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• 01 September 2006

• News: Intel may lay off thousands next week

  Intel will announce the results of an internal review of its operations next week that could result in thousands of layoffs at the company, according to published reports.

• News: Parental controls offered by Microsoft

  Microsoft has opened up testing of a web-based service that allows parents to control what their children do on the internet.

• News: Windows Media Player 11.0 Beta 2.0 arrives

  Microsoft has released Beta 2.0 of the next version of Windows Media Player for Windows XP, adding more online stores for buying digital music and letting users share content across various devices.

• News: Make Skype calls without a PC

  Philips has announced a phone that allows users of Skype's internet telephony service to make calls without having to boot up their PCs.

• News: Hitachi hard disks target DVR market

  Hitachi hopes to win market share from rival Toshiba with three new high-capacity hard drives that will reach the digital video recording and navigation markets in 2007.

• News: Another Firefox 2.0 beta arrives

  Mozilla has released another test version of Firefox 2.0, which will be the next major version of its popular open-source browser.

• News: Samsung handsets to be investigated in US

  The US International Trade Commission said yesterday it will investigate complaints by Ericsson and its Swedish parent company that Samsung and two of its US companies violated patents used its mobile handsets.

• 31 August 2006

• News: Microsoft Zune will fail, analyst predicts

  An analyst last night labelled Microsoft's Zune music player 'underwhelming', and said it is unlikely to dent Apple's share in the market.

• News: Microsoft antitrust judgement extended

  The US Department of Justice and Microsoft filed formal paperwork yesterday to extend part of an antitrust judgment against the company for at least two years.

• News: Nokia beefs up N80's internet capabilities

  Nokia will release a version of its N80 multimedia phone next month with improved internet capabilities.

• News: Vista reliant on 'aggressive' beta testing

  Sven Hallauer, director of release management for Windows Vista, says Microsoft is counting on "aggressive" beta testers to get Windows Vista into the shops in time.

• News: iPod manufacturer cuts damages claim

  The iPod manufacturer at the heart of a furore over the treatment of workers in China has reduced the damages it is seeking from a pair of journalists accused of defaming the company.

• News: PlayStation 3 site launched in Japan

  Three weeks ahead of the first public unveiling of its PlayStation 3 console, Sony has launched an official website for the new console.

• News: Dispute could ground air passengers

  A failure by the US and EU to reach an agreement next month on the provision of passenger data for transatlantic flights could ground up to 105,000 people each week.

• News: Cover your online tracks with Browzar

  The latest entrant to the crowded internet browser market is the appropriately named Browzar, a tool specifically designed to protect users' privacy by not retaining details of the websites they've searched.

• News: Intel to launch vPro desktop bundle

  Intel is set to announce next week that HP and other vendors are ready to ship the chip company's vPro technology bundle in business desktops, according to sources.

• News: Micron unveils 16Gb memory chip

  Micron is offering a new 16Gb DRAM memory chip, billing it as the densest server-memory module on the market.

• News: Amazon blows Microsoft's secrets – again

  Windows Vista isn't the only forthcoming Microsoft software for which Amazon has apparently pre-announced availability.

• 30 August 2006

• News: MTV Networks' broadband push begins

  As young people increasingly tune out television and tune into online video and chat, MTV Networks is hoping to win their attention with a broadband service that appears part MTV, part YouTube and part MySpace.

• News: 160GB perpendicular HDDs for laptops coming

  Fujitsu will soon bring the benefits of perpendicular recording technology to its family of 2.5in hard-disk drives.

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