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TODAY ON iTnews.com.au:    Experts claim Vista security not fit for purpose   Mobile industry lines up for Linux   IBM and AMD follow in Intel's 45nm footsteps   Brocade and McData to merge   Microsoft's XML standard under fire   Movie piracy more popular than ever   Nintendo Wii users plug into news   Thai junta threatens foreign-owned mobile firm   US$4,000 phone bill for porn leads to suicide   Google boss regrets kowtowing to China   EBay: Skype goes light   Oracle developer loses trip to space
Tuesday, 30th January 2007
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Tim Lohman,
Editor

 

This morning, upon the consumer launch of Vista, Security firm Webroot Software has attacked Microsoft over ”numerous security flaws" which it claims to have uncovered in the new operating system.

Also making news, six industry heavyweights have formed a consortium to develop a Linux OS for mobile phones.

mail your comments on this morning’s news:

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Security
Experts claim Vista security not fit for purpose
Ineffective blocking capabilities in Windows Defender, slow definition
updates and weak antivirus.
By Clement James


Telco/ISP
Mobile industry lines up for Linux
Six industry heavyweights have formed a consortium to develop a Linux operating system for mobile phones.

By Iain Thomson


Hardware
IBM and AMD follow in Intel's 45nm footsteps
Intel loses monopoly on working High-K and metal gate breakthrough.
By Tom Sanders


Storage
Brocade and McData to merge
Stockholders vote in favour.
By Clement James


Applications
Microsoft's XML standard under fire
Open standards alliances rain on Redmond's parade.
By Robert Jaques


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Research/Trends
Movie piracy more popular than ever
One in the eye for the RIAA.
By Iain Thomson


Research/Trends
Nintendo Wii users plug into news
Free news channel accessed through the next-gen console.
By Clement James


Telco/ISP
Thai junta threatens foreign-owned mobile firm
Licences could be revoked, ministers say.
By Simon Burns


Research/Trends
US$4,000 phone bill for porn leads to suicide
Case may bring mobile curfew for teens in South Korea.
By Simon Burns


Internet
Google boss regrets kowtowing to China
Decision not a good one, admits Brin.
By Iain Thomson


Internet
EBay: Skype goes light
A sour note in an otherwise upbeat year-end earnings report: EBay CEO Meg Whitman admitted the financial performance of the online auction firm's voice-over-IP operation, Skype, was disappointing last year.
By Staff writers


Research/Trends
Oracle developer loses trip to space
US tax laws foil man's dream of boldly going.
By Iain Thomson


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