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Microsoft drives move to digital-enabled cars
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft Corp. spoke a lot about technology that would enable the digital home at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week. But company partners are using Microsoft's software to extend digital connectivity to the automobile, and some showed their wares in Las Vegas at the annual conference.
NSA helped Microsoft make Vista secure
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The U.S. agency best known for eavesdropping on telephone calls had a hand in the development of Microsoft's Vista operating system, Microsoft confirmed Tuesday.
Microsoft, Liberty Alliance In Informal Talks On ID Management Standards
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The two sides seem to recognize it's in both of their interests to drive clarity in the marketplace.
Microsoft: Home Server Sports Serious Security
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Windows Home Server will include security features taken from Windows Server 2003, but won't work as a central distributor for patches to PCs on the home network.
Microsoft Confirms NSA's Role in Windows Vista Security
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - News emerged this week that top cryptologists at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) had a hand in some of the security features in Microsoft's new operating system, Windows Vista.
Google, Microsoft Improve Online Mapping Apps
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Google Earth and Virtual Earth are desktop applications the two rivals offer for download at no charge.
Microsoft boosts Virtual Earth's imagery
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - To sharpen the quality of images in its Virtual Earth mapping application, Microsoft has signed a deal with DigitalGlobe's GlobeXplorer, a provider of aerial and satellite photos.
Microsoft Leaves Critical Word Flaws Unpatched
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - On Tuesday, Microsoft released its monthly round of patches to fix vulnerabilities in Windows and Office, but conspicuously absent were fixes for two known flaws in the widely used Microsoft Word application.
Microsoft starts "watershed" year with Vista buzz
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070110/bs_nm/electronics_show_microsoft_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070111/capt.cadd11401110418.ces_gadget_show_cadd114.jpg?x=130&y=102&sig=wg_Ny7nGOwaUlCTRDcN5zg--" align="left" height="102" width="130" alt="New York Times senior project manager Nicole Mobley demonstrates Times Reader, new technology which allows Windows Vista operating system users to read The Times electronically on- or offline, in a format that automatically adjusts to fit any size screen, in the Microsoft booth at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Fortunes can change quickly in Las
Vegas. Just ask Microsoft Corp.</p><br clear="all"/>
NSA Helped Microsoft Make Vista Secure
(PC World)
PC World - The National Security Agency worked with Microsoft so that the OS could meet Department of Defense requirements.
Cisco sues Apple over use of iPhone name
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070111/ap_on_hi_te/cisco_apple"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070109/capt.caps12601092127.apple_macworld_caps126.jpg?x=96&y=130&sig=QJCEhh_MBiXGdIUAKmH9xw--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="In this undated photo provided by Apple, Apple's new iPhone is shown that was introduced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs during keynote address at MacWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Apple, ho)" border="0" /></a>AP - Apple Inc.'s much-ballyhooed iPhone was unveiled this week after 30 months and millions of dollars in top-secret development. But the sleek new iPod-cellular phone combination could wind up costing the company a lot more.</p><br clear="all"/>
U.S. warns about Canadian spy coins
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070111/ap_on_hi_te/spy_coins"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070110/capt.3e601fd202f6424288eb18332f6bf4ad.spy_coins_wx109.jpg?x=130&y=109&sig=xB64qcGAr3U7khO6Z8Ypug--" align="left" height="109" width="130" alt="This photo released by the Central Intelligence Agency shows a hollow container, fashioned to look like an Eisenhower silver dollar, which is still used to hide and send messages, or film, without being detected. Because it resembles ordinary pocket change, it is virtually undetectable as a concealment device. (AP Photo/CIA)" border="0" /></a>AP - Money talks, but can it also follow your movements?</p><br clear="all"/>
EBay buying StubHub for $310M in cash
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070111/ap_on_hi_te/ebay_stubhub"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070110/capt.fx10701102232.ebay_stubhub_fx107.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=xiceEiAmikMvAswm0u08uw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="StubHub Inc. CEO Jeff Fluhr is photographed at his company's headquarters in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2006. Internet auctioneer eBay Inc. is on the verge of buying the rapidly growing online ticket reseller for about $300 million in cash, according to a person close to the deal. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0" /></a>AP - EBay Inc. is buying rapidly growing online ticket broker StubHub Inc. for $310 million in cash, further expanding the Internet auctioneer's electronic bazaar.</p><br clear="all"/>
Gadgets: SideShow notebook, new charger
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070111/ap_on_hi_te/gadget_show_notebook"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070111/i/r3284455444.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=mXvp0E8lTOo.9GFLDDOqzw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="The Tornado file transfer tool is displayed during the 2007 International CES in Las Vegas, Nevada January 10, 2007. The autoloading, autorunning file transfer device allows users to transfer files from one computer to another. The Tornado, retailing at $59.95, was the winner of Yahoo's 'Last Gadget Standing' competition. REUTERS/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES)" border="0" /></a>AP - Laptop users who forget to print out addresses or meeting room numbers don't have to wait for their laptops to boot up to check the information.</p><br clear="all"/>
AAA unveils online gas station locator
(AP)
AP - The automobile club AAA is encouraging motorists to log on to find gas stations along their route and avoid becoming among the more than 2.5 million people who will need emergency fuel delivery this year.
