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• 05 May 2008

• News: HP Connect combines three user groups

  The HP user community now has a virtual supergroup with 50,000 members. HP Interex EMEA and ITUG have consolidated into a single organisation called Connect.

• News: Dell fixes faulty laptop keyboards

  Dell has stopped shipment of two Vostro laptop models after discovering a faulty keyboard design with a few keys out of place.

• News: Analysis: what next for Microsoft and Yahoo?

  Microsoft's three-month courtship of Yahoo has ended but it changed both companies forever. Neither Microsoft nor Yahoo will ever be the same again.

• News: Laptop battery shortage set to ease

  A global shortage of lithium-ion laptop PC batteries should clear up in the third quarter of 2008, a major battery maker said late last week. But the shortage will still affect laptop sales.

• 04 May 2008

• News: Microsoft drops planned Yahoo purchase

  Microsoft has abandoned its three-month-long attempted takeover of Yahoo, leaving Google's dominance of the online search market unchallenged.

• 02 May 2008

• News: O2 Home Broadband now available nationwide

  O2 has rolled out its Home Broadband service across the UK, and added a new O2 Business Broadband service.

• News: Intel sets up software store for businesses

  Intel has set up an online store called Business Exchange that's meant to help small and medium-sized business find software applications that runs on the chip maker's hardware.

• 01 May 2008

• News: Infogrames buys rest of Atari for $11m

  Infogrames Entertainment will buy the rest of video game pioneer Atari for $11m as well as loaning Atari a $20 million until the deal is complete.

• News: Symantec's 'best products' produce strong profits

  Security software giant Symantec yesterday reported year end revenue ahead of expectations. In a statement, Symantec CEO John Thompson called the company's current offerings "the strongest product portfolio we've had in years."

• News: Microsoft board mulls fresh bid to tempt Yahoo

  Microsoft's board met yesterday to decide how to proceed with the company's bid to acquire Yahoo. According to the The Wall Street Journal, however, no decision was reached.

• News: Dell cuts 250 jobs as slowdown bites

  As part of ongoing plans to save £1.5bn worldwide, Dell is set to cut 250 jobs in Ireland.

• News: AOL struggles to make online ad profits

  AOL still has a way to go before profiting in the internet ad space, after it saw a slight gain in its online advert business for the first quarter of 2008. AOL is trying to move away from its declining ISP (Internet service provider) business.

• 30 April 2008

• News: Skype 3.8 brings better voice quality

  eBay's Skype has released an upgraded client for Windows PCs, which cuts out more background noise and drops fewer calls.

• News: LinkedIn targets European growth

  LinkedIn is making a concerted effort to boost its presence in the European social networking market.

• News: iPhone & BlackBerry are most loved handsets

  Apple and Research in Motion are brushing aside competitors in the smartphone market, according to research from ChangeWave which claims customer satisfaction among iPhone and BlackBerry users are very high.

• News: Computex 2008 will generate $50bn tech sales

  The Computex Taipei 2008 tradeshow this week announced that orders for computer and communications hardware placed at the event are expected to hit $20bn this year.

• News: New delay for Windows XP SP3

  The full release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been put on hold, with Microsoft blaming a "compatibility issue"

• 29 April 2008

• News: Losing personal data to become a criminal offence

  Losing personal data may soon become a criminal offence.

• News: New Apple iMacs get Intel 'Penryn' chips

  Apple has updated its iMac line, with three new models featuring Intel Core 2 Duo processors and 2GB of memory.

• News: Xerox paper deletes text after 24 hours

  Xerox's research arm has demonstrated erasable paper and tools that make documents 'smart' by adding a deeper meaning to words and images.

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