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New Security Group Patches Latest IE Flaw
(PC World)
PC World - But Microsoft doesn't recommend users try ZERT's fix for Internet Explorer's VML bug.
Symantec Calls Out Microsoft Over Vista Security Center
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The Cupertino, Calif. security company has a beef with Microsoft over the new operating system's Security Center.
Third-Party Patch Out For IE's VML Bug
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - A group posts an unsanctioned patch for the Internet Explorer VML bug as pressure on Microsoft to fix the flaw appears to be mounting.
Microsoft Releases New Vista Build
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft on Friday released a refresh of Vista Release Candidate 1, just days after Intel launches "Multiply" campaign for its newle released Core 2 Duo processors
Microsoft To Ship All Versions Of Vista On One DVD
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft says it will ship all versions of Windows Vista would be on one DVD to make it easy for customers to upgrade.
New Build of Windows Vista Released
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Microsoft released build 5728 to testers, which includes a number of enhancements and changes, including the ability to turn off start up music and general stability and bug fixing.
Microsoft Asks For Vista UI Critiques
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft is asking testers of Windows Vista to give it feedback on the user interface's "fit & finish" as it pushes toward a final release of the operating system.
Microsoft Hints at New Web Software
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - After Microsoft mentioned the possibility of launching Web-based versions of its software in an interview with Reuters, analysts and journalists have set the Internet abuzz.
Microsoft's Security Efforts Noted
(PC World)
PC World - Software giant has clamped down, although experts say there's still room for improvement.
Microsoft mulls free Web-based business software
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060922/tc_nm/microsoft_works_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060922/2006_09_22t100417_450x275_us_microsoft_works.jpg?x=130&y=79&sig=xywPci.epOIFF8CiNrPSlw--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="An employee works at a Microsoft office in Seoul in this December 7, 2005 file photo. Microsoft said on Thursday it may offer a free, advertising-supported version of its basic word processing and spreadsheet software, in an apparent bid to fend off a nascent challenge from Google Inc. in the business software market. (You Sung-Ho/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on
Thursday it may offer a free, advertising-supported version of
its basic word processing and spreadsheet software, in an
apparent bid to fend off a nascent challenge from Google Inc.
in the business software market.</p><br clear="all"/>
Teacher persists on Oprah '08 Web site
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060924/ap_on_en_tv/people_winfrey"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060923/capt.8a4b7a06d8ae43b28559d0c86cb815fe.people_oprah_ny117.jpg?x=127&y=130&sig=JbO1SXSR4jp3mlc2ydofmw--" align="left" height="130" width="127" alt="Oprah Winfrey arrives for the celebratory screening of her Legends Ball, in this file photo from May 11, 2006 at the newly re-opened J.P. Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Patrick Crowe says he is having a blast promoting talk-show icon Oprah Winfrey for president. Winfrey's lawyers are not. ( AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Patrick Crowe says he is having a blast promoting talk-show icon Oprah Winfrey for president. Winfrey's lawyers are not.</p><br clear="all"/>
States offer Web sites to help students
(AP)
AP - With her first child headed for college this fall and two more soon to follow, Carol Wright was lost. Campus tours, applications, financial aid forms, transcripts, SAT scores, class planning — and that was just the beginning.
Belgium court rejects Google appeal
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060923/ap_on_hi_te/google_news_lawsuit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060923/2006_09_22t113025_450x336_us_media_google_belgium.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=kc.GPiYjGY_e2h4q2irhGA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A 2006 screenshot of the Google home page. Google Inc. has lost a bid to overturn a Belgian court order that requires it to publish an earlier ruling forbidding it from reproducing article snippets on its news amalgamation service. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Google Inc. lost an appeal Friday of a Belgian court's requirement that the Internet search company publish on its home page the ruling in a recent case it lost.</p><br clear="all"/>
Official sues students over MySpace page
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060922/ap_on_re_us/myspace_principal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060906/capt.sge.knm45.060906000333.photo00.photo.default-512x367.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=Ido.3a8inVFF3IyVIXfxkA--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="A woman looks at the MySpace website. MySpace, a website considered the hip place to socialize online, announced it will enable members to sell their music.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)" border="0" /></a>AP - A high school assistant principal is suing two students and their parents, alleging the teens set up a Web page on MySpace.com in her name and posted obscene comments and pictures.</p><br clear="all"/>
MTV Networks to acquire Harmonix
(AP)
AP - Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks said Friday it will buy Harmonix Music Systems Inc., a developer of music-themed video games, for $175 million in cash.
