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14 June 2007
News: Windows Vista DVD mystery solved

The three faces embedded in the surface of Windows Vista's installation DVDs may have been too small to see with the naked eye, but they're no big mystery, according to Microsoft.
News: Linspire signs Linux deal with Microsoft

Linspire has signed an intellectual-property agreement with Microsoft that shields the Linux company's customers from patent claims.
News: Vista & notebooks boost PC market

Attracted by aggressive prices and the launch of Microsoft's Windows Vista OS, consumers purchased more notebooks during the first quarter than expected, pushing IDC to raise its 2007 PC industry forecast.
News: New McAfee business security tools launching

McAfee plans to deliver more scalable versions of its email and web security appliances, designed for enterprise users.
News: SonicWall buys Aventail for $25m

IT security vendor SonicWall has entered into an agreement to acquire Aventail Corp, a privately held provider of SSL VPN remote access solutions for approximately $25 million in cash.
13 June 2007
News: £2m Data Protection Act fraudsters jailed

Three men have been jailed in the UK after sending bogus letters demanding that small businesses pay to register under the 1998 Data Protection Act (DPA).
News: Google and Intel back $5.5bn green group

Major US technology companies, including Google and Intel, are part of a group that aims to reduce the amount of electricity used by personal computers.
News: New features in Apple's Mac OS X Leopard

Apple has unveiled a 'near final version' of Mac OS X Leopard, the sixth major release of its OS.
News: Warning over peer-to-peer ID theft

It's not just the Recording Industry Association of America that people need to worry about when downloading music from peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.
News: Microsoft reveals 9 'critical' bugs

As Microsoft patched 15 vulnerabilities in its operating system, browser, and other software, security experts argued over which should be fixed first.
News: Safari for Windows: 18 bugs in one day

Security researchers have jumped on Apple's beta version of the Safari browser, digging up as many as 18 bugs in the software, just one day after its release.
News: UK gov't defends £8.1bn IT contract

HM Revenue and Customs has defended the tripling in costs of its Aspire IT contract - now set to hit £8.5bn - and said it would "endeavour to drive similar efficiency savings" from the deal.
News: Health IT boss defends healthcare revamp

The embattled chief executive of IT for the UK National Health Service's IT revamp sharply rebuked critics of the programme today, saying a withdrawal of funding would lead to a "massive disruption" for patients.
News: EMC & Wipro partner on services

EMC will train more than 1,000 Wipro staff in the use of its storage technologies as part of an alliance announced by the companies today.
News: Evergrid promises reliability on Linux cluster servers

Startup Evergrid has unveiled a virtualisation platform designed to provide application reliability on clusters of Linux servers.
12 June 2007
News: Privacy International slams 'deceptive' Google

Google has been criticised by activist group Privacy International over its consumer privacy practices.
News: eBay desktop application launched

eBay has opened a beta programme for a desktop application that makes shopping on the auction website easier, with new types of alerts and a browsing history feature.
News: Antitrust analysis: Google versus Microsoft

Google's claims that Microsoft's built-in Vista desktop indexing and search tool violates its antitrust agreement could be difficult to prove even if the software does slow down the performance of Google's competitive Google Desktop offering.
News: Apple's Safari to run on Windows

For his traditional last-minute surprise near the end of the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the company is releasing a beta of its Safari browser that runs on Microsoft’s rival Windows operating system.
News: VMware steps up Windows-on-Mac battle

VMware is pricing its upcoming new software to run Windows on a Mac similar to rival Parallels's software announced last week.