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TODAY ON iTnews.com.au:    Germans track child porn in Second Life   Microsoft's biggest threat: MySpace?   Q&A with Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff   HP plans to rebrand Compaq   Dell rolls out latest business laptops   Ballmer: Microsoft's future includes 'being no. 1' in anything it wants    BenQ executives charged with money laundering   Business software needs YouTube jolt   Experts concerned over Windows Vista hardware specs   Oracle links to Ajax   Intel targets corporate laptops with 'Centrino Pro'   Red Hat to build 'Global Desktop'
Thursday, 10th May 2007
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This afternoon, German authorities are investigating the Second Life online virtual world following reports of users buying and selling child pornography .

Also making news, a panel discussion at the Software 2007 Conference in Santa Clara, California found that Microsoft's biggest threat comes not from Google, but from MySpace.

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Security
Germans track child porn in Second Life
Virtual sex with minors and real child pornography images being traded.
By Matt Chapman


Internet
Microsoft's biggest threat: MySpace?
Panelists at the Software 2007 Conference theorise what kind of real impact social networks are creating..
By Thomas Claburn


Jobs Centre
Q&A with Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff
Benioff chats about the potential of getting acquired by a larger vendor, and explains why he thinks Salesforce.com will be relevant for years to come..
By Mary Hayes


Hardware
HP plans to rebrand Compaq
New 'CQ' image deemed more suited for global use.
By Iain Thomson


Hardware
Dell rolls out latest business laptops
New models feature solid state hard drives and nine-hour battery life.
By Shaun Nichols


Applications
Ballmer: Microsoft's future includes 'being no. 1' in anything it wants
Microsoft's evolving business services model is expected to include online software, advertising-funded software, and perhaps an acquisition or two..
By Mary Hayes


Government/Law
BenQ executives charged with money laundering
Company 'shocked' as chairman and president face serious charges.
By Simon Burns


Applications
Business software needs YouTube jolt
Corporate software need not come as complicated hairballs of code, but can work as simply as YouTube or Google Web search does, the chairman of SAP AG, Europe's largest software maker, said Tuesday..
By Reuters blank


Hardware
Experts concerned over Windows Vista hardware specs
An internal memo notes that Vista requires double the amount of memory the agency usually uses on desktops and warns staffers to watch out for Microsoft sales pitches..
By Paul McDougall


Applications
Oracle links to Ajax
The components are meant to ease the task of creating interactive applications that allow data exchanges between server and browser window without clunky HTML page downloads..
By Charles Babcock


Hardware
Intel targets corporate laptops with 'Centrino Pro'
The latest version of the processor chipset package includes the addition of 802.11n, as well as Intel's vPro and Active Management technologies..
By Antone Gonsalves


Internet
Red Hat to build 'Global Desktop'
Low cost Linux bundle system to target emerging markets.
By Tom Sanders
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