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• 12 April 2006

• News: For BlackBerry read RedBerry

  China Unicom (China United Telecommunications), the country's second-largest mobile operator, has introduced a push email service with a name that closely echoes RIM's popular BlackBerry service.

• News: Sony unveils Vaio L series desktop PCs

  Sony yesterday unveiled its mid-year PC line-up for Japan, including the Vaio L desktop series.

• News: Microsoft releases critical IE patch

  Microsoft has released its security software patches for April, addressing an unpatched bug in the Internet Explorer browser that hackers had been exploiting for several weeks.

• News: China to toughen stance on software piracy

  Chinese government officials yesterday committed to increased protection for intellectual property such as software.

• News: Microsoft goes Live with Google Scholar rival

  Microsoft has released a search tool that will go head to head with the Google Scholar service.

• News: Fujitsu to launch Blu-ray, HD-DVD PCs

  Fujitsu hasn't taken sides in the next-generation DVD format battle, planning to launch a desktop PC with a Blu-ray Disc drive and a laptop PC with an HD-DVD drive.

• 11 April 2006

• News: Second-hand Microsoft licences fuel startup

  A company that came up with the idea of selling second-hand Microsoft software licences said it has sold thousands of them in its first few months of operation.

• News: MS develops entry-level music-making app

  Microsoft is developing a product to compete with Apple's GarageBand, code-named 'Monaco'.

• News: Creative declares war on iPod

  Creative has launched a full-scale attack on Apple's iPod market share in the UK, aggressively slashing prices across its product range.

• News: Toshiba heads for winners' enclosure

  Hot on the heels of its launch in Japan, Toshiba has given the UK press its first look at the world's first HD-DVD player, the HD-XA1.

• News: McAfee unveils threat centre portal

  McAfee has jazzed up its website with an online portal designed to help users research a wide range of security problems.

• News: Band to release track on mobiles first

  Next month, an Italian-British band will offer a new track exclusively available as a download to handsets.

• 10 April 2006

• News: High expectations for eBay Express

  Expectations for eBay Express are running high among experienced eBay sellers, who view the upcoming specialty site as a potentially significant new channel.

• News: Windows ups appeal of Macs

  Apple's development of software that lets Intel-based Macintosh systems run Windows XP natively has met with the approval of several Mac-friendly IT managers. They said last week that Apple's embrace of Microsoft's operating system should make it easier to deploy the company's hardware.

• News: IBM adds encryption to new CPU

  IBM has stolen a lead on its chip rivals with a microprocessor that has encryption hardwired into its core circuitry.

• News: Service offers unconnected browsing

  A Seattle company has introduced a service today that allows people with laptops or handheld computers to surf through a range of web content while they're offline.

• News: Taiwan pans Google, Yahoo on free speech

  Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has accused Yahoo and Google of allowing the prospect of corporate profits to lure them into compromising free speech in China.

• News: Windows Vista beta runs on Intel Mac

  Developers have managed to get a beta version of Windows Vista working on an Intel-based Mac.

• News: Virus threatens PCs running Linux or Windows

  Hackers have released a sample code for a virus that could infect both Linux and Windows PCs.

• News: Intel reveals LCD TV laptop concept

  Intel today revealed a laptop PC concept design in which the machine folds up with the screen facing away from the keypad and then slips into a docking station for use as an LCD (liquid crystal display) TV.

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