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• 21 June 2006

• News: Top Microsoft man quits suddenly

  Martin Taylor, best known for his role in leading Microsoft's anti-Linux 'Get the Facts' campaign, has abruptly left the company, Microsoft confirmed yesterday.

• News: Panasonic digital SLR to hit Japan in July

  Panasonic today announced that its first digital SLR (single lens reflex) camera will go on sale in Japan next month, with other regions to follow soon after.

• News: Code to exploit second Excel flaw posted

  A second vulnerability in Excel has been discovered after a hacker posted code on the internet that could be used to exploit it.

• News: 'Naked World Cup' hoax email spreads

  Football purists can breathe a sigh of relief. There is no Naked World Cup.

• News: NHS defends modernisation program

  The IT chief of the NHS yesterday acknowledged problems with its ambitious 10-year modernisation project, but cited progress in installing next-generation medical IT systems throughout England.

• News: Lycos plans internet TV push

  Lycos will launch a website devoted to high-quality, long-form video such as full-length films and television episodes in the third quarter of this year.

• News: Groups push alternative net neutrality proposals

  In an effort to advance the net neutrality debate in the US Congress, two groups have offered their own proposals to prohibit broadband providers from discriminating against competing internet content.

• News: Samsung considers HD-DVD/Blu-ray player

  Samsung yesterday stated that it is considering launching a player that conforms to both the HD-DVD and Blu-ray disc formats.

• 20 June 2006

• News: Frozen chip runs at 500GHz

  Researchers at IBM have run a silicon-based microprocessor at 500GHz, more than 250 times faster than a typical mobile phone chip.

• News: Samsung sees strong demand for flat-panel TVs

  Strong demand for slim, big-screen televisions helped in part by this month's World Cup should lead the global flat-panel TV market to greater than anticipated growth this year.

• News: German (robots) win the World Cup

  The RoboCup 2006 championship in Bremen ended on Sunday with Germany winning 11 of the 33 robot football categories.

• News: Microsoft enters the robotics market

  Microsoft released the preview version of a software toolkit for building robot applications today, pledging to ignite the robot market in the same way it did the PC market some 20 years ago.

• News: Broadband operator Be bought by O2

  O2 became the third UK mobile operator in the last month to branch out into fixed-line broadband services, with an announcement today that it has bought broadband operator Be.

• News: Windows Live Messenger rolls out

  Windows Live Messenger, the next-generation version of Microsoft's instant-messaging service for consumers, is available to download.

• News: Yahoo Messenger opened up for developers

  Yahoo's IM network is being opened up to external developers so they can create more applications to improve its functionality.

• News: Secret Google data centre near completion

  On the banks of the Columbia river in Oregon, Google is about to complete work on a data centre. But what exactly the project is all about is proving difficult to fathom.

• News: Chinese film industry suffers from piracy

  Sixty-one percent of film producers, exhibitors and distributors surveyed in China believe that piracy will increase, according to a study announced by the Motion Picture Association yesterday.

• News: EC to continue sharing passenger data with US

  After Europe's highest court overturned a European Union agreement to share passenger data with American authorities, the European Commission has proposed a law that does much the same as the one that was annulled.

• News: Protect yourself from the Excel bug

  Microsoft yesterday offered users advice on how to protect themselves from the critical bug in Excel.

• 19 June 2006

• News: Origami feedback mixed, says Samsung

  Citing a mixture of reactions from customers who bought its Q1 device, Samsung has said that the pre-launch teaser campaign run by Microsoft about the Origami project may have been misleading.

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