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Microsoft Compute Cluster OS now on SGI servers
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Silicon Graphics (SGI) is now offering servers running Windows CCS (Compute Cluster Server) 2003 to make it more competitive in the HPC (high-performance computing) market.
Microsoft previews next version of Dynamics CRM
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft is previewing the next major version of its Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management) software, code-named "Titan," with a growing number of its partners in the run-up to the mid-2007 product release.
Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony Sued over Game Controllers
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Texas-based Fenner Investments is suing the big three game console makers -- Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony -- for violating a patent covering a "Low-Voltage Joystick Port Interface."
Microsoft Enlists SGI In Supercomputing Software Push
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft's Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 software will be offered on SGI's Altix XE systems, in a bid to broaden SGI's reach in the high-performance computing market.
Microsoft Patches Mac Office
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The updates to Office 2004 for Mac and Office v.X for Mac released Tuesday patched five vulnerabilities in the suites' Excel spreadsheet.
Microsoft Pushes Digital-Auto Future
(PC World)
PC World - High tech connectivity makes the move to gas pumps and low-cost autos.
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.
Electronics show overshadowed by Apple
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_on_hi_te/gadget_show_roundup"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070111/capt.nvjh10601112207.gadget_show_nvjh106.jpg?x=130&y=81&sig=kk4M9Fy9dON_j2WCUEnJvQ--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Chi-Yuan Hsu,left, and Toru Mihara,right,look at Sharp's 108-inch LCD television at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)" border="0" /></a>AP - As this week's International Consumer Electronics Show prepared to close here, much of the buzz on the convention floor focused on products introduced 600 miles away by Apple Inc.</p><br clear="all"/>
iTunes to sell short films from Sundance
(AP)
AP - Nearly half of the short films being screened at this month's Sundance Film Festival will be available for purchase at Apple's iTunes store under a deal announced Friday.
Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_on_hi_te/cisco_apple"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070111/capt.caps10201110552.apple_cisco_caps102.jpg?x=92&y=130&sig=kmULMkuf5fKTQJoS3yWI8g--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="Apple CEO Steve Jobs is shown during his keynote address at MacWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007. Cisco Systems sued Apple Inc. in federal court Wednesday Jan. 10, 2007, saying the computer maker's new iPhone violates its trademark. The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco federal court, came just a day after Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPhone in dramatic fashion at a trade show in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - What's a name worth? To find out, Cisco Systems Inc. and Apple Inc. may spend millions of dollars in a high-stakes legal battle — and the winner could walk away with the rights to the coveted name "iPhone."</p><br clear="all"/>
Blog wields power in restaurant world
(AP)
AP - Ben Leventhal and Lockhart Steele are a pair of bloggers fighting a guerrilla war against the city's publicists. Nearly every day, the two provide restaurant information on their popular Web site, Eater.com., posting tidbits that publicists aren't ready to release and traditional journalists haven't managed to print.
Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony Sued over Game Controllers
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Texas-based Fenner Investments is suing the big three game console makers -- Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony -- for violating a patent covering a "Low-Voltage Joystick Port Interface."
Doctor charged with illegal prescribing over Internet
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - An Illinois doctor was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in prison for illegally prescribing drugs over the Internet, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Canon to make SED TVs alone: paper
(Reuters)
Reuters - Canon Inc. (7751.T) will make a new type
of ultra-thin flat-panel TV on its own, buying out Toshiba
Corp.'s (6502.T) stake in their joint venture to resolve a
patent dispute, the Nikkei business daily said in its Friday
evening edition.
Cingular rebranding at AT&T set to begin
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_on_bi_ge/at_t_cingular_rebranding"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070110/capt.caps11101102114.apple_at_t_cooperation_caps111.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=GO0FhgWoDba09rxFIQo_cA--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Apple CEO Steve Jobs, left, and Cingular CEO Stan Sigman, right, shake hands under a Cingular logo, left, and AT&T logo, right, during Jobs' keynote address at MacWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007. Apple's iPhone is billed as a revolutionary 'smart phone' for consumers, but business experts worry that the vaunted gadget could spark a civil war between the strikingly dissimilar companies behind it. Apple is a renegade Silicon Valley institution that's managed to stay both slick and scrappy, a company whose first prototype was built in Steve Jobs' garage in the 1970s. Cingular Wireless is owned by AT&T, which traces its roots to the '70s, to the 1870s. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - Three years after AT&T Wireless subscribers found their cell-phone carrier was now Cingular Wireless, Cingular Wireless subscribers will soon be learning to call their carrier AT&T.</p><br clear="all"/>
Mozilla Tweaks Firefox 3.0 Feature Set
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Among the features currently pegged as must-haves by Mozilla for Firefox 3 are an overhaul of the browser's bookmark system and new identity management tools.
