Microsoft dumps OneCare; BlackBerry Storm and TomTom Go 740 reviews

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Dear Charles, Welcome to the latest PC Pro newsletter News headlines: Microsoft scraps Live OneCare in favour of free antivirus suite; Superspeed USB 3 clears final hurdle; and find out why HP was furious with Microsoft over Windows Vista This week's new reviews: In-car navigation takes a giant leap forward with TomTom's Go 740; can BlackBerry dethrone the iPhone with the Storm 9500? And Asus tackles touchscreens with the Eee Top PC Pro podcast: On this week's show the team despairs at the people suing their companies over tardy boot times; Jerry Yang's disastrous reign as Yahoo CEO is almost over - was his end inevitable? And Darien Graham-Smith tries to make Asus's touchscreen desktop our Hot Hardware of the Week. Download it here Best of the blogs: Tim Danton reveals a netbook to get excited about; David Fearon runs his sceptical eye over one company's world saving software; and David Bayon tests Google's new voice recognition app for the iPhone Barry Collins - Online Editor ----------------------Sponsor's Message-------------------------- FREE 160GB LaCie Little Disk with CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X4 Legendary Graphics Power on the move: Get a FREE 160GB mobile Little Disk worth £65 when you purchase the full version of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 before 31st December 2008. With its precision tools, market-leading file compatibility and high-quality content, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 lets you tackle creative graphics and design projects with confidence. 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Find out when it will arrive here HP's fury at Vista Capable downgrade Top PC vendor blasted Microsoft's decision to lower the Vista Capable requirements BT bans Phorm chatter on its forums Blanket ban on Webwise trial discussions on BT's support forums Yahoo's Yang pays the price for shunning Microsoft Jerry Yang quits following his failure to strike a deal with either Microsoft or Google "Intel-killer" Transmeta sold off The once-hyped Intel beater, Transmeta, is sold off for a mere $250m Sun slashes price of StarOffice in half The price of StarOffice has been halved with launch of version 9 of Sun's open-source suite Firefox 2 burns out next month Mozilla announces support for Firefox 2 will end in December All the latest news RSS news feed: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/rss ----------------------Sponsor's Message-------------------------- 3G Mobile broadband on your laptop from just £10/month - compare and save now! 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