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Apple may be preparing to support not only Blu-ray Disc but also HD DVD, it has emerged. The next major relase of the Mac OS X operating system, 'Leopard' may allow users to play and burn both types of high-definition media - making it a sort of Hi-Def Leppard, we suppose... oh well... - it has be claimed.

Nokia has announced the winners of its annual developer's challenge competition.

Money talks, but for IBM it's software - and the odd tax adjustment - that walks. IBM recorded a 46.5 per cent growth in net income to $2.22bn on revenue up 5.1 per cent to $22.6bn, and earnings per diluted share of $1.45, compared to $0.94, for the third quarter ended September 30. IBM beat analyst expectations of $22.08bn revenue and $1.35 EPS.

Oracle today published the mother of all security patches containing 101 fixes for flaws in its database, application server, E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft and JD Edwards applications.

Microsoft is spending $1.3bn more than previously announced to take on internet rivals Google and Yahoo!.

ROME (Reuters) - Italy became the first European country to adopt a Microsoft system for combating child pornography on the Internet, something the government and the computer firm believe the whole continent is set to take up.

Motorola announced it was working on a 3G UMTS version of its Q Windows Mobile-based smart phone way back in February this year. It promised to ship the product in Q4. So why are smart-phone watchers getting into such a fuss about the Motorola Q Pro?

When the Euro was created, the European banks had to create a real-time payments settlement system to handle it. Not unnaturally, this was built on top of the existing systems. Now, however, they're upgrading it to a new system that turns those decentralised systems into a single centralised one.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) doesn't expect the iPod media player to be hurt by Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Zune, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a magazine interview.

The Canadian government has approved AMD's proposed takeover, of ATI, the home-grown graphics processor company.