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• Ubuntu more secure than Leopard, Windows Vista?

  Ubuntu Linux was the only system left unscathed in a multi-platform hacking competition last week, but does that mean it is more secure?

• Flash flaw leads to Vista laptop's fall

  It held out as long as possible, but a Windows Vista laptop fell to a determined bunch of hackers Friday evening at the Pwn to Own contest at CanSecWest.

• Seagate ships hybrid 160GB/256MB 2.5-inch drive

  Seagate Technology, the industry's largest producer of hard drives, has finally started shipping its first batch of hybrid hard drives for notebook PCs.

• Microsoft and Sony in Vista Turbo Memory spat

  Microsoft has denied Sony's claim that the current release of Vista supports neither Intel's Turbo Memory technology nor hybrid hard drives.

• Sony to launch notebook battery recall

  Sony plans to recall 340,000 rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that shipped with notebook computers in the US, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Monday.

• Dell: Exploding batteries are Sony's fault

  Chairman Michael Dell has denied that the way Dell constructs its PCs played a part in a spate of battery-related fires. He instead laid the blame entirely with the manufacturer of the battery cells, Sony.

• Forget the browser wars, prepare for the toolbar wars

  Fighting for icon space on the desktop is so 2001. The new frontier on a virgin PC is the browser, and Internet companies like Google are jostling for space on the browsers of new PCs.

• Sony software czar's big challenge

  Sony's new software czar, Tim Schaaff, knows a little something about handling companies in turmoil.

• Microsoft to tune up Media Center PC

  With the next generation of Media Center PCs, you'll be able to have your TV and record it too.

• Sony challenges Apple with 20GB music player

  Sony Electronics will begin selling two hard-drive music players this US fall which, combined with its new music download service, will create an iPod-like parallel universe.

• Bluetooth shatters milestone as new standard debuts

  Bluetooth, the short-range wireless technology, has passed another landmark in its goal of becoming ubiquitous.

• DivX is ready for its sequel. Is Hollywood?

  Digital media upstart DivXNetworks may yet see a Hollywood ending for its controversial video format.

• How Intel blew it on wireless

  Commentary: Intel should never have added Wi-Fi to its Centrino chipset. Now is not the time, and 802.11b is not the protocol.

• Intel's mobile future: It's in the chips

  Intel is quietly manufacturing a new Celeron processor that could determine the direction of its notebook processor line.

• Hacker Mitnick's Internet homecoming

  Notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick went online Tuesday for the first time in nearly a decade.

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