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  • 21 December 2005

  • News: IDC: global PC sales to slow in 2006

    PC shipment growth next year will decline from its current heights, but should still remain strong as users continue to upgrade to laptops, IDC said yesterday.

  • News: Santa Claus worm strikes IM services

    The Santa Claus worm doesn't care whether you've been naughty or nice, but it's making a list of PCs to infect this holiday season, according to a threat alert released by security firm IMlogic yesterday.

  • News: Sony, BSkyB to promote HDTV in the UK

    Sony and satellite TV operator BSkyB will today announce a marketing tie-up through which the two companies will jointly promote HDTV (high definition television) in the UK.

  • News: Google pays $1bn for AOL stake

    Yesterday, after flirting for months with Google competitors, AOL reached a deal with the Californian search-engine giant that expands their years-long technology and advertising partnership and ends advances from other suitors including Microsoft.

  • 20 December 2005

  • News: Yahoo's hosting clients get WordPress

    Yahoo will make the open-source WordPress blog publishing software available to subscribers of its web hosting services, the two organisations announced on Tuesday.

  • News: HP to drop iTunes in PCs in 2006?

    HP is preparing to re-engage in the digital music market, following the termination of its exclusive deal with Apple to distribute HP-branded iPods.

  • News: Icahn sour on possible Google/AOL deal

    A deal between Google and AOL would be "disastrous" if it means the popular internet property won't be able to seek mergers or business deals with other companies, billionaire investor Carl Icahn said in an open letter to the board of directors of Time Warner.

  • News: Windows AntiSpyware changes name in Vista

    Microsoft's December CTP (Community Technology Preview) for the Windows Vista client OS features a renamed version of the company's anti-spyware software. Announced yesterday, the December CTP, known as build 5270, will reach about 500,000 people through avenues such as the MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) and TechNet, according to the company.

  • News: RIM on offensive in patent dispute with NTP

    Despite expectations by industry and legal analysts that RIM (Research in Motion) would settle its ongoing patent dispute with NTP, the BlackBerry maker came out swinging yesterday, bolstered by recent decisions by the US Patent and Trademark Office that call NTP's claims into question.

  • 19 December 2005

  • News: Wireless USB creeps nearer

    The wireless replacement for USB has come a step closer to reality - and some questions on migration have been answered - with the release of a reference design from Wisair.

  • News: Microsoft to use Firefox RSS icon in IE 7.0

    Microsoft plans to use the Firefox browser's RSS (Really Simple Syndication) icon in the next version of its Internet Explorer browser, according to the company's IE team blog.

  • News: Tele2 sells UK, Irish operations to Carphone Warehouse

    Swedish telecommunications operator Tele2 has sold its operations in the UK and Ireland to Carphone Warehouse for £8.7 million, Tele2 said today. Tele2 has 223,000 customers in those markets.

  • News: Patch causes glitches with beta version of IE

    Microsoft is receiving scattered reports that one of the security patches issued last week for Internet Explorer is causing problems for users testing a new beta version of the browser alongside the existing version, according to a company blogger.

  • News: Mr and Mrs Gates win Time accolade

    Time magazine has named Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, his wife Melinda, and the musician Bono as its 'Persons of the year' for their charitable work, it said over the weekend.

  • 18 December 2005

  • News: Analysis: the top online shopping gotchas

    Online shopping is nearing fever pitch as Christmas approaches. 'Tis the season for shoppers to get saddled with mystery charges on their credit card, delivery no-shows and bait-and-switch sales techniques.

  • 17 December 2005

  • News: Analysis: the top 10 stories of 2005

    New pricing and business models are forcing established players to reinvent themselves, while old-line companies that have failed to meet the challenges of the new millennium are cleaning house – sometimes starting with the chief executive.

  • 16 December 2005

  • News: Opera dismisses Google takeover talk as rumour

    An Opera spokesman said on Friday that the Norwegian browser company has not been approached by Google about a possible acquisition.

  • News: On Dasher!

    Just in time for the festive season, a worm called Dasher has hit the internet. The malicious software, which primarily targets Windows 2000 systems, is one of three new attacks targeting Microsoft's software that has emerged in the last 24 hours. Two other recently posted attacks can crash or slow down the Internet Explorer browser.

  • News: Xbox 360 Japan launch sales estimated at 44,000

    Microsoft's Xbox 360 console sold just under 44,000 units in its first two days on sale in Japan, a market research company said today.

  • News: Visto sues Microsoft over wireless email patents

    Visto has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of improper use of patented Visto technologies in Microsoft's software for accessing email from phones and other wireless devices.

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