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Microsoft warns game developers of security risk
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060815/tc_nm/microsoft_games_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060815/i/r2104995476.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=X3Hpo8KR1axUgGIMrsqulQ--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Jay Petersen of Microsoft stands at the Xbox 360 booth at the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles May 11, 2006. All too familiar with hackers looking to exploit security flaws in its software, Microsoft Corp. warned video game developers on Monday that their PC games are now a target for criminals. REUTERS/Chris Pizzello" border="0" /></a>Reuters - All too familiar with hackers looking
to exploit security flaws in its software, Microsoft Corp.
warned video game developers on Monday that their PC
games are now a target for criminals.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Aims At 'YouTube' For Video Games
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - With XNA Games Studio Express, Microsoft plans to build a platform geared toward independent game developers.
IBM Takes On Windows With Eclipse Programs
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Reviving an old feud with Microsoft's Windows, IBM is launching Linux and Macintosh versions of its most popular software -- and vowing to help other software makers do the same.
Microsoft Sites Are The Most Visited in June
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The big three " Microsoft, Yahoo and Google -- continue to aggregate the largest worldwide audiences and dominate the rankings.
Microsoft Gives Gamers Creation Power on Xbox
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Think you've got what it takes to create the next "Halo" adventure, or to add a few tricks to Tony Hawk's skateboarding arsenal, for the Xbox game catalog? If so, Microsoft's XNA Game Studio Express development toolkit will give you the chance to prove it.
Microsoft unveils game making kit for the masses
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060814/tc_afp/afplifestyleitinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060814/capt.sge.emp61.140806195638.photo00.photo.default-392x512.jpg?x=99&y=130&sig=QIIXJnA2c45DGspky_mq7g--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="Microsoft's video game console 'Xbox 360' with an optional front panel. Software giant Microsoft said that it would release a kit to "democratize" the creation of video games for its Xbox 360 consoles.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Software giant Microsoft said that it would release a kit to "democratize" the creation of video games for its Xbox 360 consoles.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Launches WYSIWYG Blog-Writing Tool
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Windows Live Writer lets bloggers see what their post will look like before publishing it.
No SA "Make Goods" From Microsoft, Says Gartner
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Some reports are suggesting that Micr0soft is considering rebates to some enterprise Software Assurance customers, but the analyst firm doesn't see it.
Fox plans movies, TV shows for download
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060814/ap_on_hi_te/fox_movie_downloads"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060814/2006_08_14t021216_450x353_us_media_fox.jpg?x=130&y=102&sig=ZHaAyJV9itlQUCzJzu26mg--" align="left" height="102" width="130" alt="Halle Berry waves to photographers during the premiere of the movie 'X-Men: The Last Stand' in Tokyo, July 14, 2006. Twentieth Century Fox will start to sell movies including 'X-Men: The Last Stand' and TV shows like '24' from Web sites owned by parent News Corp. in the company's first step in the online movie market. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - The new "X-Men" movie and television shows like "24" are coming to a computer near you.</p><br clear="all"/>
Just How Many Windows Live Services Are There?
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Microsoft officials say there are 20 Windows Live services available in beta and/or final versions. But it looks like the real count is in excess of 40. And that's not including a number of Live services which Microsoft has yet to acknowledge, but sources say are in the pipeline.
