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Young Vietnamese flock to Bill Gates
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Thousands of Vietnamese students climbed
trees and pushed against barricades to give Microsoft founder
Bill Gates a pop star's welcome in Hanoi on Saturday.
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Bill Gates mobbed by cheering Vietnamese students
(AFP)
 AFP - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has received a rock star's welcome from cheering Vietnamese university students hungry to learn how information technology will transform their lives.
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Microsoft hires CEO of Ask.com to head Web unit
(Reuters)
Reuters - Software giant Microsoft Corp.
said on Friday it hired away Steve Berkowitz, the
chief executive of rival Internet company Ask.com, to head
Microsoft's own Internet business.
Linux Distributors Unite on Standard
(AP)
AP - In a move to make the freely distributed Linux operating system a stronger alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, a group of major Linux distributors announced Friday they have united on a standard set of components for desktop versions of Linux.
Gates to Give Japanese Groups Technology
(AP)
 AP - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates reaffirmed the U.S. software company's commitment to the Japanese market Friday as he kicked off a campaign here to offer some free technology help to nonprofit organizations.
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Microsoft to Defend Business Practices
(AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. will fight next week for the way it conducts future business as it urges the European Union's second-highest court to overturn an antitrust ruling that ordered it to pay a record $613 million fine.
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Microsoft Taps Ask.com Exec To Head MSN
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Steve Berkowitz was CEO of Ask.com, and formerly was an exec for the "Dummies" brand of IDG books, giving him an understanding of "both the offline and online publishing worlds," Microsoft said.
EBay Reportedly Talks To Yahoo, MSN
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Can eBay -- assuming it wants to -- get help from Yahoo and Microsoft to beat back an expected challenge from the Internet juggernaut called Google?
Microsoft to Reissue Buggy Security Patch
(PC World)
PC World - Second try should resolve problems with HP and nVidia software.
Microsoft heads to college to pitch Windows Live
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The decision to outsource the
University of Texas-Pan American's 17,000 student e-mail
accounts to Microsoft Corp. for free was a simple one for Gary
Wiggins, the school's top IT administrator.
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Air Force One Subject of Internet Hoax
(AP)
 AP - A startling Internet video that shows someone spraying graffiti on President Bush's jet looked so authentic that the Air Force wasn't immediately certain whether the plane had been targeted.
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Linux Distributors Unite on Standard
(AP)
AP - In a move to make the freely distributed Linux operating system a stronger alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, a group of major Linux distributors announced Friday they have united on a standard set of components for desktop versions of Linux.
Gates to Give Japanese Groups Technology
(AP)
AP - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates reaffirmed the U.S. software company's commitment to the Japanese market Friday as he kicked off a campaign here to offer some free technology help to nonprofit organizations.
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Microsoft to Defend Business Practices
(AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. will fight next week for the way it conducts future business as it urges the European Union's second-highest court to overturn an antitrust ruling that ordered it to pay a record $613 million fine.
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Sites Goes Online to Tell Smaller Stories
(AP)
 AP - Former television journalist Kevin Sites is mindful that his online dispatches from the world's war zones won't attract anywhere near the audience he's used to getting on the evening news. But that's just fine, he said.
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Microsoft hires CEO of Ask.com to head Web unit
(Reuters)
Reuters - Software giant Microsoft Corp.
said on Friday it hired away Steve Berkowitz, the chief
executive of rival Internet company Ask.com, to head
Microsoft's own Internet business.
PlayStation 3 Pricing Still Unknown
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - How much would you be willing to shell out for the PlayStation 3, with its eye-popping graphics, superior sound quality, and home-entertainment features? The price tag for Sony's next-generation gaming console could be pretty steep when it is released, but gamers won't know for certain until the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3), held next month in Los Angeles, where Sony is expected to reveal the details.
RadioShack 1Q Profit Plummets 85 Percent
(AP)
 AP - RadioShack Corp. said Friday its first-quarter profit plummeted 85 percent on disappointing sales of cellular phones and a write-down of the electronics retailer's assets and inventory. Its shares briefly sank to a 52-week low but rebounded later in the day.
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Linux Malware Doubled In '05; Macs May Be Next
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Malicious threats against the open-source Linux operating system doubled in 2005 over the previous year, but some say it's Mac users who should fear the future.
Delta: Ga. Airport Security Glitch Costly
(AP)
AP - Delta Air Lines Inc., which is operating under bankruptcy protection, said Friday a computer software glitch at a security checkpoint at the world's busiest airport cost it more than $1.3 million.
Air Force One Subject of Internet Hoax
(AP)
AP - A startling Internet video that shows someone spraying graffiti on President Bush's jet looked so authentic that the Air Force wasn't immediately certain whether the plane had been targeted.
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Microsoft hires CEO of Ask.com to head Web unit
(Reuters)
Reuters - Software giant Microsoft Corp.
said on Friday it hired away Steve Berkowitz, the chief
executive of rival Internet company Ask.com, to head
Microsoft's own Internet business.
Neil Young's protest album heads to Internet first
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Neil Young's newly recorded protest
album "Living With War," including a song calling for the
impeachment of President Bush, will be posted for free Internet
streaming next week, his label said on Friday.
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More Doors opening with concert downloads
(Reuters)
 Reuters - As part of the Doors'
40th-anniversary celebration, the band will soon make 12
concerts from 1967 to 1970 available for download from its Web
site, TheDoors.com.
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Celebrity blogging goes wireless with BlogStar
(Reuters)
Reuters - Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson
are back together.
Microsoft Taps Ask.com Exec To Head MSN
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Steve Berkowitz was CEO of Ask.com, and formerly was an exec for the "Dummies" brand of IDG books, giving him an understanding of "both the offline and online publishing worlds," Microsoft said.
L.A. Times pulls columnist's blog over Web fake
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The Los Angeles Times has suspended
the blog of a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who posed as an
Internet reader to defend his own column and attack his
conservative foes.
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Attendees at Awards Bash Worried about Press Freedoms
(Editor and Publisher)
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK The role of the watchdog media, threats to press freedom, and the split between reading news online or in print were popular subjects as E&P chatted with guests, prize winners and presenters at the annual Overseas Press Club Awards winner Thursday night at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York.
Yahoo Develops Online Movie-Making Tool
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Yahoo Inc. has launched an online video tool that promotes the San Francisco International Film Festival.
Google Angers Artist Family In Latest Copyright Flap
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Google acknowledges that it took down its logo honoring Joan Miro after the family objected to the search engine using elements of the surrealist artist's works.
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