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How much will Windows security matter?
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061211/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_security"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061211/capt.908dea0f9f2f44fe94a519fe621c679a.microsoft_security_nyol799.jpg?x=130&y=81&sig=Tkb.gHaMeGnI.Ck5AjfFfw--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer listens to a presentation at a news conference at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York in this Nov. 30, 2006, file photo. Microsoft took great pains to improve security in its newly released computer operating system, Windows Vista, redesigning it to reduce users' exposure to destructive programs from the Internet. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp. took great pains to improve security in its newly released computer operating system, Windows Vista, redesigning it to reduce users' exposure to destructive programs from the Internet. Outside researchers commend the retooled approach — yet they also say the changes won't make online life much safer than it is now.</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other high-tech companies are preparing to push for data-privacy legislation next year to replace what they consider an outdated patchwork of state and federal laws that are inconsistent and burdensome.
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/20061211/capt.908dea0f9f2f44fe94a519fe621c679a.microsoft_security_nyol799.jpg?x=130&y=81&sig=Tkb.gHaMeGnI.Ck5AjfFfw--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer listens to a presentation at a news conference at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York in this Nov. 30, 2006, file photo. Microsoft took great pains to improve security in its newly released computer operating system, Windows Vista, redesigning it to reduce users' exposure to destructive programs from the Internet. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)" 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"/>
How much will Windows security matter?
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061211/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_security"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061211/capt.908dea0f9f2f44fe94a519fe621c679a.microsoft_security_nyol799.jpg?x=130&y=81&sig=Tkb.gHaMeGnI.Ck5AjfFfw--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer listens to a presentation at a news conference at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York in this Nov. 30, 2006, file photo. Microsoft took great pains to improve security in its newly released computer operating system, Windows Vista, redesigning it to reduce users' exposure to destructive programs from the Internet. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp. took great pains to improve security in its newly released computer operating system, Windows Vista, redesigning it to reduce users' exposure to destructive programs from the Internet. Outside researchers commend the retooled approach — yet they also say the changes won't make online life much safer than it is now.</p><br clear="all"/>
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"/>
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_on_en_mu/vintage_velvet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061210/capt.pch10212100102.canada_vintage_velvet_pch102.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=jnxvkHIJJfgA8dXwXifdFQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Warren Hill stands in his used records shop Friday, Dec. 8, 2006 in Montreal. Hill's copy of The Velvet Underground & Nico debut album released in 1967 has reached over $155,000.00 in bid on a popular auction site with the bids closing Friday night. Hill, a collector from Montreal, bought the record in September 2002 at the flea market, according to an article written by his friend, Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records in Portland, Ore. in the current issue of Goldmine Magazine. Hill did not have the album in hand. (AP Photo/CP, Paul Chiasson)" border="0" /></a>AP - Forty years after it was made, The Velvet Underground's first recording has become a financial hit — in cyberspace. Bought for 75 cents four years ago at a Manhattan flea market, the rare recording of music that ended up on the influential New York band's first album, "The Velvet Underground & Nico," sold on eBay for a closing bid of $155,401.</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.
A&E plays mob rule for "Sopranos" reruns
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061211/en_nm/sopranos_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061211/2006_12_11t023028_450x331_us_sopranos.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=Jk_bCjdKWNAIrQnMwqIUaQ--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Cast members Steve Schirripa, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Michael Imperioli, Edie Falco, and James Gandolfini (L-R) arrive for the premiere of the 6th season of the HBO hit TV series 'The Sopranos' at the Museum of Modern Art in New York March 7, 2006. A and E wants to score points with an innovative online game aimed at attracting viewers to 'The Sopranos,' which begins its syndicated run on the cable channel January 10. (Robert Caplin/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A&E wants to score points
with an innovative online game aimed at attracting viewers to
"The Sopranos," which begins its syndicated run on the cable
channel January 10.</p><br clear="all"/>
'Inkjet' Printer Helps Organize Stem Cells
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - An "inkjet"-style printer
for stem cells may help scientists put the precious master
cells to good use, U.S. researchers said Sunday.
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.
