Take that spammer, Microsoft wins a lawsuit against a spammer for £45000. From flaming laptop batteries to photocopiers, Canon recalls more than 140000 of them. ECS will start making motherboards for intel. How would you like a PC that goes for $125? That's what a Chinese company plans to do.

A government-backed BLX IC Design outfit created the Godson CPU. It claims it matches the performance of an Pentium 3. It didn’t do very well and has also run into allegations of IP infringement. Apparently, MIPS Technologies say it is a close relative of its MIPS R10000, introduced in 1995. BLX denied this, but the chip is 95 per cent MIPS-compatible.