Dell to replace notebook batteries
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060815/ap_on_hi_te/dell_battery_recall"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060814/capt.cacbed2193bf4f10b948ed756d39acb5.dell_battery_recall_ny130.jpg?x=90&y=130&sig=j2B.iEskb8Zf3FzUH8Ag8Q--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="The Dell Latitude D620 notebook is displayed during a press preview of Dell's next generation mobile platforms, Tuesday, March 28, 2006, in New York. Dell Inc. said Monday Aug. 14, 2006 it will recall 4.1 million notebook computer batteries because they can overheat and catch fire. A Dell spokesman said the batteries were made by Sony Corp. and placed in notebooks that were shipped between April 1, 2004, and July 18 of this year. The battery packs were included in some models of Dell's Latitude, Inspiron, XTS and precision mobile workstation notebooks. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)" border="0" /></a>AP - Dell Inc. said it will issue free replacement batteries to the owners of 4.1 million notebook computers with batteries made by Sony Corp. that were determined to be at risk of overheating and catching fire.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google removes text link to Froogle
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060814/ap_on_hi_te/google_home_page"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060814/capt.sge.emh99.140806185639.photo00.photo.default-512x338.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=Z_ClcJEz3dnNQeST8wgbJw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Logo of web search engine Google seen behing a computer keyboard. Google invited computer software wizards worldwide to compete for top honors in the Internet search engine's annual Code Jam.(AFP/DDP/File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Google Inc., the search engine whose clean, minimalist home page was a stark contrast to the link-laden Web portals of the late 1990s, made a tiny tweak to its site last week that may have much bigger repercussions.</p><br clear="all"/>
Group seeks FTC inquiry into AOL
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060814/ap_on_hi_te/aol_search_privacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060807/2006_08_07t114737_450x329_us_aol_privacy.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=5m6UelGz3W4oYdDOdUzIYw--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="The head AOL Jonathan Miller seen inthis file photo in Las Vegas January 5, 2006. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hoping to trigger a federal investigation, a civil liberties group accused AOL of breaking a promise to protect its subscribers' privacy when the Time Warner Inc. subsidiary recently released millions of Internet search requests — data that touched upon everything from Social Security numbers to murder plots.</p><br clear="all"/>
AOL buys social-networking developer
(AP)
AP - AOL has purchased a developer of Web-based chat and other communications technologies as the company seeks to expand the reach of its popular AIM instant-messaging service and its ad-supported offerings like video clips.
Segway launches 2 new scooters
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060814/ap_on_hi_te/new_segway"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060814/capt.26dc308b24c74d93b15a0262aa983686.new_segway_nybz302.jpg?x=103&y=130&sig=2sHf.rUDzmhk71mO3zkkCg--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="In an undated photo released by Segway, Inc. is the Segway i2 Personal Transporter. Although the electric, self-balancing Segway scooter never quite caught on with commuters the way its backers had predicted five years ago, the gizmo has found a growing market among law-enforcement agencies, with more than 100 departments around the world now signed on as customers and many others testing the device. (AP Photo/Segway, Inc.)" border="0" /></a>AP - Riding on the new version of Segway Inc.'s self-balancing electric scooter is "very similar to skiing," according to the company's chief technology officer.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google Maps offers discount coupons for US stores
(Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc. will offer
printable discount coupons to local shoppers, in a promotional
bid that aims to drive U.S. online shoppers using its Google
Maps service to visit stores, the company said on Monday.
Dell to recall notebook PC batteries
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060815/tc_nm/dell_batteries_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060814/capt.syd10208140421c.addition_australia_dell_syd102.jpg?x=123&y=130&sig=tsn5gU16UZeWoGV0cE0wPQ--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="Dell Inc. Chairman Michael Dell uses one of his notebook computers during a presentation in Sydney, Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. Shares in Dell might have fallen 45 per cent in the past year, but company chairman Michael Dell says he has no plans to takeover as chief executive. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Dell Inc. said on
Monday it would recall 4.1 million notebook computer batteries
because they could overheat and catch fire, in the biggest
recall in the 22-year history of the world's largest personal
computer maker.</p><br clear="all"/>
"Desperate," "Lost" going mobile
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060814/wr_nm/media_desperate_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060814/2006_08_14t083007_450x302_us_media_desperate.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=ojvvPTmoTrGYkn4xlvs.IA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Nicollette Sheridan poses on the set of 'Desperate Housewives' in Universal City, California, August 5, 2006. Mobile game publisher Gameloft, one of the leaders in this genre, is set to confirm Monday an exclusive multiyear agreement with Touchstone Television to develop, publish and distribute mobile games based on ABC's hit series 'Lost' and 'Desperate Housewives.' (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Games based on movies
are common, but only recently have interactive entertainment
companies turned to TV shows for their inspiration. Mobile game
publisher Gameloft, one of the leaders in this genre, is set to
confirm Monday an exclusive multiyear agreement with Touchstone
Television to develop, publish and distribute mobile games
based on ABC's hit series "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives."</p><br clear="all"/>
IBM Takes On Windows With Eclipse Programs
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Reviving an old feud with Microsoft's Windows, IBM is launching Linux and Macintosh versions of its most popular software -- and vowing to help other software makers do the same.
