Huge anticipation for Google's Chrome OS
Google Chrome OS may still be a year away from making its debut, but TechRadar readers are champing at the bit to get hold of the Windows competitor.  More than 2300 votes were cast in a poll to gauge interest in Google's operating system, following the arrival of the excellent Windows 7.
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Play.com hit by ordering glitch
Customers of Play.com have contacted the BBC to report problems with the online retailer's ordering system. Many customers have received e-mails from Play.com reporting the despatch of an order they did not place. Those opening the orders found contact details, including names and addresses, for other Play.com customers. The problem appears to be widespread with many reporting Play.com help lines were jammed as they called to find out what had happened.
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Cisco launches Web 2.0 collaboration tools
Cisco has announced a range of products designed to improve communications and the use of social networking in enterprises. The company highlighted a number of areas in which it is making improvements, including new IP phones and a Web 2.0 collaboration platform. "Collaboration is a mega trend. Companies are more global, and their workers are more mobile, and those in offices are requesting access to the sort of applications that they use at home," said Tim Stone, head of collaboration solutions at Cisco.
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Microsoft tops global online property charts
There was good news for Microsoft in its battle for the hearts and minds of internet users today, as new figures from market research firm comScore found that the firm was the most engaging global property online in September. Data from the comScore World Metrix service found that Microsoft Sites captured nearly 15 per cent of time spent online worldwide in September, putting it into first place ahead of Google and Yahoo. Facebook.com in fourth continued to show impressive growth, however, with visitors spending 1.4 billion hours on the site in September, up a massive 193 per cent from the previous year.
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Twitter rolls out retweet feature
Popular micro-blogging site Twitter has announced it is rolling out an automated retweet feature on a limited number of accounts to see how it works in the wild. In a blog posting, co-founder Biz Stone explained that the retweet button would make “forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy”. “In turn, we hope interesting, newsworthy, or even just plain funny information will spread quickly through the network making its way efficiently to the people who want or need to know,” he added.
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iPhone hit by first worm
The first worm written for Apple's iPhone has been unleashed and is infecting phones in Australia. However, the worm, known as Ikee, is only a threat to users who have jaibroken their phones to let them run unauthorised software, security experts say. In fact, Ikee doesn't do anything particularly bad - it changes the victim's wallpaper to a photograph of 80s singer Rick Astley and then seeks out other phones to infect - but it could be modified to do something more dangerous such as stealing sensitive information from the iPhone. "There is a real danger that someone could take this code and make it do something malicious," said Graham Cluley, a technology consultant with security vendor Sophos.
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