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  • News: Eight colours in Dell's new laptop range

    Dell today launched its brand new range of consumer laptops. The Dell Inspiron range of portables comes in two widescreen flavours - 15.4in and 17in - and eight colours. The eight different chassis tones range from shocking pink, through bright yellow to black.

  • News: iPhone prices finally announced

    Apple and AT&T have released details of the service plans for the iPhone in the US, which will be released later this week. The iPhone will have three available plans that will start at $59.99.

  • News: Businesses safe from Windows Vista SP1 delay

    Although Microsoft may not have the first service pack for Windows Vista ready at the end of this year as some expected, financial analysts say that a delay should not have a negative effect on enterprise adoption of the OS.

  • News: Sun v IBM in battle of the supercomputers

    As Sun Microsystems prepares to demonstrate a new high-performance computer today at a technology conference in Germany, it hopes that quad-core processors from AMD that will power the computer arrive on time to deliver one of the machines to its first customer.

  • News: Man arrested after 115,000 phones infected

    Spanish police have arrested a 28-year-old man and charged him with creating and distributing malware that infected an estimated 115,000 mobile phones, the French AFP news service has reported.

  • News: Gov't refuses to publish ID Card reviews

    The UK government's chief whip in the House of Lords has underlined ministers' refusal to publish ‘gateway reviews’ of its controversial £5.3bn ID cards scheme.

  • News: UK ID card plan hit by delay

    The UK is delaying the start of the procurement process for the IT systems that will eventually issue ID cards for an estimated 50 million UK citizens over the next decade.

  • News: MPs attack freedom of information costs

    A committee of Members of Parliament (MPs) has attacked UK government moves to change the charging regime for freedom of information requests, saying ministers have not looked at the cost to the public of reduced access to information.

  • News: Samsung develops 64GB laptop flash drive

    Samsung Electronics has begun producing a flash memory-based solid-state disk drive for mobile computing applications.

  • News: Seagate joins Hitachi with 1TB drive

    Seagate is a launching a pair of 1TB capacity disks with advanced power-saving technology. This could save up to a quarter of the power consumed by normal drives. It has also announced a ruggedised 2.5in drive holding 80GB. Hitachi was first to market with a 1TB drive last month.

  • News: Nine out of 10 workers prefer great outdoors

    Mobile workers are taking their work to the beach, onto sailing dinghies and into tree houses as research confirms that nine out of 10 employees prefer to work outdoors.

  • News: MySpace threatening net bandwidth

    Increasingly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook are accounting for such huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption that carriers, universities and corporations are scrambling to keep pace.

  • News: Best free software: kit out your PC for free

    The down side to buying a low-cost PC (See our: Ultimate guide to buying ultra low-cost PCs) is it’s likely to come with little more than an operating system. But don’t shell out for pricey software – here are some handy bits of freeware

  • News: New malware trick outfoxes PC users

    The Sans Institute has uncovered more evidence that internet attackers don't necessarily need any clever technical tricks to plant malicious software on users' systems - an understanding of psychology will do just as well.

  • News: Why IT managers hate the iPhone

    With the release of Apple's iPhone on June 29, IT managers in the US are hustling to find ways to support the devices, anticipating the moment when the CEO walks in with one and demands, "Give me my corporate e-mail on this gizmo”.

  • News: Orange breaches Data Protection Act

    Mobile phone giant Orange and catalogue firm Littlewoods have mishandled customers' personal information in breach of the Data Protection Act, the UK Information Commissioner's Office has found.

  • News: Dell customers kill PC 'bloatware'

    Dell is allowing its customers to decline the unwanted software applications loaded on new PCs, after hundreds of users complained about such 'bloatware' on a company blog.

  • News: Microsoft admits failure on Vista patches

    A Microsoft security executive has released data showing that, six months after shipping Windows Vista, his company has left more publicly disclosed Vista bugs unpatched than it did with Windows XP.

  • News: Apple iPhone launch may be delayed

    A Piper Jaffray analyst warned yesterday that Apple's European iPhone launch "may be delayed".

  • News: Microsoft & IBM admit Google Apps threat

    Microsoft and IBM executives have admitted feeling the heat from Google now that the web search giant is trying to make inroads into the enterprise market with its hosted suite of communication and collaboration tools.