Software giant CA announces global layoffs as profit plunges
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060815/bs_afp/usittechnologycompany"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060815/capt.sge.enm15.150806005445.photo00.photo.default-360x252.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=mDezIlN8yzjnHTtjyQFdyQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Management software firm CA Inc. announced that its profits plummeted 64 percent in its latest fiscal quarter and that it would layoff 1,700 workers worldwide to increase efficiency.(CA)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Management software firm CA Inc. announced that its profits plummeted 64 percent in its latest fiscal quarter and that it would layoff 1,700 workers worldwide to increase efficiency.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google Maps offers discount coupons for US stores
(Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc. will offer
printable discount coupons to local shoppers, in a promotional
bid that aims to drive U.S. online shoppers using its Google
Maps service to visit stores, the company said on Monday.
Snow White's dwarfs more famous than US judges: poll
(Reuters)
Reuters - Three quarters of Americans can
correctly identify two of Snow White's seven dwarfs while only
a quarter can name two Supreme Court Justices, according to a
poll on pop culture released on Monday.
Video Downloads Coming to MySpace
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Garage bands and Keifer Sutherland will soon be rubbing shoulders on one of the Internet's hottest Web sites. Fox Interactive Media will now be supplying a limited selection of downloadable content to MySpace.com users. Shows available for purchase will include hits such as "24" and "Prison Break." Movies will include "Thank You For Smoking" and "X-Men: The Last Stand."
According to analysts, MySpace and parent company Fox, intend to penetrate the fairly undeveloped video direct download market with well-known shows in order to reach a new, younger audience. ...
Group seeks FTC inquiry into AOL
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060814/ap_on_hi_te/aol_search_privacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060807/2006_08_07t114737_450x329_us_aol_privacy.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=5m6UelGz3W4oYdDOdUzIYw--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="The head AOL Jonathan Miller seen inthis file photo in Las Vegas January 5, 2006. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hoping to trigger a federal investigation, a civil liberties group accused AOL of breaking a promise to protect its subscribers' privacy when the Time Warner Inc. subsidiary recently released millions of Internet search requests — data that touched upon everything from Social Security numbers to murder plots.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google removes text link to Froogle
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060814/ap_on_hi_te/google_home_page"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060814/capt.sge.emh99.140806185639.photo00.photo.default-512x338.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=Z_ClcJEz3dnNQeST8wgbJw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Logo of web search engine Google seen behing a computer keyboard. Google invited computer software wizards worldwide to compete for top honors in the Internet search engine's annual Code Jam.(AFP/DDP/File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Google Inc., the search engine whose clean, minimalist home page was a stark contrast to the link-laden Web portals of the late 1990s, made a tiny tweak to its site last week that may have much bigger repercussions.</p><br clear="all"/>
Blogs and the Law: Experts' Tips on Avoiding Trouble
(Editor and Publisher)
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK The race into the blogosphere has reached a feverish pace. Statistics house Technorati estimates that some 75,000 blogs are created every day, nearly one per second, joining the more than 40 million blogs already populating cyberspace. That's twice as many blogs as there were just six months ago. And newspapers of all sizes clearly have no intention of being left behind, as E&P has documented over the past two years. At McClatchy Co.'s News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. ...
UPDATE: Lemann Responds to CJR Daily Editors Quitting As Funds for Web Site Slashed
(Editor and Publisher)
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Steve Lovelady, managing editor of CJRDaily.org, a Web site for The Columbia Journalism Review, quit Thursday after Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Journalism, informed him he was cutting the sites budget nearly in half.
AOL buys social-networking developer
(AP)
AP - AOL has purchased a developer of Web-based chat and other communications technologies as the company seeks to expand the reach of its popular AIM instant-messaging service and its ad-supported offerings like video clips.
Microsoft unveils game making kit for the masses
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060814/tc_afp/afplifestyleitinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060814/capt.sge.emp61.140806195638.photo00.photo.default-392x512.jpg?x=99&y=130&sig=QIIXJnA2c45DGspky_mq7g--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="Microsoft's video game console 'Xbox 360' with an optional front panel. Software giant Microsoft said that it would release a kit to "democratize" the creation of video games for its Xbox 360 consoles.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Software giant Microsoft said that it would release a kit to "democratize" the creation of video games for its Xbox 360 consoles.</p><br clear="all"/>
Mahmoud's musings: Iran president begins to blog
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060814/en_afp/iraninternetahmadinejadoffbeat"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060814/capt.sge.elx47.140806173709.photo00.photo.default-351x512.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=_qe7aCuP98kuM_1o0eF54w--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seen here in July 2006 in Tehran, has started blogging, with the launch of his own Internet diary.(AFP)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has started blogging, with the launch of his own Internet diary.</p><br clear="all"/>
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