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• 05 July 2006

• News: Firms gambling with Data Protection Act

  A lack of awareness of legal requirements concerning data protection is resulting in many companies taking enormous risks.

• News: Raids net pirate DVDs, equipment

  Raids in Indonesia and Hong Kong have led to seizures of pirated DVDs and reproduction equipment, as well as the arrests of a number of people.

• News: Microsoft appeal rejected by Korean court

  The High Court in South Korea yesterday rejected Microsoft's appeal to delay fines and other penalties imposed by the Korea Fair Trade Commission.

• 04 July 2006

• News: Yahoo China in trouble with music industry

  Yahoo China is facing a lawsuit for allegedly infringing the copyright of members of a recording industry group by providing links to illegal music download sites, a spokesman for the group confirmed today.

• News: The Great Firewall of China

  Researchers at Cambridge University claim to have found a way to circumvent China's internet content controls, but some doubt whether their findings really offer a breakthrough.

• News: Treo breaches RoHS directive

  Palm's latest smartphone will no longer be shipped to Europe because it breaches EU regulations that limit the acceptable amount of hazardous substances in electronics goods.

• News: Three vulnerabilities in OpenOffice

  OpenOffice users have been warned of three vulnerabilities that can crash the productivity suite and allow hackers to gain access to system resources.

• News: EU fine against Microsoft approved

  Antitrust regulators from the 25 countries in the European Union gave unanimous support yesterday to the Commission's plan to punish Microsoft for failing to comply with its 2004 antitrust ruling.

• News: BenQ Blu-ray Disc writer coming soon

  Taiwanese component manufacturer BenQ hopes to launch a Blu-ray Disc writer in Europe at the end of August. The device will be one of the first of this kind to come to market.

• News: Mobile internet beats wired in Japan

  The number of internet users in Japan accessing from mobile phones exceeded those using it from PCs in 2005, according to a government report published today.

• News: Russian music download site to be sued

  A lawsuit has been filed against Russian music download site AllofMP3.com by the British recording industry.

• News: Samsung i320 smartphone coming soon

  This month will see the launch of Samsung's Windows Mobile-based SGH-i320 smartphone in Europe.

• 03 July 2006

• News: Nominet and Icann settle feud

  On Friday Icann, the US-based organisation responsible for overseeing internet domain names, announced that it had exchanged letters with Nominet, the company that manages the UK's top-level domain.

• News: IM interoperability 'not on track'

  Users of MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger will have to wait longer for the promised interoperability between the two programs to come to fruition.

• News: 198 charges against IBM thrown out

  A judge has thrown out nearly 200 claims of intellectual property violation filed against IBM by SCO on the grounds that SCO didn't identify the alleged infringements in enough detail.

• News: WGA kill switch in Windows XP denied

  On Friday Microsoft dismissed theories that it plans to cripple copies of Windows XP if users don't install Windows Genuine Advantage, its contentious antipiracy tool.

• News: Google attempts to get lawsuit dismissed

  A lawyer has told a federal judge that Google should be able to use any criteria it chooses to rank websites.

• News: Implications of French copyright law

  French lawmakers approved a copyright law on Friday, in a move that could have profound consequences for online music stores, open-source programmers, desktop Linux users and P2P filesharers.

• News: Microsoft antipiracy program worm appears

  A piece of malware masquerading as Microsoft's antipiracy tool is doing the rounds.

• 02 July 2006

• News: Intel gives BMW Sauber F1 team a boost

  When Jacques Villeneuve raced in the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal last Sunday, his BMW Sauber F1 team had Intel inside.

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