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05 January 2006
News: Gates shares vision of the digital lifestyle

Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates shared his company’s future vision for seamlessly connecting users to personalised digital content through next-generation software, services and devices during his keynote speech at CES in Las Vegas yesterday.
News: Netgear, Skype developing Wi-Fi phone

Skype users will be able to make calls from anywhere they can get a Wi-Fi internet connection when Netgear and the internet voice service provider begin selling a phone that Netgear will demonstrate at CES this week in Las Vegas.
04 January 2006
News: HP aims for multimedia mesh

HP released a host of TV, laptop PC and digital camera models today at CES, underlining the company's work to ease the sharing of videos, music and photographs between devices and the internet.
News: AMD goes live with digital home strategy

Articulating its own vision of the digital home days before its major rival unveils a similar marketing initiative, AMD will announce plans today to brand AMD-based PCs designed specifically for home media networking, the company has said.
28 December 2005
News: Virus claims to be MSN Messenger beta

MSN Messenger users who may think they're getting a sneak peek at the latest version of Microsoft's instant messaging client are in for a nasty surprise, a Finnish security firm warned yesterday.
24 December 2005
News: Happy Web 2.0 Christmas from Google

With its seemingly meteoric rise to the top, Google has often been named as one of the last dot-com success stories. But if the company's Christmas media party was any indication, its corporate vibe is less reminiscent of the smooth movers and shakers of the internet boom than of a cafeteria full of mathletes.
23 December 2005
News: Microsoft, Google settle Lee dispute

Microsoft and Google have resolved their legal differences over Google's hiring of former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee, Microsoft announced late yesterday.
News: Microsoft eyeing deal to rival Google-AOL

Microsoft may be cooking up a major internet partnership to rival Google's newly bolstered relationship with AOL, according to a blog posting by a Microsoft manager.
22 December 2005
News: Google plugs security holes in website

Google has patched security flaws in its website that would have exposed users to phishing and other attacks designed to steal account information, according to security researchers.
News: WiMax Forum to deliver certifications late

Long-awaited product certifications due from the WiMax Forum will soon see the light of day, a little later than expected, according to the industry organisation.
21 December 2005
News: Analysis: silver lining for Microsoft

Although losing the high-profile AOL to Google is a major blow to Microsoft, the software company could still benefit from the union because customers may see it as a case of Google playing favorites, analysts said yesterday.
News: Microsoft invites up for grabs on eBay

Still wondering what to get that Microsoft enthusiast for the Christmas? Microsoft's Windows Live team has an idea - an invitation to a limited beta of Microsoft's next-generation IM client, Windows Live Messenger.
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: 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: 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.
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: 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.