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25 June 2007
News: UK ID card plan hit by delay

The UK is delaying the start of the procurement process for the IT systems that will eventually issue ID cards for an estimated 50 million UK citizens over the next decade.
News: MPs attack freedom of information costs

A committee of Members of Parliament (MPs) has attacked UK government moves to change the charging regime for freedom of information requests, saying ministers have not looked at the cost to the public of reduced access to information.
News: Samsung develops 64GB laptop flash drive

Samsung Electronics has begun producing a flash memory-based solid-state disk drive for mobile computing applications.
News: Seagate joins Hitachi with 1TB drive

Seagate is a launching a pair of 1TB capacity disks with advanced power-saving technology. This could save up to a quarter of the power consumed by normal drives. It has also announced a ruggedised 2.5in drive holding 80GB. Hitachi was first to market with a 1TB drive last month.
News: Nine out of 10 workers prefer great outdoors

Mobile workers are taking their work to the beach, onto sailing dinghies and into tree houses as research confirms that nine out of 10 employees prefer to work outdoors.
23 June 2007
News: MySpace threatening net bandwidth

Increasingly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook are accounting for such huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption that carriers, universities and corporations are scrambling to keep pace.
News: Best free software: kit out your PC for free

The down side to buying a low-cost PC (See our: Ultimate guide to buying ultra low-cost PCs) is it’s likely to come with little more than an operating system. But don’t shell out for pricey software – here are some handy bits of freeware
22 June 2007
News: New malware trick outfoxes PC users

The Sans Institute has uncovered more evidence that internet attackers don't necessarily need any clever technical tricks to plant malicious software on users' systems - an understanding of psychology will do just as well.
News: Why IT managers hate the iPhone

With the release of Apple's iPhone on June 29, IT managers in the US are hustling to find ways to support the devices, anticipating the moment when the CEO walks in with one and demands, "Give me my corporate e-mail on this gizmo”.
News: Orange breaches Data Protection Act

Mobile phone giant Orange and catalogue firm Littlewoods have mishandled customers' personal information in breach of the Data Protection Act, the UK Information Commissioner's Office has found.
News: Dell customers kill PC 'bloatware'

Dell is allowing its customers to decline the unwanted software applications loaded on new PCs, after hundreds of users complained about such 'bloatware' on a company blog.
News: Microsoft admits failure on Vista patches

A Microsoft security executive has released data showing that, six months after shipping Windows Vista, his company has left more publicly disclosed Vista bugs unpatched than it did with Windows XP.
21 June 2007
News: Apple iPhone launch may be delayed

A Piper Jaffray analyst warned yesterday that Apple's European iPhone launch "may be delayed".
News: Microsoft & IBM admit Google Apps threat

Microsoft and IBM executives have admitted feeling the heat from Google now that the web search giant is trying to make inroads into the enterprise market with its hosted suite of communication and collaboration tools.
News: Computer glitch downs United Airlines

United Air Lines was forced to scrap 24 domestic flights on Wednesday when the computers it uses to dispatch flights failed.
20 June 2007
News: Government launches online CO2 calculator

The government today launched an online service that allows individuals to calculate the amount of carbon emissions they produce.
News: Online store trades in stolen credit cards

RSA has uncovered an online store where fraudsters trade in stolen credit cards. RSA's analysts discovered the site, which purports to allow fraudsters to purchase almost any amount of stolen credit cards using an automated process.
News: First look: Samsung SGH-E950 with OLED keypad

The Samsung SGH-E950 mobile phone has one stand out feature: a 1.2in OLED (organic light-emitting diode) keypad that can display different icons depending on how the phone is being used.
News: Yahoo mobile internet application beta launches

Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 will launch in beta for consumers in the UK and 12 other countries around the world on Friday.
News: Toshiba laptop fire due to 'recalled battery'

Toshiba is again urging its customers to trade in potentially flammable laptop batteries, after a Toshiba notebook caught fire on 24 May.