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Earlier this month, the UK's six biggest ISPs agreed to support the record industry with their fight against copyright theft by issuing letters to people using P2P (peer to peer) sites for downloading. We at ITACS support the record industry in their educational campaign and have linked up with www.ifpi.org.

There are a couple of updates to discuss this month. First of all there?s the Vista downgrade rights issue I talked about last month. I had bought a Lenovo laptop from Ingram Micro identical to one I?d had a couple of weeks earlier.

The large glossy black lid is a fingerprint magnet, but keep it clean and it looks great. The interior is all black, and even though it looks plasticky, it doesn't feel overtly like a budget model.

The answer, according to Asus, lies not in buying more graphics cards, but in sending the image via USB instead.

So, hot on the heels of the 901 comes the 1000. It takes the same styling as the 8.9-inch model, so packs in a six-cell battery and the same design styling around the screen and hinge and even uses the same high-gloss plastic.

It's ideal to hang on a wall, but that's not the only reason we love the LC37B20E. It's got a huge 1,920 x 1,080 pixel resolution, can play Blu-ray discs at 24 frames per second, has three HDMI inputs and a set of component video ports.

7Search contests malware classification

Web search giant unleashes contender to Microsoft?s Internet Explorer, tailored to modern internet use

Claims only service-orientated organisations will survive as indie channel becomes more focused on repair and IT consultancy