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According to GfK’s IT Barometer released today, the UK IT market was worth nearly £9 billion in 2006 – a five per cent year-on-year increase on 2005’s figures.

With the launch of the iPhone imminent, Apple is set to open a retail store in Kingston Upon Thames on February 17th.

FSC is set to inject £1 million into the channel to bolster indirect server sales.

The computing giant has launched its first iPAQ branded smart phone loaded with push email, GSM and VoIP capabilities.

Steve Jobs has called to music labels to license their music out free of Digital Rights Management (DRM) to Apple iTunes and other legal download services, following a ruling by the European Commission that states the current system is unfair.

Following the success of a similar scheme by sister firm Entanet, Entatech is giving away free VoIP to its customers.

Tech Data, parent company of distributor Computer 2000, has launched a new European joint venture with wireless specialist Brightstar.   

Distributor VIP has introduced a new micro-site designed to support notebook resellers.

Target Components has been appointed the sole distributor of Galaxy graphics cards in the UK.

Diskeeper will give away a copy of its automatic disk defragmenting software to the first ten PC Retail readers to answer this month’s competition question correctly.

Retail giant PC World has simultaneously launched Windows Vista and announced the death of the floppy disk.

Industry legend and chairman of Microsoft Bill Gates today showcased Windows Vista to the UK market at an event in the British Library.