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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/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>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 Ships Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The latest version of Media Player streams content to Xbox 360, sends content to wired and wireless media receivers and integrates with MTV's Urge online music store.
Microsoft Awards $951 Million In Bonuses
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft has given out 37 million shares to 900 executives; business group leader takes home 22.5 million from the company's first stock giveaway since 2003.
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"/>
9/11 spawned tech-security market
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060904/ap_on_hi_te/sept11_homeland_tech"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060904/capt.13ab72aa783745259be8dd954a5f3471.sept_11_homeland_tech_xjqb201.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=Y.FIAaiUhYn9RsZrvWyRsg--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Aiden Doyle smiles as he scans the photographer's camera bag and finds a suspicious object identified by the program as a possible threat for security during a visit at the Optosecurity facilities Tuesday Aug. 22, 2006 in Quebec City. The shape of a gun had accidentally appeared when two pieces of camera gear were sitting side by side. Optosecurity is using an optical recognition technology into something that would let airport X-ray machines automatically detect weapons and their components. Behind is a poster of the finished product that will be attached to the X-Ray unit. (AP Photo/CP, Jacques Boissinot)" border="0" /></a>AP - During the Cold War, Canada's National Optics Institute developed a system to detect which type of enemy tank or fighter jet was approaching. After the Soviet Union's demise, such threats were deemed less likely, and the technology sat on the shelf.</p><br clear="all"/>
Web site steers diners to healthy eats
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060904/ap_on_hi_te/diet_restaurants_online"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060903/capt.e1e1225eb33d46bebec8516b0b9ea101.diet_restaurants_online_ab601.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=5CuMdjv5NR9aoukIvzL_MA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Tricia Bliss, 35, talks with an unidentified friend at a coffee shop in Albany, N.Y., on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006. Bliss, always logs online to check nutritional information before going to lunch with co-workers. If they don't have anything she can eat, she'll persuade her friends to go elsewhere. Diners like Bliss are just the type of customers the Healthy Dining Finder is intended to reach. (AP Photo/Candice Choi)" border="0" /></a>AP - Restaurants, under fire from health advocates for too-big servings and not enough detail on nutrition, are fighting back.</p><br clear="all"/>
Device captures physics of rodeo bulls
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060904/ap_on_hi_te/rodeo_tech"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060901/capt.4560f99aa6c640c6a5cafc62449fabd3.rodeo_tech_nyet438.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=A.HLP1KY.I8IEO1hp8WM6g--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="In this 2004 photo released by Winnercomm, one of Winnercomm's six Skycam units is pictured on the football sidelines at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. Skycam has become the technology brand for a host of innovations in sports broadcasting from Winnercomm, the largest independent provider of sports programming for ESPN. (AP Photo/Winnercomm)" border="0" /></a>AP - It's a familiar scene at any rodeo: A bull bucks and spins, eventually flinging a cowboy into the air and onto the dirt. On television replays, it takes on a whole new dimension: Viewers see an animated bar chart that details the acceleration and deceleration of the animal. It ultimately stops on a number that represents the power of a particular bull.</p><br clear="all"/>
Chinese iPod supplier withdraws lawsuit
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060904/ap_on_hi_te/china_apple_computer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060901/capt.sha10109010645.china_apple_computer_sha101.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=q8F0EMiUzlsEVs4QT1uv6A--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="A woman walks past an advertisement of Apple Computer's iPod Friday, Sept. 1, 2006 in Shanghai, China. An Apple Computer iPod supplier embroiled in a dispute over its labor policies has been told to let its more than 200,000 workers set up a trade union, reports said Friday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Chinese supplier of Apple Computer's iPod has withdrawn a defamation lawsuit it filed against two Chinese journalists over claims of labor mistreatment.</p><br clear="all"/>
New robot can identify wines, cheeses
