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• 19 May 2006

• News: Vista system requirements outlined

  Microsoft has launched a site outlining the minimum hardware requirements for the next version of the Windows OS, Windows Vista.

• News: Spammers' attacks shut down Blue Frog

  Israeli firm Blue Security's controversial vigilante antispam service, Blue Frog, has been closed down after a spammer threatened to mount more denial-of-service attacks on its servers.

• News: Symantec attempts to derail Vista

  Symantec has asked a court in the US to order Microsoft to halt the development of Windows Vista, claiming that its rival is unlawfully incorporating Veritas storage technology into its latest OS.

• 18 May 2006

• News: Negroponte's $100 laptop sputters along

  On a desk in a messy office on the eighth floor of a building opposite the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sits a circuit board that might just transform education for millions of children around the world.

• News: Skype seeks bulk to avoid blocks

  The larger Skype's user base grows, the less likely it is that telecom operators or regulators will successfully block the VoIP service.

• News: Samsung's hybrid drive with flash memory

  Samsung will unveil a prototype hard-disk drive that can improve system performance and extend battery life on laptops next week, the company said today.

• News: Hotmail problems persist in China

  Hotmail was once again unreachable from Beijing today, extending an intermittent outage that has lasted for more than two weeks.

• News: Microsoft restarts tech docs project

  Microsoft will start again from scratch on a technical documentation project required in a three-and-a-half-year-old antitrust settlement with the US government.

• 17 May 2006

• News: File-sharing app compromises power station

  An unauthorised file-sharing program installed on a PC compromised the security of an unnamed power station in Japan, local media has reported.

• News: VoIP security is all about implementation

  Lack of equipment interoperability and confusion over who is responsible for security are to blame for the lack of security in VoIP.

• News: Search functions top priority for MS

  Bill Gates will explain today how Microsoft is adding search capabilities to its enterprise software, emphasising that employees waste time trying to find information.

• News: Personal data traders 'should get two years'

  Information Commissioner Richard Thomas wants those who trade in illegally obtained personal data to be jailed for as long as two years.

• News: China to become Sony's second-largest market

  China will soon become the second-largest market for Sony's electronics division, eclipsing sales from the company's home market in Japan, a senior executive said yesterday.

• News: IBM to adopt ODF for Lotus Notes

  IBM chose the Deutsche Notes User Group conference in Germany this week to make a significant announcement about its adoption of the ODF (OpenDocument Format) in the next version of Lotus Notes.

• News: AMD challenges Intel with laptop CPU

  AMD aims to grab laptop PC market share from Intel with a family of Turion mobile processors launched today.

• 16 May 2006

• News: Sony's UX50 ultracompact PC

  Sony took the wraps off its Vaio UX50 ultracompact PC at a news conference in Tokyo today and we got five minutes to play with this cool-looking device.

• News: Scansafe protects against fake search results

  British security company ScanSafe has started testing a tool that protects users from malicious links listed in internet search results.

• News: Skype to offer more to businesses

  Skype will offer additional features for businesses but it won't develop a specific VoIP product for the workplace

• News: Red card for Taiwanese DVD factory

  Police in Taiwan have raided a pirate DVD and CD-R lab, arresting four people and seizing 250 optical disc burners, the Motion Picture Association said yesterday.

• News: Sony shows smallest Vaio PC yet

  For the first time in two years Sony is updating its Vaio U ultra-compact PC line with a model that is the smallest Vaio yet developed, the company said today.

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