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Microsoft releases near-final Vista test
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060901/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_vista"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060831/capt.del10108310853.india_microsoft_mtv_del101.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=iUxuQGfgxoVa9lBUIdcAjg--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division India Country manager Mohit Anand, right, MTV Networks Asia Executive Vice President Amit Jain, center, and MTV Video-Jockey Nikhil Chinnappa pose at a press briefing in New Delhi, India, Aug. 31, 2006. Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division announced a strategic tie up with MTV Networks India by which the latter will develop programming content for Microsoft's game and entertainment system XBox 360. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp. has released a near-final version of its new Windows Vista operating system to a select group of technical experts who are testing the software.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Downplays Malware Warnings
(PC World)
PC World - Despite Window Server vulnerability recently reported, company says there's no cause for alarm.
First Windows Vista Release Candidate Available
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft enters the home stretch for completion of its next-generation OS.
Microsoft Hits Vista RC1
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - On Sept. 1, Microsoft began making available for download to the first of an estimated 6 million testers the last public build of its next-generation Windows client. Now it's a race to the finish line.
Microsoft Releases Second Beta of WMP 11
(PC World)
PC World - Media player offers access to more online stores and lets users share content across various devices.
Microsoft Updates Virtual Server 2005
(PC World)
PC World - Beta 2 adds support for AMD's virtualization technology, plus integration with Active Directory.
Microsoft awards executives millions
(AP)
AP - Several high-ranking Microsoft Corp. executives Thursday received millions of dollars in stock awards as part of a compensation program that the company rejiggered several years ago.
Microsoft gives 37 million shares in stock bonuses
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060831/bs_nm/microsoft_compensation_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060901/2006_08_31t184353_450x337_us_microsoft_compensation.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=DTCqQmwhyifce9qSykBR7Q--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer speaks at the Seoul Digital Forum 2006 in Seoul May 25, 2006. No. 1 software maker Microsoft Corp. on Thursday awarded restricted stock worth $951 million, based on its current share price, as performance bonuses to some 900 executives and managers. (You Sung-Ho/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - No. 1 software maker Microsoft Corp.
on Thursday awarded restricted stock worth $951
million, based on its current share price, as performance
bonuses to some 900 executives and managers.</p><br clear="all"/>
Extension on Microsoft Antitrust Settlement?
(PC World)
PC World - Latest chapter of antitrust case has U.S. government and software giant requesting an extension on 2002 settlement.
Two-Year Extension Of Microsoft Antitrust Deal Sought
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft and the Department of Justice have jointly asked a federal court to extend by at least two years the rules the software maker must follow under a 2002 antitrust judgment.
Voice recognition goes wireless
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060901/tc_nm/column_pluggedin_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060902/2006_09_01t190354_361x450_us_column_pluggedin.jpg?x=104&y=130&sig=WMCaaZ2X8WOg7PU0norzCw--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="A BlackBerry 8700g. With a new service launched by network provider Sprint Nextel Corp. on Friday, users can press a button and say the recipient's name and dictate a message of up to 20 words into a Blackberry's receiver. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Zee Tawasha is an unabashed Blackberry
addict, constantly sending urgent e-mails to employees at 30
mobile phone stores he owns across California, Arizona and
Nevada.</p><br clear="all"/>
MySpace to sell music from nearly 3 million bands
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060902/tc_nm/media_myspace_songs_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060902/2006_09_01t214846_424x450_us_media_myspace_songs.jpg?x=122&y=130&sig=_ubUvAwvXG.nEGspqPEnDw--" align="left" height="130" width="122" alt="A screenshot of MySpace's music page, taken on September 1, 2006. MySpace, the wildly popular online teen hangout, said on Friday it will make its first move into the digital music business by selling songs from nearly 3 million unsigned bands. (www.myspace.com/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - MySpace, the wildly popular online
teen hangout, said on Friday it will make its first move into
the digital music business by selling songs from nearly 3
million unsigned bands.</p><br clear="all"/>
Carmakers asked to hurry up on plug-in hybrids
(Reuters)
Reuters - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is
asking its 5.1 million customers to petition automakers to
speed up development of plug-in electric-gasoline hybrid
vehicles, California's largest utility said on Friday.
