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- 26 April 2006
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News: Microsoft gets into social-networking
Microsoft is entering the social-networking market currently led by Friendster and News Corporation's MySpace.com with its own entry, Wallop.
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News: First-generation UMPCs 'may not succeed'
On 1 May, Samsung will start selling its Q1 UMPC (ultramobile PC), the first of a breed of handheld device that Microsoft and Intel hope will change the way people use computers.
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News: Analysis: LEDs making displays brighter
The quality of the picture on desktop monitors, laptop screens, LCD TVs and dozens of consumer-electronic devices is set to improve drastically with backlighting technology that creates far more vibrant colours, brighter screens and sharper images.
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News: MS adds Office to Genuine Software Initiative
Microsoft has introduced an initiative for testing if customers have a genuine version of its Office productivity suite.
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News: Firefox backers aim to 'destroy' IE
Self-styled 'political activists' in Massachusetts have started a campaign to get web-users to switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer to Mozilla's Firefox browser.
- 25 April 2006
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News: EU judges question Microsoft
European Union court judges questioned Microsoft today about the company's contention that a landmark European Commission antitrust decision denied the software giant's right to compete and innovate.
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News: US government to fund rootkit buster
The US government is funding a startup to tackle the growing threat of rootkits, in the hope that the end result can be used to protect sensitive government and military computers.
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News: Nokia phones focus on video, photo shooting
Nokia today introduced three additions to its N series of mobile phones, as well as services and software designed to encourage customers to use the devices to shoot and share video and photos.
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News: Fast reveals aggressive antitheft plans
Fast – the Federation Against Software Theft – has warned that it's about to launch an initiative to track down users of stolen software.
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News: Linksys jumps on faster Wi-Fi bandwagon
The biggest seller of home wireless LAN equipment yesterday launched its gear for the next generation of technology, introducing three products based on a draft of the IEEE 802.11n standard.
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News: Supreme Court ponders review of AT&T case
The opinion of the US government could be the deciding factor in whether the Supreme Court hears an appeal by Microsoft to avoid paying overseas fines in a patent dispute with AT&T.
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News: Microsoft debuts latest Explorer beta
Microsoft today launched a beta version of its Internet Explorer 7.0 browser, emphasising updated security features designed to defeat security problems that plagued earlier editions.
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News: PSP gets Flash, podcast downloads
Sony today begins offering a software update for the PSP that adds several features including support for Flash content and the ability to save audio podcasts.
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News: eBay Express opens its doors
eBay has launched a preview version of eBay Express, a site that is more conventional than its online marketplace and that the company's largest and most experienced merchants were eagerly awaiting.
- 24 April 2006
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News: Google, Yahoo expand search market share
Google and Yahoo increased their market share in the online search arena as Microsoft's MSN slipped, according to Nielsen NetRatings.
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News: Microsoft announces next mobile OS
Microsoft, which has been carving a larger slice of the mobile device OS market, is developing a product codenamed 'Crossbow'.
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News: Microsoft attacks EU on bundling ruling
Microsoft kicked off its appeal against the EC’s 2004 antitrust ruling today with a searing attack on the arguments against bundling Media Player in Windows.
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News: More Mac OS X vulnerabilities revealed
A security researcher has released code that exploits a number of recently discovered and unpatched bugs in Mac OS X.
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News: Microsoft, EC ready for showdown
As their now infamous antitrust case comes to a head this week in a Luxembourg courtroom, the one ally both Microsoft and the European Commission need is time.
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News: Microsoft to re-issue buggy security patch
Microsoft plans to re-issue a security patch for its Windows operating system that caused serious headaches for some users.
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