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AOL, Microsoft court indie-rock crowd
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061104/wr_nm/aol_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061104/2006_11_03t223856_450x294_us_aol.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=BP.89fOeatqJuzz0Ft4W.g--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Visitors examine Microsoft Corp's new 'Windows Vista' operating system on laptops at a booth during the World PC Expo in Tokyo October 20, 2006. AOL and Microsoft are wooing indie-rock fans to help solidify their digital music strategies. Corporations seeking indie cred are nothing new. But both bids come at critical times for the technology giants. (Kiyoshi Ota/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - AOL and Microsoft are wooing
indie-rock fans to help solidify their digital music
strategies.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Replacing MSN Music With Zune Store
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Consumers attempting to buy from MSN Music will instead be directed to the Zune store or Real Rhapsody service after Zune goes live Nov. 14.
Windows, Windows And... Linux?
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT - News) deal Thursday with Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL - News) is not a sign that Microsoft has fundamentally changed its opinion of free, open-source software. But the deal is an admission by Microsoft that Linux, the best-known open-source software, is here for the long haul.
Microsoft Unlikely To Sue Over Linux Patents Despite Bluster: Experts
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - "What software company on the planet is going to sue someone who might buy their software?" says one analyst.
Microsoft Eschews Auto Push For Japanese IE7
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft launched the Japanese edition of Internet Explorer 7 on Thursday, but said it will delay pushing the new browser to users via Automatic Updates until next year because businesses have asked for more time to configure their Web sites and applications.
OpenOffice Blesses Microsoft-Novell Pact
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The Linux-Windows cooperation deal between Microsoft and Novell is being welcomed by the group behind the free OpenOffice.org applications suite.
Microsoft Keeps The Patent Hammer Handy In Novell Linux Pact
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft and Novell will work more closely with each other under the new deal.
Judge: Microsoft's Gates must testify
(AP)
AP - A district court judge in Iowa has ordered Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer to testify in person at a trial in Iowa later this month.
Microsoft Amends Windows Vista License Amid Complaints
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In response to a raft of complaints, Microsoft has changed Vista's End User License Agreement, barely a week after releasing it.
Vista: How Soon Until Deployment?
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The average Joe will have to wait until 2007 to get a copy of Windows Vista, but companies will have it as early as November 30, along with new versions of Office and Exchange, according to Microsoft. That's less than a month away, yet it could take years for companies to start -- much less finish -- deployments.
Gamers give PlayStation 3 rave reviews
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061106/ap_on_hi_te/playstation3_mania"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061104/capt.0726bf5271a94d689ef70e0bb9f1fabe.playstation_3_mania_himg106.jpg?x=130&y=119&sig=i.jW2M9FsPnAE7EBDhzFFg--" align="left" height="119" width="130" alt="Joseph Lee, a Marine based at Kaneohe Marine Base, Hawaii, plays a video game on Sony's new, yet unreleased, Playstation 3 at the Sony Expo held at the Ala Moana Hotel, Friday, Nov. 3, 2006, in Honolulu. Thousands of lucky gamers tested the PS3 over the weekend at the 2007 Sony Expo in Honolulu, two weeks before the debut. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)" border="0" /></a>AP - Crammed in the corner of a hotel's banquet hall, they stood and stared silently, mesmerized by what they were seeing. They were watching a soldier gunning down a giant monster on one TV and Miami Heat's Dwayne Wade taking over an NBA game on the other screen. What they were really experiencing was the new Sony PlayStation 3.</p><br clear="all"/>
Electronics holiday sales may be ho-hum
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061105/ap_on_hi_te/electronics_blitz"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061101/capt.75ef851a281946fd8cfdbd1178f8de5a.electronic_arts_downloadable_games_caps102.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=jvbg_tlcIfkhKJnRgAmWLw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Display of Electronic Arts Inc. game Sims for PCs at Micro Center computer store in Santa Clara, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2006. EA takes the wraps off this week of a major overhaul to its download service for PC games, signaling the world's largest video game publisher's commitment to digital distribution, a growing trend in the industry. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - A fierce battle is brewing for consumer-electronics dollars this holiday season as two new video game consoles join the widening mix of TVs, cameras, portable music players, computers and cell phones.</p><br clear="all"/>
Companies track gridlock via cell phones
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061105/ap_on_hi_te/tracking_traffic"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061105/capt.713bf6e2b0da47c48bd7a877e29e1e70.tracking_traffic_gagb602.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=zwT5qj_SgYXNKACeMzNciA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Ron Herman, chief executive of IntelliOne, points to a section on his computer screen in his suburban Atlanta office Friday, Sept. 15, 2006, of an Atlanta street where traffic is moving at a very slow pace from Herman uses cell phones to track the speed and movement of traffic in various areas. Those using his service would know what areas to avoid because of heavy traffic or use different routes. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe)" border="0" /></a>AP - Tracking traffic can be an expensive business. In some places, costly cameras and radar systems are mounted high above highways to watch traffic at strategic points. Transportation agencies also dig up roads to install sensors that monitor the flow. And helicopters roam the skies of the busiest cities, relaying information on the choked roadways to media outlets.</p><br clear="all"/>
