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Microsoft Seeks Partners To Combine Web Services, Telecom
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The Connected Services Sandbox supports the creation of "managed network mash-ups" that combine Web services with traditional telecommunications offerings, such as voice, video and data services.
Novell Names Exec To Manage Microsoft Relationship
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In the wake of the news-making licensing deal between Microsoft and Novell over Windows and Linux interoperability, Novell has tapped Susan Heystee, its current vice president and general manager for global strategic partners, to manage the technical cooperation between the two companies.
Ask.com Launches Local Search Service To Compete With Google, Yahoo, Microsoft
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - AskCity is different because it integrates services from other Web properties owned by parent IAC/InterActiveCorp, including CitySearch, ReserveAmerica, ServiceMagic, Ticketmaster, and TicketWeb.
Internet Explorer Back in the Game
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - After seeing its user base eroding to rivals like Firefox and Opera, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser might be poised for a rebound, thanks to the new features in its recently released seventh version.
Microsoft advancing design tools platform
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Eyeing the rich application design space, Microsoft on Monday is detailing milestones in its Expression design tools platform, including the introduction of Expression Media to manage video files, images, and fonts.
CNBC relaunches own site with more video
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/ap_on_hi_te/cnbc_web_site"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20061204/i/r3168876452.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=azqMuhJHETSa7YH6tVho4w--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="Maria Bartiromo, financial reporter and anchor at CNBC cable channel, moderates the Global Capital Markets Where Are the Returns? session at the 2006 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills in this file photo from April 25, 2006. CNBC said it plans to relaunch on Monday its Web site with a focus on adding more video and investors tools. REUTERS/Fred Prouser" border="0" /></a>AP - CNBC relaunched its Web site Monday with more video and newsmaker interviews as the financial news cable channel formally ended a five-year agreement with Microsoft Corp.'s MSN Money.</p><br clear="all"/>
Windows Vista Is Here: Will Companies Use It?
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Windows Vista has arrived. Last Thursday at a Nasdaq event in New York, Steve Ballmer released Microsoft's first version of Windows in five years, calling it nothing short of a "new era of business productivity."
Microsoft Unveils Expression Studio Design Tools Suite, 'Flash Killer'
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Microsoft announces Expression Studio, a new integrated suite of its design tools, including the new Expression Media asset management tool; the software giant also announces a new preview of its "Flash killer" technology.
Samsung, Microsoft launch new smartphone
(AP)
AP - Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea's largest corporation, joined Microsoft Corp. on Monday in launching the first mobile phone in Asia and Europe to use high-speed HSDPA wireless technology.
As Vista Arrives, Questions Start Anew
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer doesn't dwell on what it took to get here. Windows' future requires his full attention.
New chip provides high-end sound
(AP)
AP - Veteran audio engineer Tony Bongiovi, who once worked with Jimi Hendrix, has been disappointed for decades that the equipment most people used to listen to music couldn't replicate the high-quality sound heard in the studio.
CNBC relaunches own site with more video
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/ap_on_hi_te/cnbc_web_site"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20061204/i/r3168876452.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=azqMuhJHETSa7YH6tVho4w--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="Maria Bartiromo, financial reporter and anchor at CNBC cable channel, moderates the Global Capital Markets Where Are the Returns? session at the 2006 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills in this file photo from April 25, 2006. CNBC said it plans to relaunch on Monday its Web site with a focus on adding more video and investors tools. REUTERS/Fred Prouser" border="0" /></a>AP - CNBC relaunched its Web site Monday with more video and newsmaker interviews as the financial news cable channel formally ended a five-year agreement with Microsoft Corp.'s MSN Money.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google advances online software crusade
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/ap_on_hi_te/google_education"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061203/capt.0021a81913414c1589988b75ee8b278a.google_education_fx104.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=3KhHF0nQ1zgtGrQuT6xVWQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Palo Alto High School journalism teacher Esther Wojcicki helps student Allison Wyndham at a computer during journalism class, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006 in Palo Alto, Calif. Wojcicki is helping Google Inc., bring its online suite of software applications to classrooms across the country. By teaching educators about the advantages of using the tools as learning aids, Google hopes to make its programs a classroom staple and develop even closer ties with Internet-savvy kids. (AP Photo/George Nikitin)" border="0" /></a>AP - Google Inc., a company synonymous with searching the Internet, hopes to define far more of the world's computing experience with a helping hand from schoolchildren.</p><br clear="all"/>
AOL to launch Latino portal
(AP)
AP - AOL's Spanish-language portal is now available for free as the company completes its plans to give away most of its services to boost traffic to its ad-supported Web sites.
