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Microsoft unveils Incan version of Windows
(Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft launched a
version of its software in the Incan language of Quechua on
Friday, boosting Bolivian President Evo Morales' quest to
promote Bolivia's native tongues.
Toshiba to build Microsoft challenge to iPod MP3 players
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060826/tc_afp/afplifestyleusjapanit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060826/capt.sge.hnz15.260806003215.photo00.photo.default-354x512.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=okCZQJPluYVveWdITy0K.w--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Microsoft co-founder shadow falls on the company logo during a press conference. Microsoft's challenge to Apple's reigning iPod MP3 players will be built by Toshiba and allow people to "DJ" by wirelessly sharing music, US regulatory agency filings showed.(AFP/File/Arko Datta)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Microsoft's challenge to Apple's reigning iPod MP3 players will be built by Toshiba and allow people to "DJ" by wirelessly sharing music, US regulatory agency filings showed.</p><br clear="all"/>
Toshiba to make Zune media player: Microsoft
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060825/tc_nm/microsoft_toshiba_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060826/2006_08_25t173722_450x320_us_microsoft_toshiba.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=XpZuIudWDyK1FEMa8wcEPg--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Toshiba Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer Atsutoshi Nishida speaks at a news conference in Tokyo May 11, 2006. Microsoft Corp. said on Friday that Toshiba Corp. will manufacture its upcoming 'Zune' portable media player, the software giant's answer to Apple Computer Inc.'s market-leading iPod. (Toshiyuki Aizawa/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Friday
that Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. (6502.T) will
manufacture its upcoming "Zune" portable media player, the
software giant's answer to Apple Computer Inc.'s
market-leading iPod.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft unveils Inca Windows patch
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060825/ap_on_hi_te/bolivia_microsoft"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060825/i/r3066047275.jpg?x=130&y=101&sig=q3WyRXHsRJ32P4t2vJDC.A--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="A Bolivian indigenous woman walks past a poster for the first edition of Microsoft Windows released in Quechua, the language of the Incas and their descendants, in Sucre August 25, 2006. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA)" border="0" /></a>AP - Just click "Qallariy" to begin. The word — pronounced "KAH-lyah-ree" — replaces "Start" on Microsoft Windows' familiar taskbar in a new Quechua translation of the program, which got its Bolivian debut Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Toshiba to create Microsoft music gadget
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060825/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_music"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060826/2006_08_25t173722_450x320_us_microsoft_toshiba.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=XpZuIudWDyK1FEMa8wcEPg--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Toshiba Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer Atsutoshi Nishida speaks at a news conference in Tokyo May 11, 2006. Microsoft Corp. said on Friday that Toshiba Corp. will manufacture its upcoming 'Zune' portable media player, the software giant's answer to Apple Computer Inc.'s market-leading iPod. (Toshiyuki Aizawa/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp.'s answer to Apple's iPod will be built by Toshiba Corp., the software company confirmed Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Clarifies Vista HD Support
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Will it or won't it? According to statements made by a Microsoft official at TechEd 2006 in Sydney, the 32-bit version of the company's upcoming Windows Vista OS will not support protected high-definition content, including HD DVD and Blu-ray movies. Not now, not ever.
Microsoft's IE7 Nears Final Version
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft released the latest test version of its Web browser, Release Candidate 1 (RC1), as it prepares to officially launch Internet Explorer 7 later this year. IE7 is the first major update for the browser in five years. Microsoft has said that improving security was a top priority, and the software giant hopes to quell IE6 critics who have cited a plethora of security flaws in that browser.
Microsoft to Outsource Zune to Toshiba
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Microsoft's iPod competitor will be 30GB, wireless, and manufactured by Toshiba.
Microsoft and Facebook: Looking Beyond the Ad Money
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Today we're running the second in a continuing series of conversations about the Internet's very own Fight Club, Google vs.
Tech Testers Get a New Windows Vista Build
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Build 5536 is out to technical beta testers. The build, designated 'pre-RC1,' shows off some of the new features, design and performance tweaks that Microsoft will release to millions of testers next month.
Violent video games ban in La. blocked
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060826/ap_on_hi_te/louisiana_video_games"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060823/capt.f23ef4e90a1d4acfb53f99abeacf6f7a.games_pirates_nyet325.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=EhH.NjTSUrOtX6vuU7JvAA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="This image from the video game 'Pirates: Legend of the Black Buccaneer' was provided by its publisher, Valcon. In the action game for the PlayStation 2, Francis Blade searches for a legendary treasure on a haunted island. (AP Photo/Valcon)" border="0" /></a>AP - A state law that would ban sales of violent video games to minors violates free speech rights and cannot be enforced, a judge ruled.</p><br clear="all"/>
Man gets 3 years for 'botnet' attack
(AP)
AP - A man was sentenced to three years in prison Friday for launching a computer attack that hit tens of thousands of computers, including some belonging to the Department of Defense, a Seattle hospital and a California school district.
