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High-tech firms to push data-privacy law
(AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and other high-tech companies are preparing to push for data-privacy legislation next year to replace what they consider an outdated patchwork of state and federal laws that are inconsistent and burdensome.
Microsoft Releases Exchange 2007 To Manufacturing
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The new version includes enhancements for mobile users, integration with Microsoft's own Antigen for Exchange anti-virus software, and new policy compliance tools.
Microsoft Ready To Roll Out Book Search
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft, in it's seemingly never-ending effort to keep pace with Google's search services, is putting the finishing touches on its own online book search, which is expected to go live next week.
Microsoft Seeks Ad-Targeting Patent for DVRs
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The system, which serves ads based on targeting criteria, involves a DVR, an advertising data store, and software to manage ad presentation.
Pirates Spoof Vista's Enterprise Activation
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The software spoofs a Key Management Service server, one of the two technologies that Microsoft debuted last month that let businesses activate a large number of copies of Windows Vista.
Microsoft's Open XML Now a Standard
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - As expected, ECMA International has given the nod to Microsoft's Open XML, effectively establishing the document format as a standard available to all. The global organization also put Open XML on the fast track for approval by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Security Hole Found in Windows Media Player
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft is investigating a new vulnerability in Windows Media Player that could be used to run malicious code on a user's PC.
Microsoft Hits Back at Its OpenXML Critics
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - A Microsoft official says IBM was the only company that voted against approving its OpenXML specification as a standard.
ADVISORY: Microsoft's Xbox 360 sales story withdrawn
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061208/tc_nm/media_microsoft_xbox_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061207/capt.ksx10412071049.japan_nintendo_ksx104.jpg?x=95&y=130&sig=lGumpa3iTKjSYGt.93vvnw--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="Nintendo Co. game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, left, accompanied by Nintendo President Shigeru Iwata, laughs as he speaks about the just-launched video game Wii during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006. The console from the video-game maker of Pokemon and Super Mario, designed by Miyamoto, is locked in a fierce three-way battle with Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The Los Angeles story headlined "Microsoft's Xbox 360 US
sales top first Xbox--NPD" is withdrawn because the data
supporting the story may be inaccurate. Reuters is waiting for
an update from the company. A new story may be issued.</p><br clear="all"/>
Ecma Approves Microsoft's Open XML
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - But Ecma's approval wasn't unanimous -- IBM voted against the specification, saying OpenDocument, which is the default format in OpenOffice, is a "vastly superior" format, and another standard was unnecessary.
School shuns tech, teaches fountain pen
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061210/ap_on_hi_te/apn_fountain_pen_lives"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061210/capt.c6c8bf08d7fc4ebb87c5ed6da9d339ed.apn_fountain_pen_ny374.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=dEeWRtyBKH0QO6PV4Nko4A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Ten-year-old Cailean Gall from Stewarts Melville Junior School in Edinburgh, Scotland shows his fountain pen Nov.16, 2006. Classrooms at Mary Erskine and Stewart's Melville Junior School in Edinburgh, an exclusive private school, are filled with the silence of stroking pens rather than the clacking of keyboards, though there are a full range of computer facilities for those lessons. The school's principal believes the old-fashioned pens have helped boost the academic performance and self-esteem of his pupils. (AP Photo/Gordon Fraser)" border="0" /></a>AP - In this age of cell phones, text messages and computer keyboards, one Scottish school has returned to basics. It's teaching youngsters the neglected art of writing with a fountain pen.</p><br clear="all"/>
High-tech firms to push data-privacy law
(AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and other high-tech companies are preparing to push for data-privacy legislation next year to replace what they consider an outdated patchwork of state and federal laws that are inconsistent and burdensome.
VoIP subscribers grow 18 percent in 3Q
(AP)
AP - U.S. subscribers to Internet-based telephone services grew 18 percent to 8.2 million in the third quarter, but the growth rate slowed for a second straight quarter, according to the research firm TeleGeography.
EU seeks navigation system comment
(AP)
AP - The European Union is seeking comments on the possible uses of its planned Galileo satellite navigation system, which is being developed at a cost of about $4.8 billion to compete with the U.S. Global Positioning System.
Group: China has most jailed journalists
(AP)
AP - China, which jails more journalists than any other nation, is challenging the view that information on the Internet is impossible to control, and the implications for press freedom could be far-reaching, a New York-based rights group said.
Velvet Underground rarity sells on eBay
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061210/ap_en_mu/vintage_velvet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061209/capt.nyr10112092315.vintage_velvet_nyr101.jpg?x=119&y=130&sig=9cDOShq75FDVL54ZGxRm.Q--" align="left" height="130" width="119" alt="Lou Reed takes the podium as the Velvet Underground, the group he once headed, is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a ceremony in New York s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in this Jan. 17, 1996 file photo. Band mate John Cale is at left, and at right is Martha Morrison, accepting for late band member Sterling Morrison. Forty years after it was made, the Velvet Underground's first recording, purchased for pennies at a New York City flea market, sold on eBay for $155,401. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Forty years after it was made, The Velvet Underground's first recording has become a financial hit — in cyberspace.</p><br clear="all"/>
"Oblivion" big winner at Spike TV video game awards
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061209/wr_nm/media_videogames_awards_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061209/capt.7886301b20dc4f10bee6d2689cff01c6.spike_tv_video_game_awards_camw103.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=xSYLUmBI1ASpaQ2IQ9lC9w--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Actor Samuel L. Jackson, host of Spike TV's Video Game Awards, opens the show in Los Angeles on Friday, Dec. 8, 2006. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion," a
fantasy role-playing game, was the top winner at the Spike TV
Video Game Awards in Los Angeles on Friday, taking home five
prizes, including "Game of the Year" and "Most Addictive."</p><br clear="all"/>
PluggedIn: Taipei, global cities, hum Wi-Fi tune
(Reuters)
Reuters - As much of the world buzzes with
high-speed 3G mobile services, Taipei is humming another
wireless broadband tune with a year-old network providing
low-cost Wi-Fi service throughout the city.
