The PC Pro weekly news round-up

By Alun Williams

Posted on 8 Jun 2007 at 14:55

Computex 2007 dominates the news this week, along with Microsoft signing up companies for Linux-related patent protection plans.

From Taiwan we reported on Intel developments - the $200 Asus laptop making waves, the arrival of the 3-Series chipset, and the chip giant claiming 45nm Core 2 Duo processors are ready to enter production. We also reported on a range of tiny Via-powered UMPCs, next-gen motherboards from Foxconn and the brain-controlled PC device.

Meanwhile, Microsoft started the week signing up Xandros for a Linux patent protection agreement, and ended it with LG also cutting an intellectual property deal. For LG, it was to cover its Linux-based embedded devices.

'We believe in the importance of respecting the IP rights of others and that patent collaboration and protection is a best business practice the whole industry should be engaged in,' the consumer electronics giant declared.

Here's our pick of the week's headlines:

Friday 8 June

Lenovo gears up for consumer markets

AMD redesigns the PC and launches new CPUs

Netscape Navigator 9 taps into Web 2.0

Thursday 7 June

Microsoft signs up LG for Linux patent protection

Majority of phishing websites 'assembled from kits'

Ofcom clamps down on rogue broadband charges

VIA powers raft of tiny UMPCs

Wednesday 6 June

David Bowie and BBC scoop Webby awards