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Microsoft Embeds Windows Live Links in New Vista Builds
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Microsoft is poised to release a new pre-RC1 test build of Windows Vista any day now to a select group of testers. The latest builds include links to Windows Live Messenger, Toolbar, OneCare and Desktop Mail.
Microsoft Nabs Anti-Virus Ace from Symantec
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Veteran virus-hunter Vincent 'Vinny' Gullotto joins Microsoft to head its Security Research and Response team.
Microsoft Goes Live with New Blog Software
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - For the blogging aficionado who spends hours tweaking his or her blog using a browser-based text editor, publishing may have just gotten easier with Microsoft's new publishing tool.
Named Live Writer, the new WYSIWYG editor is still in beta, but so far its been well received by initial users.
Live Writer is designed to look much like Microsoft Word, so a simple highlight and a click on the desired text is all that is required to make changes. ...
Microsoft OneCare Snaps Up Second Place In Security Sales
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - All it took was a month for Microsoft's OneCare security suite to grab a big chunk of the consumer retail market.
Microsoft Delays 11 Patches To Push 1
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The move was a first for Microsoft, as was its admission that it prioritizes patches provided by its update mechanisms.
Windows on Mac OS X: Virtualization Turf War Heats Up
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - News Analysis: As Microsoft announces its retreat from the Mac virtualization arena, the fight contines with a lean startup in one corner and a heavyweight brand in the other. But questions remain on why Microsoft threw in the towel for Virtual PC for Mac.
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.
Balancing robot may care for elderly
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060817/ap_on_hi_te/techbits_balancing_robot"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060816/capt.5b7e1ff896c24da1962c4e5c792da9c3.robot_on_ball_px102.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=gODH52V24HGZJlOy1rH4AA--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="In this undated photo released by Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Project Research Professor Ralph Hollis, left, and Robotics Project Scientist George Kantor are shown with Ballbot, an agile five-foot robot balanced delicately on what resembles a bowling ball, at the university in Pittsburgh. Hollis is modest about his invention, but some experts say robots like Ballbot could one day help provide care and companionship to the nation's rapidly aging population. (AP Photo/Carnegie Mellon University)" border="0" /></a>AP - Ballbot, a narrow, 5-foot-tall robot, balances delicately on what looks like a bowling ball. Swaying slightly on a laboratory floor, the aluminum-framed droid seems ready to fall at any moment.</p><br clear="all"/>
Dell recall a boon for Sony rivals
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060816/ap_on_hi_te/japan_battery_recall"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060815/capt.306a7cecc06d496daf33d5734e4cb06b.dell_battery_recall_gfx662.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=4cbTHpyC7bsV95ECrI7DJA--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Graphic shows how to determine if a laptop battery may be affected by the recall. (AP Graphic)" border="0" /></a>AP - Dell Inc.'s recall of 4.1 million laptop computer batteries came as embarrassing news to Sony, which supplied the problem batteries, but proved to be good news for rival Japanese electronics companies Sanyo and Matsushita, pushing the struggling company's shares higher Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
S.Korea wants people in 'smart' clothes
(AP)
AP - Technology-savvy South Korea isn't happy making only MP3 players and the memory chips that go inside many of the more popular models. It also wants people wearing South Korean "smart" clothes with built-in digital music players.
Smaller colleges bypassing TV for Web
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060816/ap_on_hi_te/fbc_college_football_online"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060816/capt.7f1e5abbf26a4ea980f7f0a551dcb62b.college_football_online_nxj103.jpg?x=130&y=109&sig=3zjzJL9zvAk.MWddKAQ_sg--" align="left" height="109" width="130" alt="Many colleges and universities that whose sporting events are not televised have hit upon another solution; they make their games available for viewing on the Internet. Members of the Big Sky Conference are using this technology as seen in this photo Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Bob Child)" border="0" /></a>AP - When Yale football coach Jack Siedlecki goes on a national recruiting trip, he hears the same questions over and over from parents.</p><br clear="all"/>
AOL acquires GameDaily video game site
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060816/ap_on_hi_te/aol_gamedaily"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060816/i/r4122410037.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=91uYNNyJRzYyZQjvkpDISg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="A screenshot of GameDaily.com, taken on August 16, 2006. Time Warner Inc.'s Internet unit AOL on Wednesday said it had purchased GameDaily, a video game news and review Web site, part of an effort to expand a portfolio of online information and entertainment. REUTERS/www.gamedaily.com" border="0" /></a>AP - The video games site GameDaily is now part of AOL. Time Warner Inc.'s Internet unit said Wednesday it bought the consumer Web site and its industry newsletter earlier this month from Gigex Inc. AOL said it plans to turn GameDaily into its flagship brand for video games.</p><br clear="all"/>
Web auction fraud leads surge in Japan cyber crime
(Reuters)
Reuters - The number of cyber crimes leapt by
nearly 12 percent in Japan in the first half of this year from
the same period of 2005, with fraud connected to Internet
auctions leading the way, police said on Thursday.
Digital Gear: Back Up, Digitally
(PC World)
PC World - Backing up--your PC or your car--can be hard to do. This month's gadgets can help.
Satellite TV giants retire from U.S. wireless sale
(Reuters)
Reuters - A joint venture of rival satellite
television providers DirecTV Group Inc. and EchoStar
Communications Corp. bowed out on Wednesday of a
multi-billion-dollar auction of U.S. licenses for advanced
wireless services.
ActiveGrid to move tools to Eclipse
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - San Francisco - ActiveGrid, which calls itself the "Enterprise Web 2.0 company," is moving its tooling over to the Eclipse open source environment and will join the Eclipse Foundation as well.