China's blogging population reaches 20 million
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070111/tc_afp/chinainternetbloggers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070111/capt.sge.hbj56.110107075606.photo00.quicklook.default-245x169.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=yKzQ_V0XNBX7Leb5lJF3oQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A group of Chinese schoolchildren, some of them skipping school to play computer games, at an Internet bar in Xian, in northern China's Shaanxi province. The number of Internet bloggers in China reached 20.8 million at the end of 2006, with more than three million web-users regularly posting their writings, state press reported.(AFP)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The number of Internet bloggers in China reached 20.8 million at the end of 2006, with more than three million web-users regularly posting their writings, state press said.</p><br clear="all"/>
Skype says time is not ripe for cellphone version
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070111/wr_nm/electronics_show_skype_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070111/2007_01_10t220322_450x327_us_electronics_show_skype.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=u28nlNMaF8K4UyT3uDnYww--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom in Paris, May 25, 2005. EBay Inc's Skype believes the cell phone world is not ready for a version of its Internet telephone service that can be downloaded on any mobile phone, because of high carrier charges, the company's hardware and software business development chief said on Wednesday. (Mal Langsdon/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - EBay Inc's Skype believes the cell
phone world is not ready for a version of its Internet
telephone service that can be downloaded on any mobile phone,
because of high carrier charges, the company's hardware and
software business development chief said on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Ads tested in LA airport security trays
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070111/ap_on_bi_ge/airport_security_ads"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070110/capt.caaj10301102110.airport_security_ads_caaj103.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=f3glIkLms_X0gWlXBRQiWQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Mary-Carroll Lee ties her shoe Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007, after having gone through a security screening that uses new trays with advertising that is being used by the Transportation Security Administration at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles. The TSA stands to save millions through the program that requires advertising companies to provide screeners new trays and other items, said Doug Linehan, operations chief for SecurityPoint Media, the St. Petersburg, Fla., company that devised the program. (AP Photo/Ann Johansson)" border="0" /></a>AP - Travelers nationwide could soon see ads for laptops, expensive cars and other products in the trays that carry their shoes and cell phones through X-ray machines at airport security checkpoints.</p><br clear="all"/>
Motorola music handset marries Microsoft, Linux
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Motorola announced a new music-enabled mobile phone Monday that syncs its Linux OS with Microsoft's Windows Media Player on Windows XP, as well as PCs running Vista.
Infosys Q3 profit rises, but market unimpressed
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070111/bs_nm/infosys_results_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070111/2007_01_11t043402_353x450_us_infosys_results.jpg?x=101&y=130&sig=nn6dCdul2W_lgisrVjW9RA--" align="left" height="130" width="101" alt="President, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Infosys Technologies, Nandan M. Nilekani, presents results to experts, analysts and the media at the Infosys campus, in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, January 11, 2007. (Jagadeesh NV/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - BANGALORE (Reuters) -Infosys Technologies Ltd. ,
India's second-largest software exporter, posted a 51.5 percent
rise in third-quarter profit as it won more business in Europe,
but its shares dropped as the market had hoped for better
results and a stronger outlook.</p><br clear="all"/>
China's blogging population reaches 20 million
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070111/tc_afp/chinainternetbloggers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070111/capt.sge.hbj56.110107075606.photo00.quicklook.default-245x169.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=yKzQ_V0XNBX7Leb5lJF3oQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A group of Chinese schoolchildren, some of them skipping school to play computer games, at an Internet bar in Xian, in northern China's Shaanxi province. The number of Internet bloggers in China reached 20.8 million at the end of 2006, with more than three million web-users regularly posting their writings, state press reported.(AFP)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The number of Internet bloggers in China reached 20.8 million at the end of 2006, with more than three million web-users regularly posting their writings, state press said.</p><br clear="all"/>
AAA unveils online gas station locator
(AP)
AP - The automobile club AAA is encouraging motorists to log on to find gas stations along their route and avoid becoming among the more than 2.5 million people who will need emergency fuel delivery this year.
