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Google, Microsoft to Fund New Internet Lab (AP)
 AP - Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are setting aside their bitter animosity to back a new Internet research laboratory aimed at helping entrepreneurs introduce more groundbreaking ideas to a mass audience.
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Microsoft ups quarterly dividend 12.5 pct (Reuters)
 Reuters - Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday
said it would raise its quarterly dividend 12.5 percent,
reiterating confidence in its growth prospects and pledging to
build on last year's big cash payouts.
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Microsoft raises quarterly dividend (Reuters)
 Reuters - Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday
said it would raise its quarterly dividend by 12.5 percent to 9
cents a share, citing confidence in its growth prospects and
products.
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Microsoft to reorganize entertainment division (Reuters)
 Reuters - Microsoft Corp. has split its
entertainment and devices division into four businesses, the
latest reorganization at the world's largest software maker,
according to a company e-mail to employees seen by Reuters on
Wednesday.
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MTV, Microsoft Set To Take on Apple's iTunes (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft and Viacom's MTV will join forces to develop a digital-music service that relies on the next version of Windows Media Player.
Microsoft Issues New Round of Security Patches (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft has issued its final set of scheduled software patches for 2005, including one that is marked "critical" and another labeled "important."
Microsoft unveils Kiswahili software for east Africa (AFP)
 AFP - Global software giant Microsoft unveiled the first Kiswahili language versions of its most popular product lines as it moved to expand its market in east and central Africa.
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Microsoft warns of 'critical' Windows security flaw (Reuters)
 Reuters - Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday warned
users of its Windows operating system of a "critical" security
flaw in its software that could allow attackers to take
complete control of a computer.
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MTV, Microsoft to Develop Online Service (AP)
AP - MTV Networks Inc. said Tuesday it has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to develop an online music service to launch early next year.
Xbox 360 Gets a Soft Start in Japan (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp.'s new Xbox 360 video game console got a lukewarm welcome in Japan on its debut weekend with fans buying fewer than half the games available in stores, a market researcher said Tuesday.
Google to Launch Music Content Feature (AP)
 AP - Online search engine leader Google Inc. will begin giving some musical artists the star treatment by spotlighting links to their songs, lyrics and other related material at the top of the results page.
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Google, Microsoft to Fund New Internet Lab (AP)
AP - Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are setting aside their bitter animosity to back a new Internet research laboratory aimed at helping entrepreneurs introduce more groundbreaking ideas to a mass audience.
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Science Journal: Wikipedia Pretty Accurate (AP)
 AP - Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that relies on volunteers to pen nearly 4 million articles, is about as accurate in covering scientific topics as Encyclopedia Britannica, the journal Nature wrote in an online article published Wednesday.
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Survey: Interest in MP3 Players Grows (AP)
 AP - Shutterbugs, time to face the music. Portable digital music players are now on par with digital cameras as the most wanted electronics items, a new survey finds.
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Animal DNA helps hunt criminals (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Posecutors and game wardens across the USA increasingly are turning to DNA analysis to catch poachers of deer, elk, bear and even exotic sea turtles. Research into the genetic makeup of wild and exotic animals is creating a new front for DNA's crime-solving potential.
New Belarus Bill Retricts Online Dating (AP)
AP - Belarusian lawmakers have passed legislation that would crack down on Internet dating and online spouse searches in the latest of a series of stringent government controls backed by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Japan's NTT DoCoMo seals deal to buy 10 percent of SKorean KTF (AFP)
 AFP - Japan's leading cellphone company NTT DoCoMo agreed to purchase a 10 percent stake in South Korea's second-largest mobile carrier KTF for about 560 million dollars.
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Siemens says US mobile could shift to GSM (Reuters)
Reuters - Siemens (SIEGn.DE) believes North
American telecoms operators could shift to the GSM mobile
standard from the rival CDMA system, a senior company executive
said in an interview published on Thursday.
Massachusetts Grapples with Open Source's Cost to the Disabled (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - A Massachusetts panel debates the merits of the OpenDocument format against Microsoft's Open XML: at stake, the issue of accessibility.
PDA Pundit: A Miniature Office on Your PDA (PC World)
PC World - DataViz's Documents to Go puts a pared-down (but useful) version of Microsoft Office into a Palm.
New Belarus Bill Retricts Online Dating (AP)
AP - Belarusian lawmakers have passed legislation that would crack down on Internet dating and online spouse searches in the latest of a series of stringent government controls backed by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Google adds music search and purchase features (Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc. is introducing a
music search feature that details the work of certain featured
artists, the company said late on Wednesday.
Google to Launch Music Content Feature (AP)
AP - Online search engine leader Google Inc. will begin giving some musical artists the star treatment by spotlighting links to their songs, lyrics and other related material at the top of the results page.
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Google, Microsoft to Fund New Internet Lab (AP)
AP - Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are setting aside their bitter animosity to back a new Internet research laboratory aimed at helping entrepreneurs introduce more groundbreaking ideas to a mass audience.
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Science Journal: Wikipedia Pretty Accurate (AP)
AP - Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that relies on volunteers to pen nearly 4 million articles, is about as accurate in covering scientific topics as Encyclopedia Britannica, the journal Nature wrote in an online article published Wednesday.
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Media Agencies, Networks Catch Their Internet Buzz (AdWeek.com)
AdWeek.com - Web-based buzz-measurement services are themselves getting some buzz from media agencies and the broadcast networks after their research foretold that several new fall shows, labeled sure failures by the agencies prior to the start of the season, have proven to be just the opposite in the eyes of viewers.
Yahoo Builds Better Widgets (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Yahoo has upgraded its platform of tiny desktop applications, called widgets, to include better integration with the portal's mapping services and search offerings. Yahoo has a small army of developers working on new widgets in an effort to draw more users to the site.
MTV, Microsoft Set To Take on Apple's iTunes (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft and Viacom's MTV will join forces to develop a digital-music service that relies on the next version of Windows Media Player.
Wikipedia rivals Encyclopaedia Britannica on science: journal (AFP)
 AFP - The free Internet encyclopaedia Wikipaedia, recently embroiled in controversy over a fake entry, reportedly comes close in accuracy to the paid-for Encyclopaedia Britannica in its articles on science.
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Yahoo to webcast US shock jock Howard Stern's exit from FM radio (AFP)
 AFP - US shock jock Howard Stern's departure from "terrestrial radio" on Friday will be featured live on the Internet, according to Silicon Valley-based search portal Yahoo.
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