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Hitachi Ltd. announced four new hard disk drive (HDD) products on Monday and formally launched Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc., a new company comprising Hitachi's and IBM Corp.'s HDD operations.

HuneTec Co. Ltd., a small South Korean company, has licensed the Palm OS operating system for use in messaging devices that will work on a wireless network used primarily by pagers, PalmSource Inc. said Monday.

A Dutch court has ordered a spamming computer seller to stop harvesting e-mail addresses from an online address guide and to delete the already collected addresses, or face up to 100,000 euros (CDN$160,000) in fines.

A serious security flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s virtual machine (VM) found on most Windows PCs could allow an attacker to take over a user's system, Microsoft warned last week. A fixed version of the software is available.

A security vulnerability in the widely used Macromedia Inc. Flash player can allow an attacker to gain control over a user's PC, eEye Digital Security Inc. warned Monday.

For the second time this month Microsoft Corp. will raise the risk rating on a flaw affecting Internet Explorer (IE) after experts told the company it underrated the issue.

A serious security flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s virtual machine (VM) found on most Windows PCs could allow an attacker to take over a user's system, Microsoft warned late Wednesday. A fixed version of the software is available.

Microsoft Corp. late Wednesday issued a patch to fix a flaw in Internet Explorer (IE) that it says poses only a "moderate" risk to users. Security experts, however, say the vulnerability is serious and could be exploited to take over a user's machine.