That Apple Computer is developing an iPod cum mobile phone, nicknamed "iPhone", has been doing the rounds for some time now. To add grist to the rumor mills, a patent filed by the company was brought to light last week, which speaks about a device combining an iPod-like media player with a mobile phone.

According to reports, US Patent Application No 20060268528 is for 'a portable computing device capable of wireless communication, which comprises an enclosure surrounding and protecting the internal operational components; the enclosure being made of a structural wall formed from a ceramic material that permits wireless communication.'

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There are two drawbacks to being a company that has a virtual monopoly in its biggest markets.

For starters: where do you find growth?

And there is always the nagging worry that someone out there is working on a rival product that just might blow you out of the water.

As Andrew Grove, one of the founders of computer chip giant Intel, once put it: "Only the paranoid survive!" Software giant Microsoft is working hard to address both problems.

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The store started turning people away at 5:40 a.m. local time — more than an hour before doors opened — and Wiis were sold out "for the foreseeable future," Ito said. Earlier, crowd-control staff at the store, trying to avoid a stampede, used megaphones to urge shoppers to stop pushing. Short supplies were reported elsewhere in the capital.

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Greece - Imagine tossing a top-notch laptop into the sea, leaving scientists from a foreign culture to scratch their heads over its corroded remains centuries later. A Roman shipmaster inadvertently did something just like that 2,000 years ago off southern Greece, experts said Thursday. They claim to have identified a handful of puzzling metal scraps found in a ship wreck as the earliest known mechanical computing device, which pinpointed astronomical events.

A team including British, Greek and U.S. scientists used specially developed X-ray scanning and imaging technology to analyze the corroded bronze, revealing hidden machinery and a form of written user's manual. "We have used the latest technology available to understand this mechanism, yet the technological quality in this mechanism puts us to shame," project leader Mike Edmunds, professor of astronomy at Cardiff University. "If the ancient Greeks made this, what else could they do?"

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Now that Microsoft has officially unveiled its new Vista operating system for businesses, it is likely that corporate users will begin testing the OS over the next year to see how it fits into their environments.

Although Microsoft has played up several features in the operating system, such as heightened security, enterprises might find that the software behemoth is not yet done with integrating new features into the system.

At the press conference for the unveiling of Vista, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer noted that there is still work that needs to be done to fine-tune the software.

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Maxthon is a powerful web browser with a highly customizable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer engine which means that what works in IE, works the same in Maxthon but with many additional efficient features like Tabbed Browsing Interface; Mouse Gestures; Super Drag&Drop; Privacy Protection; AD Hunter; Google Bar Support; External Utility Bar; and Skinning.

Maxthon has the following other editions available: Maxthon Standard and Maxthon Combo.

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SPECIAL FEATURE It is a frame of mind that not even the smartest security engineers, working the problem for decades, may have considered: We speak of viruses infecting the operating system. We hold the manufacturers (or, more often, the manufacturer) of the operating system partly responsible, even partly liable, for the damage that malicious programs cause to people's work and livelihood, as if the entire work paradigm for information technology exists in software.

What if we think of the problem from a reverse angle: Aren't hard disk drives the things that get infected? Decades ago, we used to quarantine floppy diskettes that were believed infected, when diskettes were the primary means for viruses to spread, prior to the ubiquitousness of the Internet.

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The updated WGA Notifications package includes additional changes in response to continued criticism Microsoft has faced over the software, the company said on Tuesday. In June Microsoft also updated the tool after critics likened it to spyware because it checked in with Microsoft after each Windows restart.

In the latest update, Microsoft has changed the installation procedure of the tool so it's clearer to people what it does, said David Lazar, director of the Windows Genuine program at Microsoft. In the original version, WGA Notifications displayed only a wordy user licence, which people typically don't read.

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This isn't a big surprise since Google Answers was an invitation to pay for an answer, whereas Yahoo Answers and Amazon's Askville (in beta) are free.

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