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  • 17 May 2007

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    Apple has refreshed its MacBook line of laptops, but unfortunately the new machines are already looking a bit out of date.

  • 16 May 2007

  • 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.

  • 15 May 2007

  • 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”.

  • News: EU & US close to anti-terror data privacy deal

    European Commissioner for justice and home affairs Franco Frattini said he's confident the European Union and the US can reach an agreement on how to handle personal information about European citizens flying to America.

  • News: Sun licenses chip patents to Arm

    Sun Microsystems has licensed a suite of microprocessor patents to Arm Holdings, the UK firm that licenses its microprocessor core designs for use in embedded and graphics processors, and processors for mobile phones and PDAs.

  • 14 May 2007

  • News: Alcatel-Lucent to buy NetDevices

    Alcatel-Lucent SA has agreed to buy NetDevices, a maker of all-in-one network gateways for branch offices and small and medium-size businesses.

  • News: Microsoft plans PC on a USB drive

    Microsoft and flash memory maker SanDisk have partnered to build a new generation of USB drives and memory cards that lets users carry a personalised desktop and applications to any Windows PC.

  • News: Windows Update flaw locks XP systems

    Windows XP systems are still locking up during patch update attempts - even after users deployed the fix suggested by Microsoft.

  • News: Intel's Santa Rosa hits laptop sales

    The May launch of Intel's Santa Rosa laptop PC chips, an upgrade to its popular Centrino package, put a damper on April notebook sales.

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