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Microsoft To Take On Cisco In Unified Communications
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft’s move into what it calls "unified communications" will spark a turf war with powerful players, including PBX makers and Cisco Systems, that will all attack the market from their positions of strength.
Phishers use Microsoft Word hole as bait
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft last week said it would rush to deliver a patch for a recently discovered hole in Microsoft Word that was being used in sophisticated online attacks.
Vista, virtualization news dominate WinHEC
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft pulled off what might be the software development world’s equivalent of horse racing’s exotic trifecta last week, releasing beta versions of three major products simultaneously at the its annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC).
Microsoft's OneCare to Go Live Thursday
(PC World)
PC World - Desktop antivirus software to cost $49.95 per year for up to three PCs.
Microsoft: Less Than Half Of U.S. Adults Are Up To Speed On Tech Terms
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - A Microsoft-sponsored survey finds that less than 50% of U.S. adults are hip to the latest technology buzzwords, and even fewer can say what VoIP, RSS, or tagging mean.
Ballmer touts technology in South Korea
(AP)
 AP - Mun Sung-tok, a 72-year-old retired community relations worker for the U.S. military, was ecstatic. With the help of 13-year-old granddaughter Bo-suk, he was learning how to send an e-mail to his son and had just spoken via webcam with Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer — who was all of 50 feet away.
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Microsoft Adds "Ultimate" Office To Line-up
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The new Office Ultimate -- the name identical to Vista's Ultimate edition -- will be priced at $679 in retail channels, and will include all the applications scheduled to ship within Office Enterprise 2007.
When Will Windows Vista Be Available?
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Despite attempts by Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, to reassure customers that Vista will ship on schedule next January, some experts are not convinced.
Yahoo, eBay deal ups pressure on Microsoft
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Microsoft Corp. may need
to cut prices or pursue a deal similar to Yahoo Inc.'s
and online auctioneer eBay Inc.'s partnership to gain
ground in the lucrative Internet advertising market, analysts
said on Thursday.
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Yahoo, eBay join forces in partnership
(AP)
 AP - Internet powerhouses Yahoo and eBay are joining forces in an alliance that further defines the battle lines in an online brawl with rivals Google, Microsoft and AOL.
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Middle class goes broadband as price falls
(AP)
 AP - Middle- and working-class Americans signed up for high-speed Internet access in record numbers in the past year, apparently lured by a price war among phone companies.
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China: U.S. is in wireless 'conspiracy'
(AP)
AP - The agency promoting China's wireless encryption standard has accused a U.S. engineers' group of waging a conspiracy that led a global organization to reject the Chinese system, the country's official news agency said Monday.
Intel relentlessly pursues cutting edge
(AP)
 AP - The glass-encased room inside Intel Corp.'s microchip factory here, with its shiny, metallic surfaces and frigid air, is a world away from the blistering sun and brown earth outside. An army of robots suspended from the vast ceiling glide from one refrigerator-sized machine to the next. Their cargo: thousands of 12-inch silicon platters that form the raw material for Intel's most sophisticated computer microprocessor to date.
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TI eyes video to drive semiconductor sales
(AP)
 AP - Chip-maker Texas Instruments Inc. has ridden the wireless wave since the dawn of the cellular age, with its sales and profits growing along with the popularity of games, cameras and other fancy mobile phone features that require more computing horsepower.
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Intel unique in new manufacturing methods
(AP)
AP - Intel Corp., the world's biggest chip maker, is unique in the way it rolls out new manufacturing methods, perfecting it in a laboratory and then painstakingly duplicating it at factories around the world.
Salesforce launches AppExchange for OEMs
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff unveiled plans to transform his company into the iTunes of the business application world and laid the groundwork for AppExchange OEM Edition, the company’s newest service.
DVD Goes High-Def
(PC World)
PC World - High-definition DVD products are here, but consumers still face a thorny dilemma as two incompatible formats battle for their dollars.
Vodafone unveils new strategy
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Mobile phone giant Vodafone
unveiled plans to return an extra 3 billion pounds ($5.6
billion) to investors and hiked its dividends on Tuesday,
spicing a well-flagged new strategy to cut costs and embrace
new technology.
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Google Releases Picasa Photo Organizer For Linux
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Google has released a Linux version of the search engine's Picasa photo organizer.
Vista, virtualization news dominate WinHEC
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft pulled off what might be the software development world’s equivalent of horse racing’s exotic trifecta last week, releasing beta versions of three major products simultaneously at the its annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC).
Salesforce launches AppExchange for OEMs
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff unveiled plans to transform his company into the iTunes of the business application world and laid the groundwork for AppExchange OEM Edition, the company’s newest service.
Polish TVN to buy stake in Internet portal
(Reuters)
Reuters - Poland's television broadcaster TVN said
on Monday it signed an initial deal with ITI Media Group to buy
a controlling stake in Grupa Onet.pl, which owns a leading
Internet portal, for 1.1 billion zlotys.
Egyptian man keeps blogging from his cell
(AP)
 AP - Even from his cell in an Egyptian prison, Alaa Abdel-Fattah is blogging — scribbling messages on slips of paper that make their way to the Internet and spread around the world.
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Middle class goes broadband as price falls
(AP)
AP - Middle- and working-class Americans signed up for high-speed Internet access in record numbers in the past year, apparently lured by a price war among phone companies.
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Phishers use Microsoft Word hole as bait
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft last week said it would rush to deliver a patch for a recently discovered hole in Microsoft Word that was being used in sophisticated online attacks.
World press chiefs debate how to handle the Internet revolution
(AFP)
 AFP - Global press chiefs gathered to thrash out how best to wrestle with the rise of the Internet, stay on top of technology, and beat countless bloggers and citizen journalists to the story.
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Berners-Lee: Web Is Ready To Evolve
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The mainstream Web is ready for the next step in its evolution, the father of the Internet proclaimed at this year's World Wide Web Conference (W3C).
Excerpts from Egyptian pro-democracy blog
(AP)
AP - Excerpts from English-language postings on http://www.manalaa.net — pro-democracy blog in Egypt written by Alaa Abdel-Fattah and Manal Hassan:
Amnesty seeks to end Internet repression
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Amnesty International marked its 45th
anniversary on Sunday by launching a global campaign to stamp
out state censorship of the Internet.
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Apple loses court bid to identify sources
(AP)
 AP - A state appeals court on Friday rejected Apple Computer Inc.'s bid to identify the sources of leaked product information that appeared on Web sites, ruling that online reporters and bloggers are entitled to the same protections as traditional journalists.
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