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Partners Worried As Microsoft Thinks Small (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. will further expand its software offerings for small businesses, even though that will turn many of its current partners into competitors, CEO Steve Ballmer said on Sunday.
Ballmer: Microsoft Wants a Bigger Piece of the Software, Services Pie (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - Microsoft's CEO cautions its partners that Microsoft intends to expand more into business intelligence, document workflow, security and managed services spaces in the coming decade.
Microsoft Surprises with Linux 'Hands-On Lab' (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - The Redmond giant permitted a third party to conduct a presentation at Microsoft's worldwide partner show, allowing attendees to play with Linux desktop software.
Microsoft Defends Claria Adware Changes (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft issues an open letter to customers explaining why it changed how its anti-spyware software handles adware from Claria, a pervasive brand of adware.
Microsoft courts smaller businesses (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. is making a
major push this weekend to sell more software and services to
companies that have less than 250 employees as the world's
largest software maker faces slower revenue growth.
Microsoft Reveals New Longhorn, Office 12 Features (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - Microsoft is peeling back the covers, a bit at a time, on new features and functionality due in the 2006 releases of its flagship products.
Microsoft Draws Criticism For Changing AntiSpyware Definitions (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft quietly changed how its for-free AntiSpyware program handles a pervasive form of adware, a move that has drawn criticism because of recent reports that Microsoft is interested in buying adware-maker Claria.
Microsoft Develops Own RFID Framework (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Playing catch-up to rivals Sun Microsystems and IBM, Microsoft is developing its own RFID framework that it plans to deliver during the first half of 2006.
Microsoft rewards Sasser worm informants (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. will pay a
combined $250,000 to two people who helped track down the
author of the Sasser Internet worm, which infected computers
around the globe, the world's largest software maker said on
Friday.
EU court transfers Microsoft case to judge panel (Reuters)
Reuters - The European Union's second highest
court has taken the Microsoft antitrust case away from the
judge to whom it was originally assigned and given it to a
panel of 13 judges, a court official said on Friday.
Police Still Using Matrix-Type Database (AP)
AP - When the federal government in April stopped funding a database that lets police quickly see public records and commercially collected information on Americans, privacy advocates celebrated what they saw as a victory against overzealousness in the fight against terrorism.
Sprint Adding GoodLink E-Mail Service (AP)
AP - The rush to chip away at BlackBerry's dominance in mobile business e-mail intensifies further this week with Sprint Corp. introducing rival options from Good Technology Inc. and Seven Networks Inc.
Partners Worried As Microsoft Thinks Small (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. will further expand its software offerings for small businesses, even though that will turn many of its current partners into competitors, CEO Steve Ballmer said on Sunday.
Military's Energy-Beam Weapons Delayed (AP)
AP - For years, the U.S. military has explored a new kind of firepower that is instantaneous, precise and virtually inexhaustible: beams of electromagnetic energy. "Directed-energy" pulses can be throttled up or down depending on the situation, much like the phasers on "Star Trek" could be set to kill or merely stun.
Panama Gets Software to Assess Students (AP)
AP - A research institute is taking software designed in part to preserve scientists' knowledge and giving it to schools around the world as a tool to help children learn.
Senate turns eye to digital TV, music licensing (Reuters)
Reuters - Television and
music-publishing issues will take up some of the Senate's
attention this week as lawmakers plan to examine digital TV,
funding for public broadcasting and music licensing on the
Internet.
Save iPod batteries for a sunny day (Reuters)
Reuters - For all their ubiquity, Apple
Computer's iPods are notorious for having a frustratingly short
battery life.
Net, Wi-Fi, And Now Phone Biz (Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Sky Dayton's gut instincts have proved right twice -- first with Internet service provider EarthLink, and then with Wi-Fi wireless Internet technology.
Microsoft Surprises with Linux 'Hands-On Lab' (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - The Redmond giant permitted a third party to conduct a presentation at Microsoft's worldwide partner show, allowing attendees to play with Linux desktop software.
Ballmer: Microsoft Wants a Bigger Piece of the Software, Services Pie (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - Microsoft's CEO cautions its partners that Microsoft intends to expand more into business intelligence, document workflow, security and managed services spaces in the coming decade.
Senate turns eye to digital TV, music licensing (Reuters)
Reuters - Television and
music-publishing issues will take up some of the Senate's
attention this week as lawmakers plan to examine digital TV,
funding for public broadcasting and music licensing on the
Internet.
Global shock, outrage, floods Internet after bombing (AFP)
AFP - Britons and their supporters around the world are flooding the Internet with messages of shock, outrage and defiance over the terror bombings that hit London.
Convergence of television, Internet coming -- from phone company (AFP)
AFP - A new push is being made to deliver television over an Internet platform, with the potential to transform the medium into a new technology that offers more competition and program choices.
Google facing search engine China quandary (SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - Google has long wanted to expand in China. And the question of its Chinese strategy is now becoming more urgent, as one of China's leading search engines, Baidu, gets ready to go public.
Google Wins 'Typosquatting' Dispute (AP)
AP - An Internet arbitrator has awarded Google Inc. the rights to several Web site addresses that relied on typographical errors to exploit the online search engine's popularity so computer viruses and other malicious software could be unleashed on unsuspecting visitors.
Electrifying Ease, if Not Speed (washingtonpost.com)
washingtonpost.com - Almost a year is a long time to wait for a faster Internet connection. But it's nothing too unusual when it comes to getting Internet access via electrical wires instead of cable or phone lines.
Bloggers Learn Price of Telling Too Much (AP)
AP - Blogs are everywhere — increasingly, the place where young people go to bare their souls, to vent, to gossip. And often they do so with unabashed fervor and little self-editing, posting their innermost thoughts for any number of Web surfers to see.
Group Blasts Video Game Over Sex Content (AP)
AP - A media watchdog group has denounced the maker of the hugely popular video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" over graphic sexual content that allegedly exists in the game and can be unlocked with an Internet download.
USC: Hacker May Have Read Applicant Files (AP)
AP - Officials of the University of Southern California said they will contact everyone who used the school's online application system in the past eight years to warn them that a hacker may have been able to read their files.
Media Honchos Consider Online Strategies (AP)
AP - As they work to come to grips with the Internet, entertainment moguls have a very clear goal: don't let what happened to the music industry happen to the rest of the entertainment industry.
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