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The UK's small businesses are blind to the risks of illegal software, and especially to the dangers posed by viruses, according to the Business Software Alliance.

Google has acquired the videoconferencing software company Marratech.

BOSTON (Reuters) - The iPhone, Apple Inc.'s (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) first mobile handset, is on schedule to hit the U.S. market at the end of June, a senior executive with AT&T Inc. (T.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Technology will keep getting better and better rather than plateauing out, with the humble keyboard making way for speech recognition software as standard, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said on Thursday.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp., trying to meet its goal of doubling the number of computer users to 2 billion by 2015, promised to cut its software prices to governments in developing countries that provide free computers to school children.

Microsoft and PC maker Lenovo said on Wednesday that they will build a joint research and development lab in China, marking the first time that the software maker has built such a facility with another company.

RIM's massive BlackBerry email outage this week highlights how vulnerable the company's network has become as it tries to keep up with demand for its popular service.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has started building the world's first floating nuclear power station, officials said, a project anti-nuclear activists say is the most dangerous to come out of the atomic sector for a decade.

An American academic has published research (pdf) suggesting that bio-ethanol vehicles could be more damaging to human health than ordinary fossil-fuelled ones.

A patent licensing agreement between Nokia and Qualcomm has expired without being renewed. The agreement is the subject of legal action in the US and Europe.

Experts have identified a possible contributory cause of the unexplained and drastic decline in honeybee numbers - mobile phone radiation.

In a century-old farming town in central Washington state, Microsoft has built a farm for the internet age.

Not content with having a dominant position in web video, Adobe Systems on Monday is expected to launch Adobe Media Player for playing Flash videos offline.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - What a difference a year has made in the microprocessor industry.

House of Cards Moniker.com , the ICANN accredited registrar will hold the first silent auction of premium online gambling domains at the Casino Affiliate Convention in Amsterdam. All attendees at the convention, which takes place the first week of May, will be provided with a password to allow them to bid on the available domains, according to online reports, Those unlucky enough to be unable to attend the Amsterdam extravaganza will be able to bid on Moniker’s website for $99.

Atos Origin has insisted it will continue to work with the Department of Health and the NHS despite the suspension of a key health service contract.

SEOUL, April 11 (Reuters) - Shares in LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd. (034220.KS: Quote, Profile, Research) jumped more than 5 percent early on Wednesday, a day after the flat screen maker reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss and gave a positive outlook for the rest of 2007.