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Fix Created for Critical IE Browser Bug
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - A group of software engineers who specialize in cracking code has delivered a patch for the new "zero day" flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, beating Redmond to the punch in addressing the critical vulnerability.
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.
RingCube software squeezes PC onto iPod
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060926/ap_on_hi_te/demo_pc_on_a_stick"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/net/20060926/capt.70a3aeca888b0e35907926312ba2f9c8.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=f5NA9OEnpcbKjyIIfTcHHw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="**FILE PHOTO** A man checks out an iPod at the Apple Store in Palo Alto, Calif., on Feb. 23, 2005. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)" border="0" /></a>AP - Mobile computing just got more portable. Making even the latest pocketbook-sized ultra-mobile personal computers look more like lumbering giants, RingCube Technologies Inc. unveiled software that can virtually squeeze a PC onto an iPod, USB keychain drive, cell phone or any gizmo with digital storage space.</p><br clear="all"/>
3 AOL subscribers sue over data release
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060925/ap_on_hi_te/aol_search_privacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060925/capt.5e20918b0ac8421aa31b9e721ffab260.exclusiveresorts03_jpg_exclusiveresorts03_jpg.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=29Jh8YhlFJIA2neyi_0EDQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="New York, NY - September 25 2006, Tennis legend Andre Agassi is partnering with AOL co-founder Steve Case's Exclusive Resorts to co-develop luxury real estate. Starting with a project in Costa Rica set to be completed in 2007, Agassi and wife Steffi Graf will build luxury tennis and fitness facilities at select Exclusive Resort destinations worldwide. Exclusive Resorts is the largest destination club with 300 residences in 35 destinations and nearly 2,400 members. [Exclusive Resorts/AP Photo/Zack Seckler]" border="0" /></a>AP - Three AOL subscribers who suddenly found records of their Internet searches widely distributed online are suing the company under privacy laws and are seeking an end to its retention of search-related data.</p><br clear="all"/>
Computer virus writers plan slow spread
(AP)
AP - In the past, virus writers seeking fame and attention wrote their malicious programs to spread as quickly and broadly as possible, boasting to colleagues when they manage to cripple hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide in a matter of hours.
SEC awards new data system contracts
(AP)
AP - The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday announced it has awarded four contracts worth a total $54 million for its program meant to make the information that companies are required to disclose in SEC filings easier for the public to find and understand.
RealNetworks to offer desktop news feed
(AP)
AP - RealNetworks Inc. on Monday launched the test version of a service that aims to provide personalized news and other information to users' computers, marking the latest effort by a technology company to establish a desktop presence.
First space blogger reveals difficulties of space hygiene
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060926/en_afp/usiranrussiaspaceiss"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060926/capt.sge.qxu39.260906023524.photo00.photo.default-407x512.jpg?x=103&y=130&sig=mPu3_xfrmMwmnU1i62m9CA--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="The world's first female space tourist and first space blogger, American national Anousheh Ansari, pictured August 2006, told the world of the difficulties of keeping tidy in zero gravity.(AFP/File/Maxim Marmur)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The world's first female space tourist and first space blogger, American national Anousheh Ansari, told the world of the difficulties of keeping tidy in zero gravity.</p><br clear="all"/>
Pantech to sell 30 million handsets to UTStarcom unit
(Reuters)
Reuters - South Korean mobile phone maker
Pantech&Curitel Communications Inc. (063350.KS) said on Tuesday
it has signed a deal to sell 30 million handsets to a unit of
U.S. wireless equipment maker UTStarcom Inc.
Softbank planning to raise funds from Vodafone assets
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060926/bs_afp/japanittelecomcompanyfinancesoftbankvodafone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060926/capt.sge.qyb81.260906044324.photo00.photo.default-347x512.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=1MIJ4RNX59tcfcmL0ys92Q--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="An advert for Vodafone's Japanese sibsidiary in Tokyo. Japanese Internet firm Softbank has said that it plans a major issue of new bonds backed by Vodafone KK assets to cover a short-term loan it took out to buy the cellphone operator.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Japanese Internet firm Softbank has said that it plans a major issue of new bonds backed by Vodafone KK assets to cover a short-term loan it took out to buy the cellphone operator.</p><br clear="all"/>
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.
IBM bundles products, targets smaller businesses
(Reuters)
Reuters - International Business Machines Corp. on
Tuesday unveiled the first in a new line of product bundles
encompassing hardware, software and technical assistance as it
looks to increase its sales to small and medium-sized
companies.
