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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 Data Collection Troubles Some Users (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft monitors the security health of PCs running its OneCare Live security service by collecting data from users' computers, but some users think it's too much.
New Kama Sutra Worms Corrupts Microsoft Documents (TechWeb)
TechWeb - A new worm that already accounts for 1 in every 15 pieces of malicious code carries a "nuclear option" payload that corrupts data.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Leaks To Web (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Screenshots and code for the most recent build of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 browser have leaked to the Internet, several Windows-related sites say.
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.
Amateur Video Sharing Grows Online (AP)
 AP - Over the past year, Janelle Gunther occasionally captured video with her Canon PowerShot digital camera: An elephant parading through city streets to the Ringling Bros. circus, her friends on stage during an improv dance show.
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Eavesdropping Leaps Into 21st Century (AP)
 AP - In the past, intercepting communications meant just that — copying a telegram mid-route, steaming open an envelope or attaching alligator clips to the copper wires that connected every telephone in the world.
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AtomFilms to Launch Studio for Online (AP)
AP - As the Internet has become the people's stage and online video surges in popularity, AtomFilms is launching what could be among the first of many new studios dedicated to the production of video for online audiences.
Yahoo to Open Spain, Chile Research Labs (AP)
AP - Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. is opening its first research labs in Europe and South America, continuing a quest to close the gap separating it from online search engine leader Google Inc.
CBS, Fox Show Different Approaches to Tech (AP)
 AP - In the fast-moving world of technology, Fox is the tortoise and CBS is the hare.
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EMI's Nicoli sees Internet reviving music industry (Reuters)
Reuters - Nobody said it was easy for EMI,
the world's third-largest record company and the home of
British band Coldplay, as the music industry has weathered six
straight years of falling sales.
Bruised video game firm Majesco restarts its game (Reuters)
Reuters - Video game publisher
Majesco invested heavily in a handful of current-generation
games, including the Hollywood-licensed "Aeon Flux," only to
have those games crash and burn at retail.
Western world eyes up digital music markets full of Asian promise (AFP)
 AFP - As digital music explodes around the world, the Western music and mobile phone industries are turning their eyes towards the massive Asian markets full of Eastern promise.
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Security Patch Watch: Skype, Cisco, FreeBSD (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - eBay-owned Skype corrects a bug that caused the application to be misread as a potential security threat; Cisco and FreeBSD also ships security-centric upgrades.
IBM Upgrades Data Protection for Outlook, Lotus (TechWeb)
TechWeb - IBM has announced an upgrade to its Continuous Data Protection for Files software with more subfile backup for Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook and additional administrative tools.
EMI's Nicoli sees Internet reviving music industry (Reuters)
Reuters - Nobody said it was easy for EMI,
the world's third-largest record company and the home of
British band Coldplay, as the music industry has weathered six
straight years of falling sales.
AtomFilms to Launch Studio for Online (AP)
AP - As the Internet has become the people's stage and online video surges in popularity, AtomFilms is launching what could be among the first of many new studios dedicated to the production of video for online audiences.
Yahoo to Open Spain, Chile Research Labs (AP)
AP - Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. is opening its first research labs in Europe and South America, continuing a quest to close the gap separating it from online search engine leader Google Inc.
Yahoo expands Web-search research to Spain, Chile (Reuters)
Reuters - Internet media company Yahoo said
on Sunday it was opening research centers in Spain and Chile,
expanding its engineering efforts beyond the United States for
the first time.
Amateur Video Sharing Grows Online (AP)
AP - Over the past year, Janelle Gunther occasionally captured video with her Canon PowerShot digital camera: An elephant parading through city streets to the Ringling Bros. circus, her friends on stage during an improv dance show.
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Music Sales Resumed Decline in 2005 (AP)
 AP - Recorded music sales resumed their decline in 2005, the industry's leading global body said Sunday, despite high-profile victories against piracy and a surge in online and mobile music store revenues.
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Google pips Apple in 2005 brand poll (Reuters)
 Reuters - Internet search engine Google has
retaken first place in the 2005 global poll of the world's most
influential brands, while the eBay-owned web phone service
Skype makes its debut at No. 3.
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Record industry says court cases against internet piracy work (AFP)
 AFP - Last year saw big advances and key legal victories in the record industry's fight against massive illegal Internet peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing, the head of the world recording industry association, the IFPI, said.
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Japan government rapped for supporting scandal-hit Internet whizz-kid (AFP)
 AFP - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's government has come under fire from within the ruling party for supporting in last year's election an Internet whizz-kid now embroiled in scandal.
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Japan prosecutors to grill Livedoor president over alleged fraud (AFP)
 AFP - Japanese prosecutors will question the whiz-kid founder of major Internet firm Livedoor in the coming week in connection with a fraud scandal that has sparked market chaos, a news report said.
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