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Microsoft mum on reports it is aiming at Apple's iPod
(AFP)
 AFP - Software colossus Microsoft remained tight-lipped regarding media reports that it intended to unleash its own version of Apple Computer's popular iPod MP3 player.
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Microsoft Plans Patches for Windows, Office
(PC World)
PC World - Seven software patches expected next week from Microsoft.
Details Emerge on Microsoft's iPod Killer
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - According to published reports, Microsoft has grown weary of waiting for its hardware partners to develop a portable-music player that can challenge Apple's iPod, and has decided to forge ahead and build its own.
Microsoft said devises music player launch
(AP)
 AP - Microsoft Corp. is preparing to roll out a portable digital music player later this year, an apparent bid to capture a slice of the market now dominated by the iPod, music industry executives said Thursday.
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Microsoft, Bouygues Telecom to collaborate on music service
(AFP)
 AFP - US software colossus Microsoft and Bouygues Telecom will collaborate to launch a new mobile music service in France in 2007, the companies announced.
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Microsoft Plans Support for Open Document Format
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft is extending an olive branch to the open-source community with the launch of an initiative to provide interoperability between the company's Office Open XML file format and the rival Open Document Format (ODF).
Click fraud a costly bane to Internet advertisers
(AFP)
 AFP - Online search giants Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are not doing enough to combat fraud that cost US advertisers 800 million dollars last year, a study claimed.
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Next iPod Killer--From Microsoft?
(PC World)
PC World - Company is reportedly readying iPod rival for holidays.
Seven MS Office, Windows Patches to Cover Critical Flaws
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Microsoft's July batch of patches will include critical fixes for bugs in Windows and Office; an Excel spreadsheet fix is expected.
Fine for Microsoft more or less inevitable
(AFP)
 AFP - Microsoft will almost inevitably have a fine slapped on it by EU regulators for failing to comply with a 2004 antitrust ruling by the European Commission, EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has said.
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AOL may give away more of its services
(AP)
 AP - AOL LLC may give away even more of its services, including its vaunted AOL.com e-mail accounts now limited to paying subscribers, to boost ad revenues and offset declines in subscriptions, a person familiar with the discussions said Thursday.
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Analysts: EBay faces competitive threat
(AP)
 AP - EBay Inc. faced a double blow Thursday as it announced a key executive's plans to leave and an analyst said Google Inc.'s new online payment service represents a bigger threat than expected to the Internet auction company's health.
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Microsoft said devises music player launch
(AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. is preparing to roll out a portable digital music player later this year, an apparent bid to capture a slice of the market now dominated by the iPod, music industry executives said Thursday.
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Review: MacBook excels at Windows, OS X
(AP)
 AP - Apple Computer Inc.'s latest laptop looks sleek, runs fast and should give makers of Windows-based notebooks considerable cause for concern.
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Chicago's jazz radio gets the blues, bows to iPod
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The iPod and a growing need for local
news have done the unthinkable: They have cost Chicago, one of
America's great jazz cities, its last major source for jazz
programming on local radio.
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Management shake-up at eBay in face of competition from Google
(AFP)
 AFP - The president of PayPal will step down as part of an eBay reshuffling of executives announced a week after Internet search juggernaut Google launched a rival online payment service.
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Studios catching viral bug to promo new DVDs online
(Reuters)
Reuters - Online video sites like
YouTube are Hollywood's hottest new marketing tool. And in a
way similar to what their theatrical counterparts are doing
with new movies, studio DVD marketers are scrambling to harness
the power of viral marketing by posting trailers of upcoming
DVD releases to these nascent sites and hoping they get passed
along -- again, and again, and again.
Cingular accused of deceiving customers
(AP)
 AP - Cingular Wireless Corp. promised to provide uninterrupted service to AT&T Wireless customers when it acquired that company in 2004, but instead it nickel-and-dimed them and degraded their reception in an effort to persuade them to sign new contracts, a federal lawsuit said Thursday.
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Genuitec MyEclipse 5.0 links NetBeans, Eclipse
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Genuitec will link rival NetBeans with its Eclipse open source technologies in a preview release of the MyEclipse 5.0 environment for enterprise and Web application development being unveiled on Friday.
Microsoft mum on reports it is aiming at Apple's iPod
(AFP)
AFP - Software colossus Microsoft remained tight-lipped regarding media reports that it intended to unleash its own version of Apple Computer's popular iPod MP3 player.
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Management shake-up at eBay in face of competition from Google
(AFP)
AFP - The president of PayPal will step down as part of an eBay reshuffling of executives announced a week after Internet search juggernaut Google launched a rival online payment service.
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"Pirates" headed for online-game adventure
(Reuters)
 Reuters - "Pirates of the
Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" opens Friday (July 7), but the
Walt Disney Co. also has high hopes for the property in the
strikingly different media of massively multiplayer online
games.
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Studios catching viral bug to promo new DVDs online
(Reuters)
Reuters - Online video sites like
YouTube are Hollywood's hottest new marketing tool. And in a
way similar to what their theatrical counterparts are doing
with new movies, studio DVD marketers are scrambling to harness
the power of viral marketing by posting trailers of upcoming
DVD releases to these nascent sites and hoping they get passed
along -- again, and again, and again.
House seen debating gambling bill next week
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The full U.S. House of
Representatives is expected to debate next week legislation
that would attempt to ban Internet gambling, a $12
billion-a-year industry that gets half its revenue from
American gamblers, two Republican lawmakers said on Thursday.
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Analysts: EBay faces competitive threat
(AP)
AP - EBay Inc. faced a double blow Thursday as it announced a key executive's plans to leave and an analyst said Google Inc.'s new online payment service represents a bigger threat than expected to the Internet auction company's health.
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Computer consultant hacked FBI passwords
(AP)
AP - An FBI computer consultant gained access to the secret passwords of Director Robert Mueller and others using free software found on the Internet, the latest embarrassment in the bureau's long struggle to modernize its computers.
AOL mulls free services: source
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Time Warner Inc.'s AOL unit is
considering offering its services, except for Internet access,
free of charge to anyone with a high-speed connection, a source
familiar with the plans said on Thursday.
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eBay Bars Google Checkout; PayPal Chief Leaves
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - EBay Inc. said on Thursday the head of its PayPal unit will leave the Web auctioneer in a surprise shake-up that closely follows Google Inc.'s unveiling of a rival payment service.
Click fraud a costly bane to Internet advertisers
(AFP)
AFP - Online search giants Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are not doing enough to combat fraud that cost US advertisers 800 million dollars last year, a study claimed.
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AOL may give away more of its services
(AP)
AP - AOL LLC may give away even more of its services, including its vaunted AOL.com e-mail accounts now limited to paying subscribers, to boost ad revenues and offset declines in subscriptions, a person familiar with the discussions said Thursday.
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