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  • 10 November 2005

  • News: UK telecom regulator clears RFID tagging

    The watchdog has allocated the 865MHz to 868MHz range for RFID tags to be used in asset tracking and stock control. No licence will be required, under the decision, which 'will save UK businesses £100m to £200m over 10 years'

  • 09 November 2005

  • News: Samsung not planning a music service after all

    Samsung isn't planning an online music store to compete with existing services, it said on Monday, claiming previous reports were the result of a misunderstanding.

  • News: Microsoft renames antispyware product

    Microsoft has given an official name to its antispyware software. The product, which has been known as Windows AntiSpyware Beta 1.0, will be called Windows Defender when the finished version becomes available next year.

  • News: Google pursues rivals' customers

    Google is looking to poach customers of other enterprise search vendors with a new trade-in programme aimed at fostering adoption of its Search Appliance, the company announced on Tuesday.

  • News: Study: AMD edges past Intel in retail PC sales

    Chip-making underdog AMD edged past Intel last month in supplying processors for the US retail PC market, according to a study by research firm Current Analysis Inc.

  • News: Microsoft displays its digital dream

    The idea of Microsoft some day decorating your home or business might be taking the software supertanker’s influence a bit too far. But the company has made a mock-up home, business and cafe as part of a marketing strategy to show its customers exactly how the technology it produces would really work if, say, someone actually used it.

  • 08 November 2005

  • News: Grokster shuts down

    P2P software vendor Grokster has closed down as part of a settlement in a three-year-old lawsuit brought against it by the US entertainment industry.

  • News: Disney acquires European mobile game content

    In a move to expand its mobile game content, the internet arm of Walt Disney has turned to Europe.

  • News: WSIS: UN has no plans to 'take over' the net

    United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, seeking to defuse a feud over internet governance ahead of a global summit next week, wrote in a newspaper column published on Saturday that no proposals exist to create a UN agency to take over the net.

  • News: Google launches downloadable mobile application

    Yesterday Google began offering a downloadable application that extends its Google Local service to some mobile phone users.

  • News: Italian police asked to investigate Sony DRM code

    The fallout continues over Sony BMG Music Entertainment's controversial XCP copy-protection software, with an Italian digital rights organisation now taking the first step toward possible criminal charges in the matter. Separately, security vendor Computer Associates International said yesterday that it is now classifying Sony's software as spyware and will begin searching for and removing XCP with its antispyware software, beginning later this week.

  • News: iPod nano lawsuit goes international

    Lawyers representing iPod nano owners who filed a US lawsuit, have now acted on behalf of users here in the UK and in Mexico. The new action was filed last Friday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

  • 07 November 2005

  • News: Amazon plans digital-book strategy

  • News: Microsoft to digitise British Library

    The scanning race has started. Microsoft announced an agreement on Friday to scan 25 million pages from the British Library's collection that will eventually be made available on its MSN Book Search site next year.

  • News: Easing chipset shortage should relieve PC market

    A shortage of computer chipsets, which has taken the blame for everything from slowing the brisk momentum of global PC sales to delaying the adoption of new memory chip technologies, should be nearly over, component makers and analysts say.

  • News: Single Windows security patch coming next week

    On Tuesday Microsoft will release a single patch addressing a critical flaw in its Windows operating system. The update will be issued as part of the software company's monthly security update.

  • News: Sony DRM patch might crash Windows

    A software patch released by Sony BMG Music Entertainment, in response to an uproar over its XCP CD copy protection software, may cause some computers to crash, according to the computer expert at the heart of the controversy.

  • 04 November 2005

  • News: Sony patch uncloaks CDs' hidden DRM code

    After taking a drubbing from computer enthusiasts, Sony BMG Music Entertainment has released a software patch that removes controversial cloaking technology found in copy protection software the company has been shipping with some of its CDs.

  • News: SatCon: satellite to deliver portable broadband

    One of the topics creating a buzz at the recent SatCon satellite conference in New York was the imminent launch of an Inmarsat satellite that will deliver broadband connections to magazine-sized portable transceivers.

  • News: AOL buys MusicNow

    Looking to boost its presence in the digital music market, AOL has acquired music subscription provider MusicNow from Circuit City Stores.

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