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• 27 July 2007

• News: Windows Vista ships 60 millionth copy

  Microsoft is claiming bragging rights over Apple with the announcement that it’s shipped 60 million copies of Windows Vista.

• 26 July 2007

• News: Warning over 30,000 newly infected websites

  Security firm Sophos says the number of infected web pages has soared nearly six-fold since the start of the year

• News: PDF spam & image spam hitting UK firms

  Half of the UK's medium to large sized businesses are struggling to deal with image-based spam, as the abundance of such emails grows by the day, according to new research.

• 25 July 2007

• News: Could Windows 7 use touchscreen tech?

  Windows Vista's successor – Windows 7 – is scheduled to be with us in 2010, and analysts are already speculating about the new features Microsoft will introduce

• News: UK firms snub IT chiefs in the boardroom

  More than 50 percent of UK IT directors are left out of the big decisions taken by their employers because they do not have a seat in the boardroom, according to research commissioned by Microsoft.

• 24 July 2007

• News: Acer slams 'unstable' Windows Vista

  Windows Vista is riddled with problems and gives users and businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to a report in the Financial Times Deutschland quoting Acer president Gianfranco Lanci.

• News: Microsoft reveals Windows 7 due in 2010

  Windows Vista's replacement - currently codenamed 'Windows 7' - will be ready for release in 2010, according to Microsoft, and will come in both 32bit and 64bit versions

• News: Quanta gets iPhone & Dell smartphone deal

  Quanta Computer is to become Apple’s newest iPhone partner, according to a report in Taiwan’s Economic Daily News.

• News: HP to buy Opsware & Neoware

  HP announced two proposed purchases - a $1.6bn deal to acquire data centre automation specialist Opsware and a $241m offer for Neoware.

• 23 July 2007

• News: Lacie launches 2TB 'Extreme' hard disk

  LaCie is releasing a range of desktop hard disk drives with capacities up to two terabytes.

• News: Gov't child database costs spiral

  The government has revealed that a database containing information and carers' contact details for every child in England will cost £41m a year to run on top of its £224 million implementation costs.

• News: Google invests in UK 'Femtocells' firm

  Femtocells, an emerging technology for improving cellular coverage in homes and enterprises, have attracted the interest of none other than Google Inc.

• News: Researchers find first iPhone hack

  Security researchers claim to have found a flaw in Apple's iPhone handset that can be used by hackers to access private data stored on it.

• 20 July 2007

• News: Vodafone 'concerned' over iPhone 3G omission

  Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin said "virtually every mobile company" is in discussion with Apple about the iPhone, but has refused to discuss details about the handsets distribution in Europe.

• 19 July 2007

• News: Mystery over Windows Vista SP1 beta

  A beta version of the first service pack for Windows Vista is due over the next few days, according to sources close to Microsoft.

• News: Epson to support Vista's Windows Rally tech

  Seiko Epson is to develop a range of wireless networking products based on a Windows Vista’s Windows Rally technology.

• News: Intel: Desktops still dominate over laptops

  The expected decline in desktop PC shipments as a result of growing laptop demand has so far failed to come to pass, according to Intel’s top executive in Asia said.

• 18 July 2007

• News: Intel releases Penryn chip to partners

  Intel’s Penryn server are being made widely available to computer makers ahead of a planned product launch during the fourth quarter, an Intel executive revealed today.

• 17 July 2007

• News: Intel's Core 2 Extreme allows laptop overclocking

  Intel has released a new dual-core laptop chip for high-end users in a bid to fend off AMD in the fast-growing notebook market.

• News: UK broadband is 'too slow and expensive'

  UK broadband internet is more expensive than it is in all but one of 20 of the world's most developed countries.

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