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  • News: Seagate joins Hitachi with 1TB drive

    Seagate is a launching a pair of 1TB capacity disks with advanced power-saving technology. This could save up to a quarter of the power consumed by normal drives. It has also announced a ruggedised 2.5in drive holding 80GB. Hitachi was first to market with a 1TB drive last month.

  • News: Users compensated after Norton Antivirus flaw

    More than a month after Symantec knocked out 50,000 Chinese PCs with a bad software update, the company is ready to offer compensation. But Chinese users eligible for the offer have to act fast; it's only valid for a couple of weeks.

  • News: Microsoft kills Windows 'Longhorn' client

    Microsoft has forced developers to close down a project aimed at reviving the original Windows client codenamed 'Longhorn'.

  • News: MacBooks boost Apple's laptop market share

    Apple's MacBooks are continuing to show strong growth in the industry as the company's notebook share jumped almost two percent in May, according to market research firm NPD.

  • News: Symantec targets McAfee's SiteAdvisor

    Symantec researchers are working on a pair of projects to give Norton users a better idea of whether the websites they visit or the files they download are trustworthy.

  • News: New Yahoo CEO reorganises company

    One week after Yahoo named co-founder Jerry Yang as CEO, the company has promoted David Karnstedt to head of North American sales, continuing a company restructuring that began in December 2006.

  • News: Nine out of 10 workers prefer great outdoors

    Mobile workers are taking their work to the beach, onto sailing dinghies and into tree houses as research confirms that nine out of 10 employees prefer to work outdoors.

  • News: Adobe upgrades Illustrator CS3

    Adobe has released Illustrator CS3 13.0.1, an update to the latest major release of its illustration software for Mac OS X.

  • News: MySpace threatening net bandwidth

    Increasingly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook are accounting for such huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption that carriers, universities and corporations are scrambling to keep pace.

  • News: Top 15 Media, Video & Audio utilities

    Your PC is an entertainment powerhouse, just waiting to be unleashed. Its talents include recording and playing music, supporting editing of audio and video files, and burning DVDs and CDs. Unfortunately, the software that came with your PC probably won't handle these tasks with maximum effectiveness. 9831 http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=9831&pn=2

  • News: Best free software: kit out your PC for free

    The down side to buying a low-cost PC (See our: Ultimate guide to buying ultra low-cost PCs) is it’s likely to come with little more than an operating system. But don’t shell out for pricey software – here are some handy bits of freeware

  • News: New Safari 3 beta for Windows & Mac

    Apple has posted a new beta build of its Safari web browser for Mac OS X and Windows, Safari 3.0.2 beta. It's available for download now.

  • News: Sony launches £2,500 ultimate PC

    Expensive PCs were supposed be a thing of the past, but Sony has clearly not heard the news. The company has just announced what must be the most expensive non-gaming PC of the year, the £2,500 RM1N.

  • News: Microsoft suit defends Hotmail users from spam

    Microsoft has filed two lawsuits over the past weeks, looking to crack down on spam on its Windows Live Hotmail network.

  • News: New malware trick outfoxes PC users

    The Sans Institute has uncovered more evidence that internet attackers don't necessarily need any clever technical tricks to plant malicious software on users' systems - an understanding of psychology will do just as well.

  • News: IBM warns of iPhone hack threat

    IBM's security division, Internet Security Systems, has warned that hackers will try to exploit any flaws in Apple’s iPhone, challenged by the massive buzz surrounding the device.

  • News: YouTube more popular than BBC

    According to research from Hitwise, YouTube is set replace the BBC as most visited general entertainment site for UK web surfers, if current trends continue.

  • News: Microsoft runs Silverlight on Linux

    At an event to promote Microsoft technologies in general, and the Silverlight cross-platform interface runtime in particular, Microsoft France asked Miguel de Icaza, head of the Mono project at Novell to demonstrate Silverlight running on Linux, using Mono's open-source implementation of Microsoft's .Net technology.

  • News: Camera phones to bit 1bn mark

    The number of mobile camera phones in use will top 1 billion this year, reflecting their tremendous growth rate since they hit the market around seven years ago, according to a new market evaluation.

  • News: Microsoft upping stakes in China

    Microsoft wants to play a bigger role in China's living rooms, and the company is willing to spend millions of dollars to get there.