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www.smh.com.au  TECH DAILY

Friday February 2, 2007


Truce called in iPhone trademark squabble

Apple and Cisco Systems are apparently suspending their court battle over the iPhone to return to the negotiations table.


Widgets bring the bling to mobiles

By using new programming tools or rethinking existing ones, companies claim they can replicate familiar aspects of today's desktop computing on the mobile phone's small screen.


Penguin's novel wiki project launched

Book publisher Penguin launches a web-based, collaborative novel that can be written, edited or read by anyone, anywhere using "wiki" software.




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Zune Executive to Leave Microsoft

A Microsoft Corp. executive responsible for its newly launched Zune digital music player will leave the company.


Video Ringtone Service Launches at Show

The standard ringtones on mobile phones aren't good enough for lots of people who spend a few US dollars a pop to download song clips and other custom sounds to their devices. Now an Israeli startup bets it can add another layer: the video ringtone.


Apple Revs Up Ad Attacks on PCs, Vista

For nearly a year, television and Internet audiences have been seeing a familiar string of ads from Apple attacking rival Windows-based computers. With this week's release of Windows Vista, the newest jabs aren't any friendlier.


Tracking Your Car by Cell and E-Mail

Here's something that might appeal to your fretful or data-loving side: a service that alerts you if your car is stolen _ or being driven too fast by the teenager who borrowed the keys.


Taking Some of the Work Out of Business

Running a business doesn't have to involve so much work.


Hit by TV Price Wars, Tweeter Regroups

Tweeter Home Entertainment Group Inc. is trying to ease out of the line of fire in a flat-panel television price war that erupted over the holidays and is extending through Super Bowl Sunday.


Dell Returns to CEO Role at PC Maker

Michael Dell's return as chief executive officer of Dell Inc. may have appeased analyst demands for now, but they say he faces an enormous, long-term challenge in fixing nagging problems that have plagued the computer maker.


Apple's IPhone Stirs Up Would-Be Rivals

Pablo Gonzalez, a Prada shoe-wearing mobile phone connoisseur who jumps from one new handset to the next, is ready to ditch his $1,000 touch-screen mobile phone for Apple's iPhone when it becomes available in June.


Review: Office 2007 a Worthy Successor

With each update to its Office suite, Microsoft Corp. has piled on features aimed at boosting users' productivity and goosing sales of the world's most widely used collection of programs for handling documents, spreadsheets, e-mail and presentations.


PS3 Game Sales Boost Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc., benefiting from brisk holiday sales of video games used on Sony Corp.'s new Playstation 3, exceeded Wall Street's earnings expectations Thursday despite fiscal third-quarter sales that dropped 38 percent.


Haitian teen charged in raid of U.S. Virgin Islands government bank accounts

A Haitian teenager living in St. Croix has been charged in the alleged theft of US$382,000 (euro293,395) by hacking into U.S. Virgin Islands' government bank accounts, prosecutors said Thursday.


Apple's iPhone stirs up rivals, who question `revolutionary' claim

Pablo Gonzalez, a Prada shoe-wearing mobile phone connoisseur who jumps from one new handset to the next, is ready to ditch his $1,000 (euro768) touch-screen mobile phone for Apple's iPhone when it becomes available in June.



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Yahoo to showcase entertainment brands

Coming off a year in which it was overshadowed by several internet rivals, Yahoo is piggybacking on some of the entertainment industry's leading brands in its latest attempt to bolster its own brand.


Apple attack ads poke fun at PCs

For nearly a year, television and internet audiences have been seeing a familiar string of ads from Apple attacking rival Windows-based computers. With this week's release of Windows Vista, the newest jabs aren't any friendlier.


Zune chief plans to leave Microsoft

A Microsoft executive responsible for its newly launched Zune digital music player will leave the company.


IN REVIEW

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Playing the field

Jason Hill looks at the year ahead in gaming and finds the best is yet to come.


BIZ TECH

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Fox's thunder goes down the YouTube

20th Century Fox logo. YouTube has been subpoenaed by 20th Century Fox following the posting of what was at the time unbroadcast episodes of the TV series 24 and The Simpsons.



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