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• 14 September 2006

• News: Hollywood files piracy suit in Beijing

  Film companies today filed suit against two Beijing retailers of allegedly pirated material, seeking 60,000 renminbi (about £4,000) per pirated title, industry group the Motion Picture Association (MPA) said.

• News: Yahoo rolls out webmail beta to more users

  Yahoo plans to significantly expand the number of people with access to its next-generation webmail service, which has been in test, or beta, mode for about one year.

• News: Office 2007 staggers toward launch

  Microsoft today will offer a refresh of beta 2.0, the final external test release of the product before it is released to manufacturing.

• 13 September 2006

• News: Google Earth gets extra content

  Google is partnering with Discovery Networks, the US National Park Service and others to enrich its Google Earth mapping application with text and multimedia about geographic locations.

• News: Third security patch for the same IE hole

  Among the security patches released by Microsoft today is an Internet Explorer fix that is now being distributed for the third time, due to problems that weren't fixed on the patch's first or second releases.

• News: Video calling from Mac to PC with Skype

  With the latest beta of Skype for the Mac, released today, Skype hopes to help bridge the barrier between Macs and PCs for video calling.

• News: Intel cuckolded by Dell

  Dell has taken a step away from long-time supplier Intel, launching one desktop that spurns the chipmaker's vPro business bundle and two others that use processors from chipmaking competitor AMD.

• News: Authors of Zotob worm caged

  Two Moroccan men have been jailed for releasing the Zotob computer worm, which wreaked havoc on an estimated 250,000 Windows PCs last year.

• News: MS told not to shut out security rivals

  Any attempt to incorporate its own security software in Windows Vista, Microsoft's next-generation operating system, could spark a new antitrust spat with Europe's top regulator.

• News: Apple unleashes iTunes 7.0

  It's Showtime, Apple declared last night, ushering in iTunes 7.0, the latest version of its popular media and iPod management software.

• News: Apple updates iPod range

  Apple updated its iPod range yesterday, introducing larger capacities, brighter screens and lower prices across the range.

• News: BitTorrent plans movie download site

  BitTorrent plans to open an online movie store to sell foreign films and other hard-to-find video, including content from China, Japan and India.

• News: Sony to launch first Blu-ray recorder

  Sony has unveiled a Blu-ray Disc recorder it plans to launch in Japan before the end of this year.

• News: Microsoft patches new Office flaw

  Microsoft has released its monthly set of security patches, fixing a critical flaw in Office.

• News: Introducing the 1GB iPod shuffle

  At its Showtime product launch, Apple yesterday announced a new, tiny iPod shuffle. The 1GB device costs just £55.

• 12 September 2006

• News: HP's chairman to quit in January

  Patricia Dunn, HP's embattled chairman, will be relieved of those duties after the board's 18 January 2007 meeting, but will continue as a director.

• News: Open-source hardware? You better believe it

  A team of hardware developers in the UK and Italy have released the first derivative of Sun's T1 processor under the OpenSparc programme.

• News: CPU wars move to internet cafes

  Intel has teamed up with a Taiwanese motherboard vendor to tap China's burgeoning internet cafe market, on the heels of a similar announcement earlier this year by rival AMD.

• News: eMusic launch gives consumers more choice

  For the launch of its European music download store, eMusic.com has added tracks from hundreds of European independent labels to its collection of US artists.

• News: DoJ interested in HP spying allegations

  The US Department of Justice is asking questions about conduct by HP that has embroiled the technology company in controversy.

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