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Samsung, the official Worldwide Partner of the Olympic Games in wireless communications equipment has started its campaign for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games with the launch of its new, high-profile mobile phones designed especially for the event.

At the campaign launch, Samsung unveiled its E848 mobile phone that has been designed especially for the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG).

The company also unveiled the Samsung P318 and the U308 mobile phones for joint marketing campaigns with China Mobile.

For Samsung’s Olympic Torch Relay Plan, the company will launch a series of public events around its wireless products to drive its brand value in all major cities in the Relay Mainland China Sector (along the torch route). 

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Six new security patches will be released by Microsoft, which will include four "critical" updates affecting Windows, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail for Vista.

The company said that four out of the six bulletins that are scheduled for June 12, 2007, will be ranked “critical”, while one each will be labeled “important” and “moderate”.

Also, according to Microsoft, half of the batch of security updates affects Windows Vista, or one of its components, such as Internet Explorer 7 or the Windows Mail email client. Out of the three Vista patches, two have been termed as “critical”.

Windows will have three updates, Internet Explorer just one, Outlook Express and Windows Mail will also have one each and Visio 2002 and Visio 2003 will also have one patch. 

Tuesday's updates will be available for manual download from the Microsoft Web site about 1 p.m. PDT. ( …… How come Micro$oft became so active in releasing patches…)