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Reports: IE 7 Crashes While Accessing Windows Updates (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Some users of Internet Explorer 7's beta are reporting problems accessing crucial update sites, but Microsoft denies any system-wide glitch.
Microsoft's Office Live Goes Beta (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft has launched a beta version of Office Live, extending the functionality of the company's desktop Office productivity suite to the Web with an array of Internet-based software services for small businesses.
Windows Media Player Worm Set To Strike (TechWeb)
TechWeb - An exploit against the Windows Media Player vulnerability disclosed by Microsoft two days ago may be only hours away from hitting unpatched users, a security company said Thursday.
Interview: Microsoft CRM General Manager Brad Wilson (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - As Oracle gobbles up its former competitors, vendors tout hosted services as the wave of the future, and customer-relationship management (CRM) emerges from a not-so-swell couple of years, there is one company taking a measured, steady approach on the road to market dominance: Microsoft.
Gates Outlines Microsoft Security Strategy (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday laid out a comprehensive security strategy designed to highlight improvements in the forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.
SugarCRM Collaborates with Microsoft on Windows Interoperability (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Open-source vendor SugarCRM has unveiled a new technical-collaboration partnership with Microsoft that will boost interoperability between SugarCRM products and Windows Server.
EU Commission says received Microsoft's response (Reuters)
 Reuters - The European Commission on Thursday
said it received and would "consider carefully" Microsoft
Corp.'s response to its charges that the company has failed to
comply with anti-trust sanctions.
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Microsoft switches Japan Xbox chief, not strategy (Reuters)
Reuters - The new head of Microsoft Corp's
Xbox division in Japan acknowledges that sales of the game
console have not fully met expectations, but says there will
not be a major shift in strategy following a slow start.
Tech execs take their lumps, defend China policies (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Congressional lawmakers excoriated U.S. Internet companies at a hearing Wednesday for cooperating with Chinese government officials and stifling free speech in return for a chance to boost profits in China'. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco Systems went before the lawmakers.
Microsoft Rethinks Its Office 2007 Server Line Up (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Rather than offering a comprehensive family of new Office servers, as widely expected, Microsoft has decided to focus its efforts around a revamped SharePoint Portal server.
Apple Hackers Encounter a Poetic Warning (AP)
 AP - Apple Computer Inc. has resorted to a poetic broadside in the inevitable cat-and-mouse game between hackers and high-tech companies.
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Skype Use May Make Eavesdropping Passe (AP)
 AP - Even as the U.S. government is embroiled in a debate over the legality of wiretapping, the fastest-growing technology for Internet calls appears to have the potential to make eavesdropping a thing of the past.
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China Defends Right to Police Internet (AP)
 AP - China on Thursday defended its right to police the Internet, one day after four American technology giants appeared before Congress on charges they collaborated with Beijing to crush free speech online in return for market access.
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Office 2007 to Feature New Server, Tools (AP)
 AP - Microsoft Corp. is pushing a host of additional products along with the next version of its business software suite, dubbed Office 2007, including specialized tools to help employees work together even if they are thousands of miles apart.
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Cellular Service to Offer MySpace Phones (AP)
 AP - The social networking site MySpace, hugely successful among teenagers and twenty-somethings, is about to become more ubiquitous with the launch of a cellular service that will let users read and post to the site for free.
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NBC partnerships build new Olympic platforms (Reuters)
 Reuters - It's unlikely that even
the most ardent Olympics fan can sit at home to watch all 418
hours of NBC's coverage from Turin, Italy. The network,
therefore, pumped up its online presence and entered alliances
with Google, ESPN.com, Apple, TV Guide, MobiTV, Zingy and other
companies to extend its reach far beyond the television set.
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Get Radio Anywhere With the Sirius S50 (PC World)
PC World - Interesting hybrid blends car radio dock with iPod-like player.
Mobile Phones Target MySpace Generation (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Helio LLC said Thursday that it plans to offer multimedia handsets designed for its high-speed 3G networks and tied to social networking site MySpace.com.
'Throwies' Put Open Source Spin On Graffiti (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Eyebeam OpenLab makes tiny, glowing, colorful lights that stick to magnetic surfaces and may begin a new chapter in graffiti.
Virus attacking Apple Macintosh PCs found: experts (Reuters)
 Reuters - A malicious computer worm has
been found that targets Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X
operating system, believed to be the first such virus aimed
specifically at the Mac platform.
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NBC partnerships build new Olympic platforms (Reuters)
Reuters - It's unlikely that even
the most ardent Olympics fan can sit at home to watch all 418
hours of NBC's coverage from Turin, Italy. The network,
therefore, pumped up its online presence and entered alliances
with Google, ESPN.com, Apple, TV Guide, MobiTV, Zingy and other
companies to extend its reach far beyond the television set.
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Internet muck-raker challenges China's censors (Reuters)
 Reuters - Chinese Communist Party elders and U.S.
lawmakers fired shots at China's powerful censors this week,
but Li Xinde says muck-raking campaigners like himself are
undermining the country's barriers to free speech every day.
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"Line" pirate walks plank after MPAA sting (Reuters)
Reuters - A man who allegedly
sought to distribute a pirated copy of "Walk the Line" on the
Internet was charged Thursday with copyright infringement after
falling prey to a trap set by the Motion Picture Association of
America, prosecutors said.
Skype Use May Make Eavesdropping Passe (AP)
AP - Even as the U.S. government is embroiled in a debate over the legality of wiretapping, the fastest-growing technology for Internet calls appears to have the potential to make eavesdropping a thing of the past.
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US measure protects firms from Chinese Internet coercion (AFP)
 AFP - A bill introduced in Congress would make it more difficult for US businesses to comply with China's request for Internet data that could be used to repress its people.
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Lawmakers make new push to ban Internet gambling (Reuters)
Reuters - More than 100 lawmakers in the U.S.
House of Representatives introduced a bipartisan bill on
Thursday to outlaw the $12 billion Internet gambling industry.
Reports: IE 7 Crashes While Accessing Windows Updates (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Some users of Internet Explorer 7's beta are reporting problems accessing crucial update sites, but Microsoft denies any system-wide glitch.
Amazon in talks on digital music service (Reuters)
 Reuters - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. is in
advanced talks with four major music companies on starting a
digital music service as early as this summer to compete with
Apple, sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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Big Players 'Extremely Interested' In Boston Wi-Fi (TechWeb)
TechWeb - A report says Earthlink, Google, HP are 'extremely interested' in partnering with Boston city officials to build a municipal Wi-Fi network.
Nokia sees rapid growth in blended networks (Reuters)
Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) expects the market
for technology that runs mobile and fixed-telephony networks
over the Internet to grow by up to 10 times by 2010, the mobile
firm's networks strategy head said on Thursday.
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