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060903/ap_on_hi_te/japan_the_winebot"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060902/capt.e767a877c3e14cfc8fa60eb47bd9a0a5.japan_the_winebot_nybz203.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=cW9wltp82QIFkJWT0zkDMA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A 'Winebot,' or a robot that can taste, fires off a beam of infrared light from its left arm to a bottle of Shiraz, and tell the kind of wine during a demonstration at a laboratory in Tsu, central Japan, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006. Some of the light is absorbed and the light that returns is then analyzed in real time to determine the object's chemical content. Researchers at NEC System Technologies and Mie University have designed the robot, a mechanical sommelier, that is able to identify dozens of different kinds of wine, cheeses and hors d'oeuvres. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)" border="0" /></a>AP - The ability to discern good wine from bad, name the specific brand from a tiny sip and recommend a complementary cheese would seem to be about as human a skill as there is. In Japan, robots are doing it.</p><br clear="all"/>
Japan ex-Internet icon Horie pleads not guilty
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060904/tc_nm/crime_japan_horie_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060904/2006_09_03t232844_283x450_us_crime_japan_horie.jpg?x=81&y=130&sig=Wn2mOUepYionBaDT4tf4YA--" align="left" height="130" width="81" alt="Former Livedoor Co. CEO Takafumi Horie walks into the Tokyo District Court to plead not guilty to charges of breaking securities laws September 4, 2006. (Kyodo/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Takafumi Horie, the former CEO of
Internet firm Livedoor Co. who came to symbolize a freewheeling
capitalism at odds with Japan's cozy corporate norms, pleaded
not guilty on Monday to charges of breaking securities law.</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/20060904/wr_nm/media_myspace_songs_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060904/2006_09_01t214846_424x450_us_media_myspace_songs.jpg?x=122&y=130&sig=_yGAnUEv8FqyhK6HBUKFqg--" 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"/>
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/20060904/tc_nm/telecoms4g_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060904/2006_09_01t101614_450x253_us_telecoms_4g.jpg?x=130&y=73&sig=Uwk.Rg4tgN0hZUieNSNmgA--" align="left" height="73" width="130" alt="Phones and headsets at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, 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"/>
Mozilla Updates Firefox 2.0 Beta
(PC World)
PC World - Second beta version of the upcoming browser features an improved interface, phishing protection.
Borland positions modeling tool for SOA, Eclipse
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Borland Software this week is rolling out an upgrade to its Together enterprise modeling tool for the Eclipse platform, featuring SOA capabilities.
Japan ex-Internet icon Horie pleads not guilty
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060904/tc_nm/crime_japan_horie_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060904/2006_09_03t232844_283x450_us_crime_japan_horie.jpg?x=81&y=130&sig=Wn2mOUepYionBaDT4tf4YA--" align="left" height="130" width="81" alt="Former Livedoor Co. CEO Takafumi Horie walks into the Tokyo District Court to plead not guilty to charges of breaking securities laws September 4, 2006. (Kyodo/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Takafumi Horie, the former CEO of
Internet firm Livedoor Co. who came to symbolize a freewheeling
capitalism at odds with Japan's cozy corporate norms, pleaded
not guilty on Monday to charges of breaking securities law.</p><br clear="all"/>
Japan's disgraced Internet kingpin pleads innocent
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060904/tc_afp/japanitcompanyfraudcourtlivedoor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060904/capt.sge.jxr70.040906044156.photo00.photo.default-367x512.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=YC.Kr85d2v_1GlhQNFgq3g--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Disgraced Japanese Internet mogul Takafumi Horie, seen here, founder of the scandal-tainted Livedoor firm, has plead not guilty to charges of financial fraud at the start of his trial(AFP/Jiji Press/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Disgraced Internet mogul Takafumi Horie has plead not guilty over a scandal at the once high-flying Livedoor firm that highlighted Japan's struggle to adapt to a more aggressive US-style capitalism.</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/20060904/wr_nm/media_myspace_songs_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060904/2006_09_01t214846_424x450_us_media_myspace_songs.jpg?x=122&y=130&sig=_yGAnUEv8FqyhK6HBUKFqg--" 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"/>
Former Japanese Internet star pleads not
