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Toyota unveils new version of its best-selling Corolla

By TIMES WIRES
Published October 11, 2006

Toyota Motor Corp. introduced the first new version of its best-selling Corolla compact sedan since 2000 as it moves closer to overtaking General Motors Corp. as the world's largest carmaker.

Toyota expects to sell 12,000 Corollas a month in Japan, the automaker said in a statement. The Corolla will cost between 1.4-million ($11,700) and 2.3-million yen ($19,200) and goes on sale today.

The model, which debuted in 1966, accounts for a fifth of Toyota's sales. President Katsuaki Watanabe will introduce the model in the United States in 2008.

DePante says son shouldn't face charges over HP spying

The father of a private investigator charged in the Hewlett-Packard Co. spying probe said his son had no idea he was working for the company and should be cleared of all allegations.

Joseph DePante said the investigation agency he runs with his son Matthew DePante, Action Research Group, was tapped to conduct the HP media-leak probe by a Boston-area detective company called Security Outsourcing Solutions, a longtime contractor for the information technology company.

"We had no idea Hewlett-Packard was involved in any of this," Joseph DePante told Florida Today in Melbourne. "We work with a lot of different sources, and those sources work with different investigators."

Microsoft releases patches to fix critical software flaws

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released six patches to fix software flaws that carry its highest threat rating, including three for defects that attackers were already trying to exploit.

Customers can download all the patches for free on Microsoft's security Web site and also can sign up to have them automatically delivered to their computers. The automatic update system went down for several hours Tuesday, but the problem was later resolved.

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