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• 06 June 2006

• News: Intel chipset marks start of offensive

  Intel launched a chipset for desktop computers today and vowed to take back market share lost to its main rival AMD by the end of this year.

• News: AMD/Dell deal 'surprised' Intel

  A top Intel executive today admitted that the company was surprised by Dell's decision to use AMD processors in some of its high-end servers.

• News: Web-based spreadsheet offered by Google?

  Google will launch a web-based spreadsheet program today, as it continues building a suite of office applications to rival those offered by Microsoft, according to reports.

• News: Intel 'pushed in different directions'

  One year after Apple announced plans to use Intel processors in its computers, Apple is pushing the world's largest chip maker in different directions, a top executive said yesterday.

• News: Microsoft Live Labs releases security services

  Microsoft's Live Labs has launched two security-related web-based services, one for providing authentication and another for connecting P2P applications through network firewalls.

• News: Fujitsu's 1.8in HDD to launch next year

  Fujitsu will launch its first 1.8in hard disk drive in the middle of next year, a company engineer said at the Computex trade show today.

• News: AMD to resell Transmeta chip

  AMD will resell a processor designed by Transmeta for Microsoft's pay-as-you-go PC initiative as part of a strategy to connect people in developing countries to the internet, Transmeta said yesterday.

• 05 June 2006

• News: Parliament 'should not legislate DRM'

  In a report released today, a group of lawmakers advised the government not to make DRM systems mandatory.

• News: Intel unveils chip launch offensive

  Intel is gearing up for its most important product launch since the introduction of the original Pentium processor, a top executive said today.

• News: BenQ plans Blu-ray Disc burner this year

  BenQ plans to launch a Blu-ray Disc drive later this year that will be able to write as well as read data, the firm's chairman said today.

• News: Firefox update fixes 12 security bugs

  Mozilla has released updates to its Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client that fix a number of critical security flaws in the open-source products.

• News: $100 laptop to feature innovative LCDs

  Nicholas Negroponte's '$100 laptop computer' will cost about $135 (about £70) when available to children in developing countries by the middle of next year.

• News: AOL fixes major email problem

  AOL has fixed a major problem that affected its tens of millions of email users worldwide for several hours last week, but what caused the snarl remains a mystery to the internet access and services provider.

• News: Microsoft to pull PDF support from Office 2007

  Microsoft has decided to delete from its next version of Office an automatic way to save documents in PDF after Adobe threatened to take legal action.

• News: Toshiba claims highest-density hard disk

  Toshiba today released a 2.5in, double-platter hard disk drive that it said features the highest density yet of any such component.

• 04 June 2006

• News: Acer revs up dual-core Ferrari laptops

  Acer has thrown down the gauntlet in its racing-car rivalry with Asus, launching the latest upgrades to its Ferrari series of notebook PCs, the first dual-core additions to the family.

• 02 June 2006

• News: RIM launches slimmed-down BlackBerry

  Research In Motion, the Canadian company that makes the popular BlackBerry handset, yesterday announced another model.

• News: Microsoft expects antitrust suit from Adobe

  Adobe is expected to file an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in Europe after talks between the two companies failed to resolve a dispute over Microsoft's use of Adobe's PDF software.

• News: Flaw found in Windows XP, Server 2003

  A flaw found in Microsoft's software could be exploited to cause a denial-of-service attack on certain applications, although the bug isn't viewed as being severe.

• News: AMD woos gamers with 4x4 platform

  AMD launched a four-core chip platform for video gamers yesterday, continuing to battle Intel for buzz in the high-end 'enthusiast' segment.

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