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• 03 September 2009

• News: Amazon: Google Books deal creates cartel

  In a strongly worded letter, Amazon added its voice to the growing chorus of cries urging a court to reject the proposed Google Books settlement.

• 02 September 2009

• News: DSGi reveals 17% fall in PC sales

  DSG International, the parent company which owns Dixons and PC World, has revealed sales are down 6 percent on last year.

• 28 August 2009

• News: UK Broadband: State of the Nation 2009

  In 2009, 18.31 million UK households had Internet access. This represented 70 percent of households and an increase of 1.85 million households since 2008, according to the 2009 National Statistics Opinions (Omnibus) survey.

• 25 August 2009

• News: Access to The Pirate Bay temporarily blocked

  Access to controversial BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay was temporarily blocked following a court order.

• News: Asus: Android Eee PC on hold

  Asustek Computers CEO Jerry Shen say its Eee PC running Google's Android operating system is on hold as there no clear market for the devices, which he calls ‘smartbooks'.

• 24 August 2009

• News: More smartphones than PCs by 2011

  Smartphone sales will surpass worldwide PC sales by the end of 2011, says a new report.

• News: Chairman of Pirate Bay's new owner quits

  The new owner of BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay has lost its chairman just days before the deal was due to close.

• News: Microsoft-Yahoo deal may fall foul of DoJ

  Microsoft and Yahoo's new search deal could run into trouble as it will narrow the search engine market, says an antitrust lawyer.

• News: Microsoft open-source project links PHP, .Net

  Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism Interoperability team last week introduced an open source project to bridge PHP and Microsoft's .Net programming model, Microsoft representatives said.

• News: Intel buys RapidMind

  Intel has acquired software company RapidMind in an effort to push development of programs that can exploit the power of Intel's multicore processors, the company said Friday.

• News: Microsoft: Word sales ban to cause massive disruptions

  Microsoft warned last week that an injunction preventing it from selling Word in the US after October 10 would cause "massive disruptions" to sales of its Office software, as well as to key partners such as Dell and HP.

• News: 3 owner buys stake in Spotify

  Hutchison Whampoa, which owns mobile network 3, has purchased a stake in Swedish music streaming site Spotify.

• News: Mobile phone payments to hit travel network

  The U.K. aims to have a plan by the end of this year that lets people use their mobile phones or smart cards to pay for travel across England's public transport system.

• News: Intel buys RapidMind to boost multi-core chips

  Intel has acquired software company RapidMind in an effort to push development of programs that can exploit the power of Intel's multicore processors, the company said Friday.

• 22 August 2009

• News: The 10 silliest technology blunders

  We look at the 10 silliest tech blunders that have left companies kicking themselves over missed opportunities.

• News: 5 sport technologies we love... and 5 we hate

  Many technologies can enhance a fan's enjoyment of sport. Some others are just plain annoying. Here's five that we love and five that we're not so keen on.

• 21 August 2009

• News: Windows XP pirates sentenced to jail

  Four Chinese hackers have been convicted of copyright infringement after pirating Microsoft's Windows XP operating system.

• News: Oracle Sun deal given DoJ approval

  Oracle's bid to take over Sun Microsystems has been given the go-ahead by the US Department of Justice (DoJ).

• News: Man detained in second web addict beating

  Chinese police have detained a man who beat teenagers sent to an Internet addiction camp he ran, state media said Wednesday.

• News: Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon fight Google Book Search

  Microsoft, Amazon.com and Yahoo plan to join a consortium to fight a proposed settlement Google has made with authors and publishers over its Google Book Search service, according to a report published in The New York Times.

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