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- 26 October 2006
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News: US group combats copyright
It's time for consumers, musicians and filmmakers to band together and advocate copyright laws that make sense for them, not for large music labels and movie studios, a group of advocacy groups said during the launch of the Digital Freedom campaign yesterday.
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News: PlayStation 3's Bluetooth gets go-ahead
The PlayStation 3 has cleared another pre-launch hurdle after being approved by the US Federal Communications Commission.
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News: iPod to dominate for 18 months
Jupiter Research predicts the iPod's dominance of the MP3 player market will be unthreatened for at least the next year and a half. What's more, the research firm says the digital music player market will expand from 37 million users this year to 100 million users in 2011.
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News: New delay for Windows Vista
The OS may not ship to businesses as planned after a new bug delays delivery to manufacturers
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News: Secunia claims second IE7 flaw
Just one week after claiming that users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7.0 browser could be at risk to an online attack, Danish security vendor Secunia ApS is reporting a new bug in the browser.
- 25 October 2006
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News: DVD Jon opens up iTunes
DVD Jon (Jon Johansen) has explained his plans to open up Apple's FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) system.
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News: Delay for World of Warcraft update
Blizzard Entertainment is pushing back the release date for World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade by a few weeks and it will no longer be available by the end of the year.
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News: Voice-recognition enables safer driving
The release of a new voice-recognition system could make it safer for European drivers to use in-car equipment such as navigation systems, restaurant finders and digital music players.
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News: AMD plans combined x86 & graphics chip
AMD plans to make chips integrating its x86 with a graphics processor on a single piece of silicon by early 2009. The announcement came as AMD completed its $5.4 billion merger with graphics chip manufacturer ATI.
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News: Wozniak: my genius drove Apple
Steve Wozniak said Apple wouldn’t be where it is today without his “special genius” but admits it was Steve Jobs’ drive and ambition that spurred the early success of the company.
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News: MacBook Pros get Core 2 Duo chips
Apple has upgraded its MacBook Pro laptops by adding Intel's new Core 2 Duo processors and hard drives offering up to 200GB of space.
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News: XP users fear SP3 cancellation
With Microsoft now saying that its next major service pack for Windows XP will not ship until 2008, some Windows users are wondering whether the software upgrade will ever be released.
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News: Huge ID theft scam targets Brits
British detectives are investigating a massive data theft operation that stole sensitive information from 8,500 people in the UK and others in some 60 countries.
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News: Windows XP update delayed again
Microsoft has let the planned shipment date for its SP3 (Service Pack 3) update to Windows XP slip again, this time to the first half of 2008
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News: Firefox 2.0 released
The next generation of the open-source Firefox web browser, version 2.0, has been launched. It's sporting a selection of feature- and security-enhancements
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News: Microsoft offers free Vista upgrade
Software giant announces Vista Express Upgrade programme in the US, in a bid to boost PC sales at Christmas
- 24 October 2006
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News: Microsoft releases Windows Defender
Microsoft released the final version of its Windows Defender antispyware tool today, suggesting that the company it’s sufficiently stable and bug-free for mainstream use.
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News: Firefox 2.0 pre-release warning
Contrary to news reports, the Mozilla Foundation has not prematurely released version 2.0 of its popular Firefox Internet browser and has instead warned users to not download the file from its FTP servers until the official public release.
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News: Sony opens up over battery fiasco
Sony has provided greater detail about the manufacturing problem that's expected to see the replacement of up to 9.6 million laptop computer battery packs.
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News: McAfee hits back over Sophos slur
The Windows Vista security spat that's dividing Microsoft and security vendors continued today when McAfee responded to Sophos' claim that some software suppliers "hadn't coded their solutions" to work with Vista
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