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28 September 2006
News: Balance cybersecurity risks, expert says

Governments and businesses face a variety of cybersecurity threats, but they also need to allow for increasing demands from computer users across the globe.
News: IBM licenses water-cooled servers

IBM will license its technology for cooling servers with water instead of air to a Chicago-area company.
27 September 2006
News: Microsoft releases file-server backup beta

In a continuing bid to capture some of the tape-backup market, Microsoft on today released a beta version of the upgrade to its file-and-application server recovery software.
News: VoIP, P2P, IM blocked by Sophos Anti-Virus

Security vendor Sophos has upgraded its antivirus software to allow system administrators to block the installation of file-sharing, VoIP and instant-messaging programs.
News: Vodafone's exclusively self-branded phone

Vodafone will introduce what could be its first mobile phone to carry its own brand exclusively, and not that of the phone manufacturer.
News: Intel's quad-core chips coming in November

Intel will ship quad-core processors in November for servers and gaming PCs, accelerating its effort to regain momentum in sales of power-efficient chips.
News: Part of AMD's anti-Intel lawsuit dismissed

A district court judge in the US state of Delaware has dismissed part of AMD's lawsuit against Intel.
News: Microsoft Research celebrates 15th birthday

Microsoft's research arm is celebrating its 15-year anniversary this week by patting itself on the back for creating innovating technology and showing off some new work being done in the group.
26 September 2006
News: Wikipedia taking on the vandals in Germany

When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected as pope last year, some internet users who logged onto Wikipedia to see what he looked like found a rather different image.
News: Wallop's social network packs a punch

It may seem like tilting at windmills, but Wallop expects to shake up the social networking market, currently dominated by entrenched players such as MySpace, Facebook and Friendster.
News: Microsoft to standardise ad strategy

In a move aimed at making it easier for customers to purchase advertising from Microsoft, the company yesterday unveiled an organisation that aligns all of its advertising sales, research and planning efforts.
25 September 2006
News: Enterprise-friendly VoIP software prepared

Skype is working to make its internet telephony service more enterprise friendly, and expects to introduce a beta version of its software with support for enterprise management functions within weeks.
News: Anti-botnet service launched by Trend Micro

Trend Micro announced a service to help large organisations and internet service providers fight networks of zombie machines, known as 'botnets'.
News: The HP boardroom leak scandal

If you've been living in a cave or just ignoring the newspapers for the past week or two, here's the lowdown on the spying scandal that has rocked HP.
News: Google brought to book by Belgian court

Google has agreed to post a court order against the company on its Belgian website, dodging a potential fine of €500,000 (about £336,000) per day for not doing so.
News: HP's Dunn resigns with immediate effect

HP CEO and president Mark Hurd has confirmed that he approved a probe of HP employees, board members and journalists in an effort to find out who on the HP board was leaking confidential information outside of the company.
News: Sony shuffles control of electronics group

Sony is reshuffling responsibilities in its key electronics group, allowing the head of the division to play a bigger role in Sony's research and development actvities.
20 September 2006
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.
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.
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.