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  • News: Symantec's business AV product slips back

    Symantec is slipping on its target delivery time for the next major upgrade of its security product for enterprises, code-named Hamlet, while it irons out final code wrinkles during beta testing.

  • News: Hitachi ships UK's first single 1TB hard drive

    Hitachi today announced the first 1TB (one terrabyte) capacity single internal hard drive available to all UK consumers. The Deskstar 7K1000 first shipped in March 2007, and is now available through PCWorld.co.uk and PC World stores throughout the UK for £249.

  • News: Green Technology Initiative targets UK firms

    A new organization to help IT directors and managers reduce the environmental impact of their IT infrastructure has been launched in London.

  • News: IBM lays off 1,315 employees

    IBM laid off 1,315 US workers from its global services division, according to a union group under the Communications Workers of America.

  • News: Flexible working hours to beat IT staff shortage

    A quarter of IT professionals have turned down a job because their potential employer didn’t offer flexible working, according to research by online recruitment specialist The IT Job Board

  • News: Companies with paper records will face fines

    Companies that still have paper-based records will face being sued and receive fines, according to storage supplier ONStor.

  • News: Users judge Adobe Flash vs Microsoft Silverlight

    Microsoft's Silverlight technology could give Adobe's rival Flash browser plug-in software a run for its money based on attendee feedback at the Microsoft Mix07 conference in Las Vegas this week.

  • News: Windows Vista hacks set to be revealed

    Joanna Rutkowska, a Windows security researcher, is to demonstrate new ways for hackers to invade Windows Vista, including rootkit techniques and ways to defeat BitLocker drive encryption.

  • News: Microsoft dismisses Office 2007 security goals

    Unlike Microsoft executives who have predicted that Windows Vista will be hit by far fewer vulnerabilities than its predecessor, the developers who crafted Office 2007 won't set a security target.

  • News: Longhorn Server becomes Windows Server 2007

    Microsoft will tag its next server software, now codenamed Longhorn, with the prosaic ‘Windows Server 2007’, according to a document on the company's site.

  • News: Dell to dump direct sales model?

    Dell CEO Michael Dell has dropped his biggest hint yet that the PC vendor is looking at an indirect channel.

  • News: 5 ways to tackle cyberstalkers & blog trolls

    Anyone who has participated in the blogosphere in the past two months knows the troubling story of Kathy Sierra, a prominent blogger who was the victim of online threats that included violent sexual acts and murder. When the harassment spread beyond her own blog to two others that were affiliated with other prominent bloggers, Sierra became so terrified that she cancelled an upcoming speaking engagement and took a hiatus from blogging.

  • News: Vista & Office 2007 drive Microsoft profits

    Microsoft said Windows Vista and Office 2007 shipments exceeded its expectations over the past three months and helped it post a record 65 percent third-quarter profit gain in its most recent quarter.

  • News: $1 billion spam lawsuit could benefit us all

    A $1 billion lawsuit filed promises to open up a new front in the battle against spam. It targets not just spammers, but - for the first time - also those responsible for harvesting email addresses on behalf of spammers.

  • News: Open-source boost for Adobe's Flex

    Adobe has launched a new version of its Flex SDK development tool set, code-named Moxie, along with plans to provide its code to the open-source community.

  • News: UK IT staff shortage is easing

    The shortage of IT staff seems to be easing, with employers noticing an improvement in labour supply, research from the E-Skills UK learning and skills council has revealed.

  • News: Acer recalls 27,000 laptop batteries

    Just six months after saying Acer laptop PC users would not need to replace any batteries amid a massive global recall, a company subsidiary announced a recall for 27,000 batteries in the US.

  • News: Dell adds first flash-based laptop

    Dell has followed Sony’s lead by releasing SSD (solid-state drive) technology for its Latitude D420 and D620 notebooks in the US.

  • News: Final Windows Longhorn Server beta available

    Microsoft has posting the final beta and first publicly available and feature-complete version of Windows Server ‘Longhorn’, marking the final time the product will be available for testing and feedback before the long-awaited server update is available later this year.

  • News: IBM puts Google Gadgets into WebSphere

    IBM is offering a free portal component, which IBM calls a portlet, that lets business users link nearly 4,000 Google Gadgets to their WebSphere Portal environments.