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13 April 2007
News: Intel to upgrade UMPC platform

Analysts at Intel's technology conference next week will focus on the company's powerful server chips, but industry blogs are showing more excitement over word that the company will launch a new platform for ultra mobile PCs (UMPCs).
News: Microsoft Word 2007 bug is a built-in feature

The Word 2007 bugs pegged as security vulnerabilities by an Israeli researcher are nothing of the sort, Microsoft has claimed. Instead, the application crashes reported as flaws are actually by design.
News: European .eu domain reaches first birthday

Europe's top-level internet domain, .eu, turns one year old this week and has already become the continent's number-three regional domain name.
12 April 2007
News: Linux USB stick can replace Windows

Now the geeks can have a full-featured Linux OS booted from a USB stick or thumb drive. Linux distributor Mandriva's Flash 4GB provides Mandriva Linux 2007 KDE 32bit, which needs no installation - being ready to boot off the USB 2.0 stick. Plug in the stick, turn on the PC, and Mandriva Linux is ready to use in a few seconds.
News: Google, Yahoo & Microsoft upgrade Sitemap

The rare collaboration between search rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft over site maps has yielded its first result.
News: Google search boss 'punches' Microsoft exec

Microsoft and Google officials have traded comparisons of their enterprise search products to their rival's during a technology conference in San Francisco.
News: Microsoft lawyer backs Vista-capable claims

Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, insists there was no 'Windows Vista Capable' con, despite his company's efforts to reword the techical requirements for premium Vista PCs
News: Microsoft Office 2007 add-on ditches Ribbon

A Chinese developer is turning back the clock with an add-on to Microsoft's Office 2007 that returns traditional menus to the suite's applications.
11 April 2007
News: Microsoft investigates Office 2007 flaws

Security experts have discovered vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word 2007, and other software. Hackers have not yet exploited the Word 2007 flaws, however.
News: Laptop PC sales continue to soar

User uptake of mobile PCs continues to grow. Laptop PC shipments at the world's two largest contract notebook computer makers rocketed during March, according to the Taiwanese companies involved.
News: Microsoft releases critical Windows fixes

Microsoft yesterday released its regularly scheduled batch of security patches. This month's Patch Tuesday includes three fixes for critical flaws in Microsoft's Windows Vista OS (operating system).
10 April 2007
News: Positive Windows Vista uptake revealed

Nearly 25 percent of PC Advisor pollsters upgraded to Windows Vista, just two months after the operating system’s UK consumer release.
News: Windows flaw targeted by 2000+ websites

More than 2,000 unique websites have been rigged to exploit the animated cursor security flaw in Microsoft's software, according to security vendor Websense.
News: Mozilla releases Thunderbird 2.0 RC1

Mozilla has posted release candidate code for the newest version of its email client, Thunderbird 2.0, which emphasises message organisation and support for Windows Vista (see our first look at Thunderbird 2.0 here).
News: Price war as AMD undercuts Intel

AMD has announced further price reductions on some of its best desktop PC microprocessors, a sign there’s still no end in sight to its price war with rival Intel.
News: Apple fixes Airport Wi-Fi security flaw

Apple has published a firmware update for its Airport Extreme Base Station that fixes two security flaws in the Wi-Fi router.
News: Gamers get new quad-core Intel chip

Intel has launching a quad-core chip for desktop gamers, continuing a barrage of new products the company has announced in the past week.
07 April 2007
News: Can you be found on the web?

If someone searches for you on the web and comes up empty-handed, do you exist?
06 April 2007
News: New UK law to increase remote working

UK firms are set to face increasing demands from staff for flexible and remote working arrangements with new employment rights that come into force today.
05 April 2007
News: Ofcom rules could hobble UK VoIP

Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony will be subject to stricter regulations that any other communications technology, service providers have warned.