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• 15 October 2008

• News: Zoho adds email to online/offline office suite

  Zoho has added email to its portfolio of web-hosted applications for individuals and organisations. Zoho Mail will work on internet-connected PCs, via mobile devices and also when users are offline.

• News: Intel CEO brushes off economic crisis

  Intel's president and CEO Paul Otellini has assured customers that the IT industry is not about to enter a "post-dotcom downturn", after the company announced earnings were up in the third quarter, narrowly beating analyst expectations.

• News: Gartner lists 10 biggest technologies of 2009

  Gartner has released a list of the 10 most important strategic technologies for 2009, which includes cloud computing and business intelligence.

• 14 October 2008

• News: Norton, BitDefender & McAfee slammed in study

  Security software suites are doing a poor job of detecting when a PC's software is under attack, according to Danish vendor Secunia.

• News: MySpaceMyAds offers DIY marketing platform

  MySpace has launched a beta version of its DIY advertising platform. The new MySpaceMyAds allows individuals and small businesses to create their own ads that can be customised to specific users of the social network.

• News: Warning over fake Windows security alert

  Microsoft has warned that scammers are sending out fake emails that claim to include critical Windows security alerts.

• News: IT industry to avoid second dotcom bust

  Research firm Gartner said the IT industry will have to cope with decreasing budgets as a result of the current economic uncertainty, but tech firms are unlikely to face the extreme cuts seen following the dotcom bust in 2001.

• News: Download problems after OpenOffice 3.0 launches

  The release of a new version of the OpenOffice 3.0 productivity suite hit a snag on Monday when the community experienced website problems that made downloading the suite extremely slow and at times impossible for users.

• 13 October 2008

• News: Orange ditches BlackBerry Bold after 3G woes

  Orange UK has stopped selling RIM's BlackBerry Bold mobile phone handset. Orange took the decision to ditch the BlackBerry Bold smartphone after concerns were raised over potential software problems with the snazzy-looking device.

• News: Hackers release fake Microsoft patch update

  Hackers are using Microsoft's upcoming monthly patch release as a way of spreading malware across cyberspace.

• News: Faulty graphics processor found in MacBook Pros

  Apple has confirmed that a number of MacBook Pro laptops manufactured last month may contain faulty Nvidia graphics processors.

• News: Credit crunch kills off US branch of Zopa.com

  As global markets continue to dive, Silicon Valley is starting to batten down the hatches. For at least one company, however, the economic downturn is already having major impact, as Web 2.0, peer-to-peer loan site Zopa has announced that its US-based operations will cease.

• News: Google to work with click-fraud firm

  Google has agreed to cooperate with its longtime adversary Click Forensics on click-fraud reports.

• News: LG to add keyboard to Prada phone

  LG will later this year launch an updated version of its LG Prada phone that sports a qwerty keyboard.

• 11 October 2008

• News: The truth behind 10 energy efficiency myths

  Before you start implement energy efficient methods, it's worth thinking about whether they actually work. We've looked at 10 of the most popular energy efficiency myths and investigated whether they are true or not.

• 10 October 2008

• News: Microsoft to overhaul UAC in Windows 7

  Microsoft has admitted that User Account Control (UAC) is a nuisance for Windows Vista users, and has promised to improve the security feature in Windows 7

• News: Four 'critical' Microsoft updates coming next week

  Microsoft will release 11 security updates next week, with four labelled 'critical'.

• 09 October 2008

• Video: BlackBerry Storm has 'clickable' touchscreen

  RIM's BlackBerry Storm features the world's first 'clickable' touchscreen

• News: Novell: Linux is driving force for netbook market

  The growing popularity of netbooks such as Asus' Eee PC is boosting demand for Linux, according to Novell's chief technology and strategy officer for Linux, who said that open-source software was an ideal option for systems which place lower demands on hardware.

• News: Google extends email archiving service to 10 years

  Google is extending its hosted email archiving service to hold messages for up to a decade.

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