A lucky few get signed copies of U2 book
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060923/ap_en_mu/u2_book_signing"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060923/capt.2239dcdfddb64568973cf98c9a0523a6.ireland_u2_book__xdub102.jpg?x=118&y=130&sig=_la1yS_mutYfNaFsryOLIQ--" align="left" height="130" width="118" alt="Irish Rock band U2, from left, Larry Mullin, Adam Clayton, The Edge and Bono arriving at a bookshop in Dublin, Saturday Sept. 23, 2006, for the signing of their book 'U2 By U2'. (AP Photo/John Cogill)" border="0" /></a>AP - So many people showed up at a signing for U2's new book Saturday that organizers had to restrict access to 250 fans who had won tickets through a lottery on the band's official Web site and via competitions on radio stations across Ireland.</p><br clear="all"/>
Sony investigates notebook fire
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060923/tc_nm/sony_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060923/2006_09_23t014739_405x450_us_sony.jpg?x=116&y=130&sig=PW1AW37gHdo90975anAeFA--" align="left" height="130" width="116" alt="Visitors walk past a signboard that reads 'Sony Corp's Annual Shareholders' Meeting' at a hotel in Tokyo June 22, 2006. Japanese electronics maker Sony said on Saturday it is investigating a fire incident on a Lenovo laptop PC that reportedly used a Sony-made battery. (Issei Kato/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Japanese electronics maker Sony (6758.T)
said on Saturday it is investigating a fire incident on a
Lenovo (0992.HK) laptop PC that reportedly used a Sony-made
battery.</p><br clear="all"/>
Investors On The Go Find Time For Their Little Phone Screens
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Global mobile trading could be texting a message: The future is now.
Lonelygirl15 Creators Rely On Open Source
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Creators behind the Internet video phenomenon Lonelygirl15 say they rely on open source technology and they are using it to explore bold possibilities in storytelling.
SAP Reportedly Had Triple-Digit Growth In BI Market
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The German software maker reports triple-digit growth in business intelligence sales last year.
A lucky few get signed copies of U2 book
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060923/ap_en_mu/u2_book_signing"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060923/capt.2239dcdfddb64568973cf98c9a0523a6.ireland_u2_book__xdub102.jpg?x=118&y=130&sig=_la1yS_mutYfNaFsryOLIQ--" align="left" height="130" width="118" alt="Irish Rock band U2, from left, Larry Mullin, Adam Clayton, The Edge and Bono arriving at a bookshop in Dublin, Saturday Sept. 23, 2006, for the signing of their book 'U2 By U2'. (AP Photo/John Cogill)" border="0" /></a>AP - So many people showed up at a signing for U2's new book Saturday that organizers had to restrict access to 250 fans who had won tickets through a lottery on the band's official Web site and via competitions on radio stations across Ireland.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google publishes Belgian court ruling
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060923/wr_nm/media_google_belgium_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060923/2006_09_22t113025_450x336_us_media_google_belgium.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=kc.GPiYjGY_e2h4q2irhGA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A 2006 screenshot of the Google home page. Google Inc. has lost a bid to overturn a Belgian court order that requires it to publish an earlier ruling forbidding it from reproducing article snippets on its news amalgamation service. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Google Inc. on Saturday published on
its Belgian website a court order which forbids the Internet
search engine to reproduce snippets of Belgian press on its
news amalgamation service.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google posts copyright judgement on Belgian websites
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060923/tc_afp/belgiummediainternetjusticegoogle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060923/capt.sge.qgo96.230906111759.photo00.photo.default-512x425.jpg?x=130&y=107&sig=yjWDO5NqBZRHy4Dk84zDLQ--" align="left" height="107" width="130" alt="The US Internet portal Google has posted on its Belgian websites an earlier copyright ruling by a Belgian court that went against the giant online information provider.(AFP/File/John D McHugh)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The US Internet portal Google complied with a court order and posted on its Belgian websites a copyright ruling that went against the giant online information provider.</p><br clear="all"/>
Belgium court rejects Google appeal
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060923/ap_on_hi_te/google_news_lawsuit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060923/2006_09_22t113025_450x336_us_media_google_belgium.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=kc.GPiYjGY_e2h4q2irhGA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A 2006 screenshot of the Google home page. Google Inc. has lost a bid to overturn a Belgian court order that requires it to publish an earlier ruling forbidding it from reproducing article snippets on its news amalgamation service. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Google Inc. lost an appeal Friday of a Belgian court's requirement that the Internet search company publish on its home page the ruling in a recent case it lost.</p><br clear="all"/>
States offer Web sites to help students
(AP)
AP - With her first child headed for college this fall and two more soon to follow, Carol Wright was lost. Campus tours, applications, financial aid forms, transcripts, SAT scores, class planning — and that was just the beginning.
Wal-Mart says not trying to fight movie downloads
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060922/wr_nm/media_walmart_studios_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060922/2006_09_22t124536_450x281_us_media_walmart_studios.jpg?x=130&y=81&sig=DVPEK2O6SO0sI6pqX4nzvw--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Employees move shopping carts as a Wal Mart Supercenter in La Quinta, California, March 3, 2004. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Friday said it was not trying to dissuade movie studios from working with other forms of distribution, such as Apple Computer Inc.'s download service. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. disputed a
report on Friday saying it was trying to dissuade movie studios
from working with other forms of distribution, such as Apple
Computer Inc.'s iTunes.</p><br clear="all"/>
New Security Group Patches Latest IE Flaw
(PC World)
PC World - But Microsoft doesn't recommend users try ZERT's fix for Internet Explorer's VML bug.
Virtual World Goes On Sale Tuesday
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The online world of Weblo creates a virtual carbon copy of the real life, and, in it, everything is for sale.
First OneWebDay Puts Stake In The Ground
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - People around the globe celebrate the Web with public events and through online participation during the first of what organizers plan to make an annual event.
Update: Rise in VML attacks prompt Code Yellow
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The SANS Internet Storm Center on Friday raised its threat level to yellow after observing an increase in the number of Internet-based attempts to exploit a zero-day vulnerability discovered earlier in the week.
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