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News The European Commission has given the green light to the megamerger, arguing it poses little risk to competition
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Win an Orange SPV M5000 3G phone/handheld
News Competition: In today's competition we're giving you the chance to win a state-of-the-art mobile device - the Orange SPV M5000
UK users escape Salesforce.com outage woes
News CRM company says that the severe outages that hit its services on Tuesday appear to be confined to the US
BT's next-generation consumer offering: does BT have the answer?
Analysis The telco's entry into television is promising, but is accompanied by signs of hubris
Scientists pore over biometric-spoofing tests
News Fingerprint readers can be spoofed by images lifted with Play-Doh or gelatine or a model of a finger moulded out of dental plaster - but dead fingers don't sweat
iTunes security flaw enters the spotlight
News More details have emerged on a flaw in QuickTime and iTunes that affects both Windows and Mac OS X
ID card bill set for Lords vote
News The bill has completed its 'committee stage' in the House of Lords, where no further amendments to the legislation proposed by the government were passed
Red Hat profits soar
News The enterprise Linux vendor has reported impressive financial results which, it says, suggest it is attracting a growing number of Unix users
Pentium name begins to fade away
News With the end of the Pentium M line in January, the end of the Pentium brand is nearly at hand
MPs agree tougher fines for rogue diallers
News Firms who hijack dial-up connections now face fines of up to £250,000
Tis the season of Christmas scams
Analysis Crooks have learned to use holidays and current affairs to give their schemes an air of legitimacy, say experts
Google fixes security hole
News Attackers could have exploited the flaw to launch phishing scams or steal a user's credentials, security experts said
Salesforce customers hit by service disruption
News Customers of the online CRM vendor suffered an outage on Tuesday that was possibly the most severe in the company's short history
Microsoft plans Google assault
News The software giant will use its desktop market dominance to compete with Google on search and advertising, say experts
