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Hoax email costs Apple US$4bn in six minutes

IBM unveils world's fastest processor

Davenport waves goodbye to Cellnet

AWA offers PC Tools spyware protection to home users

Microsoft says 'EU version' of Windows Vista a dud

Motorola gets patent for sun-powered phone

OpenOffice worm downloads bunny porn

IBM dominates SOA market, Microsoft second

MySpace releases sex offender data to authorities

Bad Norton update zaps millions of PCs

Consumer tech firms alienating customers

IBM debuts Power6 in new Unix server

Tuesday, 22nd May 2007

Headlines

	Hoax email costs Apple US$4bn in six minutes
	IBM unveils world's fastest processor
	Davenport waves goodbye to Cellnet
	AWA offers PC Tools spyware protection to home users
	Microsoft says 'EU version' of Windows Vista a dud
	Motorola gets patent for sun-powered phone
	OpenOffice worm downloads bunny porn
	IBM dominates SOA market, Microsoft second
	MySpace releases sex offender data to authorities
	Bad Norton update zaps millions of PCs
	Consumer tech firms alienating customers
	IBM debuts Power6 in new Unix server

This afternoon, an email published on Engadget claiming that the release of Apple’s iPhone would be delayed until October was revealed as a hoax, but not before Apple’s stock market valuation plunged $4.8 billion as a result.

In other news, IBM has unveiled what it claims is the world’s fastest processor, the Power 6, which runs at 4.7GHz and has an 8MB L2 cache along with 790 million transistors built on a 65nm scale.

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