Microsoft unveils Inca Windows patch
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060825/ap_on_hi_te/bolivia_microsoft"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060825/i/r3066047275.jpg?x=130&y=101&sig=q3WyRXHsRJ32P4t2vJDC.A--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="A Bolivian indigenous woman walks past a poster for the first edition of Microsoft Windows released in Quechua, the language of the Incas and their descendants, in Sucre August 25, 2006. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA)" border="0" /></a>AP - Just click "Qallariy" to begin. The word — pronounced "KAH-lyah-ree" — replaces "Start" on Microsoft Windows' familiar taskbar in a new Quechua translation of the program, which got its Bolivian debut Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Toshiba to create Microsoft music gadget
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060825/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_music"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060826/2006_08_25t173722_450x320_us_microsoft_toshiba.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=XpZuIudWDyK1FEMa8wcEPg--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Toshiba Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer Atsutoshi Nishida speaks at a news conference in Tokyo May 11, 2006. Microsoft Corp. said on Friday that Toshiba Corp. will manufacture its upcoming 'Zune' portable media player, the software giant's answer to Apple Computer Inc.'s market-leading iPod. (Toshiyuki Aizawa/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp.'s answer to Apple's iPod will be built by Toshiba Corp., the software company confirmed Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Online merchants see green in Pluto news
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060825/ap_on_hi_te/selling_pluto"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060825/capt.4666a7670e2d471196ea9aa6c48e3f17.selling_pluto_la102.jpg?x=130&y=48&sig=LQUmpoDjroh_gUlGouMFug--" align="left" height="48" width="130" alt="Los Angeles-based Web programmer Chris Spurgeon'S bumper sticker, 'Honk if Pluto is still a planet,' featuring an image of the Planet from the Hubble Space Telescope, that took him 15 minutes to design, is seen on a computer screes at his office in Los Angeles Friday, Aug. 25, 2006. Scores of Web-savvy sellers hoping to support, and cash in on, Pluto's demotion to a 'dwarf planet' bombarded the Internet hawking Pluto memorabilia worthy of a presidential candidate, from T-shirts and mugs to bumper stickers and mouse pads. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)" border="0" /></a>AP - Not long after puny Pluto was stripped of its planethood, Janis Robinson started selling $25 "PLUTO IS A PLANET" T-shirts on the Internet.</p><br clear="all"/>
BellSouth to eliminate DSL service fee
(AP)
AP - Under pressure from the Federal Communications Commission, BellSouth Corp. said Friday that it will stop collecting a $2.97 per month regulatory fee from its high-speed Internet customers.
Toshiba to build Microsoft challenge to iPod MP3 players
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060826/tc_afp/afplifestyleusjapanit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060826/capt.sge.hnz15.260806003215.photo00.photo.default-354x512.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=okCZQJPluYVveWdITy0K.w--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Microsoft co-founder shadow falls on the company logo during a press conference. Microsoft's challenge to Apple's reigning iPod MP3 players will be built by Toshiba and allow people to "DJ" by wirelessly sharing music, US regulatory agency filings showed.(AFP/File/Arko Datta)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Microsoft's challenge to Apple's reigning iPod MP3 players will be built by Toshiba and allow people to "DJ" by wirelessly sharing music, US regulatory agency filings showed.</p><br clear="all"/>
Watch out - cell phones taking over as timepieces
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060825/tc_nm/life_watches_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060825/2006_08_24t153249_450x300_us_life_watches.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=ClXtYEcheoLouaj__RXLHQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="The screen of a Samsung T509 handset. The proliferation of cell phones, with their list of extra features, has had the knock-on effect of eliminating the need to wear a wristwatch unless it is to make a fashion statement. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Ask graphic designer Parker Weintz the
time and he doesn't look to his wrist, he pulls a cell phone
out of his pocket -- and he's not alone.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft backs Firefox on MSDN Wiki
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - In a concession to the open source software paradigm, Microsoft has added support for the Mozilla Firefox browser to its MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) Wiki, company officials are reporting this week.
Microsoft unveils Incan version of Windows
(Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft launched a
version of its software in the Incan language of Quechua on
Friday, boosting Bolivian President Evo Morales' quest to
promote Bolivia's native tongues.
BellSouth to eliminate DSL service fee
(AP)
AP - Under pressure from the Federal Communications Commission, BellSouth Corp. said Friday that it will stop collecting a $2.97 per month regulatory fee from its high-speed Internet customers.
