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• 25 May 2006

• News: Sony Ericsson plans more specialised mobiles

  After an enthusiastic consumer reaction to Walkman-branded mobile phones, Sony Ericsson is planning more handsets that are focused around a single, major feature.

• News: Qualcomm sues Nokia in UK court

  Qualcomm took its battle with Nokia one step further yesterday, filing another patent-infringement lawsuit against the Finnish mobile phone maker, this time in the UK.

• News: YouTube corners web video market

  YouTube is the most visited video website, attracting almost half of all visitors and towering over giants such as Google, Yahoo, AOL and MSN, according to Hitwise.

• News: Microsoft mobile kit to boost Live services

  Microsoft will let vendors include Windows Live voice services on mobile devices through a toolkit that will be available in the next few months.

• News: Patent law reforms still needed

  The US government is moving in the right direction with its efforts to reform its patent process, a top executive at Research In Motion has said.

• News: Microsoft maintains stance against ODF

  Despite the recent approval of the ODF (Open Document Format) for Office Applications by the ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation), Microsoft remains stalwart in its decision to forego support of ODF in its Office productivity suite.

• News: EU backtracks on patent law

  The European Commission this week appeared to take a step back from its earlier position on the patentability of software.

• News: Free antivirus offered to Vista testers

  Computer Associates is offering free antivirus software to protect the latest Beta 2.0 release of Microsoft's Vista operating system.

• 24 May 2006

• News: Semantic web 'will drive internet'

  Hundreds of researchers and computer scientists are plotting the internet's next course in Edinburgh this week.

• News: Switch Word to safe mode, warns Microsoft

  Microsoft is advising people to run its Word application in 'safe mode' to help guard against a Trojan program that surfaced recently.

• News: UK is Europe's most digital market

  The UK has been declared Western Europe's most digital market, according to fresh research from Informa Telecoms And Media.

• News: Vista launch could slip further

  The launch of the consumer version of Windows Vista, Microsoft's next operating system, could be pushed back past the stated January launch date, company CEO Steve Ballmer said today.

• News: Microsoft launches Windows Live Local in UK

  Microsoft today launched a beta version of Windows Live Local, its local search, online mapping and satellite photo service, in the UK.

• News: Microsoft offerings prepare partners for Vista

  Microsoft yesterday unveiled programs and technologies to allow partners to prepare products to run on Windows Vista once it is available.

• News: Nike trainers talk to people via iPods

  Nike is putting the world's most popular music player to work in a system designed for its latest trainers that tells runners the distance and time they've covered in their daily jog.

• News: Jamster finds hope in Chinese piracy crackdown

  A promised crackdown on pirated mobile downloads will give mobile content provider Jamster a much-needed boost in China, the company's top executive said today.

• 23 May 2006

• News: Microsoft announces Vista Beta 2.0

  Bill Gates announced that Beta 2.0 versions of Vista, Longhorn Server and 2007 Office would be available from today at the WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering) conference in Seattle.

• News: Software piracy rate remains steady

  Thirty-five percent of the packaged software installed on PCs worldwide in 2005 was pirated, the same percentage as in 2004, according to a study released today by the Business Software Alliance).

• News: 'Neutrality preserves internet openness'

  The computer scientist credited with inventing the web today strongly condemned moves by US broadband providers to control their subscribers' content, saying it threatens the internet's greatest strength: openness.

• News: 3,500 charged in file-sharing swoop

  German investigators have charged 3,500 people with illegal music sharing, in the biggest single sweep of its kind, the IFPI said today.

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