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Innovation Alive And Well At Microsoft, Ballmer Says (Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Microsoft will spearhead more advances in the next year than at any time in its 30-year history, says CEO Steve Ballmer, dismissing critics who say Google, Linux and other upstarts are eclipsing a lumbering giant.
Can Apple Usurp Microsoft as OS King? (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL) executives have said that the company will not license out its OS for Intel-based PCs, but that has not stopped speculation that Apple will pursue that strategy to go after the Microsoft Windows empire.
Microsoft eyes Internet partnerships, mum on AOL (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp.'s chief
executive on Wednesday said it is looking to partnerships with
other companies to boost revenue from the Web, but declined to
comment on specific talks with Time Warner Inc.'s America
Online Internet unit.
Microsoft: No Near-Term Plans to Seek Open-Source Licensing Approval (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - Open-source backers are jubilant over Microsoft's three new Shared Source licenses, predicting that some of them may end up as OSI-certified. But Microsoft officials maintain that they have no near-term plans to go that route.
Ballmer: Microsoft's Priority Is Innovation (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, the Redmond CEO mentions several upcoming releases as evidence of the company's efforts to compete; he also mentions Microsoft's plans for the search and virtualization software markets.
Microsoft Slashes Shared Source Licenses (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - The software company offers developers a simpler, more efficient licensing scheme for its Shared Source program, now consolidated from 10 licenses to three.
RealNetworks mulls buys after Microsoft payout (Reuters)
 Reuters - Internet media software company
RealNetworks is mulling more acquisitions after receiving a
$761-million payout from Microsoft Corp. to settle an antitrust
case, its chief executive said on Tuesday.
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Microsoft, Nigeria Join Forces Against Cybercrime (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is lending its I.T. expertise to the government of Nigeria in a joint effort to combat e-mail fraud and other cybercrimes in the African nation.
Vista To Include Antispyware Software (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Following the release on Monday of the latest beta of Windows Vista, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has confirmed that it plans to integrate its antispyware software into the operating system. The move could set Microsoft in a pitched battle against Internet security vendors and potentially government antitrust regulators as the company prepares for the 2006 release of Windows Vista.
Nigeria and Microsoft sign deal to fight e-mail fraud (AFP)
 AFP - Nigeria and the US software giant Microsoft have formed an alliance to combat the Internet fraudsters who have damaged the country's international image, Nigeria's anti-graft agency said.
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Court Stops 'Legal' File Sharing Site (AP)
AP - A federal court has temporarily banned a Los Angeles-based Web site from claiming that its service lets users legally share copyrighted files, the government said Wednesday.
America Online to Lay Off 700 Employees (AP)
AP - America Online is laying off more than 700 employees, mainly in call centers, as its base of dial-up subscribers continues to slump.
Publishers Sue Google Over Scanning Plans (AP)
 AP - Just weeks after a leading authors' organization sued Google Inc. for copyright infringement, the Association of American Publishers has also filed suit against the search engine giant's plans to scan and index books for the Internet.
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HP Pressures Blu-Ray on New DVD (AP)
AP - Hewlett-Packard Co., a major backer of the Blu-ray high-definition DVD format, is urging that it be more consumer-friendly in a bid to forestall a lengthy and costly war with a competing standard.
New Vote-by-Phone Plan Considered by Defense Department (PC World)
PC World - Pentagon eyes phone voting for military, overseas.
eBay Reports 40 Percent Surge in 3Q (AP)
 AP - Shares of eBay Inc. tumbled after the online auction pioneer posted strong third-quarter profits but offered a reduced outlook that failed to impress Wall Street.
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NFL scores with IBM deal for digitized footage (Reuters)
Reuters - IBM will announce
Thursday (October 20) its creation of a new digital media
system for the NFL and NFL Films that will streamline and
simplify its production flow while making possible future
breakthroughs in the viewing experience.
Motorola Sues Ex-President Over New Job (AP)
 AP - Motorola Inc., the world's No. 2 maker of mobile phones, has brought suit against its former president, accusing him of breaching noncompete agreements with the company by accepting the top job at Nortel Networks Corp.
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Innovation Alive And Well At Microsoft, Ballmer Says (Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Microsoft will spearhead more advances in the next year than at any time in its 30-year history, says CEO Steve Ballmer, dismissing critics who say Google, Linux and other upstarts are eclipsing a lumbering giant.
SAP ups target after beating forecast (Reuters)
Reuters - Germany's SAP, the world's biggest
maker of business software, raised its full-year outlook on
Thursday after third-quarter license sales grew by a
forecast-beating 20 percent to 590 million euros.
eBay Reports 40 Percent Surge in 3Q (AP)
AP - Shares of eBay Inc. tumbled after the online auction pioneer posted strong third-quarter profits but offered a reduced outlook that failed to impress Wall Street.
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China auction Web site offers babies for sale (Reuters)
Reuters - Shanghai police are investigating
advertisements offering babies for sale on a Chinese Web site
owned by Internet auction power eBay, state media said on
Thursday.
Rivals Taobao, eBay clash on whether free is best (Reuters)
Reuters - What's the better deal? Is free
always better than cheap?
Publishers sue Google over copyright dispute (Reuters)
 Reuters - Five major publishers filed suit
against Google Inc. on Wednesday, seeking to block plans to
scan copyrighted works without permission and derail Google's
push to make many of the world's great books searchable online.
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Voice phone calls to be free within years: eBay CEO (Reuters)
Reuters - In a few short years, users can
expect to make telephone calls for free, with no per-minute
charges, as part of a package of services through which
carriers make money on advertising or transaction fees, eBay's
chief executive said on Wednesday.
Google Mapping Service in Age-Old Dispute (AP)
AP - Google Inc.'s popular online mapping service has become entangled in a long-running territorial dispute between China and Taiwan.
Airport Fight Extends to Wikipedia (AP)
AP - An eye-gouging fight between American Airlines and Southwest Airlines over air service in northern Texas has spilled over to an online encyclopedia.
Court Stops 'Legal' File Sharing Site (AP)
AP - A federal court has temporarily banned a Los Angeles-based Web site from claiming that its service lets users legally share copyrighted files, the government said Wednesday.
Publishers Sue Google Over Scanning Plans (AP)
AP - Just weeks after a leading authors' organization sued Google Inc. for copyright infringement, the Association of American Publishers has also filed suit against the search engine giant's plans to scan and index books for the Internet.
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Avaya Marks Ten Years of IP Telephony (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Avaya has announced that it is marking the 10-year anniversary of its first enterprise Internet Protocol (IP) telephony product, reminding users how long VoIP has been in the market, and how far it has advanced in the past decade.
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