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• 29 September 2006

• News: One more for luck – another IE flaw found

  The US government and several security vendors warned this week of newly published proof-of-concept code that exploits a serious, unpatched security flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer.

• News: Sony laptop battery amnesty widens

  Dell has increased by 100,000 the number of laptop batteries it is recalling due to a potential fire hazard, while Toshiba said it would take part in Sony's voluntary battery replacement programme kicked off yesterday.

• News: BBC, Microsoft develop partnership

  Microsoft and the BBC have said they plan to explore cutting-edge ways that the BBC can deliver content.

• News: Morpheus software 'encouraged piracy'

  In another blow to P2P filesharing, a US federal judge ruled this week that the Morpheus software program encouraged users to infringe upon copyrighted works.

• News: Toshiba will exchange 830,000 more batteries

  Toshiba is offering to replace a further 830,000 laptop batteries containing cells made by Sony, it said today.

• News: Sony plans battery replacement program

  Sony will conduct its own replacement program to address overheating problems that have hit some laptop batteries.

• News: PayPal stumps up $5.2m to settle lawsuits

  eBay's PayPal payment division will pay $3.5m to consumers and $1.7m to 28 US states in settlements for two different actions regarding its notification of users regarding their rights, the company said yesterday.

• News: Intel offers $1m for 'sexy' PCs

  Intel this week said it is offering as much as $1m in prizes to the PC designer and maker that build the most stylish small computer optimised for multimedia use at home.

• News: Zune will go on sale in US on 14 November

  Microsoft's Zune digital media player will go on sale in the US on 14 November for $250, the company said yesterday, in line with the price of video iPods already available from Apple.

• News: IBM, Lenovo recall 526,000 batteries

  IBM and Lenovo recalled 526,000 Sony batteries for ThinkPad laptops yesterday, becoming the latest notebook vendors to act on fire-prone power sources.

• News: BlackBerry tops 6m users, but trouble ahead

  The number of BlackBerry account holders reached 6.2 million at the beginning of September as Research In Motion reported revenue up 34 percent – but market researcher IDC said trouble may lie ahead for the company.

• 28 September 2006

• News: Third security patch reissued by Microsoft

  Microsoft has re-issued another security patch that it originally published in August over a bug that can corrupt users' files. The patch is the third that Microsoft has had to fix from its August set.

• News: NHS IT contracts go to CSC

  Accenture has walked away from two contracts to deliver regional IT systems and services to the NHS. An alliance led by Computer Sciences Corporation will take over the contracts.

• News: BenQ Mobile to file for bankruptcy

  BenQ Mobile plans to file for bankruptcy protection in Germany after its Taiwanese parent decided to stop investing in the money-losing operation, the mobile phone maker said today.

• News: Another one bites the dust: more HP casualties

  HP chief executive Mark Hurd has called the spying scandal that has swamped the company a 'rogue investigation', in an advance copy of testimony he will give to a Congressional hearing later today.

• News: More of everything on offer at Photokina

  Trends emerging at the Photokina imaging exhibition in Germany show no end to the flurry of innovation underway in digital photography.

• News: CPU performance to increase by 300 percent

  By 2010, processor performance will increase 300 percent per watt as users demand eight times more grunt for encoding.

• News: Attackers targeting PowerPoint bug

  One day after patching a widely exploited flaw in its Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft has another bug to worry about, this time in PowerPoint.

• News: Yahoo buys video website Jumpcut

  Yahoo agreed to buy video-editing and publishing Jumpcut website yesterday, as internet companies continue to seek ways to compete with YouTube.

• News: AOL identity theft ring broken up

  Six men have been charged with orchestrating a phishing scheme that targeted AOL users, the US Department of Justice said yesterday.

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