First space blogger reveals difficulties of space hygiene
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060926/en_afp/usiranrussiaspaceiss"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20060926/capt.sge.qxu39.260906023524.photo00.photo.default-407x512.jpg?x=103&y=130&sig=mPu3_xfrmMwmnU1i62m9CA--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="The world's first female space tourist and first space blogger, American national Anousheh Ansari, pictured August 2006, told the world of the difficulties of keeping tidy in zero gravity.(AFP/File/Maxim Marmur)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The world's first female space tourist and first space blogger, American national Anousheh Ansari, told the world of the difficulties of keeping tidy in zero gravity.</p><br clear="all"/>
Web ad revenue up in 2006, study finds
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060925/wr_nm/media_advertising_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060925/2006_09_25t114913_450x329_us_media_advertising.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=2DzdE9428gv5vG7mn7M46g--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Attendees use wireless computers at a trade show in Atlanta, Georgia March 24, 2004. U.S. Internet advertising revenue rose 37 percent in the first six months of the year, hitting a record of nearly $8 billion, according to a study released on Monday. (Tami Chappell/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. Internet advertising revenue is
rising at a fast clip to record levels, but a report released
on Monday shows growth will slow this year amid concerns
advertisers may be spending less on new media.</p><br clear="all"/>
3 AOL subscribers sue over data release
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060925/ap_on_hi_te/aol_search_privacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060925/capt.5e20918b0ac8421aa31b9e721ffab260.exclusiveresorts03_jpg_exclusiveresorts03_jpg.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=29Jh8YhlFJIA2neyi_0EDQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="New York, NY - September 25 2006, Tennis legend Andre Agassi is partnering with AOL co-founder Steve Case's Exclusive Resorts to co-develop luxury real estate. Starting with a project in Costa Rica set to be completed in 2007, Agassi and wife Steffi Graf will build luxury tennis and fitness facilities at select Exclusive Resort destinations worldwide. Exclusive Resorts is the largest destination club with 300 residences in 35 destinations and nearly 2,400 members. [Exclusive Resorts/AP Photo/Zack Seckler]" border="0" /></a>AP - Three AOL subscribers who suddenly found records of their Internet searches widely distributed online are suing the company under privacy laws and are seeking an end to its retention of search-related data.</p><br clear="all"/>
Start-up aims to take video games to the next level
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060925/wr_nm/media_videogames_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060926/2006_09_25t195617_450x327_us_media_videogames.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=p.BkXUc6g814JYdJachzfA--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="A statue of the character Illidan from the Blizzard Entertainment game 'World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade' is displayed at the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles May 11, 2006. Trion World Network Inc. wants to deliver online games in episodes that change in real time, described as a cross between 'World of Warcraft', MySpace.com and reality TV shows like 'Survivor'. (Sam Mircovich/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Silicon Valley upstart Trion World
Network Inc. wants to take the nearly $30 billion video game
industry to the next level by combining the best of high-speed
Internet with traditional gaming and media.</p><br clear="all"/>
IBM alphaWorks milestone features weather forecast demo
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - To celebrate the 10th anniversary of its alphaWorks Web site for experimental technologies, IBM on Monday will begin hosting projects including a precision weather-forecasting application and two offerings for developers.
'SB News-Press' Investigates Blog Item -- But Was It Real?
(Editor and Publisher)
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Two days before newsroom employees at the embattled Santa Barbara News-Press are set to vote on whether to formally unionize, the newspaper claims to have been threatened by an anonymous blog posting that it describes as "a thinly veiled solicitation for criminal acts."
Poynter Is Journalism's 'Special Ethics Unit'
(Editor and Publisher)
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK It was just a few days before The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., was set to publish what would be its most controversial story ever, and one of the most talked-about newspaper investigations of 2005: the explosive revelation that Spokane Mayor Jim West was a closet homosexual, and had been meeting young gay men via an online chat room for at least a year. Adding to the controversy was how the paper had uncovered this information -- it had hired a computer expert to pose online as a gay man and lure the mayor into a trap.
Yahoo to close U.S. offices for holidays
(AP)
AP - Yahoo Inc. plans to close its U.S. offices during the final week of the year, a cost-cutting measure that will require most of the Internet icon's 10,500 workers to use their vacation time if they want to be paid for the time off.
Online ad revenues in U.S. set record
(AP)
AP - Internet advertising revenues in the United States grew 37 percent in the first half of this year, reaching a new high of $7.9 billion.
Fix Created for Critical IE Browser Bug
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - A group of software engineers who specialize in cracking code has delivered a patch for the new "zero day" flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, beating Redmond to the punch in addressing the critical vulnerability.
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