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• 26 May 2010

• News: Microsoft departures shake up entertainment group

  Two longtime Microsoft Entertainment and Devices division executives are leaving the company in a move that will give CEO Steve Ballmer more control over the group.

• News: Berners-Lee: Govt cant kill open data movement

  Sir Tim Berners-Lee remains hopeful that the Institute for Web Science and his promotion of open government data has a future, despite Monday’s announcement that plans for the institute are to be axed as part of the government’s plan to slash public spending.

• 25 May 2010

• News: Laptop sales up 43.4 percent on last year

  The number of laptops shipped in in the first three months of 2010 was 43.4 percent up on the same period last year, says Gartner.

• News: Institute of Web Science axed in public spending cuts

  The £30m Institute of Web Science (IOWS), which was announced in March this year, has been dumped in a bid to slash public spending costs.

• News: Gov't to scrap schools technology agency

  Chancellor George Osbourne has revealed the British Education Communications Technology Agency (Becta), which handles technology in UK schools, is being scapped.

• News: Nokia and Yahoo team up on mobile

  Yahoo Mail and Messenger will power Nokia's mobile mail and chat services starting later this year, the companies said during a press conference on Monday.

• 24 May 2010

• News: GPS upgrade pinpoints location to a metre

  The US is upgrading its 24 Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites in a bid to improve the accuracy of the technology and prevent outages.

• 22 May 2010

• News: How Iron Man 2 reflects real-world IT security

  The latest blockbuster to star Robert Downey Jnr, Iron Man 2, has certainly made an impact on the box office and movie goers alike.

• 21 May 2010

• News: Under 14 percent fully support Digital Economy Act

  In a PC Advisor poll, less than 14 percent of respondents (13.9 percent) stated that they fully support the Digital Economy Act.

• Video: Google in hot water over Wi-Fi sniffing

  And more, in our round-up of the week's IT stories

• 20 May 2010

• News: Nine chipmakers fined €331m over price-fixing

  The European Commission has fined nine semiconductor manufacturers more than €331m after it found the companies guilty of of price fixing in the market for DRAM memory chips.

• News: Symantec buys VeriSign for $1.3bn

  Symantec will paySymantec will pay $1.28 billion to acquire VeriSign's security business. US$1.28 billion to acquire VeriSign's security business.

• 19 May 2010

• Video: Fujitsu's cute teddy-bear robot

  Fujitsu's cute robot is designed to stimulate children and the elderly

• Video: Robots protect US Marines on battlefield

  Robots used in the military today help to keep humans from danger

• News: Audio pioneer Sennheiser founder dies

  Professor Fritz Sennheiser dies

• News: NASA hacker McKinnon puts hopes in new govt

  Britain's new government is giving fresh consideration to a hacker's plea to postpone an upcoming court hearing in a long-running bid to avoid a U.S. trial that could send him to prison for decades.

• News: Yahoo to buy Associated Content to boost content creation

  Yahoo has agreed to buy Associated Content, an Internet company that commissions and publishes articles and other content from its network of 380,000 freelance contributors and that generates revenue from online advertising.

• 17 May 2010

• News: Apple iPad to fragment netbook sales

  In 2010, netbook shipments are expected to reach 58 million, while a new element has been added to the mobile consumer electronics market equation: the media tablet, initially personified by the Apple iPad.

• 14 May 2010

• Opinion: Does Adobe really "Love Choice"?

  Could you live without your iLife applications (iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, etc)? Or how about Apple’s iTunes? Microsoft’s Office apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc? Adobe InDesign? God forbid, Adobe Photoshop?

• News: Facebook won't reveal outcome of privacy meeting

  Facebook is decling to comment on what happened during its privacy meeting that took place yesterday.

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