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No Vista Inside for Intel PDF E-mail
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by Davey Winder   
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Upgrade to Windows Vista? No thanks, says Intel according to an insider. The chip giant apparently has no plans to upgrade 80,000 employees from XP to Vista, in what must be a painful blow to Microsoft.

 
IceTV takes program guide case to the High Court PDF E-mail
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by Stephen Withers   
Thursday, 26 June 2008
A long-running legal squabble between Australia's Nine television network and IceTV, a third-party provider of electronic program guides for PVRs and computers, looks like reaching its climax in the High Court of Australia.

 
Aussies hot to trot for iPhone info - new search data PDF E-mail
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by Stephen Withers   
Thursday, 26 June 2008
If Internet searches are anything to go by, then the iPhone 3G is going to be a smash hit when it goes on sale in Australia on July 11. New search data shows that Australian searches for the word 'iphone' have skyrocketed over the second quarter of 2008.

 
Samsung i780 Windows Mobile beats iPhone and HTC Diamond for business? PDF E-mail
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by Stephen Withers   
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Never mind the iPhone or the HTC Touch Diamond, Samsung reckons it's new i780 mobile phone is what business users need. Insofar as any one phone can suit the needs of such a diverse group, it just might be right.

 
Could RFID mean RIP for hospital patients? PDF E-mail
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by Stephen Withers   
Thursday, 26 June 2008
RFID tags have been promoted as a great way of keeping track of medical equipment. But a new study shows the tags can interfere with some types of equipment, leading to possibly life-threatening situations.

 
Ubuntu MID makes Linux upwardly mobile PDF E-mail
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by Stephen Withers   
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Ubuntu Linux owner Canonical has launched Ubuntu into the realm of mobile Internet devices with a release called Ubuntu MID. The new version of arguably the world's most popular desktop Linux distribution initially targeted the Samsung Q1U though the OS also runs on Intel's Atom-based Crown Beach development system.

 
Adobe ships Acrobat 9 with Flash support but Reader 9 lags PDF E-mail
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by Stephen Withers   
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Adobe has shipped its new Acobat 9 document creation software, which is capable of supporting Flash applications, but strangely new owners will not be able to take advantage of the new features for a couple of weeks until updated free readers become available. Adobe is saying Reader 9 won't be updated until early July.

 
Full English breakfast: bacon, sausage, eggs and an iPhone 3G PDF E-mail
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by Davey Winder   
Thursday, 26 June 2008
UK consumers looking to be first in line for the new Apple iPhone 3G had better set the alarm clock nice and early. Word on the street is that O2 stores will start selling them at 7am on the 11th July, but at what cost?

 
Credit crunch will not impact upon IT spending PDF E-mail
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by Davey Winder   
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
That is the rather surprising conclusion of a VeriSign sponsored survey, published today. In fact 63 percent of the IT professionals questioned said there will be no such cut backs in the UK next year.

 
Spam back on the menu as botnet creating email triples in one week PDF E-mail
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by Davey Winder   
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
The volume of spam which exists not to sell you stuff, but simply to add your computer to a botnet collective has tripled in just one week. If that weren't worrying enough, it seems that the Srizbi botnet is now responsible for an incredible 46 percent of all spam being distributed.


 
Trojans infect 2.6 million systems, looking for gamer credentials PDF E-mail
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by Mike Bantick   
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Multiplayer Online games such as World of Warcraft and Lineage are the target of keylogging Trojan software on a massive scale say Microsoft.  With the release of the latest Malicious Software Removal tool, Microsoft say this infection has outpaced all before it.  

 
Information threat horizon a major cause for concern PDF E-mail
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by Davey Winder   
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
One of the world's leading independent authorities on information security has warned that malicious threats from organised crime as well as industrial espionage are on the up. Throw in mobile malware and Web 2.0 vulnerabilities and the threat horizon looks very grim indeed.

 
Windows XP: The party's over - or is it? PDF E-mail
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by Stephen Withers   
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Microsoft's rolling down the shutters on Windows XP next Monday, but if you're desperate for additional licences there will be ways and means. Furthermore, the company has said it will continue to provide security updates and other critical patches until April 2014.

 
PCs pass 1 billion in 2008; to double by 2014 PDF E-mail
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by William Atkins   
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
According to analyst company Gartner, in 2008 the number of personal computers (PCs) in use around the world passed the one billion mark. They'll double even faster!

 
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