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  • 10 July 2007

  • News: Million-dollar bounty offered for software pirates

    The BSA (Business Software Alliance) - an IT industry group that includes Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Dell, HP and dozens more - is offering $1 million for anyone who shops a company that's illegally circumventing software licensing agreements. The BSA has increased the reward as software piracy continues to grow. According to IDC, US software vendors lost $7.3 billion in 2006 as a result of piracy.

  • News: Government 'forgot' London Olympics IT costs

    The UK Government didn't include IT systems when it budgeted for the 2012 Olympics in London. The massive IT costs of the ODA (Olympic Delivery Authority) were costed fully 16 months after the games were awarded to London.

  • News: Google adds online security to Google Apps

    Google is to add high-tech online security to the its online hosted Google Apps office productivity suite. Google yesterday announced plans to acquire messaging security vendor Postini for $625m.

  • News: TurboLinux joins Microsoft's push for XML-ODF

    TurboLinux has joined the Microsoft-funded but community-led Open XML-ODF (Open Document Format) translator project. Microsoft is enlisting Linux distributor TurboLinux to help translate documents between Open XML and ODF file formats for Japanese and Chinese users.

  • News: Intel Santa Rosa boosts laptop PC sales

    Worldwide laptop PC sales surged in June. Shipments from the world's two largest contract laptop manufacturers bounced back from quiet April and early May.

  • 09 July 2007

  • News: UK firms failing on customer service via email

    British businesses are failing to provide adequate customer service via email, according to web hosting firm Fasthost.

  • News: Linux-based Dell PCs could come to UK

    Linux-based Dell PCs will be sold in other countries besides the US, Dell has revealed. Further details will be revealed later, wrote Lionel Menchaca, digital media manager for Dell on a company blog on Friday. Dell also revealed that it will offer the Ubuntu Linux distribution to small business customers.

  • News: 1m affected by UK gov't tax blunder

    HM Revenue and Customs has pledged to improve the accuracy of its income tax calculations after the National Audit Office found that more than a million people were paying the wrong amount of tax because of processing errors.

  • News: Zero-day bugs have one-year lifespan

    The average zero-day bug has a lifespan of 348 days before it is discovered or patched, but some vulnerabilities live on for much longer, according to security vendor Immunity's chief executive officer.

  • News: New smartphone makers back Windows Mobile

    A pair of Taiwanese companies have signed a technology agreement to develop 3G and 3.5G smartphones around the Windows Mobile OS, adding to the growing pool of companies developing mobile phones around the Microsoft software.

  • News: 4-day wait in iPhone activation hell

    Some iPhone owners had trouble activating Apple's new mobile device, with some saying that they had to wait four days before they could start using their handsets.

  • News: New trials to boost indoor 3G

    Third-generation (3G) network operators in the UK could begin testing a technology to improve indoor network coverage before the end of the year.

  • News: Google buys $625m Postini to boost Google Apps

    Google has agreed to buy messaging security company Postini for $625m in a move to increase the appeal of Google's hosted applications among big businesses, the companies announced today.

  • 07 July 2007

  • News: Six cool ways to use your GPS satnav

    No, finding a Little Chef on the A1 is not one of the six coolest ways to use your GPS. And we're not about to tell you that avoiding speed cameras is cool. But there are ways to get more out of your satnav than simple road navigation

  • 06 July 2007

  • News: The 10 greatest laptops in the world... ever!

    Laptops. Notebooks. Portables. Desktop-replacements. Brian. Whatever you call them, the laptop PC has done as much to change our lives as any other piece of hardware over the past 25 years.

  • News: Zoho offers Facebook mashup

    Online application vendor Zoho has ported its productivity tools to Facebook to create a mashup between its office applications and the social networking site.

  • News: Microsoft prepares 'critical' Office patches

    Microsoft will release six security updates next week, the same number as in June, to patch problems in Windows, Office and the .Net Framework.

  • News: UK firm close to unlocking the iPhone

    A company that unlocks mobile phones in the UK said it’s close to having an application that will allow customers to unlock their Apple iPhones so they can use SIM cards from carriers other than AT&T to activate the phones.

  • News: Second-gen iPhone to get 3G?

    The first generation iPhone is barely on the streets, but some users and analysts are already talking about when a second-generation model will be launched to take advantage of faster 3G wireless network speeds for speedier internet browsing.

  • News: BlackBerry finally launches in China

    It's taken a few years, but the BlackBerry is finally coming to China.

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