China seizes millions of illegal CDs, DVDs in 100-day crackdown
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060817/bs_afp/chinacopyrightcrime"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060817/capt.sge.fcz30.170806062517.photo00.photo.default-512x378.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=XPSvCaPJ8KPGxc8.ApPOBg--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="A Beijing street vendor of copy DVDs. China has confiscated more than eight million illegal CDs and DVDs as part of a 100-day crackdown on pirated movies and computer software(AFP/File/Frederic J.Brown)" border="0" /></a>AFP - China has confiscated more than eight million illegal CDs and DVDs as part of a 100-day crackdown on pirated movies and computer software.</p><br clear="all"/>
Web auction fraud leads surge in Japan cyber crime
(Reuters)
Reuters - The number of cyber crimes leapt by
nearly 12 percent in Japan in the first half of this year from
the same period of 2005, with fraud connected to Internet
auctions leading the way, police said on Thursday.
AOL wants to dig for gold _ literally
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060817/ap_on_hi_te/spammer_s_gold"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060816/capt.ba7c21380ceb473dae3f0dd41293079c.spammers_gold_masr105.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=X3R3YfVTre.iXiTXlkahvg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="The home of Peggy and Hyman Greenbaum, parents of Davis Hawke, appears surrounded by shrubs, in Medfield, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006. AOL won a $12.8 million judgment against Hawke in 2005, accusing him of violating anti-spam laws. AOL said Tuesday it intends to search for gold and platinum bars the company believes are hidden near the home of Hawke's parents on two acres in Medfield. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)" border="0" /></a>AP - Dig this: AOL believes a renegade Internet spammer buried gold and platinum on his family's property in Massachusetts and wants to bring in bulldozers to search for the treasure and satisfy a $12.8 million judgment it won in federal court.</p><br clear="all"/>
AOL Acquires GameDaily Web Site, Newsletter
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - AOL has agreed to buy an online video game publication that the portal plans to turn into its flagship video games brand.
Group files FTC complaint against AOL
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060816/ap_on_hi_te/aol_search_privacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060808/capt.sge.csy88.080806135345.photo00.photo.default-341x512.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=7_Qp1Wz_VS69S3ADGAzJ4g--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="An employee walks into AOL headquarters in Dulles Virginia in 2004. AOL has apologized for posting 20 million keyword searches by more than 650,000 of its users on a research website violating company rules on privacy.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)" border="0" /></a>AP - The backlash against AOL's recent release of its subscribers' search requests continued Wednesday as a privacy rights group filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging the breach was intentional.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google launches free wireless Internet service in hometown
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060816/tc_afp/afplifestyleinternetit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060816/capt.sge.fbt35.160806221430.photo00.photo.default-512x338.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=WEmsApZ7Zmb0_TO6SbJsxw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Logo of web search engine Google seen behing a computer keyboard. Google opened a wireless Internet umbrella over its hometown in northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, enabling anyone in the city to connect online for free.(AFP/DDP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Google opened a wireless Internet umbrella over its hometown in northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, enabling anyone in the city to connect online for free.</p><br clear="all"/>
China to crack down on online video
(AP)
AP - China will regulate video on the Internet following a surge in satirical items in which real film clips are remade into mocking send-ups.
AOL acquires GameDaily video game site
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060816/ap_on_hi_te/aol_gamedaily"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060816/i/r4122410037.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=91uYNNyJRzYyZQjvkpDISg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="A screenshot of GameDaily.com, taken on August 16, 2006. Time Warner Inc.'s Internet unit AOL on Wednesday said it had purchased GameDaily, a video game news and review Web site, part of an effort to expand a portfolio of online information and entertainment. REUTERS/www.gamedaily.com" border="0" /></a>AP - The video games site GameDaily is now part of AOL. Time Warner Inc.'s Internet unit said Wednesday it bought the consumer Web site and its industry newsletter earlier this month from Gigex Inc. AOL said it plans to turn GameDaily into its flagship brand for video games.</p><br clear="all"/>
Smaller colleges bypassing TV for Web
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060816/ap_en_bu/fbc_college_football_online"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060816/capt.7f1e5abbf26a4ea980f7f0a551dcb62b.college_football_online_nxj103.jpg?x=130&y=109&sig=3zjzJL9zvAk.MWddKAQ_sg--" align="left" height="109" width="130" alt="Many colleges and universities that whose sporting events are not televised have hit upon another solution; they make their games available for viewing on the Internet. Members of the Big Sky Conference are using this technology as seen in this photo Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Bob Child)" border="0" /></a>AP - When Yale football coach Jack Siedlecki goes on a national recruiting trip, he hears the same questions over and over from parents.</p><br clear="all"/>
YouTube talking to record labels on music videos
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060816/wr_nm/youtube_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060816/i/r2999873961.jpg?x=130&y=120&sig=ZJfBVa.ibocGE00.YU.ACQ--" align="left" height="120" width="130" alt="A screen grab of YouTube's web site. YouTube Inc. is in talks with record labels to post thousands of music videos online, aiming to move beyond being a site for sharing home videos to a provider of mainstream entertainment like Yahoo and others. REUTERS/www.youtube.com" border="0" /></a>Reuters - YouTube Inc. is in talks with record
labels to post thousands of music videos online, aiming to move
beyond being a site for sharing home videos to a provider of
mainstream entertainment like Yahoo and others.</p><br clear="all"/>
CBS floats TV episodes on Innertube
(Reuters)
Reuters - CBS will have a
significant presence on the Web in the fall, posting its most
popular primetime programming on its broadband channel
Innertube free to view immediately after their network debuts.
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