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05 April 2007
News: Phishing foe fights web fraudsters

Ben Jackson's goal is to stymie people who develop phishing sites - misleading websites designed to steal people's personal information.
News: AMD upgrades dual-core Opteron to 3GHz

AMD has begun shipping two 3GHz versions of its dual-core Opteron chip to server vendors, continuing a battle over multicore processing power with Intel, the company said yesterday.
News: Intel is top chipmaker despite price cuts

Intel hung on to its position as number-one semiconductor vendor by revenue in 2006, despite a 12 percent revenue decline over the previous year, according to a report from Gartner.
News: Intel adds vPro to Centrino laptops

In a move to bolster its pending refresh of the Centrino wireless notebook package, Intel said it would add vPro IT management to the bundle, which PC vendors are scheduled to begin selling by June.
04 April 2007
News: Intel slams AMD's Barcelona quad-core chip

Intel says a combination of manufacturing prowess and pragmatic chip design will help it outsell AMD's upcoming quad-core Barcelona processor.
News: Windows Vista 'bug week' was a hoax

Yet another daily bug hunt, dubbed Week of Vista Bugs (WOVB), was only a hoax, the project's ‘creators’ have revealed.
News: Emergency Windows patch available now

Microsoft has published an emergency software patch after hackers found a way to exploit a critical flaw in Windows.
News: AJAX poses Web 2.0 security threat

Many web applications written using the popular AJAX programming technique are vulnerable to a JavaScript hijacking attack, security company Fortify Software has claimed.
News: Intel offers first quad-core embedded chips

Intel has launched two quad-core processors for embedded applications, offering more power than the Woodcrest dual-core Xeon for designers of telecommunications infrastructure, network storage systems and medical imaging equipment.
03 April 2007
News: European commission signs up to BT

The European Commission’s directorate general for IT has signed a framework contract with BT for the supply and management of internet access services.
News: Netsky accounts for a third of PC malware

Although protection has been available for more than three years, the Netsky family of worms still accounted for almost a third of all malware detected during the month of March, 2007.
News: Lycos takes on Google, Yahoo & MSN

Lycos Europe is quietly rolling out a service that wraps together several trendy functions it hopes will woo users for its convenience and simplicity.
News: IT sector boosts EU economy

The IT sector accounted for nearly half of EU productivity growth between 2000 and 2004 and is still outstripping the rest of the economy, EU figures have revealed.
News: Online ads to overtake radio in 2008

Online advertising is set to overtake radio next year - beating previous forecasts - media experts have predicted.
02 April 2007
News: UK salaries finally paid after Bacs glitch

The UK Payments association Apacs has confirmed that 400,000 people whose salaries were held up after database problems at the Bacs clearing system have now been paid.
News: Windows fix tackles malicious websites

Microsoft has decided to rush out a fix for a flaw in its Windows operating system, saying that the problem has become too serious to ignore.
News: Mozilla boosts Windows Mobile browsing

The newest version of Minimo, the Mozilla mobile browser, became available last week in the midst of changes within the Minimo project that make its future uncertain.
News: AMD releases ATI-integrated chipset

AMD has introduced its M690 chipset for embedded devices, rounding out the company's first chipset line that integrates technology from ATI.
News: Forget Vista, XP offers power savings too

Microsoft may have tooted the public relations horn about Vista's power-saving features, said a Gartner analyst this week, but businesses would be smart to look at ways they can save electricity on their XP-powered PCs rather than worry about what the new OS offers.
News: Police recover stolen NHS laptop

Police have recovered a stolen National Health Service laptop containing names, addresses and dates of birth of 11,500 children.