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Microsoft Dismisses PowerPoint Zero-Day Warning
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Microsoft is pouring cold water on a warning from anti-virus vendor Trend Micro that a new PowerPoint zero-day attack is under way.
Microsoft sees no further delay to release of Windows Vista
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060821/tc_afp/taiwanchinamicrosoft"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060821/capt.sge.gea67.210806122555.photo00.photo.default-512x416.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=lz4YPAZqw1AmRsKWIr7f8w--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="Microsoft founder Bill Gates gestures during a press conference about Windows Vista in Tokyo, April 2006. Microsoft has dismissed reports that its much-heralded new Windows Vista platform for small businesses and consumers would be further delayed.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Microsoft has dismissed reports that its much-heralded new Windows Vista platform for small businesses and consumers would be further delayed.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft switches stock buyback tactic
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060818/ap_on_bi_ge/microsoft_buyback"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060818/capt.c6333e836b364d8f9d76686a2c8f9238.microsoft_buyback_nybz103.jpg?x=95&y=130&sig=oE1BWxzVJu5AUGEPmoXPNQ--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates gives a speech at Microsoft's Redmond, Wash. campus in a June 15, 2006 file photo. Microsoft Corp. said Friday it increased its ongoing share buyback plan by about $16.2 billion, almost doubling its repurchase authorization to $36.2 billion through June 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp. said Friday it was switching tactics in its $40 billion stock buyback program after only $3.8 billion worth of shares were tendered in a "Dutch auction" that expired Thursday, well below the $20 billion it had been prepared to spend.</p><br clear="all"/>
Stocks end higher with Microsoft
(Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. stocks ended higher on Friday,
boosted by news of the progress in Microsoft Corp.'s
multibillion-dollar stock-buyback program and after a federal
judge's favorable ruling lifted Altria Group Inc.'s
shares.
Microsoft looks to accommodate dynamic languages
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The growing popularity of dynamic languages, such as Perl, Python, and Ruby -- which are popular for building Web applications -- has caused companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems to stand up and take a look.
Microsoft boosts share buyback program by 16 billion dollars
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060818/bs_afp/uscompanyitmicrosoft"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060818/capt.sge.fqa77.180806180700.photo00.photo.default-512x323.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=pioAEPVb9OzLSGWHfkn4oA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="the logo for Microsoft at their office in Herndon, Virginia. Software giant Microsoft said it was boosting its huge share buyback program by a hefty 16.2 billion dollars.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Software giant Microsoft said it was boosting its huge share buyback program by a hefty 16.2 billion dollars.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft shifts most of buyback later
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060818/bs_nm/microsoft_auction_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060821/capt.xmq10208211202.india_airtel_microsoft_xmq102.jpg?x=117&y=130&sig=drz2y9h6GTzXbLpkks0Hrw--" align="left" height="130" width="117" alt="Chairman of Microsoft India, Ravi Venkatesan, left, shakes hands with President of Bharti Airtel Ltd., Manoj Kohli at a press conference to announce a strategic tie-up between Airtel and Microsoft, in New Delhi, India, Monday, Aug. 21, 2006. Airtel and Microsoft today launched Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 platform that provides an opportunity to all Airtel customers to access corporate email via direct push technology. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it
expects to complete less than one-quarter of a $20 billion
share buyback this week, shifting the rest of the buyback to
later dates -- a move that traders said was boosting its stock
price.</p><br clear="all"/>
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle May Be Set To Pounce
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - The traditional leaders in business intelligence software face a double whammy of lowered prices and heightened competition from software's Big Four -- Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and SAP.
