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Microsoft releases 12 security fixes
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060808/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_security"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060805/capt.1bb00455b05f4bab9ec130f8238caaba.buffett_gates_nedw104.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=jLaC9O3iDR9NN5CkdQYoJA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Microsoft Corp.'s Bill Gates, left, and Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s Warren Buffett smiles Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, before the American Contract Bridge League's Nebraska Regional Tournament in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released 12 security fixes for its Windows operating system and Office business software.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Updates Fix PowerPoint, Windows Flaws
(PC World)
PC World - Nine of twelve security patches address critical vulnerabilities in Windows and Office.
Microsoft Fixes 23 Flaws, Including Bug With MSBlast Potential
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - It isn't the usual "Patch Tuesday" at Microsoft. Rather, it's a record-breaker. Both the number of bugs disclosed and the tally of critical fixes broke previous records.
Microsoft's Communication Products Shift Sparks Mixed Reaction
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft's latest move with Speech Server is a good news/bad news situation, analysts say, and it may be partners that take the bad news hit.
Microsoft, Nuance Join Fight To Improve Phone-Based Customer Service
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft and Nuance Communications agree to work with the GetHuman project.
Microsoft to Pay Reparations for Vista, Office Delays
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The Redmond software maker is seeking ways to make amends to its business customers who are covered by volume-license agreements and who have been negatively impacted by the multiple delays in Windows Vista and Microsoft Office.
Microsoft To Fold Speech Server Into Office Product Line
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The speech-recognition software will become part of Office Communications Server 2007, due for release in mid-2007.
Microsoft Dumps Virtual PC For The Mac
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft Corp. said that it is dropping any plans to update its Virtual PC virtualization software to enable it to work on Apple's new Intel-based Macs.
Microsoft Drops Name IE 7+
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Just don't call it 'plus' anymore.
Microsoft: No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The software maker announces at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference that it is discontinuing support of Visual Basic scripting in the next version of Office for Mac.
Sprint Nextel to form network with WiMax
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060809/ap_on_hi_te/sprint_nextel_wimax"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060808/capt.9233d46ece344caeab4bbedc79324a3f.sprint_nextel_wimax_nyr107.jpg?x=125&y=130&sig=P3p.81OAdhw2rO8IJi95JQ--" align="left" height="130" width="125" alt="Gary Forsee, left, CEO of Sprint Nextel Corp., and KiTae Lee, president of Samsung Electronics, announce at a news conference in New York Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006 that Samsung will partner with Sprint to build a new high-speed wireless network. Sprint said the new network, expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 2007, will provide consumers with wireless Internet speeds on par with DSL and cable TV modems. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sprint Nextel Corp., the nation's third-largest cellular provider, said Tuesday it will use an emerging technology called WiMax to build a new high-speed wireless network.</p><br clear="all"/>
UC libraries join Google Inc. project
(AP)
AP - The University of California is joining Google Inc.'s book-scanning project, throwing the weight of another 100 academic libraries behind an ambitious venture that's under legal attack for alleged copyright infringement.
Digium Inc. secures $13.2M in funding
(AP)
AP - Matrix Partners is investing $13.2 million in Digium Inc., the creator and coordinator of Asterisk, a popular open-source software platform for business phone systems that's based on Linux and Internet Protocol.
FCC to auction off rights to airwaves
(AP)
AP - The government is auctioning off rights to the largest chunk ever of mobile-phone-friendly airwaves.
Navy competition tests underwater robots
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060809/ap_on_hi_te/robot_race"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060807/capt.748ec851c38848a5820fd8f26c1f6737.aptopix_robot_race_la105.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=UEM8ouodt1n2t6FUT6WU4Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A SPAWARS diver is silhouetted as he pushes an underwater autonomous robot in a test pool during the 2006 International Autonomous Underwater competition, Friday, Aug. 4, 2006, in San Diego. The challenge was to create a robot that could, free of human control, carry out a series of sinking, swimming and resurfacing tasks in the 38-foot-deep pool. Top prize: $7,000 and serious bragging rights. (AP Photo/Chris Park)" border="0" /></a>AP - Facing an exodus of institutional brain power as baby-boomer scientists retire, the Navy is turning to a younger pool of talent for its underwater robotics program.</p><br clear="all"/>
Tech.gov: Protecting Kids Online
(PC World)
PC World - Congress has been trying for ages to make the Internet safer for kids. Would the latest bill help or hurt?
"Bully" video game to be released in October
(Reuters)
Reuters - Rockstar, the maker of best-selling
video game series "Grant Theft Auto" said on Wednesday it would
launch in October "Bully," a game with themes of school
fighting that has anti-violence critics up in arms.
