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  • 12 January 2006

  • News: Microsoft to end Mac support in Windows Media?

    Despite the new five-year deal between Apple and Microsoft, it appears at least one Redmond product team is being reshuffled: the Windows Media for Mac mob.

  • News: Passport Service struggles with facial recognition

    The UK Passport Service is suffering high rejection rates with its biometric facial recognition technology, it has admitted.

  • 11 January 2006

  • News: Microsoft speaks on Apple deal

    Microsoft and Apple's decision to sign a five-year deal that guarantees Office for Mac wasn't just a cosmetic arrangement - it's meant as a clear signal of the depth of the commitment between the two firms.

  • News: Sky lets mobile, PC users download TV

    Certain digital cable subscribers in the UK and Ireland can begin downloading films to their computers and television programmes to their mobile phones without additional charges, Sky announced yesterday.

  • News: Doctors not happy about NHS IT revamp

    The NHS is defending its IT restructuring programme after a survey found doctors in clinics were not well informed and had little enthusiasm about it.

  • News: Microsoft patches two critical holes

    Microsoft has patched two critical holes this Patch Tuesday.

  • News: Apple unveils raft of products

    Opening Macworld Expo San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced a new laptop and an iMac computer that use Intel's latest processor, six months ahead of the schedule outlined by Apple last year.

  • 10 January 2006

  • News: Apple to ship huge Mac TVs – analyst

    Apple will set the stage for the technology industry in 2006, an analyst opined yesterday.

  • 09 January 2006

  • News: Skype 2.0 with video feature available

    Skype Technologies SA has completed testing the latest version of its internet-telephony software with a new video feature and is now encouraging users to download it.

  • News: Blu-ray/HD-DVD fight 'bad for everyone'

    The drive to replace DVD technology with newer discs boasting greater storage capacity has come down to two major competing formats, and the coming marketplace battle will be bad for companies and users, the head of a major US technology products retailer has said.

  • 08 January 2006

  • News: There's gold in them thar chips

    Gold is prized in chip manufacture for its excellent electrical conductivity, but it also has unusual properties that could give it a role in new optical chips, scientists have discovered.

  • 07 January 2006

  • News: Opinion: betting on digital entertainment

    The world's largest consumer technology trade show has opened in the gambling kingdom of the US. Las Vegas may be an appropriate place for CES 2006 because, for users, buying the latest gadgets sometimes means betting against the odds.

  • 06 January 2006

  • News: Samsung to launch Blu-ray Disc player in April

    Samsung will get a jump on its competitors by launching a Blu-ray Disc player in April this year, it said yesterday at CES in Las Vegas.

  • News: Asus teams up with Lamborghini

    Asus today announced a partnership with the Italian car manufacturer that will result in a Lamborghini-branded series of laptops.

  • News: Panasonic shows laptop fuel cell

    Matsushita, a division of Japan's Panasonic, is showing a direct methanol fuel cell for laptop computers at CES in Las Vegas this week.

  • News: Microsoft tuning Windows Live for digital media

    A broader plan for Microsoft's Windows Live services portal is slowly emerging, as a Microsoft spokesman yesterday explained the link between Microsoft's internet-based services and its Windows Media Center Edition OS, intended to give users more access to content on their Media Center PCs.

  • 05 January 2006

  • News: Intel formally unveils host of chips

    Intel officially announced the pricing and branding for a host of processors this week, making the details available on its website.

  • News: HD-DVD to beat Blu-ray Disc

    The first players supporting the high-definition Blu-ray Disc format appear likely to lag behind those for the competing HD-DVD format by at least three months, according to announcements and predictions made in Las Vegas yesterday at CES.

  • 04 January 2006

  • News: HP aims for multimedia mesh

    HP released a host of TV, laptop PC and digital camera models today at CES, underlining the company's work to ease the sharing of videos, music and photographs between devices and the internet.

  • News: Google denies low-cost PC claims

    The LA Times has sparked an international wave of rumours that Google and Wal-Mart will launch a low-cost PC with a Google-made OS at the CES (Consumer Electronics show) in Las Vegas - but it's just not true, the search giant told Macworld UK this morning.

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