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  • News: allofmp3.com music site faces closure

    A man has been arrested for selling allofmp3.com vouchers. The recording industry has stepped up its battle to shut down allofmp3.com, announcing the arrest of the man.

  • News: UK online shopping breaks £100bn barrier

    In the 12 years that we've been shopping on the internet, UK online retail sales have accounted for a whopping £100 billion ($197 billion).

  • News: Exposed: 5 hidden costs on every new PC

    You've been talking about it for months, and now you've finally taken the plunge and bought yourself a shiny new home computer. Or perhaps you're an IT manager who's just upgraded the systems for an entire department. Well, don't put your wallet away, because you've just started shelling out for all the things you'll need during the life of these computers.

  • News: Microsoft & Clinton team on emissions

    Microsoft will work with the Clinton Foundation to develop free web-based software and services that cities around the world can use to monitor their carbon emissions and share ideas about environmental protection.

  • News: AMD's Puma targets Intel's Santa Rosa

    Hustling to keep up with Intel Corp.'s ‘Santa Rosa’ notebook PC system, AMD has announced that it plans to launch its own new bundle of mobile processors and chipsets, code-named ‘Puma’.

  • News: NHS IT supplier iSoft sold

    Troubled UK gov't software supplier iSoft is sold By Miya Knights Computerworld UK

  • News: Official opens up on Estonian DoS attacks

    A spree of denial-of-service (DOS) attacks against websites in Estonia appears to be subsiding, as the government calls for greater response mechanisms to cyber attacks within the European Union.

  • News: Google to link Gmail with Docs

    Google is exploring ways to integrate its email and instant messaging services with its hosted productivity applications.

  • News: Office 2007 & Mac Office converter launched

    Microsoft has unveiled a stopgap file converter that allows Mac Office users to work with Office 2007 Word document files.

  • News: New Apple laptops snub Santa Rosa

    Apple has refreshed its MacBook line of laptops, but unfortunately the new machines are already looking a bit out of date.

  • News: Microsoft admits Vista & Aero battery hog

    Microsoft has responded to discussion of Windows Vista's over-hearty battery appetite by acknowledging that the new operating system's fancy Aero graphics use more power. But it downplayed the impact of the UI's power needs.

  • News: Windows Vista twice as popular as XP

    Microsoft had previously said that it had sold 20 million copies of Windows in its first month after its consumer launch in late January. That, it claimed, doubled the pace of Windows XP, which sold 17 million copies after the first two months of launch in late 2001.

  • News: First look: worlds smallest UMPC

    Could Fujitsu's pocket-sized ultramobile PC (UMPC) be the most intuitive mobile product launched this year?

  • News: Microsoft christens Windows Server 2008

    Microsoft chairman Bill Gate has revealed one of the company's worst-kept secrets by announcing Longhorn Server will officially be called Windows Server 2008.

  • News: IBM's grid computing targets healthcare

    Hospitals have unique and challenging storage needs, as they are required to store every X-ray and medical record they create, and IBM is reaching out to that market with a system being unveiled today at a health care industry event.

  • News: Oracle to pay $495m for PLM supplier Agile

    Oracle plans to pay $495mn to buy Agile Software, a maker of product lifecycle management software.

  • News: UK losing battle on software piracy

    The Business Software Alliance (BSA) says the penalties for software piracy are not sufficient, after reporting that 27 percent of PC software installed in the UK in 2006 was illegal.

  • News: Adobe to add Vista & Office printer support

    Adobe will release a new print driver in July that enables users of mainstream applications such as Microsoft's Office on Windows Vista to output to PostScript printers at a higher-quality than they can currently, according to the company.

  • News: 10 things Microsoft loves & hates about open source

    Over the years, Microsoft has had some pretty harsh words (and actions) for the open-source community. We take a look at five ways Microsoft is embracing open source or Linux and five ways it'is doing to battle against those same forces.

  • News: OpenOffice slams 'desperate' Microsoft claims

    OpenOffice.org has dismissed Microsoft's assertion that its open-source application suite violates 45 of its patents as "a desperate act”.