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Microsoft Expands Presence in India (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft's Research India division is doubling the size of its research staff over the next 18 months. The increase will facilitate research on existing projects, but also will enable the lab to create a new research group focused on cryptography and security.
Microsoft Ready to Pull Office Live Beta Trigger (PC World)
PC World - Hosted service will include an e-mail app that allows users to read and receive e-mail using any Internet-connected computer.
Microsoft says China R and D investment steady (AFP)
 AFP - Microsoft Corp said annual spending in China on research and development remained at 100 million dollars and no additional investment would be made as state press indicated earlier.
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Microsoft to Buy Safeco Office Campus (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay $209.5 million for the Redmond office campus of Safeco Corp., the insurance company said in a regulatory filing Wednesday.
Microsoft Refutes 'Back Door' Claim (NewsFactor)
 NewsFactor - Microsoft has denied a security researcher's claims that the recent Windows Meta File (WMF) flaw was not a vulnerability, but instead a back door created by the company's developers to give them remote access to PCs.
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Microsoft Issues First Vista OS Patch (NewsFactor)
 NewsFactor - Microsoft has issued a security patch for it's as-yet-unreleased operating system, Windows Vista. The patch, issued over the weekend, repairs the same graphics-rendering flaw discovered in Windows XP late last month.
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Microsoft Updates Lotus Notes Migration Tools (PC World)
PC World - The company hopes to lure Notes users to Microsoft collaboration software.
Microsoft to offer production-ready Vista technologies (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Setting the stage for its planned Windows Vista desktop OS, Microsoft on Wednesday will release production-ready versions of Web services and workflow technologies slated for inclusion in Vista.
Microsoft Delivers Updated Test Build of Core Programming Components (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The January Community Technology Preview test build of WinFX is now available to any and all interested testers for download.
Cingular to sell phone with Microsoft software (Reuters)
 Reuters - Cingular Wireless, the No. 1 U.S.
cellphone service provider, said on Wednesday it would begin
selling a mobile phone running the latest Microsoft Corp.
software for mobile phones.
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Google's Stock Sinks on Worries About 4Q (AP)
 AP - Google Inc.'s stock price plunged below $400 Friday for the first time in two months as a brewing battle with the Bush administration compounded investor worries about the online search engine leader's upcoming fourth quarter earnings report.
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Super Bowl Advertisers Make Online Tie-Ins (AP)
 AP - If Miss Piggy is dressing up like Jessica Simpson, monkeys are rampaging around office cubicles and networking druids are yammering into cell phones, it can only mean one thing: Super Bowl ads are on the way.
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Format War Looms for New Wireless Standard (AP)
AP - A technology that promises to replace the cables behind TV sets and entertainment centers with wireless connections appears to be headed for a format war, after two industry organizations formally broke off their collaboration.
Google Rebuffs Feds on Search Requests (AP)
 AP - Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration's demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet's leading search engine — a request that underscores the potential for online databases to become tools for government surveillance.
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FBI: Most Companies Get Hacked (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Almost nine out of ten companies had a computer-security incident last year, according to a report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Analysis: Google Case Raises New Questions (AP)
AP - Already on the defensive over its domestic spying program, the Bush administration has alarmed privacy and free-speech advocates by demanding search information about millions of users of Google and other Internet companies.
Cingular Denies Treo Is a Smartphone (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Is Palm's Treo device a smartphone? Not according to U.S. wireless carrier Cingular, which says the wireless device is a PDA. But do consumers really care?
First Mobile WiMax chip sets ready to ship (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Wireless chip maker Beceem Communications this week became one of the first manufacturers to ship a mobile WiMax digital base band and integrated radio chip set -- MS120 -- for handheld devices.
F-Secure Quickly Fixes 23 AV Flaws (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Finnish security company F-Secure released patches for its flagship Windows and Linux anti-virus line Thursday to fix flaws revealed by an independent researcher.
AccuRev gives software configuration system global focus (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - AccuRev this week is shipping upgrades to its SCM (software configuration management) system and related products, featuring the ability to link to third-party issue-tracking systems.
Analysis: Google Case Raises New Questions (AP)
AP - Already on the defensive over its domestic spying program, the Bush administration has alarmed privacy and free-speech advocates by demanding search information about millions of users of Google and other Internet companies.
Google Resists the Feds (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Google is refusing to comply with a U.S. Department of Justice subpoena to provide the records of the searches that Web users ask it to carry out.
Digital Music Sales Triple in 2005 (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Music fans buying their tunes online and via mobile phones helped drive digital-music sales to $1.1 billion in 2005, marking a three-fold increase over the $380 million record labels earned the previous year, according to figures released by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
Online Banking: How Safe Is Your Money? (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Online banking is suffering through a withdrawal phase. A study last fall by I.T. security firm Entrust found that 18 percent of Americans who bank online plan to do so less often because of security concerns. A third of the respondents said they were worried about their bank's Web site being spoofed by a fraudulent facsimile that would trick them into divulging their logon information.
Google Rebuffs Feds on Search Requests (AP)
AP - Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration's demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet's leading search engine — a request that underscores the potential for online databases to become tools for government surveillance.
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Super Bowl Advertisers Make Online Tie-Ins (AP)
 AP - If Miss Piggy is dressing up like Jessica Simpson, monkeys are rampaging around office cubicles and networking druids are yammering into cell phones, it can only mean one thing: Super Bowl ads are on the way.
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FCC boss sees wireless auction starting in June (Reuters)
Reuters - An auction of U.S. airwaves that
could be used for wireless video and high-speed Internet access
will likely go ahead in June, Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Kevin Martin said on Friday.
Google case boosts furor over US privacy threats (AFP)
 AFP - A legal standoff between the US Justice Department and internet search giant Google has added fuel to an already heated debate over the government's right of access to potentially personal data.
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Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - What 'Web 2.0' means to us (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - There has been a subtle yet incredibly important change with the way the Internet is used. It's been going on for at least a couple of years, but lately we're beginning to feel the enormous cumulative effects.
Microsoft Ready to Pull Office Live Beta Trigger (PC World)
PC World - Hosted service will include an e-mail app that allows users to read and receive e-mail using any Internet-connected computer.
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