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• 11 October 2006

• News: Home PC users most attacked by hackers

  Ordinary PC users - not large corporate networks - are targeted the most by hackers due to weaker security measures, according to the latest report by Symantec.

• News: Adobe buys mobile video technology

  Pushing deeper into the market for mobile phone applications, Adobe has agreed to acquire technololgy from Actimagine, a French developer of video and interactive vector graphics

• News: 10-megapixel phone 'soon'

  Samsung will put a 10-megapixel camera phone on the market in South Korea shortly. The phone was first shown at the Cebit exhibition in Germany in March this year and was originally due on the market in the second quarter.

• News: Dont install Windows Vista until 2008

  Gartner warns that companies need at least a year to test the new OS before it's safe to install

• News: Carphone Warehouse buys AOL UK

  £370m deal creates the UK’s third largest ISP as "free" broadband pioneer continues aggressive drive

• News: 'Big Brother' creator to pay citizen journalists

  Endemol UK is working with a photo blogging site to find images for a TV programme marking the rise of the citizen journalist.

• News: Ballmer reveals Microsofts premium strategy

  Five years from now Microsoft customers will approve of the fact that the software giant’s products are not free, because they’ll find great value in what the company offers, Steve Ballmer, chief executive at Microsoft, predicts.

• News: Google's official blog gets hacked

  A hacker broke into Google's main official blog and posted a false message, saying the company had decided to cancel a joint project with eBay.

• News: Microsoft reclaims browser share

  Microsoft has increased its share of the global web browser market to 85.85 percent, gaining ground at the expense of Mozilla's Firefox and Apple's Safari browsers.

• News: Google office package challenges Microsoft

  Google has integrated its separate spreadsheet and word-processing applications, giving them a uniform user interface and a unified document repository.

• News: HP's GPS iPaqs double as PDAs

  Hewlett Packard showed off its iPaq rx5700 and rx5900 series Travel Companions, two navigation devices that double as high-end PDAs, in Paris yesterday.

• News: iTunes US gets more TV content

  The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) has joined the growing list of television networks that makes its shows available for purchase and download through Apple's US iTunes store.

• 10 October 2006

• News: Windows & Office users get critical patches

  Microsoft has issued 11 security updates, fixing critical vulnerabilities in its Windows and Office software.

• News: Microsoft revamps Vista anti-piracy technology

  Microsoft has confirmed it is overhauling its anti-piracy technology in Windows Vista to plug a potential software licence hole

• News: Software vulnerabilities on the march

  The number of software security vulnerabilities identified during the first eight months of this year has already gone past the total recorded for all of 2005

• News: Google job offers 'no longer lucrative'

  Taking a job at search engine vendor Google is no longer seen as a quick path to wealth for most new employees.

• News: IBM plans 5.0GHz processor

  IBM plans to crank up the speed on its Power6 server chip to 5.0GHz, far higher than competing processors from Intel and Sun Microsystems.

• News: Widespread web bugs track your email

  The tracer software that Hewlett Packard investigators used to try to sniff out boardroom leaks sounded like it had been ripped from the pages of a bad science-fiction novel. That is, until the company began talking about it in detail at a congressional probe into the spying scandal.

• News: Microsoft ups video stakes

  Microsoft is expected to confirm a deal later today that would see video search engine Blinkx power portions of the MSN and Live.com sites.

• News: Volunteer antispam group faces closure

  A US court has threatened to shut down the Spamhaus Project, a volunteer-run antispam service, for ignoring an $11.7m judgement against it.

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