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  • 20 December 2005

  • News: HP to drop iTunes in PCs in 2006?

    HP is preparing to re-engage in the digital music market, following the termination of its exclusive deal with Apple to distribute HP-branded iPods.

  • 19 December 2005

  • News: Mr and Mrs Gates win Time accolade

    Time magazine has named Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, his wife Melinda, and the musician Bono as its 'Persons of the year' for their charitable work, it said over the weekend.

  • 17 December 2005

  • News: Analysis: the top 10 stories of 2005

    New pricing and business models are forcing established players to reinvent themselves, while old-line companies that have failed to meet the challenges of the new millennium are cleaning house – sometimes starting with the chief executive.

  • 15 December 2005

  • News: Microsoft: one open document standard good, two better

    Microsoft believes a future with more than one open document standard is preferable to a single standard.

  • 14 December 2005

  • News: Quanta to build £59 laptop

    Taiwan's Quanta, the world's largest maker of notebook computers, will manufacture an ultra-low-cost laptop developed by Nicholas Negroponte, the chairman of the MIT's (Massachusetts Institute of Technology's) Media Lab.

  • News: Toshiba hints at HD-DVD delay

    Toshiba will probably delay the commercial launch of its first HD-DVD player because a group in charge of the copy-protection system for the format has yet to complete its work, the company said yesterday.

  • 13 December 2005

  • News: Honda debuts latest Asimo robot

    Honda announced the latest Asimo humanoid robot at its plant in Tokyo today. Almost a year to the day that the previous Asimo was shown off, the latest generation is a faster and more capable robot than its predecessor, Honda says.

  • News: TDK begins Blu-ray bare disc sample production

    TDK has begun producing samples of recordable and rewritable Blu-ray Disc bare media for consumer use, the company said today.

  • 12 December 2005

  • News: VMware releases Player, teams up with Mozilla

    Virtualisation software vendor VMware made two announcements today: the release of its VMware Player and a partnering deal with Mozilla on another free product, Browser Appliance, a virtual machine powered by Mozilla's Firefox web browser.

  • 08 December 2005

  • News: Pioneer to refocus product line-up

    Pioneer, which has been hit hard by fast-falling prices for some of its key products, announced a wide-ranging restructuring plan today that will see it cut staff, consolidate divisions and refocus its product line-up.

  • News: NEC develops razor-thin battery

    Engineers at NEC have developed a flexible battery that is less than 1mm thick and can be charged in half a minute, the company said on Wednesday.

  • 07 December 2005

  • News: Microsoft fined £18.6m by South Korea

    South Korea’s antitrust regulator fined Microsoft 33 billion won (£18.6m) for violations of fair trade regulations and ordered the company to remedy alleged unfair trade practices on Wednesday, a Microsoft representative said.

  • News: Panasonic adds dual-layer to Blu-ray Disc

    Panasonic has added the ability to produce dual-layer Blu-ray Discs to a test production line the company is operating at its factory in California, Panasonic said this week.

  • 06 December 2005

  • News: Fifa boots chip ball from 2006 World Cup

    Here's a decision players may be happy about: Fifa has decided a new chip-enabled soccer ball will not be used at the World Cup soccer tournament in Germany next year.

  • 05 December 2005

  • News: NEC announces DVD writers with Labelflash

    Today NEC unveiled its ND-3551A and ND-4551A DVD writers, the first in the world to feature Labelflash. Similar to LightScribe, this technology allows users to burn 256-shade images onto CD and DVD media as well as data.

  • News: AOpen to launch mini PC based on Intel's Yonah

    Taiwanese electronics maker AOpen plans to launch an updated version of a small desktop PC that closely resembles Apple's Mac mini but runs Microsoft's Windows OS and will carry Intel's latest dual-core processors for mobile devices.

  • News: Hynix launches 512Mb GDDR4 graphics memory

    Hynix, South Korea's second-largest memory chip maker, has launched the speediest memory chip aimed at game consoles and PC graphics cards available so far.

  • 04 December 2005

  • News: Intel pushes manufacturing clout as competitive edge

    Intel believes its strength in semiconductor manufacturing is a competitive advantage that will help it stay on top of the processor market, its CFO said this week at the company's primary US manufacturing facility in Hillsboro, Oregon.

  • 03 December 2005

  • News: Opinion: Apple's picture-perfect package

    They heard me. For a while now, I've railed about Apple's refusal to bump up the resolution of its PowerBook line - especially in light of the higher-resolution screens widely available on Windows laptops.

  • 01 December 2005

  • News: Microsoft under pressure for timely Vista release

    Microsoft's business customers may have come to expect delays in product releases, but the company is going to be under pressure over the next year to deliver its Vista OS on time.

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