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  • News: Sony strikes OLED joint development plan

    Sony is planning to work with Japanese oil company Idemitsu Kosan on the development of luminous materials for future OLED displays, the two companies said today.

  • News: Mozilla to release Firefox 1.5 today

    After a host of test releases and one false start, a new version of the Firefox browser will be ready today, the Mozilla Foundation announced yesterday.

  • News: Samsung makes bigger flexible LCD

    Samsung Electronics has improved on a flexible LCD panel it announced in January this year and produced a larger, higher-resolution version, the company announced on Monday.

  • News: Photocopier techs get set for Christmas

    With the office party season approaching, photocopier technicians are bracing themselves for another spate of weight-related call-outs.

  • News: iPod rivals plan universal connector

    As Apple Computer prepares for what seems certain to be a bumper Christmas of iPod sales, its competitors are fighting back by teaming up to invent their own dock connector.

  • News: UK shoppers hit the net

    UK high-street retailers face a gloomy Christmas, as shoppers turn to the web for their seasonal needs.

  • News: A Google timeline

    This is a timeline primarily based on information found on the Google Milestones page on the company's website and complemented with external information.

  • News: London opening for dream-inspired iPod store

    The UK's first dedicated iPod store has opened its doors in London, just in time for the Christmas shopping rush. Celebrating the opening, managing director Jonathan Cole explains how the concept and name came to him in a dream.

  • News: Judge orders Kazaa to install keyword filter

    The operators of the Kazaa filesharing service have been given until 5 December to update their software with a filter to screen out copyright material or face the prospect of being shut down.

  • News: NTT DoCoMo to launch child-tracking service

    In March 2006 NTT DoCoMo will launch a service that allows parents to regularly monitor the whereabouts of their children through their offspring's mobile phones, it said yesterday.

  • News: Informal poll highlights Xbox 360 glitches

    In an internet survey, 16 percent of respondents said they are having problems with their new Microsoft gaming console. But the firm says there are no major bugs, and that difficulties have been reported with only a very small proportion of its machines.

  • News: BitTorrent reaches movie detente

    The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and popular file-sharing service BitTorrent have reached a deal to fight piracy.

  • News: Software group seeks role in Microsoft case

    The FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe) has asked to be allowed to make arguments against Microsoft in part of its appeal against last year's antitrust ruling against it by the EU's competition authority, the European Commission, an FSFE attorney said Thursday.

  • News: Google Space blasts off in Heathrow

    The web giant’s latest project, Google Space, made its debut in Terminal One of Heathrow airport today. An area where holidaymakers and business travellers can sample the company's various services, Google Space will be at the airport until 17 December.

  • News: Open-source vending machine 'gaining momentum'

    Meet the Freedom Toaster, a vending-machine lookalike that is providing open-source software in more than 30 locations in South Africa, including schools, libraries, science centres and shops.

  • News: IBM employees play with podcasting

    What do you get when you hand 320,000 employees the tools and corporate podcasting guidelines to internally publish their audio creations? In IBM's experience, lower phone bills and better, more informal internal communication.

  • News: Samsung may face probe on Apple memory deal

    Samsung is facing a possible investigation by South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission following press allegations that it sold NAND flash memory chips to Apple at below-market prices.

  • News: Is Microsoft making a loss on Xbox 360?

    Despite promises from Microsoft executives that the retail price of the new Xbox 360 game console would cover production costs, two different market researchers have suggested that the company may be losing money on the machines.

  • News: Analysis: will net governance ever change?

    For the past two years, engineers and government policy makers have been engaged in a frequently acrimonious debate on how the internet should be governed. That debate reached its zenith at the UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia last week, when both sides declared victory.

  • News: Microsoft making RSS a two-way street

    Microsoft is extending the popular RSS 2.0 web syndication format to make it 'multidirectional', allowing it to be used for synchronising information such as contacts and calendar entries across different applications.