Eco groups use online maps in mine fight
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061105/ap_on_re_us/google_mountaintop_mining"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061104/capt.11f67850837748d78e3d76e341e60363.google_mountaintop_mining_kysj601.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=O6UGeLevlqGfJ2ewhPx8Kg--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Benny Campbell, foreground, holds up a photo of damages caused by mountaintop mining, while McKinley Sumner, background, explains the problems the process has caused in their community near Vicco, Ky., Oct. 30, 2006. An Internet campaign, dubbed 'I Love Mountains,' is using Google Earth to illustrate the extent of the mountaintop removal in Appalachian communities. (AP Photo/Samira Jafari)" border="0" /></a>AP - Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets his porch and car if a few days go by without rain. His electricity goes out repeatedly when the coal miners accidentally knock down power lines.</p><br clear="all"/>
GOP rep. faults White House on Iraq site
(AP)
AP - House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra criticized the Bush administration on Sunday for its handling of a trove of once-secret documents from Saddam Hussein's covert nuclear program disclosed on a federal Web site.
MySpace to launch in Japan with Softbank
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061106/wr_nm/telecoms_japan_myspace_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061106/2006_11_05t193942_450x300_us_telecoms_japan_myspace.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=vklI1t1b81abl4Iotw_xOw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Writer Josh Kilmer-Purcell sits in his office with his myspace.com site in New York, June 14, 2006. MySpace.com online service will be launched in Japan in a joint venture with Japanese Internet and telecoms group Softbank Corp., the Nihon Keizai business daily reported on Monday. (Keith Bedford/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - News Corp.'s MySpace.com online service
will be launched in Japan in a joint venture with Japanese
Internet and telecoms group Softbank Corp., the Nihon Keizai
business daily reported on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Make or break for Sony as PlayStation 3 finally launches
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061105/tc_afp/afpentertainmentjapan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20061105/capt.sge.isl05.051106233331.photo00.photo.default-512x417.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=LteBp5DuTgApaALqw26a2w--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="A man taking pictures of the new video game console "Playstation 3" by Sony at the Tokyo Games Show in Makuhari, suburban Tokyo, in 2005. It has taken six years, hundreds of Japan's best brains and untold millions to develop, but the much hyped and delayed PlayStation 3 finally launches this week with Sony's future riding on it.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)" border="0" /></a>AFP - It has taken six years, hundreds of Japan's best brains and untold millions to develop, but the much hyped and delayed PlayStation 3 finally launches this week with Sony's future riding on it.</p><br clear="all"/>
Wireless ventures aim to boost music subscriptions
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061104/wr_nm/cingular_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061104/2006_11_03t220851_450x366_us_cingular.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=DDSAgVJdYqoqLtCunEttlg--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="Cingular Wireless sales consultant Marcell Lane shows how a phone works to a customer at a Cingular Wireless store in Atlanta, February 17, 2004. On Monday (November 6), Cingular Wireless will become the first U.S. operator to provide mobile access to online digital music services such as Napster, eMusic and Yahoo Music. (Tami Chappell/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - On Monday (November 6),
Cingular Wireless will become the first U.S. operator to
provide mobile access to online digital music services such as
Napster, eMusic and Yahoo Music.</p><br clear="all"/>
Windows, Windows And... Linux?
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT - News) deal Thursday with Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL - News) is not a sign that Microsoft has fundamentally changed its opinion of free, open-source software. But the deal is an admission by Microsoft that Linux, the best-known open-source software, is here for the long haul.
Internet adware firm in $3 million settlement
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061105/wr_nm/zango_ftc_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061105/2006_11_03t154920_450x361_us_zango_ftc.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=h.3pPHSPw.tGBAh2qXUKfg--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="A screen grab of Zango.com. An Internet advertising firm called Zango Inc. has agreed to pay $3 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations that its pop-up ad software was secretly installed on millions of personal computers, federal regulators said on Friday. (www.zango.com/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - An Internet advertising firm called
Zango Inc. has agreed to pay $3 million to the U.S. government
to settle allegations that its pop-up ad software was secretly
installed on millions of personal computers, federal regulators
said on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
MySpace to launch in Japan with Softbank
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061106/wr_nm/telecoms_japan_myspace_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061106/2006_11_05t193942_450x300_us_telecoms_japan_myspace.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=vklI1t1b81abl4Iotw_xOw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Writer Josh Kilmer-Purcell sits in his office with his myspace.com site in New York, June 14, 2006. MySpace.com online service will be launched in Japan in a joint venture with Japanese Internet and telecoms group Softbank Corp., the Nihon Keizai business daily reported on Monday. (Keith Bedford/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - News Corp.'s MySpace.com online service
will be launched in Japan in a joint venture with Japanese
Internet and telecoms group Softbank Corp., the Nihon Keizai
business daily reported on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Blog: Google Vs. Yahoo
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Blogger Ben Tompkins gives his take on how Yahoo CEO Terry Semel is responding to some of Google's recent competitive thrusts. Not so good, he says.
