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  • News: Slingshot tool takes aim at Adobe's Apollo

    The race to provide web developers with a tool to bring some rich internet features to the desktop continued yesterday with the unveiling of Joyent's Slingshot framework for building online and offline Ruby on Rails applications.

  • News: Full extent of broadband blues revealed

    Ofcom reveals that twice as many people as it previously announced complained about UK broadband ISPs last year

  • News: Trojan targets Skype users

    Another Trojan horse is spreading through the internet telephone network of Skype.

  • News: Mac OS X Leopard delayed until October?

    Apple will be forced to delay the release of Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard' until October to ensure Boot Camp supports Windows Vista, according to an unconfirmed report on Macworld UK’s website.

  • News: Xbox hack: Microsoft staff stand accused

    Microsoft has blamed Xbox Live network account hacks on users' gullibility, but evidence shows that in some cases the gaming service's own support staff could be unwittingly helping hackers snare players' identities.

  • News: Woolworths launches own-brand software

    The company behind Tesco’s range of PC software has signed a similar deal with Woolworths, with the UK retailer soon to release seven titles designed for home users.

  • News: Disney sued over Apple iTunes deal

    Starz Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against Disney for copyright infringement and breach of contract. The lawsuit was filed because Disney began selling the same movies to Apple and Wal-Mart as it had previously offered exclusively to Starz.

  • News: iPhone available on eBay

    eBay seller offers six iPhones in the US, three months before the handset is due to go on sale

  • News: Upgrade for Yahoo Widgets

    Yahoo has updated its free Widget software and touted the program's new automatic updating feature and its lighter appetite for RAM.

  • News: Time-saving P2P calendar tool launched

    Tungle is releasing a beta version of a plug-in application designed to let users create a peer-to-peer (P2P) network of people for the sole purpose of simplifying the process of scheduling meetings.

  • News: IBM develops cooler processors

    Boffins at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory have developed a glue-application technique used to assemble chips that will keep them running cooler, the company said.

  • News: Murdoch's YouTube rival coming in Q3

    News Corp and NBC Universal will challenge Google's YouTube for online eyeballs and advertising dollars by launching a video-streaming website by the third quarter.

  • News: UK firms put off Windows Vista

    UK firms show little enthusiasm for the Windows Vista operating system, with nearly six out of 10 businesses saying they have no plans to deploy it, according to new research.

  • News: Google cleared of search 'conspiracy'

    A US District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Google by a company that accused it of dropping websites from search results for political and religious reasons and skewing results in favour of companies that compensate Google financially.

  • News: 'Inept' BBC bungles broadband survey

    The BBC’s Watchdog programme has been criticised for fumbling the presentation of its broadband ISP survey on television.

  • News: Bill Gates to finally receive Harvard degree

    It's not like he needs it to beef up his CV, but the world's richest college dropout is finally getting his degree

  • News: Nokia N95 handset with GPS ships

    Nokia has started shipping its N95 mobile phone in Europe and Asia, the first in an expected series of devices from the Finnish company with built-in GPS (global positioning system) capabilities.

  • News: Confusion over Xbox Live 'hack'

    Microsoft said it has found no evidence that Xbox Live accounts have been hacked, despite at least 50 reports from gamers on the Xbox Live forum claiming hackers were stealing their accounts.

  • News: Apple to help define future of the web

    Apple has joined the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) standards body, the HTML Working Group. An entry on the Surfin' Safari blog notes that three lead Safari developers have joined the group, including lead Apple Safari and WebKit developer, Dave Hyatt.

  • News: Clinton's YouTube Apple mashup mystery

    The creator of the Apple ad mashup that paints Senator Hillary Clinton as a 1984-esque ‘Big Sister’ has not yet been identified. But earlier this month, the creator told a political blogger the idea came after a campaign contribution quarrel between Clinton, Senator Barack Obama and Hollywood producer David Geffen.