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• Asustek to unveil $200 Eee PC netbook in Q1 next year

  Asustek Computer plans to unveil a new Eee PC netbook that costs just US$200 in the first quarter of next year, a company representative said on Thursday.

• Facebook wins spam suit

  Facebook won a US$873 million judgment in a case against a spammer in one of the largest awards yet for a suit filed under the CAN-SPAM Act.

• Sun releases StarOffice 9

  Support for Mac OS X and improved document format support are some of the improvements in Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 9, which was released on Monday.

• New Nokia device highlights cheap smartphone trend

  Nokia's E63 smartphone, announced Wednesday, will cost €199 (US$250) before any subsidies -- a price that puts the phone maker ahead in a burgeoning price war and which one analyst described as "eye-popping."

• VMware to offer virtualisation for mobile phones

  After targeting the market for virtualising servers and clients, VMware has now set its sights on mobile phones, announcing Mobile Virtualisation Platform (MVP) on Monday.

• French President Sarkozy's bank account hacked

  Cyberthieves have stolen money from the personal bank account of France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy.

• Vodafone gives network neutrality a thumbs down

  Vodafone doesn't believe network neutrality will work as capacity demands increase, forcing operators to build out faster networks. Instead, a second network is needed, according to David Leftley, head of technology economics at Vodafone Group R&...

• Zoho launches email app with offline, mobile access

  Zoho has added email to its portfolio of web-hosted applications for individuals and organisations.

• Rivals still see iPhone as the one to beat

  More than a year after arriving on the mobile/wireless scene, Apple Inc.'s iPhone remains the "it" phone -- the one to beat and the one companies in the mobile device industry compare themselves to.

• Google brings out big guns in support of Chrome

  Google's famed cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin came out to support Chrome, saying that browser technology is fundamental to the company's success, so Google decided to get more involved in this area.

• IFA - Toshiba to launch Cell-based TV in 2009

  Toshiba is planning to bring the powerful Cell processor into consumer electronics and launch a TV based on the chip in the second half of 2009, it said on Friday at the IFA electronics show in Berlin.

• Apple boss promises September iPhone software patch

  Apple CEO Steve Jobs has promised repair for a little publicized by widely suffered bug in which a user's iPhone applications won't properly launch.

• HP ruggedises ultraportable laptops

  Hewlett-Packard has introduced ultraportable laptops that can easily switch between wireless 3G broadband networks and withstand harsh environmental conditions.

• VMware CEO apologises for 'time bomb' mess

  Just minutes after VMware Inc. issued a patch late Tuesday that allowed enterprises to start up crippled virtual servers, the company's CEO said he was sorry for the snafu.

• VMware tool aims to help developers

  VMware wants to make it easier for IT departments to manage the virtual machine configurations that they use for testing or developing software, and has released an upgraded Lab Manager tool.