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Xbox gets a longer warranty
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061225/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_xbox"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20061222/capt.sge.cxx63.221206203259.photo00.photo.default-512x350.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=dAzHlO6R1gjbA8DTTtle6A--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A customer plays a demo Xbox 360 at a San Francisco Best Buy store, November 2005. Microsoft announced that it was extending the warranty on Xbox 360 from 90 days to a year in the United States and Canada to entice buyers in the hot video game console market.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp. is extending its warranty on the Xbox 360 video game console to one year from the previous limit of 90 days. The change announced Friday applies to future and present owners.</p><br clear="all"/>
'Safe' Web seal requires rigorous checks
(AP)
AP - Beginning next month, version 7 of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser will start flagging certain e-commerce and banking sites as green for "safe." The browser will look for an extended-validation certificate issued by any number of vendors.
Microsoft strengthens developer collaboration tool
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft this week upgraded a tool enabling multiple IDEs to access the company's collaboration server for application lifecycle management, adding branching enhancements.
Microsoft Opens Vista Kernel to Rivals
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft sent some holiday cheer in the direction of security vendors this week by releasing new programming interfaces for developers working to create software that can interact with the Windows Vista kernel.
Microsoft quadruples Xbox 360 warranty in hot video game market
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061222/tc_afp/afplifestyleinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20061222/capt.sge.cxx63.221206203259.photo00.photo.default-512x350.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=dAzHlO6R1gjbA8DTTtle6A--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A customer plays a demo Xbox 360 at a San Francisco Best Buy store, November 2005. Microsoft announced that it was extending the warranty on Xbox 360 from 90 days to a year in the United States and Canada to entice buyers in the hot video game console market.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Microsoft announced that it was extending the warranty on Xbox 360 from 90 days to a year in the United States and Canada to entice buyers in the hot video game console market.</p><br clear="all"/>
Well-Known Developer Leaves Novell Over Microsoft Deal
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Jeremy Allison is leaving, apparently terming the Microsoft-Novell patent agreement a "mistake."
Microsoft Extends Warranty On Xbox 360
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The software maker said it was making the change to make the standard Xbox warranty consistent throughout the world.
Microsoft Bulks Up XBox 360 Warranty with Retroactive Offer
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Just in time for the last holiday-shopping push, Microsoft has extended the Xbox 360's warranty from 90 days to one year, providing its fan base with the same warranty length available with consoles from rivals Sony and Nintendo.
Microsoft Seeks RSS Patents; Blogosphere Worries
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Discovery of the patents has led to conjecture among tech bloggers that the software giant may someday try to seek payment for use of the technology, which is related to receiving and organizing news feeds through a Web browser.
Jeremy Allison Quits Novell in Protest over Microsoft Deal
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - A high-level programmer has resigned from Novell, citing the company's patent deal with Microsoft as the reason. The patent deal between Novell and Microsoft is designed to let the two companies collaborate on new technologies that will allow Microsoft's Windows to operate with Novell's SuSE Linux.
Web 'safe' mark may elude new merchants
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061225/ap_on_hi_te/internet_padlocks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061221/capt.njmd10112211736.internet_padlocks_njmd101.jpg?x=91&y=130&sig=f_3jGzMYHLDmu6w.QWxGng--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="Melih Abdulhayoglu, chief executive of Comodo, an e-commerce company, poses at headquarters in Jersey City, N.J., Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2006. Comodo was among the companies that helped reject the draft guidelines in November, preferring to wait until the group could figure out how to validate smaller merchants. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)" border="0" /></a>AP - As an online shopper, Claudia Race knows she must look out for scams. So as an Internet entrepreneur working out of her home in New Braunfels, Texas, Race wants to use all the tools available to assure customers they can trust the vacation-rentals service she is about to launch.</p><br clear="all"/>
Company develops virtual meal technology
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061225/ap_on_hi_te/virtual_family_dinners"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061223/capt.cx30212232016.virtual_family_dinners_cx302.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=Dd9oaIYEbmZKMmgkLekJ2A--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Accenture researchers Dadong Wan, right, and Adam Pilon, on screen, demonstrate a video-conferencing device Friday, Dec., 15, 2006, that allows families to dine together from different locations. Wan says his technology research company is developing a prototype called 'The Virtual Family Dinner' to bring family interactions back to extended family members, like the elderly, as often as desired. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey)" border="0" /></a>AP - Harvey Bumpus doesn't like to eat alone. But his wife died more than a year ago and his family is scattered across the country. Most nights, he heats up a simple meal of oatmeal or hot dogs and eats alone.</p><br clear="all"/>
'Safe' Web seal requires rigorous checks
(AP)
AP - Beginning next month, version 7 of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser will start flagging certain e-commerce and banking sites as green for "safe." The browser will look for an extended-validation certificate issued by any number of vendors.
