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• 18 April 2009

• News: Analysis: does your PC need security software?

  The hype surrounding Conficker and the Twitter worm has only served for security experts to issue warnings about installing antivirus software. But is it really necessary? Can you survive without a security suite? Two experts give us their views.

• News: The 10 worst Facebook apps

  Do you really need to know about your friends' bowel movements? Or what sandal they'd be? It was a tough competition, but we've rounded up the 10 worst Facebook apps.

• News: 15 great Windows 7 tips, tricks and tweaks

  Here's how to get Windows 7, Microsoft's upcoming PC operating system, to bend to your will.

• 17 April 2009

• News: Office 2010 u-turn as public beta plan restored

  Microsoft has promised that it will provide at least one public beta to Office 2010, saying that its assertion to the contrary earlier this week was "the wrong impression"

• 16 April 2009

• News: Microsoft blocks Office 2010 public beta

  Microsoft won't open Office 2010 beta testing to the general public, but will instead limit the preview to a large group of invite-only users starting in the third quarter

• News: Vmware exposes Macs to Windows hack

  A bug in VMware's Fusion virtualisation software could be used to run malicious code on a Mac by exploiting Windows in a virtual machine, according to a security researcher. VMware has released Fusion 2.0.4 to plug the hole.

• 15 April 2009

• News: 90% of hack attacks caused by organised crime

  According to research, organised crime is behind 90 percent of all hacking attacks, and hackers stole more data last year than in the previous four years.

• News: Oracle, Sun, IBM join EC Microsoft antitrust case

  The European Commission won a new ally today in its latest antitrust battle with Microsoft over the company's browser, Internet Explorer.

• News: Virgin Media improves email with help from Google

  Virgin Media has announced it is working with Google to offer its customers an improved webmail service.

• News: Amazon bans Phorm from tracking users

  Online retailer Amazon has announced that it will stop targeted advertising system Phorm for tracking users activities on its web pages.

• News: Google working on next version of Android

  Google is giving developers the chance to take a look at the software development kit (SDK) for the next version of its Android operating system.

• News: Microsoft security update patches Excel flaw

  Microsoft released its largest number of patches so far this year in yesterday's security update.

• 14 April 2009

• News: Windows XP support ends today

  Microsoft will drop Windows XP out of mainstream support today, with the ageing OS moving into extended support phase

• 13 April 2009

• News: Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 coming this month

  Microsoft has announced that it will start pushing Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) to customers this month.

• 11 April 2009

• News: 25 technology products: gone but not forgotten

  We've rounded up the 25 best tech products that may be long gone, but we'll never forget them. How have they managed to hang on for so long?

• News: The 13 funniest, weirdest Google Suggest results

  Google Suggest is a feature that sees the search engine trying to complete a search query as you type words into the search engine's text box. Suggestions are meant to be helpful - but they can sometimes be funny, bizarre, or downright creepy.

• 10 April 2009

• News: Microsoft restructures Live Labs research group

  Microsoft is restructuring its Live Labs research group, sending about half the researchers to work within product groups at the company.

• News: Critical Excel fix coming next week

  Microsoft plans to release eight updates next week, including a likely fix for an Excel bug that has been used by cybercriminals.

• News: Price of Google Apps increases in UK

  UK users of Google Apps - the search engine's hosted suite of collaboration, messaging and office productivity services, will be paying more to use the service, after Google revealed it wants to bring pricing in-line with the US.

• 09 April 2009

• News: Acer trialing Google Android on desktop PC

  Acer has revealed it is currently working on a desktop PC that uses Google Android as its operating system.

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