Samsung to launch music download service
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060901/tc_nm/samsung_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060901/2006_09_01t154524_450x296_us_samsung.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=V.rWoqkVfL1NPbifnRicgg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Samsung Electronics' mobile phones and MP3 players are displayed at the company's headquarters in Seoul January 13, 2006. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on Friday said it plans to introduce a line of digital music players and a download service, under an agreement with privately held media provider MusicNet. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
(005930.KS) on Friday said it plans to introduce a line of
digital music players and a download service, under an
agreement with privately held media provider MusicNet.</p><br clear="all"/>
Mobile companies develop new, faster 4G technology
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060901/tc_nm/telecoms4g_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060901/2006_09_01t101614_450x253_us_telecoms_4g.jpg?x=130&y=73&sig=MPevxmKpfCSukIOApbxfrQ--" align="left" height="73" width="130" alt="Phones and hadsets are displayed at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 14, 2006. Global mobile operators and device makers are betting that the next level of transmission technology will ramp up mobile phone usage in a way that third-generation technology has so far failed to do. (Albert Gea/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Global mobile operators and
device makers are betting that the next level of transmission
technology will ramp up mobile phone usage in a way that
third-generation technology has so far failed to do.</p><br clear="all"/>
Samsung to launch online music service
(AP)
AP - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to introduce its own online music service to compete against Apple Computer Inc.'s market-leading iTunes-iPod franchise and Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming Zune music products.
Test Report: Mobile Core 2 Duo Okay, Not Great
(PC World)
PC World - Laptops based on the new chips deliver only slightly better performance than portables based on Intel's first dual-core mobile CPUs.
Airwaves auction passes $13.75B total
(AP)
AP - T-Mobile USA, a subsidiary of German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG, remained the only bidder to exceed $4 billion in the federal airwaves auction that added about $250 million Friday for a total of more than $13.75 billion.
Mozilla Updates Firefox 2.0 Beta
(PC World)
PC World - Second beta version of the upcoming browser features an improved interface, phishing protection.
Microsoft releases near-final Vista test
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060901/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_vista"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060831/capt.del10108310853.india_microsoft_mtv_del101.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=iUxuQGfgxoVa9lBUIdcAjg--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division India Country manager Mohit Anand, right, MTV Networks Asia Executive Vice President Amit Jain, center, and MTV Video-Jockey Nikhil Chinnappa pose at a press briefing in New Delhi, India, Aug. 31, 2006. Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division announced a strategic tie up with MTV Networks India by which the latter will develop programming content for Microsoft's game and entertainment system XBox 360. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp. has released a near-final version of its new Windows Vista operating system to a select group of technical experts who are testing the software.</p><br clear="all"/>
MySpace to sell music from nearly 3 million bands
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060902/wr_nm/media_myspace_songs_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060902/2006_09_01t214846_424x450_us_media_myspace_songs.jpg?x=122&y=130&sig=_ubUvAwvXG.nEGspqPEnDw--" align="left" height="130" width="122" alt="A screenshot of MySpace's music page, taken on September 1, 2006. MySpace, the wildly popular online teen hangout, said on Friday it will make its first move into the digital music business by selling songs from nearly 3 million unsigned bands. (www.myspace.com/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - MySpace, the wildly popular online
teen hangout, said on Friday it will make its first move into
the digital music business by selling songs from nearly 3
million unsigned bands.</p><br clear="all"/>
Samsung to launch online music service
(AP)
AP - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to introduce its own online music service to compete against Apple Computer Inc.'s market-leading iTunes-iPod franchise and Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming Zune music products.
