially faster rate than is possible with traditional cooling technologies.

  • News: Rip-off Britain hits new Linux PCs

    Rip-off Britain – in which consumers pay over the odds for IT goods including Windows Vista compared to our counterparts in the US and Europe – also applies to Linux systems, it seems.

  • News: Windows Vista cripples high-def movies

    Windows Vista’s content protection features are preventing customers from playing high-quality video and audio and harming system performance, according to computer researcher Peter Gutmann.

  • News: 'Windows Vista Capable' lawsuit gets go-ahead

    Microsoft's request to dismiss all claims in a suit alleging that 'Windows Vista Capable' stickers the company put on PCs violated consumer protection laws and were an example of deceptive business practices have been dismissed by a judge in Washington state.

  • News: Microsoft releases new Windows XP build

    Microsoft has developed a new build of Windows XP Professional because the six-year-old operating system's continued popularity has nearly exhausted the supply of product activation keys.