Mozilla Ships Alpha Release of Firefox 3.0
(PC World)
PC World - Final version still a year away, developers say.
Oracle makes 1.3-billion-dollar bid for Indian banking software firm
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061209/bs_afp/usindiaitcompany"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20061209/capt.sge.tus78.091206170106.photo00.photo.default-385x512.jpg?x=97&y=130&sig=PqZoA_B79SZ9CyxgB9DqYQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="Oracle Corp. company headquarters in Redwood Shores, California. Oracle said it had raised its bid for for the bulk of Indian banking software firm iflex Solutions to 1.3 billion dollars in what was its final offer.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Oracle said it had raised its bid for for the bulk of Indian banking software firm iflex Solutions to 1.3 billion dollars in what was its final offer.</p><br clear="all"/>
Velvet Underground rarity sells on eBay
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061210/ap_en_mu/vintage_velvet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061209/capt.nyr10112092315.vintage_velvet_nyr101.jpg?x=119&y=130&sig=9cDOShq75FDVL54ZGxRm.Q--" align="left" height="130" width="119" alt="Lou Reed takes the podium as the Velvet Underground, the group he once headed, is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a ceremony in New York s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in this Jan. 17, 1996 file photo. Band mate John Cale is at left, and at right is Martha Morrison, accepting for late band member Sterling Morrison. Forty years after it was made, the Velvet Underground's first recording, purchased for pennies at a New York City flea market, sold on eBay for $155,401. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Forty years after it was made, The Velvet Underground's first recording has become a financial hit — in cyberspace.</p><br clear="all"/>
Fox, Viacom, CBS and NBC discuss YouTube rival: WSJ
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061209/wr_nm/media_youtube_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20061206/capt.sge.spn01.061206064122.photo02.photo.default-512x333.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=2T8KsojrYRbhutSN0aHWmw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="File photo shows Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Websites such as YouTube and Second Life won superstar status in 2006, helping to transform the Internet from a window on the world into a stage on which people play out their lives and dreams(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Paul Morris)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - News Corp.'s Fox, Viacom Inc., CBS
Corp.. and NBC Universal are in talks about creating a video
Web site to compete with Google Inc.'s YouTube, the Wall Street
Journal reported on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
House panel finds Republicans negligent in scandal
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061209/pl_nm/usa_scandal_congress_finding_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061209/2006_12_08t144602_450x311_us_usa_scandal_congress_finding.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=6kLv3otAFUJinoth1F.65w--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Chairman of the House Ethics Committee Doc Hastings (R-WA) (R) and ranking committee member Howard Berman (D-CA) speaks to the media about their committee's report into the Mark Foley scandal on Capitol Hill in Washington December 8, 2006. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Top Republicans were negligent in
failing to protect teen-age interns from a lawmaker who
resigned in an Internet sex scandal shortly before the November
7 elections, a congressional ethics panel concluded on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Bush's dog Barney is back with new video
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061208/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_barney"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061209/capt.4ad30e5e3acf48ce9b3be6a2ebdd7224.white_house_barney_wx109.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=uQ_Mb_G4LvlHV52B3KLgVg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photograph from video released by the White House, first lady Laura Bush is seen in front of a Christmas tree on BarneyCam at the White House. 'Barney's Holiday Extravaganza', a production that follows Barney around the White House, is a new video featured on the White House Web site. (AP Photo/The White House)" border="0" /></a>AP - Just in time for the holidays, America's best-known Scottish terrier is back with a new video on the White House Web site.</p><br clear="all"/>
Click-Savvy Shoppers Chase Online Bargains
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - On days Overstock.com, Macy's, and Amazon ran on-line promotions for limited quantities of heavily discounted products, the same shoppers returned to the sites numerous times, attempting to catch the bargains.
VoIP subscribers grow 18 percent in 3Q
(AP)
AP - U.S. subscribers to Internet-based telephone services grew 18 percent to 8.2 million in the third quarter, but the growth rate slowed for a second straight quarter, according to the research firm TeleGeography.
Internet Video Revenue Expected To Top $7 Billion In Four Years
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Next year, about 85% of revenue will be from ads attached to video. By 2010, services for renting and downloading TV shows and movies are forecast to account for nearly 40% of total revenue.
PluggedIn: Taipei, global cities, hum Wi-Fi tune
(Reuters)
Reuters - As much of the world buzzes with
high-speed 3G mobile services, Taipei is humming another
wireless broadband tune with a year-old network providing
low-cost Wi-Fi service throughout the city.
An E-Mail Registry for Sex Offenders?
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Two of the Senate's biggest names, Charles E. Schumer (D.-NY) and John McCain (R.-AZ) plan to push for legislation that will compel sex offenders to register their active e-mail addresses with authorities in an effort to save kids from online predators.
Microsoft Ready To Roll Out Book Search
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft, in it's seemingly never-ending effort to keep pace with Google's search services, is putting the finishing touches on its own online book search, which is expected to go live next week.
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