EMI to preload music videos on Microsoft's Zune
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060817/tc_nm/media_emi_microsoft_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060817/i/r1779238323.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=7RVSAQuH0dwHnx3O3lKOZQ--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Ron Wood (L), Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (R) of EMI-signed Rolling Stones perform on stage during a concert at Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna July 14, 2006. EMI Group, the world's third-largest music company, said on Thursday it has signed a deal to provide preloaded music videos for Microsoft's soon-to-launch Zune player. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger" border="0" /></a>Reuters - EMI Group Plc, the world's
third-largest music company, said on Thursday it had signed a
deal to provide preloaded music videos on Microsoft Corp.'s
soon-to-launch Zune digital media player.</p><br clear="all"/>
EMI signs with Microsoft for music videos on Zune player
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060817/tc_nm/media_emigroup_microsoft_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060817/i/r3513063701.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=u6WmSe8lCi41mAU.FoOM8Q--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Ron Wood (L), Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (R) of EMI-signed Rolling Stones perform on stage during a concert at Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna July 14, 2006. EMI Group, the world's third-largest music company, said on Thursday it has signed a deal to provide preloaded music videos for Microsoft's soon-to-launch Zune player. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger" border="0" /></a>Reuters - EMI Group, the world's third-largest
music company said on Thursday it has signed a deal to provide
preloaded music videos for Microsoft's soon-to-launch Zune
player.</p><br clear="all"/>
New Nano rival offers twice the storage
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060821/tc_nm/sandisk_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060821/i/r2155840498.jpg?x=130&y=76&sig=8Vzji7XDUYz7lY4xsOOPmQ--" align="left" height="76" width="130" alt="Sandisk MP3 players are seen in this undated handout photo. Sandisk Corp. is expected to announce product enhancements and price cuts on Monday aimed at attracting interest in its digital music player, which competes with Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod, the Wall Street Journal said in a report that quoted Sandisk's CEO. REUTERS/ Handout/Sandisk" border="0" /></a>Reuters - SanDisk Corp. on Monday
introduced a new digital music player that stores twice as many
songs as the popular iPod Nano for nearly the same price and
cut the cost of existing models ahead of the holiday shopping
season.</p><br clear="all"/>
US says carmakers must tell buyers about recorders
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060821/tc_nm/autos_recorders_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060822/i/r4024279222.jpg?x=130&y=80&sig=Uqp6XlpZcVRLI0zOFZUJoQ--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Traffic is seen on Interstate 75 in Fort Myers, Florida October 21, 2005. The U.S. government will not require recorders in autos but said on Monday that car makers must tell consumers when technology that tracks speed, braking and other measurements is in the new vehicles they buy. REUTERS/Joe Skipper" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The U.S. government will not require
recorders in autos but said on Monday that car makers must tell
consumers when technology that tracks speed, braking and other
measurements is in the new vehicles they buy.</p><br clear="all"/>
Instant Replay set to consign line disputes into history
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060821/tc_nm/tennis_open_technology_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060821/i/r773120685.jpg?x=99&y=130&sig=PbDWvi60HgNnEUk68mVK.w--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="A worker cleans a court line during the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros in Paris May 31, 2006. Twenty-five years after John McEnroe told an umpire 'You cannot be serious', a technology making its grand-slam debut next week aims to make line disputes a thing of the past. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Twenty-five years after John McEnroe
told an umpire "You cannot be serious," a technology making its
grand-slam debut next week aims to make line disputes a thing
of the past.</p><br clear="all"/>
Warner Bros. launches direct-to-DVD division
(Reuters)
Reuters - Warner Bros. film studio on Monday
unveiled a new division to make and distribute movies directly
to DVD consumers - a first for the company - and it put a
veteran marketing executive in charge of the group.
