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• 24 April 2006

• News: Chinese users want Google to pick another name

  Some Chinese internet users aren't happy with Google's recently announced Chinese name, and they've started an online petition to express their displeasure.

• News: eBay takes fight to Google

  Google's recent launch of a product-listings service with an online payment system has eBay on red alert and seeking to defend itself through partnerships with Yahoo or Microsoft.

• 23 April 2006

• News: Apple blogger case heard by court

  In a case that could have broad implications for journalists everywhere, Apple argued yesterday that its subpoena of the ISP of an online news website should be allowed to go forward.

• 22 April 2006

• News: Analysis: no Windows Vista until 2007

  Microsoft's next operating system - initially roadmapped to appear two years ago - won't be with us until after Christmas.

• 21 April 2006

• News: Protesters try to foil UK ID card plan

  A group worried about the security of personal data to be collected under an identity card plan is calling on people to renew their passports in May to avoid being part of the identity card scheme for at least 10 years.

• News: Windows pundit pours scorn on Vista

  Windows expert Paul Thurrott has launched a scathing attack on Microsoft's Vista OS.

• News: Microsoft loses bid to see IBM documents

  Microsoft failed in its bid to subpoena communications from IBM relating to an antitrust case against Microsoft in the European Union.

• News: Gates' dream: a tablet PC for every student

  The uphill battle that tablet computing continues to face in winning favour with consumers hasn't dampened Bill Gates' enthusiasm for the technology.

• News: Microsoft plans online storage service

  Microsoft is working on an online storage service that appears to be aimed at a service called Gdrive in development at Google, according to sources familiar with Microsoft's plans.

• News: HP recalls 15,700 laptop batteries

  HP is recalling 15,700 laptop batteries after reports that they overheated, causing minor property damage and, in one instance, a minor burn injury, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said yesterday.

• News: Jury orders MS and Autodesk to pay up

  A jury in Texas on Wednesday awarded z4 Technologies. $115m (about £65m) from Microsoft and $18m (£10m) from Autodesk to settle a patent-infringment suit filed in September 2004.

• News: Google tests updated results page

  Google is testing a different page format for its general web search results that lets users significantly expand the content provided below website links.

• News: Panasonic to launch Blu-ray drive in June

  Panasonic plans to begin selling a Blu-ray Disc drive in Japan in June for use in desktop computers, the company said today.

• 20 April 2006

• News: China heading for top spam spot

  The US is still the top spam-relaying country, but its share of the global bane continues to drop, security vendor Sophos has reported in its latest statistics.

• News: AMD plans antihyperthreading

  What's better than two processors? Normally the answer might be four processors but, according to a leak from AMD France, the processor maker is instead working on a multicore CPU that acts like one CPU.

• News: LCD screen prices falling

  A string of new factories being built, combined with slow demand for notebook and desktop PC screens, caused LCD prices to fall during the first three months of the year.

• News: Opera releases public beta of latest browser

  Opera released the first public beta of Opera 9.0 today, giving users the go ahead to put its latest web browser through its paces.

• News: Panasonic to sell 103in PDP TV this year

  Panasonic will sell a flat-panel TV with a 103in screen by the end of the year, the company said yesterday.

• News: Yahoo helps arrest another Chinese dissident

  A media rights group has identified a third dissident who the Chinese government arrested based on information apparently supplied by a Yahoo subsidiary.

• News: PC growth strong in Q1, analysts say

  Worldwide PC unit shipments worldwide grew strongly in the first quarter, research companies Gartner and IDC reported yesterday.

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