AP: MLB audio coming to Sprint phones
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060809/ap_en_bu/bbo_mlb_cellular_phones"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060808/capt.b51a85973d0a494daf47d24b2af064e0.sprint_nextel_wimax_nyr105.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=1yGMH02jnA69c7_xsnnczQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Gary Forsee, CEO of Sprint Nextel Corp., announces at a news conference in New York Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006 that the company will use an emerging technology called WiMax to build a new high-speed wireless network. The company said the new network, expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 2007, will provide consumers with wireless Internet speeds on par with DSL and cable TV modems. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Baseball fans will soon be able to use their cell phones to take them out to the ballgame.</p><br clear="all"/>
Mozilla Postpones Firefox 2.0 Beta 2
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Mozilla delays the release of the second beta of its Firefox 2.0 browser by a week.
Cisco aims for broader recognition
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060809/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_cisco"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060808/capt.83bd06f63a584f2ab43ff8253e2a6e28.earns_cisco__caps101.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=wl4un6PMFkMzcMMM2lhFQg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Cisco Systems Technical Marketing Engineer Albert Tang works on racks made by Cisco at at their headquarters in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006. These racks are communication devices for Cisco as a service provider for enterprise and commercial uses. Cisco Systems Inc. is expected to report fiscal fourth-quarter earnings. The San Jose-based network equipment maker is expected to earn a profit of 28 cents per share, or $1.76 billion, on sales of $7.92 billion. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - After setting records for profit and revenue, Cisco Systems Inc. is taking on a challenge that may be more formidable than pleasing Wall Street: The networking gear provider plans a consumer advertising push aimed at getting average Internet users — not software programmers and hardware administrators — to recognize and even embrace the brand.</p><br clear="all"/>
Tech.gov: Protecting Kids Online
(PC World)
PC World - Congress has been trying for ages to make the Internet safer for kids. Would the latest bill help or hurt?
Airwaves auction may bring in billions
(AP)
AP - High-speed Internet access, streaming video, music downloads and other special new features may soon be in store for mobile phone owners thanks to an unprecedented airwaves auction.
Digium Inc. secures $13.2M in funding
(AP)
AP - Matrix Partners is investing $13.2 million in Digium Inc., the creator and coordinator of Asterisk, a popular open-source software platform for business phone systems that's based on Linux and Internet Protocol.
Sprint phones to offer MLB games audio
(AP)
AP - Baseball fans will soon be able to use their cell phones to take them out to the ballgame. Sprint reached an agreement with Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the sport's Internet wing, to make audio of radio broadcasts available to its subscribers' mobile phones for $5.99 a month.
PayPal Cofounder Launches eBay Slide Show
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Slide launches a free Web and desktop application that lets eBay Inc. sellers advertise their wares, and buyers keep track of favorite listings.
Google Fights Back Against Click-Fraud Accusers
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Google responds to critics who say there is a click-fraud problem on the search engine. Google says it has uncovered flaws in their research.
Editorial Page Chiefs See Increased Opportunities, Demands
(Editor and Publisher)
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK When Gail Collins became editorial page editor of The New York Times five years ago, life in the pre-9/11 world of newspapers -- before the blog-and-video revolution -- made managing the editorial pages easier. "It was a quiet time, it was boring," Collins recalls about her August 2001 ascension to the top job. "I thought I had a knack for making boring stuff interesting. And the job then was producing just two opinion pages seven days a week."
Radiance Lands Patent For Managing Bandwidth Over Internet
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The patents incorporate algorithms that enable scheduling and secure delivery for terabytes of digital content.
Sprint teams up with Intel, others to launch 4G wireless network
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060808/tc_afp/ustelecomcompany"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060808/capt.sge.cwo24.080806220129.photo00.photo.default-358x512.jpg?x=90&y=130&sig=4Mx.147H6dmZfRHexyi35w--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="Sprint Nextel's chief executive officer Gary Forsee, seen here in 2004. Communications company Sprint Nextel said it was investing up to three billion dollars in what it claimed would be the United States' first nationwide 4G high-speed wireless broadband network.(AFP/File/Timothy A. Clary)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Communications company Sprint Nextel said it was investing up to three billion dollars in what it claimed would be the United States' first nationwide 4G high-speed wireless broadband network.</p><br clear="all"/>
Wireless sale draws a new crowd: media firms
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060808/wr_nm/telecoms_fcc_auction_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060808/2006_08_08t124107_300x450_us_telecoms_fcc_auction.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=vI4ho1LPAyrUwZ49xeg7LA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="A technician looks at a cellular transmission tower in an undated publicity photo. U.S. wireless companies face new competition on Wednesday as they start bidding on licenses for advanced wireless services like high-speed Internet -- from the satellite and cable television industries. (PRNewsFoto/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. wireless companies face new
competition on Wednesday as they start bidding on licenses for
advanced wireless services like high-speed Internet -- from the
satellite and cable television industries.</p><br clear="all"/>
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