CNN.com to replay 9/11 attacks coverage
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060825/ap_on_hi_te/attacks_cnn"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060823/capt.3d8c15f4422d429a8b25de1864ffdaf3.flight_93__paks101.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=5kXotJVr4xQWmJDimmrgmw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="A visitor to the temporary memorial near the crash site of United Flight 93 looks over one of the tributes in Shanksville, Pa. as the fifth anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 approaches on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)" border="0" /></a>AP - CNN will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by replaying on the Internet the cable network's coverage of that day's events.</p><br clear="all"/>
Social Atlas Sites Let You Map Your Life
(PC World)
PC World - New sites let you share memories, info with friends, family, or the entire internet.
BellSouth drops Internet fee after FCC threat
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060825/wr_nm/telecoms_fcc_dsl_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060825/2006_08_25t122354_450x330_us_telecoms_fcc_dsl.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=3MVwrvI1yout_e3xGZhmWw--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="The headquarters of BellSouth in Atlanta, March 6, 2006. Verizon and BellSouth will be asked by U.S. regulators to explain a new fee on high-speed Internet (Tami Chappell/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - BellSouth Corp., the No. 3 U.S.
local telephone company, on Friday said it will immediately
drop a $2.97 monthly fee for high-speed Internet service after
U.S. communications regulators threatened to investigate the
charge.</p><br clear="all"/>
New rock stars use Web videos to win fans
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060825/wr_nm/column_pluggedin_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060826/2006_08_25t183308_450x317_us_column_pluggedin.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=oVt031kpSD8UWUd.g_qlPw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Chicago alternative rock band OK Go perform a treadmill dance in this undated publicity photograph. The bank has become more popular on video-sharing website YouTube than they have ever been on MTV thanks to their treadmill dance video that has been viewed several million times by Internet users and featured on news programs around the world. NO SALES NO ARCHIVES (Capitol Records/EMI/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Chicago alternative rock band OK Go
has become more popular on the video-sharing Web site YouTube
than it ever was on MTV. The band's treadmill video has been
viewed millions of times on the Internet and featured on news
programs around the world.</p><br clear="all"/>
In Brief: Product Pipeline
(PC World)
PC World - AOL's software and services are now available to broadband users without charge. AOL's new freebies include firewall, antivirus and antispyware software; 5GB of online storage; and parental control tools. Subscribers to the basic $15-a-month AOL plan can switch to a free account (and keep their e-mail address) by going to keyword 'change plan'--no phone call required. However, those who convert their accounts will forfeit live AOL customer support and 10 hours of dial-up Internet access.Finance '07
Online merchants see green in Pluto news
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060825/ap_on_hi_te/selling_pluto"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060825/capt.4666a7670e2d471196ea9aa6c48e3f17.selling_pluto_la102.jpg?x=130&y=48&sig=LQUmpoDjroh_gUlGouMFug--" align="left" height="48" width="130" alt="Los Angeles-based Web programmer Chris Spurgeon'S bumper sticker, 'Honk if Pluto is still a planet,' featuring an image of the Planet from the Hubble Space Telescope, that took him 15 minutes to design, is seen on a computer screes at his office in Los Angeles Friday, Aug. 25, 2006. Scores of Web-savvy sellers hoping to support, and cash in on, Pluto's demotion to a 'dwarf planet' bombarded the Internet hawking Pluto memorabilia worthy of a presidential candidate, from T-shirts and mugs to bumper stickers and mouse pads. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)" border="0" /></a>AP - Not long after puny Pluto was stripped of its planethood, Janis Robinson started selling $25 "PLUTO IS A PLANET" T-shirts on the Internet.</p><br clear="all"/>
Man sentenced over computer attacks
(AP)
AP - A 19-year-old Michigan man who ran an Internet business selling retro sports jerseys was sentenced Friday to 30 months in federal prison for recruiting a New Jersey teen to carry out computer attacks against competitors.
BellSouth drops fee for high-speed Internet
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060825/wr_nm/telecoms_bellsouth_fee_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060826/2006_08_25t174535_450x330_us_telecoms_bellsouth_fee.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=YPQDCbuJDQmwj5mJWY4wyA--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="The corporate headquarters for BellSouth is pictured in Atlanta, Georgia on March 6, 2006. BellSouth on Friday said it will immediately drop a $2.97 monthly fee for high-speed Internet service after U.S. communications regulators threatened to investigate the charge. (Tami Chappell/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - BellSouth Corp., the No. 3 U.S.
local telephone company, on Friday said it will immediately
drop a $2.97 monthly fee for its high-speed Internet service
after U.S. communications regulators threatened to question the
charge.</p><br clear="all"/>
Web Site Owner Sent to Prison for Piracy
(PC World)
PC World - Florida man sentenced to 6 years and ordered to pay $4.1 million in restitution.
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