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  • 30 January 2006

  • News: Gates to unveil strategy for government IT

    This week Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is planning to unveil the company's strategy for the government IT market, an intensely competitive area that has seen open-source software gain a strong foothold.

  • News: Windows Vista is finished

    Microsoft has finished development on Windows Vista and expects to ship the product by the end of the year.

  • 27 January 2006

  • News: Torvalds says no to new open-source licence

    The digital rights management provisions proposed for GPL v3, the new version of the GNU General Public License used by many open-source projects, have earned a thumbs down from Linux kernel developer Linus Torvalds.

  • 26 January 2006

  • News: Germany cracks down on software pirates

    Providers of illegal downloading services in several European countries are running for cover following a co-ordinated bust earlier in the week.

  • News: EU: Microsoft offer may not be enough

    Microsoft's offer to license part of its Windows source code to competitors is "not necessarily enough" to head off €2m in daily fines for the company, an EC spokesman has said.

  • News: Intel plans 45-nanometer chips next year

    Intel will enter the next era of Moore's Law in the second half of 2007, with commercial shipment of its first PC processors based on a 45-nanometer manufacturing process, the company said yesterday.

  • 25 January 2006

  • News: Google, Lenovo, Sun back StopBadware Coalition

    Technology giants Google, Lenovo and Sun are funding a non-profit effort to combat all of the nasty spyware and computer viruses that users don't want installed on their computers.

  • News: Microsoft to license code to avoid EU fines

    Microsoft has agreed to license the source code for communications protocols in its Windows server software in a bid to avoid being fined €2m a day by the EC, the company's top lawyer said today.

  • News: Beta 2.0 of Windows Vista due in April?

    Microsoft will release the next beta of Windows Vista in April, according to a popular blog that follows the company.

  • News: Dell, Vodafone team up on wireless

    Yesterday Dell said it plans to start building laptops that let users access the internet over Vodafone's wireless networks in the UK, France and Germany.

  • 24 January 2006

  • News: EC grants extension for Microsoft

    Update: the EC has given Microsoft an additional month to comply with a part of its antitrust ruling that requires the firm to provide information allowing competitors' server products to interoperate with its software.

  • News: iMac performance claims a fudge

    Steve Jobs' much publicised claim of a two- to three-times speed increase in the new Intel-based iMac is bunkem, according to the latest benchmark tests.

  • 23 January 2006

  • News: Microsoft to succeed Vista with Vienna

    Microsoft has announced a different codename for the Windows OS that will follow Vista: Vienna.

  • News: Microsoft offers small-business resources

    Microsoft will begin an eight-country rollout of a new set of online resources and technical support for its small-business customers today, a company executive said on Friday.

  • News: Tokyo Stock Exchange adds trading capacity

    The Tokyo Stock Exchange added capacity to its trading system over the weekend in the hope of avoiding another embarrassing market shutdown in the coming week.

  • News: Google, Apple most influential brands

    Google regained its title as the world's most influential brand in 2005, displacing Apple for the second time this decade, according to a poll.

  • 22 January 2006

  • News: Tokyo Stock Exchange mulls system upgrade

    An increase in trading capacity at the Tokyo Stock Exchange may happen earlier than planned after problems keeping up with volume forced a shutdown earlier this week, the market operator said.

  • 21 January 2006

  • News: Expert warns of short life for burned CDs

    Opinions vary on how to preserve data on digital storage media, such as optical CDs and DVDs. Kurt Gerecke, a physicist and storage expert at IBM, has his own view.

  • 20 January 2006

  • News: TSST completes Blu-ray Disc development

    TSST (Toshiba Samsung storage technology) has moved a step closer to the commercialisation of a Blu-ray Disc drive for PCs with the completion of technical development work, it said yesterday.

  • 19 January 2006

  • News: AMD records profit after leap in CPU sales

    Intel's poor performance in the final three months of 2005 turned out to be good news for rival chipmaker AMD, which yesterday reported better-than-expected financial results for the period.

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