RottenTomatoes' top seeds: "Casino," "Queen"
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070111/en_nm/tomatoes_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070111/2007_01_10t224907_450x313_us_tomatoes.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=ArAmFEv5j7Q_D7rFZWvUdw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="A scene from 'Casino Royale' in a photo courtesy of MGM/Columbia Pictures. The film was the best-reviewed wide-release of the year, according to RottenTomatoes.com, which aggregates reviews online. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - "Casino Royale" and "The
Queen" were the two best-reviewed films of 2006, according to
RottenTomatoes.com, which aggregates reviews online.</p><br clear="all"/>
Skype says time is not ripe for cellphone version
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070111/wr_nm/electronics_show_skype_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070111/2007_01_10t220322_450x327_us_electronics_show_skype.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=u28nlNMaF8K4UyT3uDnYww--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom in Paris, May 25, 2005. EBay Inc's Skype believes the cell phone world is not ready for a version of its Internet telephone service that can be downloaded on any mobile phone, because of high carrier charges, the company's hardware and software business development chief said on Wednesday. (Mal Langsdon/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - EBay Inc's Skype believes the cell
phone world is not ready for a version of its Internet
telephone service that can be downloaded on any mobile phone,
because of high carrier charges, the company's hardware and
software business development chief said on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
eBay to buy ticketer StubHub for $310 million
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070111/wr_nm/stubhub_ebay_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070111/2007_01_10t205832_450x313_us_stubhub_ebay.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=q1U_mZ2Rq97s2f2UfsDBwg--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="NFL fans in a file photo. Online auctioneer eBay has agreed to buy sports ticket reseller StubHub for $310 million in cash, the companies said on Wednesday, confirming an earlier report the deal was imminent. (Tami Chappell/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Online auctioneer eBay Inc. has
agreed to buy sports ticket reseller StubHub for $310 million
in cash, the companies said on Wednesday, confirming an earlier
report the deal was imminent.</p><br clear="all"/>
Analyst raises Blockbuster price target
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070111/media_nm/blockbuster_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070104/i/r2673403090.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=TgycuvbrpIWo8PyYyfzFlw--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="A Blockbuster video store in an undated photo. The movie rental company said on Wednesday that it reached a year-end goal of 2 million online subscribers, sending its shares up more than 6 percent. REUTERS/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Blockbuster Inc. shares rose nearly
7 percent on Wednesday after the movie rental company disclosed
strong growth in its online subscriber base and an analyst
raised his price target for the company.</p><br clear="all"/>
New PayPal key to help thwart phishers
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Over the next few months, Ebay will be offering its PayPal users a new tool in the fight against phishers: a $5 security key.
EBay buying StubHub for $310M in cash
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070111/ap_on_hi_te/ebay_stubhub"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070110/capt.fx10701102232.ebay_stubhub_fx107.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=xiceEiAmikMvAswm0u08uw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="StubHub Inc. CEO Jeff Fluhr is photographed at his company's headquarters in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2006. Internet auctioneer eBay Inc. is on the verge of buying the rapidly growing online ticket reseller for about $300 million in cash, according to a person close to the deal. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0" /></a>AP - EBay Inc. is buying rapidly growing online ticket broker StubHub Inc. for $310 million in cash, further expanding the Internet auctioneer's electronic bazaar.</p><br clear="all"/>
eBay confirms plans to buy StubHub for $310 million
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070111/tc_nm/stubhub_ebay_confirmation_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070111/capt.fx10901110018.ebay_stubhub_fx109.jpg?x=82&y=130&sig=UB.uRTNBfgftU7UL6yOazQ--" align="left" height="130" width="82" alt="StubHub Inc. CEO Jeff Fluhr is photographed at his company's headquarters in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2006. Internet auctioneer eBay Inc. is on the verge of buying the rapidly growing online ticket reseller StubHub Inc. for about $300 million in cash, according to a person close to the deal. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Online auctioneer eBay Inc.
said on Wednesday its plans to buy sports ticket
reseller StubHub for around $310 million in cash, confirming an
earlier report that the deal was imminent.</p><br clear="all"/>
New app enables music streaming to PCs
(AP)
AP - A new online music service lets people share music stored on their PCs with other computer users or those with Web-enabled mobile phones.
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