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- 26 September 2006
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News: Microsoft's IM network infected by Heartworm
The latest worm to infect instant-messaging networks is aptly named Heartworm.
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News: AOL sued by members over data release
Three people have sued AOL over the company's controversial release of member search-engine records, in what their lawyers are billing as the first such lawsuit seeking national class-action status.
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News: Mobile gaming standard backed
The Open Mobile Alliance wants mobile phone games developers to cut right to the fun part: coming up with new games.
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News: Microsoft to standardise ad strategy
In a move aimed at making it easier for customers to purchase advertising from Microsoft, the company yesterday unveiled an organisation that aligns all of its advertising sales, research and planning efforts.
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News: Acer predicts big year for digital home
After a series of false starts, sales of devices for the digital home will take off in 2007, the chairman of Acer said today.
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News: Microsoft pressured to patch IE flaw
Hackers are intensifying their attacks on Internet Explorer users, increasing the chances that Microsoft will patch a critical flaw in the software ahead of its planned 10 October security update.
- 25 September 2006
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News: Digital imaging speeds up NHS treatment
Film-based X-rays are quickly disappearing in the UK, as its healthcare facilities switch to a digital system that can send images of broken bones and fractured ribs over a network instantly to different clinics.
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News: Enterprise-friendly VoIP software prepared
Skype is working to make its internet telephony service more enterprise friendly, and expects to introduce a beta version of its software with support for enterprise management functions within weeks.
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News: Anti-botnet service launched by Trend Micro
Trend Micro announced a service to help large organisations and internet service providers fight networks of zombie machines, known as 'botnets'.
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News: Google brought to book by Belgian court
Google has agreed to post a court order against the company on its Belgian website, dodging a potential fine of €500,000 (about £336,000) per day for not doing so.
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News: Nearly 8m active bloggers in China
Estimates offered by industry analysts about the amount of Chinese bloggers vary widely, ranging from a couple of million to more than 30 million, or roughly one-quarter of all Chinese internet users.
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News: Browser bugs have surged in 2006
According to Symantec's twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report, hackers found 47 bugs in Mozilla's open-source browsers and 38 bugs in Internet Explorer during the first six months of this year.
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News: HP's Dunn resigns with immediate effect
HP CEO and president Mark Hurd has confirmed that he approved a probe of HP employees, board members and journalists in an effort to find out who on the HP board was leaking confidential information outside of the company.
- 24 September 2006
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News: Google plans upgrade for search engine
Google plans to extend the product search capabilities on its main Google.com search engine in the fourth quarter, in time for the holiday shopping season.
- 23 September 2006
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News: ATM cashpoints hacked via Google
Breaking into an ATM cashpoint might not involve ramming it with a forklift truck after all. A security researcher has discovered it can be done using some thing much less violent – a Google search.
- 22 September 2006
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News: PSP gets camera and GPS add-ons
Considering that the hype levels over the PlayStation 3 and Wii next-generation consoles – from Sony and Nintendo respectively – have already been cranked up to maximum, it's something of a relief to see that there's still room for the less pervasive handheld games consoles.
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News: AOL sells AOL France
AOL continued its strategy of separating its internet access and content businesses in Europe, with the sale of its French internet access business to Neuf Cegetel.
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News: Symantec, Adobe lobby EU over Vista
Two Symantec engineers will visit Brussels next week to discuss the antitrust threat posed to their company by the upcoming Microsoft Vista OS.
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News: Microsoft praised for security offensive
CodeRed, Nimda and Blaster. These high-profile worms, which exploited flaws in Microsoft's Windows operating system and other applications, made the software giant the butt of security jokes and forced the company to re-examine its approach to developing secure software.
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News: BitTorrent: DRM is bad for iTunes
In an interview with PC Advisor, the filesharing giant's founder spills the beans on its new movie download service, promising faster content and hardware partnerships.
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