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Microsoft stock alluring despite product delays: Barron's
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The quality of new products and a
strategy to promote them make shares in Microsoft Corp
an attractive bet despite a delay in rolling out its Windows
Vista and Office 2007, Barron's April 3 edition said.
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Microsoft Warns Against Outside Fixes
(AP)
AP - When Microsoft Corp. researchers learned recently that a software flaw had been made public and could prompt Internet attacks, the company ordered a team to devote all its time to fixing the flaw and making the repair work with other products.
Microsoft Makes Progress in Antitrust Case
(AP)
 AP - Microsoft Corp. said Friday it had made a breakthrough in its antitrust case with the European Union after an independent monitor outlined what it could do to stave off daily fines of $2.4 million.
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Latest Web Scam Uses BBC News as Bait
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Bogus e-mails containing real BBC News stories are tricking PC users into visiting a fake Web site that installs password-stealing software onto their computers. The e-mails are exploiting a newly discovered flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, according to Websense Security Labs, a San Diego-based company that uncovered the problem on Thursday.
Keeping Up With The Googles
(BusinessWeek Online)
BusinessWeek Online - The delay of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating system until next year makes the software giant look like a dinosaur stuck in the tar, but that's not the whole picture. Its efforts to match the Googles of the world with fast online innovations seem to be paying off. In the five months since Microsoft announced its Windows Live strategy, it has released no fewer than 20 new services that are attracting millions of consumers. "They now gain some of that agility that Google has enjoyed," says analyst Van Baker of researcher Gartner Inc. ...
Vista Poses Danger To Security Product Vendors: Analyst
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Could it be that Microsoft's vision for security in Vista will aggravate security product vendors? One longtime Windows watcher thinks Microsoft, hoping to fly under antitrust radar, will sprinkle security throughout the OS.
Microsoft lawyer sees breakthrough in EU hearing
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Microsoft's top lawyer said on Friday
he believed there had been a breakthrough in the software
company's dispute with the European Commission at a hearing
into the antitrust fines ordered by Brussels.
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Microsoft claims EU breakthrough, rivals sceptical
(Reuters)
 Reuters - U.S. software giant Microsoft said on
Friday there had been a breakthrough in its dispute with the
European Commission at a hearing on antitrust fines levied by
Brussels, but rivals and critics were sceptical.
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Microsoft claims EU breakthrough, rivals skeptical
(Reuters)
 Reuters - U.S. software giant Microsoft said on
Friday there had been a breakthrough in its dispute with the
European Commission at a hearing on antitrust fines levied by
Brussels, but rivals and critics were skeptical.
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Vista, Office Delays Into '07 Could Impact Software Assurance Customers
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft Software Assurance customers whose maintenance ends Dec. 30 have no assurance they will get Windows Vista or Office 2007 if those business versions are delayed beyond 2006.
Poll: Cell Phones Irritating, Invaluable
(AP)
 AP - Even cell phone users get irritated at others who yak on their portables about their personal business in public. An AP-AOL-Pew poll found the offended don't think they are among the callers who get on other people's nerves.
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Hollywood Studios to Sell Movies Online
(AP)
 AP - Hollywood studios will start selling digital versions of films such as "Brokeback Mountain" and "King Kong" on the Internet this week, the first time major movies have been available online to own.
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Lost an IPod or Wallet? Look for It Online
(AP)
 AP - Maureen Silliman felt her empty pocket and gulped: Her new $300 iPod must have bounced out as she ran to catch a train. While she sobbed, her boyfriend suggested a message on the lost-and-found section of Craigslist, an online bazaar of classified ads.
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Japan Launches Digital TV for Cell Phones
(AP)
 AP - Digital TV broadcasts for mobile phones equipped with special receivers began in Japan's major urban areas Saturday, following several months of test broadcasts.
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Aerial-Imaging System Becoming Vital
(AP)
AP - A year and a half before the sea rushed in, cameras protruding from low-lying Cessna aircraft captured eagle-eye images of every square foot of New Orleans from every direction.
