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Article | 20/02/2008 Vista SP1 updates send some PCs into endless reboot
Updates that Microsoft began feeding Windows Vista users last week to prep PCs for next month's release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) have crippled some mac...
Article | 20/02/2008 Enterasys partners with VoIP vendor ShoreTel
As expected, Enterasys last week said it completed certification for VoIP vendor ShoreTel's Technology Partner Program.
Article | 19/02/2008 Portable device facilitates business across the Internet
CSIRO has developed a prototype portable device that will allow people to do business across the Internet on any computer in a trusted manner.
Article | 20/02/2008 Row highlights Internet censorship in Finland
A case of Internet censorship in Finland has garnered a lot of attention and may alter the secretive way Web sites are blocked, according to a privacy...
Article | 20/02/2008 Microsoft scrambles to quash 'friendly' worm story
Microsoft is moving to counter some scathing comments regarding a security paper authored by researchers at its Cambridge, England, facility.
Article | 20/02/2008 Toshiba abandons HD DVD
Toshiba will discontinue its HD DVD products, it said Tuesday, handing victory to rival high definition disc format Blu-ray Disc.
Article | 19/02/2008 Prepare to plug your content security holes
Denial of service attacks, viruses, spyware and phishing schemes may be the best-known corporate security threats, but vendors are pushing products de...
Article | 15/02/2008 Microsoft offers patent protection for Office binaries
Microsoft on Friday said it has added Office binary formats to a list of technologies that are protected against patent-violation claims, answering cr...
Article | 19/02/2008 Aerosmith gets its own Guitar Hero game
Aerosmith becomes video game guitar heroes
Article | 13/02/2008 Everyone's got iPhone and Android envy
Two notable trends emerged from last week's <a href="http://www.mobileworldcongress.com">Mobile World Congress</a> 2008 show in Barcelona (no, I didn'...
Article | 19/02/2008 Microsoft addresses HD DVD death, future of Xbox 360
HD DVD may be on its deathbed, but a new Microsoft statement claims that the Xbox 360 will remain unaffected by the rise of Blu-ray.
Article | 19/02/2008 Sony Ericsson E400 mobile broadband ExpressCards
Sony Ericsson used the GSM Mobile World Conference to launch two new mobile broadband ExpressCards. The EC400 and EC400g simply slide into a laptop's ...
Article | 19/02/2008 Firefox 3.0's malware blocker whacks access to popular add-on sites
The new Firefox 3.0 anti-malware tool that debuted last week in Beta 3 is blocking users from reaching the Web sites for a pair of popular add-ons to ...
Article | 19/02/2008 Wii to displace Xbox 360 by end of 2008: iSuppli
Nintendo's popular Wii game console will displace Microsoft's Xbox 360 as the new-generation game machine, iSuppli said Thursday.
Article | 19/02/2008 Teen pushed adware to hundreds of thousands of PCs
A teenager identified by U.S. law enforcement officials only as B.D.H pleaded guilty last week to charges that he used botnets to illegally install ad...
Article | 19/02/2008 Toshiba shares surge on HD DVD talk
Investors in Tokyo welcomed news reports that Toshiba is considering pulling the plug on its HD DVD format by pushing the company's shares up 5 percen...
Article | 19/02/2008 Opera, Firefox bug could export users' Web history
A flaw in the way the Firefox and Opera browsers handle an image file could allow an attacker to see what Web sites a person has visited.
Article | 18/02/2008 GDC 2008: Gaming's Futurama Forum
Mind control, game announcements, and graphics cards - the gaming elite flocks to the annual Game Developers Conference to discuss what you'll play in...
Article | 15/02/2008 Lean, green, open source machine
A French company is selling a desktop computer to those people for whom size really does matter.
Article | 18/02/2008 Samsung starts shipping SATA II flash drives to Dell
Samsung Electronics has begun shipping a flash memory-based solid state disk drive (SSD) that offers better performance than many of the flash drives ...

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