Tibco backs BPEL 2.0 in ESB
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Tibco Software on Thursday upgraded its BusinessWorks enterprise service bus to leverage the Web Services BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) 2.0 specification.
Blog wields power in restaurant world
(AP)
AP - Ben Leventhal and Lockhart Steele are a pair of bloggers fighting a guerrilla war against the city's publicists. Nearly every day, the two provide restaurant information on their popular Web site, Eater.com., posting tidbits that publicists aren't ready to release and traditional journalists haven't managed to print.
Doctor charged with illegal prescribing over Internet
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - An Illinois doctor was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in prison for illegally prescribing drugs over the Internet, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Apple ad suggests iPhone will have Arm inside
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - What processor will the iPhone use? That's one of the great unanswered questions left in the wake of Apple's launch of the iPhone this week, but a job ad on Apple's Web site may hint at the answer.
Is Google Falsely Flagging Harmless Sites?
(PC World)
PC World - Web site operators say Google is mistakenly warning users that visiting some sites in search results may be dangerous.
Chinese Web could remain slow until late January
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070111/tc_afp/asiaquakeinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070111/capt.sge.hhz86.110107182606.photo00.photo.default-512x328.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=qXPbBvjG9qMRdy.93NlkzQ--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="A woman talks on the telephone between desktop computer monitors at a repair shop in Beijing in December 2006. Repair crews might need until late January to fully restore Chinese Internet services after damage to telecom lines from an undersea earthquake was found to be worse than first thought, state media said.(AFP/File/Frederic J Brown)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Repair crews might need until late January to fully restore Chinese Internet services after damage to telecom lines from an undersea earthquake was found to be worse than first thought, state media said.</p><br clear="all"/>
Porn makers tap into Internet social networking trend
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070111/tc_afp/afpentertainmentussexfilmshowinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070111/capt.sge.hhu43.110107180619.photo00.photo.default-512x351.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=zaV17eUZ8L7NSzrHqL4qQQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A porn actress performs for attendees visiting a pornographic website booth at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The AVN-AEE, billed as the largest tradeshow for adult entertainment in the world, runs from 10-13 January.(AFP/Robyn Beck)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Porn makers at the world's largest sex trade show in Las Vegas on Wednesday were taking a page from Internet superstars such as YouTube by tapping into the power of social networking.</p><br clear="all"/>
Bloggers gain access to "Scooter" Libby trial
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070111/wr_nm/media_courts_blogs_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070111/2007_01_11t125200_450x306_us_media_courts_blogs.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=8382KYBv.l6G9DUrrbHuPw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Lewis 'Scooter' Libby (C), former aide to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, leaves the federal court in Washington February 24, 2006. Internet bloggers will be allowed to cover the criminal trial of Libby alongside reporters from traditional media outlets, a court spokesman said on Thursday. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Internet bloggers will be allowed to
cover the criminal trial of former White House staffer Lewis
"Scooter" Libby alongside reporters from traditional media
outlets, a court spokesman said on Thursday.</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/chinainternetbloggers2"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070111/capt.sge.hhb11.110107170403.photo00.photo.default-367x512.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=8.UJOFyMhMwEjAzvf7ItWA--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Chinese woman surfs the Internet at a Beijing coffe shop. 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.(AFP/File/Goh Chai Hin)" 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"/>
BBC to develop social networking Web sites
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070111/wr_nm/bbc_online_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070111/2007_01_11t084647_450x310_uk_bbc_online.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=fSyiuB264tWJmzA7w1ImpA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A BBC logo is seen at the company's main offices, in west London December 7, 2004. The British Broadcasting Corporation plans to develop its online presence by providing social networking sites based on its most popular brands such as Top Gear, a BBC spokeswoman said on Thursday. (Toby Melville/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The British Broadcasting Corporation
plans to develop its online presence by providing social
networking sites based on its most popular brands such as Top
Gear, a BBC spokeswoman said on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google irks Web site owners over malware alerts
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Some Web site operators are complaining that Google is flagging their sites as containing malicious software when they believe their sites are harmless.
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