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- 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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News: Apple updates strengthen wireless security
Apple has released a Security and AirPort update for Mac OS X that fixes vulnerabilities found in the company's wireless drivers. The issues found were the result of an internal audit of the software drivers, and Apple claimed that no known exploits exist for them.
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News: Outlook vulnerable to critical VML bug
A critical bug in the Internet Explorer browser also affects users of the Outlook 2003 email client, making it much more serious than previously thought.
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News: Sony slashes PlayStation 3 price
Sony kicked off the Tokyo Game Show with a surprise for Japanese consumers: a price cut for the yet-to-be-launched PlayStation 3 console.
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News: Jailed Chinese journalist to sue Yahoo in US
A Chinese journalist jailed in part due to email evidence provided by a Yahoo subsidiary plans to file a lawsuit in the US against the internet company within the next few months.
- 21 September 2006
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News: Major IE security hole about to go global
An unpatched Internet Explorer exploit discovered in the wild this week could quickly spread to thousands of malicious websites as soon as this weekend, warn security researchers.
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News: VeriSign dotcom contract slammed
A contract that hands control of the dotcom registry to US company VeriSign indefinitely was attacked at a US Senate hearing yesterday.
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News: Orange plans Wi-Fi-enabled mobile
Orange plans to offer mobile phones that can also make VoIP calls over a home Wi-Fi router from Monday, joining a growing number of European network operators offering similar services.
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News: Prepare for IPv6 now, firms warned
IPv6 will make its way into corporate IT systems sooner than many people realise, forcing IT departments to confront potential security vulnerabilities inherent in the new protocol, a security consultant has warned.
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News: Nike+iPod owners reach a million miles
The Nike+iPod kit is delivering fast-paced success, with over one million miles of running logged by users in just ten weeks.
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News: Tweaked Firefox offers secret surfing
A tweaked version of the Firefox browser that makes web browsing anonymous has been released by a group of privacy-minded coders.
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News: Blue Pill malware is 'undetectable' in Vista
The researcher who developed Blue Pill, an attempt at producing undetectable malware for Windows Vista, is working on a stealthier version that could be finished within the next few months.
- 20 September 2006
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News: Xbox 360 will have HD-DVD drive add-on
Microsoft will launch an HD-DVD drive add-on for its Xbox 360 console in November, a company executive said today.
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News: WiMax competitor back on track
The process to standardise a rival to the broadband wireless WiMax technology is back on track although the delay and scandal around it could present a serious set back to the effort.
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News: iTunes movies make $1m for Disney in a week
In only one week, Apple's iTunes Store generated $1m in movie sales for Walt Disney, and that's 'just the beginning', the head of Disney said yesterday.
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News: One-DVD plan to ease Vista upgrades
Microsoft will include the various retail versions of the OS on one DVD instead of having separate DVDs for each Vista edition.
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