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Computing In The Real World

2 April
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Welcome to the latest PC Pro newsletter

News headlines: Find out why a security expert is warning users off Firefox; Skype makes its appearance on the iPhone; and BT and Carphone Warehouse hike line rental prices

This week's new reviews: Intel delivers its blisteringly fast Xeon 5500 series processors; Boston sticks two of them in its innovative Quattro 5500GP rack server; and Asus squeezes the best battery life we've ever seen in a netbook from the Eee 1000HE

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Best of the blogs: Stuart Turton offers his pick of this year's funniest April Fool's stories; Tim Danton delivers his verdict on the Government's plan to track our cars; and David Fearon on why you shouldn't be fooled by those Full HD promises

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NEWS

Security guru: don't surf the web with Firefox
F-Secure's chief research officer offers surprising advice to people worried about malware

Skype arrives on iPhone
Popular VoIP service makes its way to the iPhone - though it has lost a few features en route

BT and Carphone Warehouse put up line rental prices
Broadband just got a little bit more expensive as BT and Carphone Warehouse push up line rental fees

Wales kills off Wikia Search
Less than a year after launch, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has thrown in the towel on his attempt to revolutionise search

Small firms offered "substantially cheaper" Windows Server
Microsoft launches low-end version of Windows Server 2008 for small business customers

Guardian wants Government to look at Google News
British newspaper group suggests Google is getting a free ride on its journalism

Taskfox: commanding the future of Firefox
Mozilla shows how it will build text commands directly into future versions of the Firefox browser

Wikipedia brings end of Encarta
Microsoft concedes defeat as it announces end of Encarta

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REVIEWS

Intel Xeon 5500 series
AMD falls even further behind in the server race as Intel delivers new Nehalem-based processors

Boston Quattro 5500GP
A remarkably innovative rack server blessed with two of Intel's quad-core Xeon processors

Asus Eee PC 1000HE
The Eee PC continues to evolve - this time with better battery life and a Scrabble-tile keyboard

TaxCalc 2009 Personal 6
We review the 2009 update to the best tax-return software around

Chillblast Fusion Spectre
Can the gaming-PC specialist really create a silent PC with powerhouse components?

Canon Pixma MX320
Canon returns with an impressive, low-cost, business-focused inkjet printer

Zotac GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi
This motherboard is the ideal solution if you're in the market for a powerful but compact PC

Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4440
Sun delivers the first ever 2U Opteron 8300 quad-socket rack server

Thecus N7700
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