Candidates turn to Web to reach voters
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061225/ap_on_el_ge/online_campaigns"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061223/capt.4bac5f1bb1a34af185937d1fbf7d91fc.geriatric_democrats_wx109.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=B_DK.0WiFnzYSYyCh8mSbA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., talks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington after attending a meeting between President Bush and members of Congress in this Dec. 6, 2006 file photo. McCain, at 70 considering a presidential bid, likes to make the case for experience by telling skeptics, 'I'm older than dirt, more scars than Frankenstein, but I learned a few things along the way.' (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Al Gore claimed he invented it. John McCain predicted it would revolutionize political campaigning. Howard Dean made it pay — and then some.</p><br clear="all"/>
Web site allows Iranian Jews to mourn
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061225/ap_on_hi_te/iranian_jewish_cemetery"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061223/capt.la10512230857.iranian_jewish_cemetery__la105.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=7FQelbzYcJ4dLoT6ba9NHw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Shahram Farzan poses in his Los Angeles office Dec. 20, 2006, with his website displaying photographs from a Jewish cemetery in Tehran. An Iranian cultural taboo that death and youth should be kept apart prevented Susan Manavi from ever visiting her grandparents' gravesite. But the Internet has allowed her to see her grandparents' headstones for the first time. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)" border="0" /></a>AP - As a young woman in Tehran during the 1970s, Susan Manavi never visited a cemetery, even after her grandparents were laid to rest a couple of years before Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. Although they were buried in a Jewish cemetery near the city, Manavi's parents adhered to an Iranian cultural taboo that death and youth should be kept apart, so as not to tempt fate.</p><br clear="all"/>
Cuban exiles send gifts home via Web
(AP)
AP - A small but growing number of Cubans in South Florida are getting around the U.S. embargo that limits what can be sent to the communist island by sending their Christmas gifts through foreign Internet sites.
Battery makers recharge their lineups
(AP)
AP - Batteries that can be recharged rather than tossed when the juice runs out are supposed to be more convenient for consumers. But for Wren Wright, they lose their power too quickly and unpredictably, sometimes leaving the shutterbug with a lifeless digital camera.
Opera Mobile Lands on Samsung Handsets
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Hot on the heels of a new partnership with Nintendo to offer the Opera Web browser for the Wii game console, Opera has announced plans to put its browser on Samsung phones.
Jeremy Allison Quits Novell in Protest over Microsoft Deal
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - A high-level programmer has resigned from Novell, citing the company's patent deal with Microsoft as the reason. The patent deal between Novell and Microsoft is designed to let the two companies collaborate on new technologies that will allow Microsoft's Windows to operate with Novell's SuSE Linux.
Microsoft Opens Vista Kernel to Rivals
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft sent some holiday cheer in the direction of security vendors this week by releasing new programming interfaces for developers working to create software that can interact with the Windows Vista kernel.