Schumer warns on no-swipe credit cards
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/ap_on_hi_te/schumer_id_theft"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061204/capt.1788a595ded14ee0912fd5c9caf43762.schumer_id_theft_nyol779.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=B4GSXEQmgT5KLZjQYjL30Q--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., appears at a news conference in Washington in this June 13, 2006, file photo. Schumer warned on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2006, that no-swipe credit cards using radio waves to relay their data put consumers at increased risk of identity theft. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)" border="0" /></a>AP - No-swipe credit cards that use radio waves to relay their data put consumers at increased risk of identity theft, Sen. Charles Schumer said Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/>
NBC Universal says to launch iVillage TV show
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061205/wr_nm/ivillage_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061205/2006_12_04t220558_450x286_us_ivillage.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=9Z6h5zR_8finlK6YNMEYdw--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="A large sign denoting the recent merger of NBC and Universal Entertainment hangs on a building at the NBC studios in Burbank, California on May 19, 2004. NBC Universal said on Monday it plans to launch a new television show based on its iVillage Internet community for women over its Bravo cable network and its 10 network-owned TV stations. (Fred Prouser FSP/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - NBC Universal said on Monday it plans
to launch a new television show based on its iVillage Internet
community for women over its Bravo cable network and its 10
network-owned TV stations.</p><br clear="all"/>
China may issue 3G telecom licenses 'very soon': minister
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061205/tc_afp/chinatelecomtechnology"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20061205/capt.sge.sfl22.051206052942.photo00.photo.default-362x512.jpg?x=91&y=130&sig=D5kRI8RL4_b2u8XjCeElRw--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="A man uses his mobile phone on the busy Nanjing road shopping area of Shanghai. China may issue long-awaited licenses to build third generation (3G) mobile phone networks "very soon," the government's top telecom official said(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)" border="0" /></a>AFP - China may issue long-awaited licenses to build third generation (3G) mobile phone networks "very soon," the government's top telecom official said.</p><br clear="all"/>
Qualcomm acquiring 2 wireless businesses
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/ap_on_bi_ge/qualcomm_acquisitions"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061204/capt.3ef24a5658ef452b8c632287878c45e0.qualcomm_acquisitions_cali102.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=H4t5GeJkqigKrfPzf4WXOQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Sanjay Jha, an executive vice-president at Qualcomm, Inc. and president of Qualcomm's CDMA Technologies unit, poses in one of Qualcomm's chip testing laboratories Monday, Dec. 4, 2006 in San Diego. Qualcomm announced Monday that it would purchase Airgo Networks Inc. and the Bluetooth assets of RF Micro Devices Inc. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)" border="0" /></a>AP - Qualcomm Inc. on Monday moved to build on its commanding position in the cellular industry by acquiring businesses with expertise in two other wireless technologies — Wi-Fi and Bluetooth — that are becoming popular on mobile phones.</p><br clear="all"/>
Office 2007, OpenOffice.org Work Together
(PC World)
PC World - Novell will support Microsoft Office's Open XML file format in its version of OpenOffice by the end of January.
Tibco Targets SOA Complexity
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The software is designed to automate security, messaging communications and deployment configurations for middleware, freeing developers to devote more time to business logic.
NBC Universal says to launch iVillage TV show
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061205/wr_nm/ivillage_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061205/2006_12_04t220558_450x286_us_ivillage.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=9Z6h5zR_8finlK6YNMEYdw--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="A large sign denoting the recent merger of NBC and Universal Entertainment hangs on a building at the NBC studios in Burbank, California on May 19, 2004. NBC Universal said on Monday it plans to launch a new television show based on its iVillage Internet community for women over its Bravo cable network and its 10 network-owned TV stations. (Fred Prouser FSP/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - NBC Universal said on Monday it plans
to launch a new television show based on its iVillage Internet
community for women over its Bravo cable network and its 10
network-owned TV stations.</p><br clear="all"/>
Britney Spears tops Yahoo's searches
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061205/wr_nm/britney_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061205/2006_12_04t213333_450x367_us_britney.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=c5mQPFuOOOq.Z8W4AI8JKg--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="File photo shows Britney Spears appearing as a surprise presenter for the favorite female artist in the soul/rhythm and blues category at the 2006 American Music Awards on November 21, 2006 in Los Angeles. Spears was the hottest thing on the Internet this year, judging from Yahoo's annual list of popular search terms. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Bereft of any new music
to promote, Britney Spears was nevertheless the hottest thing
on the Internet this year, judging from Yahoo's annual list of
popular search terms.</p><br clear="all"/>
News Corp "optimistic" over Liberty Media talks
(Reuters)
Reuters - News Corp. said on Monday it was
"optimistic" over reaching a deal to buy back or swap Liberty
Media's shares in the company.
