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• 08 April 2011

• News: The new PC Advisor website launches today!

  The new PC Advisor website launches today!

• News: Ingersoll-Rand Boosts Div, Authorizes Buying Shares

  Ingersoll-Rand plc said its board boosted the quarterly dividend to 12 cents a share from 7 cents, and authorized the repurchase of up to $2 billion of the environmental systems company's common shares.

• 07 April 2011

• News: Will Page as CEO usher in a sea change at Google?

  However Larry Page decides to lead Google, one thing is for sure: He's not going to be Eric Schmidt 2.0.

• News: Time Warner asks judge to decide on iPad streaming

  Time Warner has asked a judge to rule on whether it has the right to let customers stream cable content to their iPads, a question that has lit up debate among content providers, cable companies and their customers over the past weeks.

• News: Phishing scams dupe the most active online users

  People who make a lot of online transactions, are popular online and who respond to most of the emails they receive are at the highest risk for being duped by malicious phishers, according to a multi-university study.

• News: FCC revamps pole-attachment rules for broadband services

  The FCC revamps the rules for attaching broadband lines to utility poles.

• News: Dell to invest $1 billion to boost data storage products

  Due to incorrect information supplied by the company, the story "Dell to invest $1 billion to boost data storage products" that ran on the wire on April 7, contained errors.

• News: Dell to invest $1 billion to boost data storage products

  Dell plans to invest US$1 billion over the next three years to bolster its data storage products to business customers, with the money going toward the research of technology like cloud computing and virtualization, along with the development on new data centers.

• News: Judge in Oracle-Google case gets a lesson in Java

  Lawyers for Oracle and Google gave the judge overseeing their Java patent dispute a tutorial on Wednesday that underscored the complexity of the case between the two companies.

• 06 April 2011

• News: Pacific Fibre loses Pacnet, nabs key personnel

  New Zealand submarine cable venture Pacific Fibre will be responsible for finding the full $US400 million funding for a proposed fibre link between Australia, New Zealand and the United States after a memorandum of understanding with Pacnet lapsed earlier this year.

• News: Feds prep for eGov shutdown

  If the U.S. government is shut down by a budget impasse Friday night at midnight, various services could be interrupted, but the IRS will still collect tax returns filed electronically and process payments.

• News: Lawmakers question if search engines contribute to piracy

  U.S. lawmakers explore ways to combat websites engaging in digital piracy.

• News: Sony resumes production in more Japanese plants

  Sony on Wednesday said partial or full operations had resumed at eight of its 10 Japanese facilities affected by the March 11 earthquake.

• News: U.S. can conduct offsite searches of computers seized at borders, court rules

  A U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that the government can confiscate computers from travelers at border locations, and then transport the devices to distant labs for analysis.

• News: Top Story: DC Universe Online affected by SOE cuts

  This morning's Top Story is an open letter from the producer of DC Universe Online which looks forward to the future of the game despite SOE's recent layoffs.

• News: Microsoft appoints new marketing chief

  Chris Capossela takes the spot vacated by Mich Mathews last week

• News: Apple patent for hybrid connector granted

  The US Patent and Trademark Office has granted a new patent to Apple concerning a hybrid DisplayPort/USB 3.0 connector.

• News: Harness disruption or become obsolete: Forrester

  Five years ago, Nokia dominated the smartphone market. How quickly things change. But before you sit back and think, ‘that won’t happen to me’, take a look at the competitive environment in which your company operates. Daunting, isn’t it?

• News: Outsourcing in Latin America: What A Vendor Won't Tell You

  The Latin American IT services market is heating up, but buyer beware: There are hidden costs and issues that could affect your nearer-shore outsourcing deal.

• News: ISPs unhappy with BT pricing for poles and ducts

  An £830m plan to bring superfast broadband to every community in the UK by 2015 could be in jeopardy, after a leaked letter revealed ISPs including TalkTalk and Virgin Media are unhappy about the prices and terms and conditions imposed by BT on other providers to use its existing ducts and poles.

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