Internet pranksters leave British government red-faced
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060901/tc_afp/britainpolitics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060901/capt.sge.jnj03.010906204421.photo00.photo.default-370x512.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=vKgmHNNEm1AaB_IOcPg0Qw--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Weblogging, techno-savvy Environment Secretary David Miliband, seen here in May 2006, may have thought he was keeping up with modern trends when he put a draft policy on the Internet, but was soon left red-faced when hundreds of pranksters defaced it.(AFP/File/John Thys)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A British government minister may have thought he was keeping up with modern trends when he put a draft policy on the Internet, but was soon left red-faced when hundreds of pranksters defaced it.</p><br clear="all"/>
Livedoor trial reflects changes in Japan
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060901/ap_on_hi_te/japan_internet_trial"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060901/capt.tok10309010704.japan_internet_trial_tok103.jpg?x=130&y=98&sig=LlY227rgrniMv7oSv95Zmg--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Takafumi Horie, Livedoor Co. chief executive, smiles during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo in this Sept. 6, 2005 file photo. When the trial of Japan's most famous dot-com entrepreneur opens Monday, Sept. 4, 2006, a much wider issue will also be before the court: this nation's troubled shift to a more freewheeling market economy. Horie, 33, founder and former president of the Internet startup, faces charges of securities laws violations in falsifying earnings data to inflate stock prices. He has repeatedly said he is innocent. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - When the trial of Japan's most famous dot-com entrepreneur opens Monday, a much wider issue will also be before the court: this nation's tenuous shift to a more freewheeling market economy.</p><br clear="all"/>
Nokia Upgrades N80 Web Phone
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Taking the concept of mobile Internet beyond e-mail and sports scores, Nokia yesterday announced the N80 Internet Edition, an upgraded version of its Web-enabled cell phone. In addition to a fully-featured browser, 3-megapixel camera, music player and hard drive, the device even allows users to place wireless Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone calls.
Google Adds Classics to Book Search
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - As part of the new Google Book Search, users can now download full text versions of public domain titles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet and Dante's Inferno, where previously only sections or select chapters were available.
Internet fuels Tapes 'N Tapes rise
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060901/ap_en_mu/music_tapes__n_tapes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060901/capt.4da0ede51d7a41309a55b06e11f69e46.music_tapes_n__tapes_nyet436.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=1Um837NP0P4xG50F5P32ZA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Tapes 'n Tapes band members from left Jeremy Hanson, Josh Grier, Matt Kretzmann and Erik Appelwick pose outside Matt and Erik's Minneapolis home, Friday, Aug. 11, 2006. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)" border="0" /></a>AP - Like so many indie rock bands before them, Tapes 'N Tapes started out small self-releasing their debut album and running the entire business operation out of a south Minneapolis bedroom.</p><br clear="all"/>
The phone, the thief, his wife and a Chihuahua?
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060901/wr_nm/life_thief_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060901/2006_09_01t142519_450x332_us_life_thief.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=syi1d8QeqpbXGWRnqTuZ5Q--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="A cell phone is seen in an undated file photo. If you took the photo of a Chihuahua at www.flickr.com/photos/benvoluto/216323527/, you have caused a Web sensation. The mobile phone used to take that picture was stolen from Web designer Ben Clemens on an Amtrak commuter train in California in mid-August, he says. (Will Burgess/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - If you took the photo of a Chihuahua at
www.flickr.com/photos/benvoluto/216323527/, you have caused a
Web sensation.</p><br clear="all"/>
Pixsy to launch photo, video search engine
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060901/tc_nm/media_pixsy_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060901/2006_09_01t100502_444x450_us_media_pixsy.jpg?x=128&y=130&sig=zwIyGwN2EEgG6Gh0hNSbDw--" align="left" height="130" width="128" alt="A screen grab of Pixsy's Star Habit web site. Gossip and entertainment news junkies have a new way to get their fix. Pixsy Corp. is set to launch Friday http://www.StarHabit.com, a photo and video search engine that gives priority to the freshest celebrity content on the Internet. (www.starhabit.com/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Gossip and entertainment
news junkies have a new way to get their fix. Pixsy Corp. is
set to launch Friday http://www.StarHabit.com, a photo and
video search engine that gives priority to the freshest
celebrity content on the Internet.</p><br clear="all"/>
Brazil judge orders Google to disclose users' data
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060901/wr_nm/brazil_google_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060901/2006_09_01t114912_450x289_us_brazil_google.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=Mnjo6XRDW8r_iTVL_kh.eQ--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="The logo of Google Inc. is seen outside their headquarters building in Mountain View, California August 18, 2004. A Brazilian judge has ordered the local office of Web search company Google to disclose the data of users of Google's social networking site Orkut accused of crimes like racism or child pornography. (Clay McLachlan/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A Brazilian judge has ordered
the local office of Web search company Google to disclose the
data of users of Google's social networking site Orkut accused
of crimes like racism or child pornography.</p><br clear="all"/>
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