Web site allows Iranian Jews to mourn
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061225/ap_on_hi_te/iranian_jewish_cemetery"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061223/capt.la10512230857.iranian_jewish_cemetery__la105.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=7FQelbzYcJ4dLoT6ba9NHw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Shahram Farzan poses in his Los Angeles office Dec. 20, 2006, with his website displaying photographs from a Jewish cemetery in Tehran. An Iranian cultural taboo that death and youth should be kept apart prevented Susan Manavi from ever visiting her grandparents' gravesite. But the Internet has allowed her to see her grandparents' headstones for the first time. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)" border="0" /></a>AP - As a young woman in Tehran during the 1970s, Susan Manavi never visited a cemetery, even after her grandparents were laid to rest a couple of years before Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. Although they were buried in a Jewish cemetery near the city, Manavi's parents adhered to an Iranian cultural taboo that death and youth should be kept apart, so as not to tempt fate.</p><br clear="all"/>
Cuban exiles send gifts home via Web
(AP)
AP - A small but growing number of Cubans in South Florida are getting around the U.S. embargo that limits what can be sent to the communist island by sending their Christmas gifts through foreign Internet sites.
'Safe' Web seal requires rigorous checks
(AP)
AP - Beginning next month, version 7 of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser will start flagging certain e-commerce and banking sites as green for "safe." The browser will look for an extended-validation certificate issued by any number of vendors.
Web 'safe' mark may elude new merchants
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061225/ap_on_hi_te/internet_padlocks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061221/capt.njmd10112211736.internet_padlocks_njmd101.jpg?x=91&y=130&sig=f_3jGzMYHLDmu6w.QWxGng--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="Melih Abdulhayoglu, chief executive of Comodo, an e-commerce company, poses at headquarters in Jersey City, N.J., Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2006. Comodo was among the companies that helped reject the draft guidelines in November, preferring to wait until the group could figure out how to validate smaller merchants. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)" border="0" /></a>AP - As an online shopper, Claudia Race knows she must look out for scams. So as an Internet entrepreneur working out of her home in New Braunfels, Texas, Race wants to use all the tools available to assure customers they can trust the vacation-rentals service she is about to launch.</p><br clear="all"/>
AP Poll shows Santa is enduring
(AP)
AP - Santa has lots going against him — school-yard rumors, older brothers who think they know the deal and tattle to the young ones, errant price tags, the tell-all Internet and so many Made in China labels it seems the North Pole has outsourced to Asia.
U.S. Presidential Candidate Vilsack Seeks Patience, Feedback As He Learns To Vlog
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Vilsack, who is posting video blogs on YouTube and MySpace, admits he's not the most adept net-head ever.
Online sites offer help for holiday grief
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061222/wr_nm/holidays_grief_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061224/2006_12_23t171622_450x313_us_holidays_grief.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=gs_HwJEtDdbSHyYLpLwGFw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="As excitement over the holidays builds so does the dread for millions of people grieving loved ones, sparking a rush to Web sites offering advice on how to cope with what can be a blizzard of emotions. A candle is shown in this January 4, 2006, file photo. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - As excitement over
the holidays builds so does the dread for millions of people
grieving loved ones, sparking a rush to Web sites offering
advice on how to cope with what can be a blizzard of emotions.</p><br clear="all"/>
Broadband seen as big task for DirecTV under Malone
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061222/tc_nm/newscorp_libertymedia_directv_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061223/2006_12_22t162624_318x450_us_newscorp_libertymedia_directv.jpg?x=91&y=130&sig=VjFV4lGxXYHXW81829GKPw--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="Liberty Media Chairman John Malone is seen in Los Angeles in a file photo. When Malone takes control of satellite television operator DirecTV Group next year, finding a way to offer broadband Internet services will top his agenda, analysts said. (File/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - When Liberty Media Chairman John
Malone takes control of satellite television operator DirecTV
Group Inc. next year, finding a way to offer broadband
Internet services will top his agenda, analysts said.</p><br clear="all"/>
Westerberg puts screwdriver through hand: friend
(Reuters)
Reuters - Paul Westerberg severely injured his
left hand and could be sidelined for a year, according to a
blog posting from Jim Walsh, a Minneapolis writer and friend of
the former Replacements lead singer.
Santa's Web Site Hacked
(PC World)
PC World - Update: Hacked again--Even Santa isn't safe from spyware and viruses.
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