India's Infosys makes tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 index
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061211/tc_afp/indiaustechnologycompanyinfosysnasdaq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20061211/capt.sge.udx84.111206085818.photo00.photo.default-512x316.jpg?x=130&y=80&sig=LkENixC86n8yVqQVloX1mw--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Employees walk inside Indian software giant Infosys Technologies' headquarters in Bangalore. Infosys Technologies, India's second-largest software firm, said it will be included on the Nasdaq-100 index from Monday, putting it among the biggest listed tech companies in the world.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Infosys Technologies, India's second-largest software firm, said it will be included on the Nasdaq-100 index from Monday, putting it among the biggest listed tech companies in the world.</p><br clear="all"/>
A&E plays mob rule for "Sopranos" reruns
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061211/en_nm/sopranos_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061211/2006_12_11t023028_450x331_us_sopranos.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=Jk_bCjdKWNAIrQnMwqIUaQ--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Cast members Steve Schirripa, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Michael Imperioli, Edie Falco, and James Gandolfini (L-R) arrive for the premiere of the 6th season of the HBO hit TV series 'The Sopranos' at the Museum of Modern Art in New York March 7, 2006. A and E wants to score points with an innovative online game aimed at attracting viewers to 'The Sopranos,' which begins its syndicated run on the cable channel January 10. (Robert Caplin/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A&E wants to score points
with an innovative online game aimed at attracting viewers to
"The Sopranos," which begins its syndicated run on the cable
channel January 10.</p><br clear="all"/>
N.Korea nuclear talks to resume Dec 18: China
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061211/pl_nm/korea_north_talks_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20061211/capt.sge.udu91.111206084441.photo01.photo.default-383x512.jpg?x=97&y=130&sig=Fed2Qdy1lOPycG4pQY4XSQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill. Six-party talks on ending North Korea's nuclear program will take place "around December 16" in Beijing, the US State Department has said.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Six-party talks aimed at dismantling
North Korea's nuclear programs will resume on December 18 after
more than a year's suspension, China's Foreign Ministry said on
Monday.</p><br clear="all"/>
How much will Windows security matter?
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061211/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_security"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061211/capt.908dea0f9f2f44fe94a519fe621c679a.microsoft_security_nyol799.jpg?x=130&y=81&sig=Tkb.gHaMeGnI.Ck5AjfFfw--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer listens to a presentation at a news conference at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York in this Nov. 30, 2006, file photo. Microsoft took great pains to improve security in its newly released computer operating system, Windows Vista, redesigning it to reduce users' exposure to destructive programs from the Internet. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp. took great pains to improve security in its newly released computer operating system, Windows Vista, redesigning it to reduce users' exposure to destructive programs from the Internet. Outside researchers commend the retooled approach — yet they also say the changes won't make online life much safer than it is now.</p><br clear="all"/>
Cyber-addiction growing problem for US online community
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061211/tc_afp/afplifestyleusinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20061211/capt.sge.ucg74.111206002948.photo00.photo.default-364x512.jpg?x=92&y=130&sig=4Tg9rpG5ZYH0d8oV7LabnQ--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="A man surfs the web at an internet cafe. A team of researchers at California's prestigious Stanford University has found that for one in eight Americans, excessive Internet use is a growing problem.(AFP/File/Denis Sinyakov)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Spending too much time on the Internet: bad habit or something more serious?</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/20061210/capt.pch10212100102.canada_vintage_velvet_pch102.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=jnxvkHIJJfgA8dXwXifdFQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Warren Hill stands in his used records shop Friday, Dec. 8, 2006 in Montreal. Hill's copy of The Velvet Underground & Nico debut album released in 1967 has reached over $155,000.00 in bid on a popular auction site with the bids closing Friday night. Hill, a collector from Montreal, bought the record in September 2002 at the flea market, according to an article written by his friend, Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records in Portland, Ore. in the current issue of Goldmine Magazine. Hill did not have the album in hand. (AP Photo/CP, Paul Chiasson)" border="0" /></a>AP - Forty years after it was made, The Velvet Underground's first recording has become a financial hit — in cyberspace. Bought for 75 cents four years ago at a Manhattan flea market, the rare recording of music that ended up on the influential New York band's first album, "The Velvet Underground & Nico," sold on eBay for a closing bid of $155,401.</p><br clear="all"/>
ESPN-Star wins international cricket TV rights
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061210/media_nm/cricket_espn_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20061211/i/r2523363628.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=a1k3v26kXGADZ3liT4X2gg--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Australia's Brett Lee walks past team mate Andrew Symonds's baggy-green cap during a cricket training session at the WACA Ground in Perth December 11, 2006. Australia will play England in the third Ashes cricket test starting December 14 in Perth, with Australia leading the best-of-five-test series 2-0. REUTERS/David Gray (AUSTRALIA)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - ESPN-Star, a joint venture of Walt
Disney Co. and News Corp., has won the broadcast rights to
matches of the International Cricket Council, the governing
body's Web site said.</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.
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