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• 06 November 2009

• News: Universities to study video games' affect on health

  Nine research teams from universities across the US will study how interactive video games such as the Wii Active could help fight childhood obesity and how mobile phone games could help smokers quit or reduce tobacco use.

• 05 November 2009

• News: China bans solitary confinement for web addicts

  China on Wednesday banned the use of physical punishment to treat Internet addiction after reports of beatings and at least one death in recent months at clinics for the condition around the country.

• News: Microsoft lays off 800 staff

  Microsoft is laying off another 800 people, adding to the 5,000 the company has already let go this year

• News: New Intel antitrust lawsuit gets mixed reviews

  New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's decision to file an antitrust lawsuit against Intel doesn't make sense, with prices for microprocessors falling sharply in recent years, said some critics.

• News: Microsoft Yahoo search deal could hit Europe

  Microsoft's deal with Yahoo under which the software maker's new Bing search engine will be used to power Yahoo searches and Yahoo will sell premium advertising for both companies could be expanded overseas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.

• 04 November 2009

• News: Touchscreen mobiles see 159% growth

  Touchscreen mobile phone adoption in the US has shown a significant 159 percent growth rate during the past year to 23.8 million users in August 2009. Apple's iPhone is the number one touchscreen smartphone by a long way.

• News: 35m netbooks to ship in 2009

  Almost 35 million netbooks will be shipped by manufacturers in 2009. UMDs (Ultra-mobile Devices: the combination of Netbooks, MIDs and UMPCs) will top 124 million systems shipped in 2011.

• News: Intel expands chip lead over AMD

  Intel expanded its chip shipment lead over Advanced Micro Devices during the third quarter as the rivals battle for larger market share, according to a survey released by Mercury Research on Tuesday.

• 03 November 2009

• News: Case study: Vodafone and Pioneer

  Property consultancy drives success by predicting mobile costs more accurately thanks to Vodafone Total Business

• News: Personal robot sales to exceed $5 billion by 2015

  Advances in military and commercial robots will continue to trickle down to the consumer market, and components will see price declines driven by their use in other markets.

• News: Amazon launches Frustration-Free Packaging

  Online retailer Amazon has pledged to help the environment and end "wrap rage" with its new Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging initiative.

• News: Case study: Vodafone and Admiral

  Admiral Taverns relies on open communication between field-based business development managers (BDMs) and the licensees to whom they provide practical and strategic support.

• News: Google Chrome growing faster than Firefox

  Google's Chrome boosted its share of the browser market by a bigger margin than did Mozilla's Firefox in October

• 31 October 2009

• News: 7 wacky Windows launches

  Microsoft encouraged PC users to celebrate the launch of Windows 7 by hosting their own party. We look back at the wacky ways Microsoft launched previous operating systems.

• News: The mobile chip battle: ARM vs Intel Atom

  Over the last quarter of a century, Intel has become the leader when it comes to microprocessors. The company has covered every mark, from desktops to laptops and CPU's. Even Apple has joined the choir.

• News: Five technologies that will change the face of IT

  We look at five technologies that look set to become part of every day lives very soon, to find out how they'll change our lives.

• 30 October 2009

• News: The rise of the mobile internet dongle

  In 2010 51 percent of mobile internet dongle modems will ship into the consumer segment.

• News: Case study: Vodafone and Ceuta

  Healthcare outsourcing company saves approximately £12,000 a year with Vodafone Total Business

• News: ICAAN allows multiple language web addresses

  ICAAN has announced that it will allow internet addresses featuring non-Latin characters.

• News: Microsoft: Windows 7 install trick is legal

  Microsoft this week confirmed that users can apply a workaround trick to do a clean install of Windows 7 on a blank hard drive as long as they toe the licensing line.

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