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• 10 March 2006

• News: Blu-ray backer LG preparing HD-DVD drive

  LG, one of the main backers of the Blu-ray Disc format, has started working on a player for the rival HD-DVD format.

• News: Samsung shows flash-based laptop

  Samsung has developed a higher-capacity version of its solid-state disk, a flash-memory based replacement for hard-disk drives.

• News: NEC demonstrates HD-DVD-R burning

  NEC is demonstrating at the CeBit trade show in Germany this week a recently developed optical disc drive that can write to HD-DVD media.

• News: MSI displays solar-powered laptop and MP3 player

  MSI is showing off a laptop and an MP3 player at CeBit that use on-board solar panels to recharge and extend battery life.

• News: Apple dispels dual-boot MacTel rumours

  Intel Macs are "unlikely" to be able to run Windows Vista, Apple said yesterday.

• News: AMD to launch more CPUs by mid-year

  AMD plans to launch its first desktop and laptop processors that support DDR2 memory chips by the middle of the year.

• News: Market ripe for Origami device, creator says

  Now that Microsoft has officially unveiled its Origami project, the big question is what sort of market acceptance will greet devices based on the ultramobile platform.

• News: Microsoft to issue one critical update

  In its monthly patch release next Tuesday, Microsoft will issue one critical security bulletin concerning the Office suite and one bulletin on Windows that is rated important.

• 09 March 2006

• News: Sony to launch Blu-ray Vaio PCs in mid-year

  Sony is planning to launch desktop and laptop PCs with Blu-ray Disc drives in the middle of this year, an executive said at the CeBit trade show in Hannover today.

• News: Intel, Microsoft team up on ultramobile PC

  Intel and Microsoft today announced the first three devices developed around the new ultramobile PC form factor they teamed up to develop over a year ago, in a project code-named Origami.

• News: Intel, AMD stumble toward the living room

  Leaders at Intel and AMD are racing to deliver platforms by mid-2006 that allow consumers to share digital media between disparate devices throughout the house.

• 08 March 2006

• News: Samsung shows first Origami device

  Samsung is showing the first device designed around Microsoft's Origami project at the CeBit electronics show in Germany.

• News: Toshiba planning HD-DVD notebook for April

  Toshiba is planning to launch its first laptop computer with an HD-DVD drive in Europe in April, the company said yesterday.

• 07 March 2006

• News: PCs 'twice as expensive to maintain as Macs'

  Network World has declared Macs to be half as expensive to run as PCs.

• News: Sony to ship Blu-ray recordable media this month

  Sony Europe's Recording Media and Energy division today announced that its first Blu-ray Disc media will ship in Europe this month.

• 06 March 2006

• News: Microsoft antitrust battle turns bitter

  Microsoft has asked three US courts to force Sun, Oracle, IBM and Novell to produce documents pertaining to the EU's antitrust case against the software vendor.

• 03 March 2006

• News: EU acted 'in a manner detrimental to Microsoft'

  Microsoft yesterday accused the European Commission of actively working with the company's rivals and failing to act as an independent regulator in its ongoing antitrust case against the software giant.

• News: Microsoft offers a few more 'Origami' details

  Despite the buzz being generated by its Origami Project, Microsoft plans to give it only brief mention at the upcoming CeBit trade show.

• 01 March 2006

• News: Mac mini goes Intel

  Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced the availability of an Intel-powered Mac mini, confirming: "50 per cent of our entire product line is now available with Intel processors, in less than sixty days."

• 28 February 2006

• News: Blu-ray Disc player, movies coming on 23 May

  The Blu-ray Disc high-definition optical format will launch in the US on 23 May, when the first player and movies will become available, backers of the format said yesterday.

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