AOL chief technology officer resigns: sources
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060821/tc_nm/media_aol_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060821/i/r536560864.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=.nLd2YtTWKoUa87JiHEJew--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A screenshot of AOL's Safety and Security Center. AOL's chief technology officer Maureen Govern, who oversaw the division responsible for accidentally releasing search data for more than a half a millions users, has resigned from the company, according to an internal company memorandum. REUTERS/AOL/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - AOL chief technology officer Maureen
Govern, who oversaw the division responsible for accidentally
releasing search data for more than a half a millions Internet
users, has resigned from the company, according to an internal
company memorandum.</p><br clear="all"/>
'Snakes' slithers to No. 1 in box-office
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060822/ap_en_bu/box_office"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060821/capt.9877656ce4c348b58d8718f4833bf610.box_office_nyol792.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=QSPqRvQBWyl5W9G1ddPG8A--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Samuel L. Jackson poses for photographers at the premiere of 'Snakes on a Plane' in Los Angeles on Thursday night. 'Snakes' had little box-office bite in its debut weekend. Although it was the No. 1 movie, it pulled in only $15.25 million despite grabbing a great deal of attention. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>AP - "Snakes on a Plane" was the weekend's top-grossing film, but its $15.2 million box-office bite was a disappointment for a film that has been buzzed about on the Internet for months.</p><br clear="all"/>
China mobile phone users top 431 million
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060822/ap_on_hi_te/china_mobile_phones"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060818/capt.xkk10108180253.japan_markets_xkk101.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=lSUn0okxLsnt9jqCPZ98xA--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Pedestrian uses a mobile phone as he passes by an electric stock prices board in Tokyo Friday morning, Aug. 18, 2006. Japanese stocks edged higher early Friday following a third straight day of gains on Wall Street. The Nikkei 225 index rose 68.93 points, or 0.43 percent, to 16,089.77 at the end of morning trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)" border="0" /></a>AP - The number of mobile phone users in China, already the world's biggest telecoms market, has grown to more than 431 million, a government news agency reported Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
French rocker Hallyday premieres on Orange mobile phones
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060821/en_afp/francemusictelecom"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060821/capt.sge.ghi59.210806190440.photo00.photo.default-426x512.jpg?x=108&y=130&sig=.iUmDX4rW75zfdQHWQFuTw--" align="left" height="130" width="108" alt="The latest single from French rocker Johnny Hallyday, one of the France's most famous singers seen here in June 2006, has been released exclusively on Orange mobile phones.(AFP/File/Pierre Andrieu)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The latest single from French rocker Johnny Hallyday, one of the France's most famous singers, has been released exclusively on Orange mobile phones, Orange and Warner Music France said.</p><br clear="all"/>
IBM Opens the Open-Source Floodgates
(The Motley Fool)
The Motley Fool - Last week at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, IBM (NYSE: IBM - News) officials announced a "fundamental expansion" of what the company is doing around open source -- software whose code is "open" to alterations from users.
Merge Technologies co-CEO Pedlar leaves
(Reuters)
Reuters - Medical software company Merge
Technologies Inc. , the target of a U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission probe, said on Monday that
its interim co-President and co-Chief Executive Brian Pedlar
left the company as of August 18, sending shares off by 10
percent.
'Snakes' slithers to No. 1 in box-office
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060822/ap_en_bu/box_office"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060821/capt.9877656ce4c348b58d8718f4833bf610.box_office_nyol792.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=QSPqRvQBWyl5W9G1ddPG8A--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Samuel L. Jackson poses for photographers at the premiere of 'Snakes on a Plane' in Los Angeles on Thursday night. 'Snakes' had little box-office bite in its debut weekend. Although it was the No. 1 movie, it pulled in only $15.25 million despite grabbing a great deal of attention. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>AP - "Snakes on a Plane" was the weekend's top-grossing film, but its $15.2 million box-office bite was a disappointment for a film that has been buzzed about on the Internet for months.</p><br clear="all"/>
Campaign targets Web crimes against kids
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060821/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/gonzales_child_crime"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060821/capt.b468bac164fc4eb9a835413be13aae2b.gonzales_child_abuse_dn101.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=y82Zuqc662vmoFN4M81ePw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales speaks at a news conference in Dallas, Monday, Aug. 21, 2006. Gonzales delivered the opening remarks at the 18th Annual Crimes Against Children Conference in Dallas. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)" border="0" /></a>AP - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced a new public service campaign Monday that will warn teenage girls against posting information on the Internet that could put them at risk of attack by child predators.</p><br clear="all"/>
