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  • News: Microsoft killing Vista betas today

    Free Windows Vista previews are coming to an end with Microsoft to force beta versions to reboot every two hours before crippling them completely in August

  • News: iTunes on Windows is like ice water in hell

    Apple's CEO Steve Jobs compared Windows to hell in an on-stage conversation with the Wall Street Journal's personal technology columnist Walt Mossberg at the newspaper's D: All Things Digital conference yesterday.

  • News: Gov't starts £600m police database project

    The UK government has begun procurement for a police national database in a contract worth up to £600m - and admitted that the £25.2m cross-regional information sharing project (Crisp) has been axed. Crisp was seen as a crucial stepping stone to the national police IT system recommended in June 2004 by the Bichard inquiry into the deaths of schoolgirls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells the June 2004.

  • News: London Stock Exchange brings IT in-house

    The London Stock Exchange has brought its IT service delivery team back in-house, in recognition of the core role that computer systems now play in its business.

  • News: Email scammers use IRS threat

    If you get an email telling you that you're under investigation by the US Internal Revenue Service, take a breath before calling your lawyer. It's a scam.

  • News: 82m smartphones & PDAs by 2011

    Worldwide shipments of mobile devices will see a compound annual growth rate of 54 percent in the next four years, and by 2011 there will be 82 million such devices in use, according to a report released by IDC.

  • News: Cisco boss to head Joost?

    Former Cisco executive Mike Volpi is reportedly headed to Joost to be the online video company's next CEO.

  • News: Ballmer explains 'software and service'

    Speaking at a lunch meeting in Seattle yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tried to explain the difference between the words ‘as’ and ‘and’ when placed between the words ‘software’ and ‘service’.

  • News: EMI follows Apple's YouTube lead

    Following news of Apple's link up with Google-owned YouTube, UK record company EMI has shaken hands with the video-sharing website in a landmark deal.

  • News: Apple unveils quad-power TV

    Apple has started selling its Apple TV home-entertainment system with a hard disk four times the capacity of the original: a whopping 160GB.

  • News: Apple TV links with YouTube

    Apple is bringing YouTube content to the living room with its Apple TV home-entertainment system. Beginning in mid-June, Apple TV will wirelessly stream videos directly from YouTube and play them on a user’s widescreen TV.

  • News: Readers' PCs crippled by MBS porn billing

    When we see a spate of complaints in our online forum, all about the same company, and all posted in a fairly short space of time, I know that something isn’t right, and we need to investigate further. That’s exactly what has happened over the past few weeks, and the company concerned – Micro Bill Systems – has cropped up in several forum threads. It’s all to do with the way that MBS tries to recover money which it says is owed to its clients as a result of consumers accessing websites that work on a monthly subscription basis.

  • News: News Corp buys Photobucket

    After an ugly stand off last month, News Corp's MySpace and Photobucket will end up as part of the same company

  • News: 'Spam King' arrested in the US

    A Seattle man has been arrested for illegal spamming activities following an indictment by a federal grand jury last week.

  • News: PS3 for business enabled by Linux

    Helios could turn Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) into a business tool, after figuring out how to install its media asset management software on the console.

  • News: Chip could kill external storage on 3G phones

    Samsung Electronics has squeezed 4GB of storage into a mobile phone chipset that the manufacturer believes could eliminate the need for external memory card slots.

  • News: Free Adobe Coldfusion 8 beta launched

    Adobe has released a public beta version of the ColdFusion 8 web development software. ColdFusion 8 is designed for developers building dynamic websites and internet applications, and the public beta is a feature-complete preview, according to the company.

  • News: Schmidt defends Google's web dominance

    Speaking at a conference in South Korea, Eric Schmidt, the chairman and chief executive officer of Google, ducked the question of whether his company's dominance of internet search may ultimately distort democratic gains from improved information access. But he promised governments will be held to account more than ever before.

  • News: Security hole in open-source Mac OS X tool

    Symantec has warned Mac OS X users that one of the open-source technologies included in the operating system was vulnerable to an attack. The flaw only affects users that have turned on Windows Sharing - it is off by default on Mac OS X.

  • News: CSC's 'extraordinary' influence on iSoft deal

    Analysts have described the influence of UK NHS contractor CSC on the fate of troubled software supplier iSoft as "extraordinary" after the IT services firm blocked the software company's planned sale.