Lance Bass, Reichen Lehmkuhl said split
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/ap_en_mu/people_bass_lehmkuhl"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061204/capt.56163d80b6894926b266efaf9c1e4aa5.people_bass_lehmkuhl_nyet124.jpg?x=130&y=101&sig=tvv03k16l2Oagfkq9MwegA--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="Singer Lance Bass, right, and partner Reichen Lehmkuhl, left, are seen in Los Angeles, Calif. on in this Oct. 17, 2006 file photo. The pair have called it quits, People magazine reported Monday, Dec. 4, 2006, on its Web site.(AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)" border="0" /></a>AP - Lance Bass and his boyfriend, Reichen Lehmkuhl, have called it quits, People magazine reported on its Web site Monday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Wall St Journal sharpens strategy for Web and print
(Reuters)
Reuters - Dow Jones & Co. outlined a strategy on
Monday to differentiate the Wall Street Journal's Web site from
its print edition, shifting breaking news stories online and
emphasizing analysis in the newspaper.
Baidu to enter Japan's Web search market
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061204/wr_nm/baidu_japan_entrance_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061204/2006_12_04t100606_450x289_us_baidu_japan_entrance.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=NRXIMaK4tvHqzfm4ii.xHg--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="A man walks past an advertisement for Baidu.com in Shanghai in this picture taken on August 4, 2005. Chinese Internet search leader Baidu.com said on Monday it plans to enter the Japanese search market in 2007. (China Newsphoto/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Chinese Internet search leader
Baidu.com said on Monday it would enter Japan's search market
in 2007, prompting a 2 percent rise in its shares, but analysts
questioned whether the expansion would succeed.</p><br clear="all"/>
Cisco Continues Dominance With Overhaul To Its Most Popular Router
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The company adds a WAN optimization engine, a Network Analysis Module for visibility into network traffic, a faster services engine, and flexible WAN interfaces that can work with cable and DSL instead of just traditional T1 lines.
Ask.com Launches Local Search Service To Compete With Google, Yahoo, Microsoft
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - AskCity is different because it integrates services from other Web properties owned by parent IAC/InterActiveCorp, including CitySearch, ReserveAmerica, ServiceMagic, Ticketmaster, and TicketWeb.
Japan's fallen IT hero making do with a PlayStation: report
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061204/tc_afp/japanitelectronicsfraudcompanylivedoorsonyoffbeat"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20061204/capt.sge.sdh14.041206184727.photo00.photo.default-371x512.jpg?x=94&y=130&sig=I1mpwY7ncZIHM7ix.8KOdQ--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="Japan's disgraced Internet tycoon Takafumi Horie, founder of the scandal-tainted Livedoor firm, who boasted at the height of his fame that he would one day try to buy Sony, has had to settle for a smaller purchase -- Sony's PlayStation 3.(AFP/Jiji Press)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Japan's disgraced Internet mogul Takafumi Horie, who boasted at the height of his fame that he would one day try to buy Sony, has had to settle for a smaller purchase -- Sony's PlayStation 3.</p><br clear="all"/>
CNBC relaunches own site with more video
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/ap_on_hi_te/cnbc_web_site"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20061204/i/r3168876452.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=azqMuhJHETSa7YH6tVho4w--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="Maria Bartiromo, financial reporter and anchor at CNBC cable channel, moderates the Global Capital Markets Where Are the Returns? session at the 2006 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills in this file photo from April 25, 2006. CNBC said it plans to relaunch on Monday its Web site with a focus on adding more video and investors tools. REUTERS/Fred Prouser" border="0" /></a>AP - CNBC relaunched its Web site Monday with more video and newsmaker interviews as the financial news cable channel formally ended a five-year agreement with Microsoft Corp.'s MSN Money.</p><br clear="all"/>
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