AOL technology chief, two others, fired over privacy lapse
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060821/tc_afp/usitcompanyaol"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060821/capt.sge.gia60.210806224220.photo00.photo.default-245x165.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=EXHb0TU.szHPtzoJ7KrqPQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="AOL's chief technology officer and two other employees have been fired after the company revealed private search terms of more than 650,000 of its users on a public website, a source said.(AOL)" border="0" /></a>AFP - AOL's chief technology officer and two other employees have been fired after the company revealed private search terms of more than 650,000 of its users on a public website, a source said.</p><br clear="all"/>
Buffett to auction his Lincoln Town Car on eBay
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060821/wr_nm/financial_buffett_towncar_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060822/i/r1854969018.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=7CsJa3mGwGwFZdYZJFb0UQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Warren Buffett talks to reporters on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York March 20, 2006. Buffett will auction his 2001 Lincoln Town Car on eBay Inc.'s Web site to benefit a nonprofit group that offers educational and recreational programs for girls. REUTERS/Seth Wenig" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Warren Buffett will auction his 2001
Lincoln Town Car on eBay Inc.'s Web site to benefit a nonprofit
group that offers educational and recreational programs for
girls.</p><br clear="all"/>
Verizon imposes new service surcharge
(AP)
AP - Verizon Communications Inc. is imposing a new surcharge on high-speed Internet service just as customers were set to receive lower bills thanks to a decision last year to deregulate the service.
3 leave AOL in search-data fallout
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060821/ap_on_hi_te/aol_search_privacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060821/capt.sge.gia60.210806224220.photo00.photo.default-245x165.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=EXHb0TU.szHPtzoJ7KrqPQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="AOL's chief technology officer and two other employees have been fired after the company revealed private search terms of more than 650,000 of its users on a public website, a source said.(AOL)" border="0" /></a>AP - AOL's chief technology officer left the company and two other workers were fired in the aftermath of a privacy breach that involved the intentional release of more than 650,000 subscribers' Internet search terms.</p><br clear="all"/>
Finding Car Buyers At Their Home(sites)
(AdWeek.com)
AdWeek.com - Auto advertisers looking to get more mileage out of their online ads may want to pick up a copy of J.D. Power & Associates' "Online Media Study--Wave 1," a survey that offers insights into buyers of specific brands and where on the Web they may be found.
Staged War Photos? Even 'Iwo Jima' Shot Faced Charges
(Editor and Publisher)
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK The phenomenon of questioning war photos that seem too good to be true goes back long before the birth of blogs and the current controversy over pictures from Lebanon. It has even swirled around one of the most famous and honored war photos ever: the flag-raising at Iwo Jima during World War II captured by The Associated Press's Joe Rosenthal, who died yesterday.
AOL chief technology officer resigns: sources
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060821/media_nm/media_aol_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060821/i/r1096778179.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=6eJW9jWAcUdogp1Vy17NJA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A screenshot of AOL's Safety and Security Center. AOL's chief technology officer Maureen Govern, who oversaw the division responsible for accidentally releasing search data for more than a half a millions users, has resigned from the company, according to an internal company memorandum. REUTERS/AOL/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - AOL chief technology officer Maureen
Govern, who oversaw the division responsible for accidentally
releasing search data for more than a half a millions Internet
users, has resigned from the company, according to an internal
company memorandum.</p><br clear="all"/>
Japanese airlines regret Boeing snapping Internet connection
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060821/tc_afp/japanusaviationitinternetcompanyboeing"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060821/capt.sge.gdl28.210806105843.photo00.photo.default-512x349.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=_dVjjuX4OLI3bFLS1GDgwg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Guests use the Internet while onboard an aircraft using technology by Connexion by Boeing, at the Beijing Capital Airport in September 2005. Japan's two major airlines have expressed regret after US giant Boeing pulled the plug on in-flight Internet service, which had been a hit mostly with Asian carriers.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Japan's two major airlines have expressed regret after US giant Boeing pulled the plug on in-flight Internet service, which had been a hit mostly with Asian carriers.</p><br clear="all"/>
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