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  • News: Microsoft could lose Office Live

    Microsoft said it will seek to invalidate claims by a California company that has sued it for trademark infringement over the Office Live name.

  • News: First Office 2007 bug found

    EEye Digital Security said that it's found the first Office 2007 remote code vulnerability and has alerted Microsoft's bug team.

  • News: Green Grid powers up to save energy

    The Green Grid, a group of technology companies collaborating to improve energy efficiency in data centres, is officially open for business today.

  • News: Sharp builds widescreen Windows PDA

    Sharp has developed a widescreen Windows Mobile-based PDA for a new Japanese mobile operator that will begin service next month.

  • News: Google to finalise online office suite

    Google is finalising the integration of Docs & Spreadsheets with Google Apps for Your Domain, another step in its strategy to build a suite of hosted applications for businesses.

  • News: Warning over new Word & Office hacks

    Microsoft's Word and Office programs have been targeted again, with the company warning that hackers may already exploiting a new vulnerability found in the applications.

  • News: First look: Windows Mobile 6.0

    Microsoft's recently announced Windows Mobile 6.0 software for smartphones is a step forward for the company, offering some important improvements over previous versions of the software. But just how good is the new software?

  • News: Critical Microsoft Excel flaw found

    Microsoft is warning of another critical flaw in its Office software, with its February security patches now two weeks away.

  • News: Startup launches its first power-efficient chip

    A startup chip company is introducing a power-efficient processor it has been developing for three years, just as the market clamours for energy efficiency.

  • News: Microsoft opens up Word to third parties

    Third-party companies have completed the first phase of a Microsoft-sponsored project to create software that can convert Microsoft Word documents between Open XML and Open Document Format for Office Applications file formats.

  • News: BT spends £100m on US firm

    BT plans to extend its enterprise services offering in the US with the acquisition of International Network Services.

  • News: Biggest-ever Linux desktop deal signed

    European car manufacturing giant Peugeot Citroën has agreed to one of the Continent's largest-ever deployments of open-source Linux software on desktop computers.

  • News: Sony settles with FTC on rootkit fracas

    Sony BMG has finally reached a deal with the US Federal Trade Commission over its use of a stealth program to enforce digital rights management on its music CDs.

  • News: New tools for Office 2007 & OpenOffice

    Microsoft and OpenOffice.org have both released toolkits that support building applications for their competing document file formats and productivity suites.

  • News: Free open-source wiki app updated

    Organisations looking to get their feet wet with Web 2.0 technologies might want to check out an updated version of open-source enterprise wiki software that developers say can help companies embrace collaboration and speed application development.

  • News: SGI plans Windows supercomputers

    Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) plans to offer Microsoft's high-performance computing (HPC) cluster software on systems that have until now been primarily focused on meeting the needs of HPC Linux users.

  • News: Bluetooth cracking tools released

    Two tools aimed at compromising Bluetooth devices, including PCs, have been released by German programmers at the Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin.

  • News: SanDisk launches 1.8in 32GB SSD drive

    SanDisk has announced that it will launch a 32GB 1.8in solid state drive (SSD) at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Aimed at the business market initially, the drive is being billed as a drop-in replacement for conventional mechanical hard disks, particularly for laptops.

  • News: Open-source trials put pressure on Microsoft

    Microsoft has two years in which to convince Amsterdam city authorities that it can offer better value for money on the desktop than open-source alternatives.

  • News: Microsoft releases new Longhorn build

    Microsoft has released a new build of its forthcoming release of Windows Server, code-named Longhorn.