Google in talks with studios to make YouTube a money tree
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061105/tc_afp/afplifestyleusit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20061105/capt.sge.isk80.051106232618.photo00.photo.default-512x340.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=8qSVKRhoaHV7ftv1fFgelQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="YouTube web page displayed on a computer. Google is in behind-the-scenes talks with film and music studios trying to make newly acquired video-sharing website YouTube a gold mine, and not a lawsuit-generating black hole.(AFP/File/Samantha Sin)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Google is in behind-the-scenes talks with film and music studios trying to make newly acquired video-sharing website YouTube a gold mine, and not a lawsuit-generating black hole.</p><br clear="all"/>
Internet adware firm in $3 million settlement
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061105/wr_nm/zango_ftc_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061105/2006_11_03t154920_450x361_us_zango_ftc.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=h.3pPHSPw.tGBAh2qXUKfg--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="A screen grab of Zango.com. An Internet advertising firm called Zango Inc. has agreed to pay $3 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations that its pop-up ad software was secretly installed on millions of personal computers, federal regulators said on Friday. (www.zango.com/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - An Internet advertising firm called
Zango Inc. has agreed to pay $3 million to the U.S. government
to settle allegations that its pop-up ad software was secretly
installed on millions of personal computers, federal regulators
said on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Stopping Today's PC Spies at the Gate
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Although spyware has been called the plague of the Internet, many people still regard the invasive software as a kind of digital Avian flu. "Yes, it's bad and potentially very threatening, but it's the kind of thing that only happens to other people,not me."
Britons to log on to Christmas Internet shopping boom
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061104/tc_afp/afplifestylebritain"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20061104/capt.sge.iki10.041106143757.photo00.photo.default-512x342.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=zuR8atC4gYCc3CcF_4CkWg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A young couple carry shopping bags as they walk along New Bond Street in London in December 2004. A survey has predicted Britons will spend a record seven billion pounds (10.4 billion euros, 13.3 billion dollars) on online purchases in the run-up to Christmas, a 40 percent rise on last year.(AFP/File/Carl De Souza)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Britons will spend a record seven billion pounds (10.4 billion euros, 13.3 billion dollars) on online purchases in the run-up to Christmas, a 40 percent rise on last year, a survey has predicted.</p><br clear="all"/>
Wireless ventures aim to boost music subscriptions
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061104/wr_nm/cingular_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061104/2006_11_03t220851_450x366_us_cingular.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=DDSAgVJdYqoqLtCunEttlg--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="Cingular Wireless sales consultant Marcell Lane shows how a phone works to a customer at a Cingular Wireless store in Atlanta, February 17, 2004. On Monday (November 6), Cingular Wireless will become the first U.S. operator to provide mobile access to online digital music services such as Napster, eMusic and Yahoo Music. (Tami Chappell/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - On Monday (November 6),
Cingular Wireless will become the first U.S. operator to
provide mobile access to online digital music services such as
Napster, eMusic and Yahoo Music.</p><br clear="all"/>
Tariff a Catch "22" for Canadian college stations
(Reuters)
Reuters - Canadian college radio could be under
threat, with a number of stations saying they will be forced to
pull their online feeds if a tariff proposed by Canada's
performing rights society comes into force next year.
Philips sponsors free New York Times Web access
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061104/media_nm/media_newyorktimes_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061104/2006_11_03t220006_450x362_us_media_newyorktimes.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=.xBa.sC2Zi8ov1.I30qzYA--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="A screen grab of NYTimes.com. The New York Times Co. said on Friday it will offer free access to its Times Select online opinion section through a sponsorship deal with Royal Philips Electronics as it aims to get more people to subscribe to the $49.95-per-year service. (www.nytimes.com/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The New York Times Co. said on Friday
it will offer free access to its Times Select online opinion
section through a sponsorship deal with Royal Philips
Electronics as it aims to get more people to subscribe to the
$49.95-per-year service.</p><br clear="all"/>
Texas begins online test of Mexico border cameras
(Reuters)
Reuters - Texas began testing a Web site on
Friday that enables anyone with Internet access to keep watch
on the state's border with Mexico.
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