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Hackers Get Windows XP on Apple Computers
(AP)
 AP - As expected, hackers have found a way to run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP operating system on new Macintosh computers, winning an ad hoc contest and a $13,854 cash prize to boot.
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Windows Live: Microsoft's Antitrust Savior?
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Windows Live might end up doing more than providing Microsoft with subscription revenues. It also could give Microsoft with a way to extend Windows without 'bundling.'
Google capital spending spike will slow 2006 growth
(AFP)
 AFP - US Internet search giant Google said it expects to spend "significantly" more this year to continue to innovate and resist competition from the likes of Microsoft and Yahoo.
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Microsoft Takes On IBM for Enterprise Dominance
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Looking to grab business from rival IBM, Microsoft has embarked on a major marketing campaign designed to appeal to enterprise users. The campaign, budgeted at $500 million, will extol the virtues of the company's new products as they begin shipping later this year.
Microsoft goes on $500 million marketing push
(USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Microsoft will pump $500 million into marketing Windows Vista and Office 2007, the latest versions of the company's dominant desktop PC operating system and suite of clerical programs. That's part of the message Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivered to senior executives in New York.
Internet Explorer Has a Future
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - At its Mix '06 designer confab next week, Microsoft will distribute a 'layout-complete' IE 7.0 test build, yet another step along the way toward the final IE 7.0 release, and talk IE futures, too.
Microsoft's Live Video, Voice Still A Beta Thing
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Software giant shows beta-on-beta demo of video and voice calling from 'Live Mail' program, and says IP voice phones will be out this summer.
Epic Records, Microsoft in Xbox 360 Deal
(AP)
 AP - Xbox 360 gamers will get a year of free music videos and other content from artists signed to Epic Records under a promotion deal between the record label and Microsoft Corp., the companies said Thursday.
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Microsoft ALM server online next week
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Santa Clara, Calif. -- Saint Patrick's Day is the lucky day for developers awaiting Microsoft's ALM (application lifecycle management) server.
Microsoft Unveils Marketing Initiative
(AP)
 AP - Microsoft Corp. announced a $500 million marketing initiative Thursday aimed at competing with IBM Corp. for corporate spending on information technology.
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Google Avoids Surrendering Search Requests
(AP)
 AP - A federal judge on Friday ordered Google Inc. to give the Bush administration a peek inside its search engine, but rebuffed the government's demand for a list of people's search requests — potentially sensitive information that the company had fought to protect.
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Hackers Get Windows XP on Apple Computers
(AP)
AP - As expected, hackers have found a way to run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP operating system on new Macintosh computers, winning an ad hoc contest and a $13,854 cash prize to boot.
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Video game therapy - a new frontier
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Doctors pronounced Ethan Myers
brain dead after a car accident dealt the 9-year-old a severe
brain injury in 2002. After he miraculously awoke from a nearly
month-long coma, doctors declared he would never again eat on
his own, walk or talk.
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Warner delays, shrinks HD-DVD releases
(Reuters)
 Reuters - It's official: When the
first HD-DVD players, from Toshiba, begin arriving in stores
this month, there won't be any software for at least another
three weeks.
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Fidelity to Pitch Services on Amazon.com
(AP)
AP - Fidelity Investments said Friday it will sponsor an online financial services "store" on Amazon.com Inc.'s Web site in the company's first such deal with a major online retail distributor.
Google told to reveal Web sites, not search terms
(Reuters)
 Reuters - A federal judge denied a U.S.
government request that Google Inc. be ordered to hand over a
sample of keywords customers use to search the Internet, but
required on Friday that the company produce some Web addresses
indexed in its system.
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Draft Law Clouds iPod's Future in France
(AP)
 AP - Apple Computer Inc. faces a serious challenge in France as lawmakers move to sever the umbilical cord between its iPod music player and iTunes online store — threatening its lucrative hold on both markets.
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Radiation From Electronics Devices Fuels A Retail Niche
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Emil DeToffol sells accessories for cell phones, but doesn't own a cell phone. Neither, in fact, do many of his customers.
Red Hat Details Virtualization Plans
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Linux specialist Red Hat on Tuesday provided details of plans to integrate virtualization capabilities in its operating-system software, particularly the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform, in an effort to help customers get more performance out of their servers.
Mercury Interactive to file some statements in Q2
(Reuters)
Reuters - Business software maker Mercury
Interactive Corp. on Friday said it expects to file
amended statements from 2004 and the first quarter of 2005 in
the second quarter of this year.
Google Avoids Surrendering Search Requests
(AP)
AP - A federal judge on Friday ordered Google Inc. to give the Bush administration a peek inside its search engine, but rebuffed the government's demand for a list of people's search requests — potentially sensitive information that the company had fought to protect.
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Google told to reveal Web sites, not search terms
(Reuters)
Reuters - A federal judge denied a U.S.
government request that Google Inc. be ordered to hand over a
sample of keywords customers use to search the Internet, but
required on Friday that the company produce some Web addresses
indexed in its system.
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Fidelity Investments opens shop on Amazon
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Fidelity is turning to Amazon.com as it
fights to maintain its leadership position in the mutual funds
industry, becoming the first vendor on the online retailer's
new financial services store.
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Web Site Files Complaint Against Google
(AP)
 AP - Google Inc.'s mysterious methods for ranking Web sites came under attack Friday in a lawsuit accusing the online search engine leader of ruining scores of Internet businesses that have been wrongfully banished from its index.
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Draft Law Clouds iPod's Future in France
(AP)
AP - Apple Computer Inc. faces a serious challenge in France as lawmakers move to sever the umbilical cord between its iPod music player and iTunes online store — threatening its lucrative hold on both markets.
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Apple's iTunes could tune out in France over proposed law: experts
(AFP)
 AFP - A copyright bill before the French parliament on downloading music and films from the Internet could induce the leading online music store, Apple Computer's iTunes, to leave France as it would be opposed to opening up its proprietary system, several experts said.
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Fidelity to Pitch Services on Amazon.com
(AP)
AP - Fidelity Investments said Friday it will sponsor an online financial services "store" on Amazon.com Inc.'s Web site in the company's first such deal with a major online retail distributor.
Judge Validates Legality of Google's Caching Practice
(PC World)
PC World - Search giant has won a copyright infringement case that sought to establish some of its key search engine functions as illegal.
Europe start-ups suffer from risk fear: Skype CEO
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Skype survived its early tests as a
European start-up to become a world leader in Internet
telephony but the region's aversion to risk means many other
fledging companies are doomed, Skype's founder said.
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Japan's Softbank enters cellphones with 15-bln-dollar Vodafone buy
(AFP)
 AFP - Japanese Internet empire Softbank launched its foray into mobile telephones with a 15-billion-dollar buy of Vodafone's Japanese unit that could spark fierce price competition.
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