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26 April 2007
News: UK doctors personal details posted online

The UK Department of Health has been forced to apologise after the personal details of hundreds of doctors - including home addresses, phone numbers, sexual orientation and previous convictions - were made available online
News: Apple boosted by iPod & Mac sales

Apple’s Mac and iPod product lines reported impressive growth during the first three months of the year, helping Apple achieve $5.26bn in revenue and $770m in profit in Q1.
News: $3 Office & XP suite no threat to $100 laptop

Microsoft's announcement last week that it will sell a $3 software bundle to students in developing countries is a positive move that won’t hurt the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) effort, according to a member of the non-profit group’s board.
News: Yahoo Music offers free song lyrics

Yahoo has partnered with Gracenote, a provider of CD and digital track identification services, to give users free access to the lyrics of hundreds of thousands of songs from the five major music publishers, according to Gracenote spokeswoman Stephanie Steinwinder.
News: Lawmakers get 'Wikipedia for legislation' site

A new wiki designed to track and allow users to comment on pending federal legislation was launched this week.
News: Windows Live Search exec abandons Microsoft

Another executive is leaving Microsoft's internet search group, as the company continues to struggle to compete with web search leader Google.
25 April 2007
News: New site will help tackle web crime

A new site allowing people in the UK to report web crime was one of the topics of discussion yesterday at InfoSecurity 2007, which runs until tomorrow at London’s Kensington Olympia.
News: Microsoft to open Malware Protection Centers

In a move to strengthen its response to security threats, Microsoft is opening two labs to study the growing amount of malicious software circulating on the internet, security executives announced today.
News: Wikipedia CD version now available

Wikipedia is pushing ahead with plans to sell CD versions of its online encyclopaedia.
News: PS3 doubles Folding@home capacity

Stanford University's Folding@home distributed computing project has seen its capacity more than double in the last month thanks to the addition of idle processor cycles from hundreds of thousands of PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles.
News: Death threats from Gmail, Yahoo & Hotmail

A new wave of extortion emails that threaten recipients with bodily harm and death if they do not pay thousands of dollars to the sender is circulating on the internet, according to security vendor SecureWorks.
News: Microsoft backed on first Vista bugs

Microsoft Windows Vista operating system took some of its first punches when a dangerous vulnerability was disclosed earlier this month, but the OS held strong, a security analyst said at the InfoSecurity Europe (Infosec) conference in London.
News: Mozilla extends Firefox 1.5 life

Tuesday was supposed to be Firefox 1.5's end-of-life farewell, with no more security or stability patches. But Mozilla has pushed back the date for ending support for the older version to mid-May.
24 April 2007
News: ITV boss Grade calls for free HDTV

ITV's Michael Grade has warned that most UK viewers will not be able to receive HDTV (high-definition TV) when British TV goes digital in 2012. He's concerned that only cable and satellite stations will be able to afford HD bandwidth.
News: MySpace unblocks Photobucket videos

An impasse between the world's largest social network and the US's most popular photo site has ended
News: Quicktime enables Apple Mac hack

The vulnerability that put $10,000 into the pocket of a hacker during a Mac hacking contest is in Apple's QuickTime media player, according to researchers.
News: Top UK PC security threats revealed

Security software firm Webroot has pinpointed the most common forms of malicious security threats in the UK, picking out the Trojan Downloader Zlob as the most commonly found concern.
News: BlackBerry outage alienates RIM customers

The widespread BlackBerry outage in North America last week inconvenienced some corporate users of the popular wireless email service. But what most irked them was the lack of an immediate explanation or frequent updates about the outage from BlackBerry vendor Research In Motion (RIM)
News: Blogs infested with porn, hatred and malware

The internet's blog sites have become overgrown with a variety of unpleasant content, including porn, offensive language, hate posting, and malware, a new threat analysis has suggested.
News: Microsoft fails to patch 'critical' bug

Microsoft's security team is still working on a patch for a critical bug in the company's server software.