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• 02 April 2008

• News: Intel Nehalem chips to go mobile in 2009

  Intel reaffirmed its Nehalem family of processors is on track to enter production during the fourth quarter, with the first mobile version of the chips to be released next year.

• News: Intel: Programmers face multi-core challenge

  Adding multiple cores to computer chips is creating more challenges for programmers, according to Doug Davis, vice president of the digital enterprise group at Intel.

• News: British firms snub Data Protection Act

  Employers are ignoring legal obligations to train staff in how to handle personal data, to a survey from IT Governance.

• 01 April 2008

• News: Video: How virtualisation can revolutionise IT

  Dell SMB marketing specialist Gerry Kenny explains how virtualisation in the business can save time, money and resources.

• News: Google takes Docs to desktop to challenge Office 2007

  Google is rolling out the ability for people to use its Google Docs and Google Apps hosted applications even when they aren't connected to the internet.

• News: Dell charges UK users 60% more for Blu-ray laptop

  If you fancy getting your hands on one of Dell's Inspiron 1525 laptops that features a Blu-Ray player, then be prepared to be paying more in the UK, than in the US, 66 percent more in fact.

• News: Dell will cut costs by $3bn in 3 years

  PC maker Dell plans to slash costs by $3bn in the next three years. Dell said yesterday that the savings will be achieved by reducing the price of materials and components going into its gadgets, and bringing down operating expenses. And that means job cuts.

• News: IBM dragged to court, govt contracts suspended

  IBM has received a grand jury summons from the US Attorney's Office, just days after the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suspended IBM from receiving new Federal government contracts or assistance.

• News: First locations for BT's 24Mbps broadband announced

  Details of the first locations in the UK which will receive BT's new 24Mb per second broadband service have been released.

• 31 March 2008

• News: 3G iPhone could be launched by May

  A 3G version of Apple's iPhone may be launched as soon as May, reports the Bank of America.

• News: Tight vote on global OOXML standard

  Balloting on whether Office Open XML (OOXML) should become an international document standard closed at midnight Saturday in Geneva, in an apparently tight vote. The results have not yet been officially announced.

• News: Microsoft renames CRM Live to 'CRM Online'

  Microsoft is changing the name of its on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) offering to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, according to a company official.

• 28 March 2008

• News: Business users love Leopard, like XP, hate Vista

  Business user of Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system are more than five times more likely to say that they are "very satisfied" with the OS than business users of Microsoft's Windows Vista. Only 8 percent of Vista users are "very satisfied".

• News: Google: iGoogle gadgets perfect for business

  Google believes that IT administrators shouldn't fear Gadget Maker for iGoogle. While the Google Maker application is for consumers, iGoogle users can customise gadgets for use on work PCs.

• News: Details of 'next Classmate PC' published

  Reports suggest that specifications and pictures of a laptop unveiled this week by a Malaysian computer maker could be a new version of Intel's Classmate PC for education markets.

• News: Declining Microsoft brand is losing credibility

  Microsoft's brand power has been in sharp decline over the past four years in the US, an indication the company is losing credibility and mindshare with business users, according to a recent study by market research firm CoreBrand.

• News: Report: 3G iPhone manufacturer revealed

  The world's largest contract electronics manufacturer - Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry - is in talks with Apple to make the next generation iPhone, according to Dow Jones, which cited an unidentified Hon Hai official.

• 27 March 2008

• News: Microsoft plans Apple iPhone apps

  Microsoft is plans to use Apple's iPhone software developer kit (SDK) to extend its Mac products for use with the mobile phone.

• News: New Asus Eee PC has multi-touch trackpad

  Asustek's next generation Eee PC will feature a multi-touch trackpad in addition to the larger screen, better webcam and increased data storage, the company has revealed

• News: AMD launches quad- and triple-core Phenoms

  AMD has provided further details of its new Phenom processors, including quad-core chips and its first triple-core version for desktop PCs.

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