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• 13 September 2006

• 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.

• News: McAfee says sorry for bugs in Falcon

  McAfee has apologised to users for bugs in the company's line of client protection software, released last month.

• News: Dell has trouble filing accounts

  Dell has delayed filing its quarterly earnings report with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and may have to restate past earnings statements, the company said yesterday.

• News: Norton Internet Security 2007 unveiled

  Symantec this week unveiled the 2007 editions of its consumer Norton AntiVirus and Internet Security desktop products, plus a third new offering called Norton Confidential that protects e-commerce transactions.

• News: Windows Live Search fully operational

  Microsoft is removing the beta tag from Live Search, its next-generation search engine, and making it the underlying search tool at its MSN.com portal.

• 11 September 2006

• News: Blinkx provides searchable European news

  More online users may begin accessing video and audio content produced by the European Commission now that Blinkx, the video search engine, is including in its database content from the European Commission Audiovisual Service.

• News: EU expands probe into Intel's activities

  The EC has expanded an ongoing antitrust probe of computer chip maker Intel to examine claims that the company has been pressuring the Continent's largest computer retail chain not to sell computers containing chips made by AMD.

• News: Vodafone enters broadband market

  Vodafone has struck a deal with BT that will allow the mobile operator to use existing fixed-line networks to provide a broadband service in the UK.

• News: Second Life users must change password

  After discovering a security breach last week, Linden Lab, the creator of the online game Second Life, has asked all 650,000 users of the game to change their passwords.

• News: Record number of phishing attacks in July

  Cybercriminals created a record number of phishing websites in July and hijacked a record number of brands to help them do their work, a consortium that monitors online fraud said today.

• News: Free MP3 player for Napster subscribers

  In a bid to tempt users away from iTunes, Napster is to offer a free MP3 player to subscribers.

• News: DRM-free video downloads from 4flix.net

  Online video site 4Flix.net has introduced a monthly subscription plan that allows unrestricted access to hundreds of feature-length movies, TV shows, cartoons and independent films for $9.99 a month.

• News: Three-layer HD-DVD disc prototype developed

  Toshiba and Memory-Tech have developed a three-layer optical disc that can be read by both DVD and HD-DVD players.

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