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True to their word, Apple have had CEO Steve Jobs return back to work, at the end of June. Jobs had been seen around the campus last week, but it seems he wasn't officially working then; only now, according to CNN, is he properly working again.

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Steve Jobs officially back at Apple

Research firm Gartner have published their predictions for PC sales for 2009, predicting that worldwide sales will fall by 6% from 2008 levels. The sales of netbooks, however, are set to rise. Gartner forecast that 274 million computers will be sold this year, down from 292 million units last year.

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Gartner: PC sales to drop despite Windows 7

According to Computer World, things are not looking good for European fans of Windows 7 and Internet Explorer. Microsoft has decided to remove Internet Explorer from versions of Windows 7 to be sold in Europe, the company is not offering an upgrade path from Vista.

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Windows 7 in Europe: no upgrades, no IE, up to 2X the price

Microsoft has introduced some product tours of Windows 7 in action, similar to Apple's guided tours. Long Zheng spotted them on Microsoft's Windows 7 site as the company ramps up it's marketing of Windows 7. In all of the videos, Latika Kirtane, product manager for Internet Explorer, stars once again

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Microsoft introduces Apple-like tours of Windows 7

A large conglomerate of mega corps has backed the European Commission to support a standard of micro-USB connection for charging. The biggest surprise here is that Apple is joining in the support which means that they too will also adopt micro-USB for charging in their wireless devices. For any other company this wouldn't mean much but because Apple has used the same port design since its iPod inception this could have a wide scale affect on its consumers

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Apple to adopt micro-USB for charging

Roughly a year ago we reviewed the Asus Crosshair II Formula, based on the Nvidia nForce 780a SLI chipset. This board provided those who were brave enough to pick up a Phenom processor with a stable platform that sported a number of impressive features such as Triple-SLI.

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Asus Crosshair III Formula motherboard review

In a move that would forge the largest mobile phone operator in Britain, Vodafone's UK branch is looking at potentially buying the United Kingdom wing of T-Mobile, as the Times Online is reporting. This move comes after T-Mobile UK was placed out on the market for purchase by its parent company, Deutsche Telekom.

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Vodafone UK considering buying T-Mobile UK

Dell has long been a massive player in the computer retailing industry, second only to Hewlett-Packard (or HP to you youngsters), but it appears that they're about to be surpassed by someone quite unexpected. That's right; according to the NY Times (registration required), Acer is set up to become the second biggest PC vendor on the planet. This is surprising for a number of reasons

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Acer to surpass Dell as the second biggest PC company

Recently I have been covering the topic of the aptly named 'Great Firewall of China'.

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Update: Great Chinese Firewall under fire

Microsoft have announced that their veteran web-based messenger client will become unavailable from this Tuesday, June 30. The service has offered access to their popular instant messaging network through a web browser for the past five years

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End of the line for MSN Web Messenger