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060904/ap_on_hi_te/japan_internet_trial"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060904/capt.tok80209040122.japan_internet_trial_tok802.jpg?x=87&y=130&sig=lgq2v1evW4.rX3JdzltWQQ--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="Takafumi Horie, founder and former president of Internet startup Livedoor Co,. arrives at the Tokyo District Court in Tokyo Monday, Sept. 4, 2006. The trial for Horie opened Monday in a case that underlines a modernizing Japan's efforts to grapple with the rise of ventures and define the legal boundaries for aggressive stock trading. Horie faces charges of securities laws violations in falsifying earnings data to inflate stock prices. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)" border="0" /></a>AP - Former Internet idol Takafumi Horie pleaded not guilty Monday in a case that underlines a modernizing Japan's efforts to grapple with the rise of ventures and define the legal boundaries for aggressive stock trading.</p><br clear="all"/>
Web site steers diners to healthy eats
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060904/ap_on_hi_te/diet_restaurants_online"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060903/capt.e1e1225eb33d46bebec8516b0b9ea101.diet_restaurants_online_ab601.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=5CuMdjv5NR9aoukIvzL_MA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Tricia Bliss, 35, talks with an unidentified friend at a coffee shop in Albany, N.Y., on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006. Bliss, always logs online to check nutritional information before going to lunch with co-workers. If they don't have anything she can eat, she'll persuade her friends to go elsewhere. Diners like Bliss are just the type of customers the Healthy Dining Finder is intended to reach. (AP Photo/Candice Choi)" border="0" /></a>AP - Restaurants, under fire from health advocates for too-big servings and not enough detail on nutrition, are fighting back.</p><br clear="all"/>
Accused Hill guitar thieves sentenced
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060903/ap_en_mu/people_hill"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060902/capt.a413ec3c9c92436dada50aadf848660f.people_hill_ny113.jpg?x=90&y=130&sig=rjua9a00faTUPguOWrjTTg--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="Faith Hill arrives at the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Monday, Jan. 16, 2006, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)" border="0" /></a>AP - Two men accused of stealing guitars once used by Faith Hill and Nickelback have been sentenced to probation. Jeffrey H. Lanahan, 44, was accused of stealing at least a dozen instruments from his employer, Paul Reed Smith Guitars. He gave them to Michael J. Kelly, 42, accused of passing them along to another man who sold them on eBay.</p><br clear="all"/>
Baidu.com considers China listing
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060903/wr_nm/china_baidu_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060903/2006_09_02t231608_450x300_us_china_baidu.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=PoMnJlw5_sPgIivwDJJanw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Chinese construction workers are shown resting near an advertisement for China's largest Internet search provider, Baidu.com in Shanghai in this June 27, 2006 file photo. Baidu.com is considering a domestic listing, a step toward advancing its long-term aim to acquire search engine-related companies, a senior executive said on Saturday. (Nir Elias/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - China's Internet search leader
Baidu.com Inc. is considering a domestic listing, a step toward
advancing its long-term aim to acquire search engine-related
companies, a senior executive said on Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Like, OMG! MySpace Plans to Sell Music!
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - 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.
Call centre worker in India held over fraud
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060902/tc_afp/indiausoutsourcingtechnologycrime"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060902/capt.sge.jqx54.020906163025.photo00.photo.default-512x324.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=C65w1yFc5zcbAAUJGjuGIw--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Bangalore commuters pass a poster recruiting for call-centre jobs in November 2004. A call centre employee has been arrested in eastern India for allegedly using the credit cards details of US customers to make online purchases.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A call centre employee has been arrested in eastern India for allegedly using the credit cards details of US customers to make online purchases.</p><br clear="all"/>
MySpace to enable members to sell music
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060902/ap_en_mu/myspace_online_music"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060902/i/r413854275.jpg?x=122&y=130&sig=2uHTV_nXGECpRMfuSSWKPg--" 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. REUTERS/www.myspace.com" border="0" /></a>AP - MySpace.com will soon enable members of the popular online social networking hub to sell downloads of their original music directly through MySpace Web pages, company executives said.</p><br clear="all"/>
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