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• 17 June 2010

• News: TomTom offers free live services for a year

  TomTom is offering drivers a year's free subscription to its Live services when they buy a satnav.

• News: 34% of Brits have used text speak when writing

  Four in five Brits believe the quality of their written English skills has suffered thanks to the rise in gadgets such as smartphones with predictive text, says Livescribe.

• 16 June 2010

• News: Opera 10.60 launched in beta

  Opera has unveiled Opera 10.60, the lastest version of its web browser, which the company claism is 50 percent faster at loading JavaScript than previous versions of the browser.

• News: Windows XP zero-day flaw targeted by hackers

  Hackers are now exploiting the zero-day Windows vulnerability that a Google engineer took public last week, Microsoft has confirmed

• 15 June 2010

• News: Trend Micro aquires online storage firm Humyo

  Security vendor Trend Micro has acquired online storage firm Humyo.

• News: Office 2010 hits the UK today

  The latest version of Microsoft's productivity suite, Office 2010, has been made available to Brits today.

• 14 June 2010

• News: No more IE patches for Windows XP SP2 users

  Unless Microsoft releases an emergency IE update in the next 31 days, PC users running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) have seen their last security update for Internet Explorer.

• News: Skobbler gives iPhone users free satnav

  Apple iPhone 3G and 3GS users can get their hands on a free sat nav app, thanks to Skobbler.

• News: Apple to face antitrust case over Google ad ban?

  Apple will probably face a federal investigation into its decision to bar rival Google from iPhone's mobile advertising market, an antitrust expert said today.

• News: Google Wi-Fi data gathering 'not illegal'

  Google is under global scrutiny for its "accidental" gathering of wi-fi data while driving about photographing the world with its Street View camera cars. In the court of public opinion Google's actions cross ethical boundaries, but whether or not the activities were illegal depends on the laws in place for the given jurisdiction.

• News: Backdoor Trojan compromises Linux OSes

  A backdoor Trojan discovered in a popular Linux download illustrates that the OS is not impervious to attack.

• 12 June 2010

• News: The 20 best online collaboration tools

  Computers, the internet and the cloud have all helped in reducing the need to work from one central location.

• News: 10 ways to get more from Outlook 2007

  Microsoft's Outlook is one of the most-used email clients available.

• News: The 5 best Windows Live hidden features

  We've hunted down five of Microsoft's newer web services that we think deliver better functionality than those offered by Google and other competitors. So check out these Windows Live hidden gems.

• 11 June 2010

• News: ITV working on mobile catch-up TV app

  ITV is thought to be working on a mobile app that will allow iPhone, Google Android and BlackBerry users to watch its catch-up TV service, ITV Player, on their handsets.

• News: HP pays $12m for quick-boot Linux OS

  HP is to buy Linux-based quick-boot OS and client virtualisation assets from Phoenix Technologies for $12 million, Phoenix announced on Thursday.

• 10 June 2010

• News: Microsoft lets users see Facebook updates in Bing

  Microsoft has launched a new social search page that displays results from Facebook and Twitter.

• 09 June 2010

• News: Microsoft patches Pwn2Own bug in security update

  Microsoft's latest security update patched 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and Internet Explorer (IE), including an IE8 bug used by a Dutch security researcher in March to win $10,000 at the Pwn2Own contest.

• News: Microsoft Word Web App versus Google Docs

  Microsoft has put the last piece of its online office suite puzzle in place, officially launching its web-based suite of Microsoft Office applications called Office Web Apps.

• 08 June 2010

• News: Apple unveils Safari 5

  Apple has unveiled a new version of its Safari browser, which features a new Safari Reader feature that presents web pages in a streamlined interface, at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)

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