China stands by verdict on virtual property thief
(Reuters)
Reuters - China has upheld a guilty verdict and
fine against a man who stole and sold players' games IDs and
online equipment amid growing calls for more concrete virtual
property laws, state media said on Monday.
Download This: Demystify Your Life, Indoors and Out
(PC World)
PC World - Wonder what's happening inside your PC or on the roads outside? Enlighten yourself with these freebies.
Results of AP-AOL-Pew Poll on Cell Phones
(AP)
AP - The Associated Press-AOL-Pew Research Center poll on public attitudes about cell phones is based on telephone interviews with 1,503 adults in the United States from all states except Alaska and Hawaii. The sample included 1,286 cell phone users. The interviews were conducted March 8-26 by Schulman, Ronca and Bucuvalas. Half, 752, of the interviews were conducted by dialing landlines and 751 were conducted by dialing cell phones.
BEA seeks to modularize app server
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Burlingame, Calif. -- BEA Systems is working to modularize services from its WebLogic Server application server, enabling them to run independently with open source frameworks, a company official said on Thursday.
IBM expands data-integration software business
(Reuters)
 Reuters - IBM on Sunday said it
would expand its business of selling software and services that
enable businesses to more easily access information stored in
myriad computer sources and systems, an area the company is
eyeing for future profits.
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China stands by verdict on virtual property thief
(Reuters)
Reuters - China has upheld a guilty verdict and
fine against a man who stole and sold players' games IDs and
online equipment amid growing calls for more concrete virtual
property laws, state media said on Monday.
US newspapers try to cash in on blogs
(AFP)
 AFP - With a new blog created every second, some media futurists have predicted that "citizen journalists" will be producing half of the world's news by 2021.
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Chef's odyssey wins first books-from-blogs prize
(Reuters)
 Reuters - An amateur chef's account of her attempt
to cook celebrated U.S. chef Julia Child's recipes on Monday
took home the first literary garland devoted to books based on
blogs.
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New entertainment everywhere era sets global TV trade show buzzing
(AFP)
 AFP - From the mobile phone to the Internet, portable game stations, the iconic iPod, DVD players, and of course, the television set, a new entertainment everywhere era is dawning for the TV industry.
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Mapquest unveils navigation help on mobile phones
(Reuters)
 Reuters - AOL unit MapQuest on Monday unveiled a
mobile map service that customers can use on their cellular
phones, complete with voice directions, text and maps in a bid
to expand on the popularity of its Internet maps.
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Hollywood studios to offer digital movies for sale
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Two online movie services,
Movielink and CinemaNow, on Monday said they will begin selling
major films such as "Memoirs of a Geisha" on the same day DVDs
are sold at stores in a watershed event for Hollywood in the
digital age.
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Online auctions aim to benefit New Orleans musicians
(Reuters)
 Reuters - In a rare alliance, a wide range of
musical artists and competing concert promoters are combining
efforts in an online ticket auction to benefit Music Rising,
the musical instrument replacement fund founded by U2's the
Edge, producer Bob Ezrin and Gibson Guitar chairman Henry
Juszkiewicz.
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Netflix hopes customers will fall for "Cowboy"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Online DVD renter Netflix Inc.
hopes its subscribers will fall in love this week with "Cowboy
del Amor," and many other unsung movies it is quietly buying at
film festivals to release in arthouse theaters.
Lost an IPod or Wallet? Look for It Online
(AP)
AP - Maureen Silliman felt her empty pocket and gulped: Her new $300 iPod must have bounced out as she ran to catch a train. While she sobbed, her boyfriend suggested a message on the lost-and-found section of Craigslist, an online bazaar of classified ads.
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Hungary Internet site keeps tab of election promises
(AFP)
 AFP - An Internet news website, Index.hu, has added up all of the promises made by Hungarian political parties in the runup to general elections on April 9 and 23.
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