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Microsoft to offer Windows Vista online
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_vista"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070117/capt.nyr10701171932.microsoft_nortel_nyr107.jpg?x=84&y=130&sig=hyWmzXM2GaJKvTHuuN22nA--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="Mike Zafirovski, CEO of Nortel Networks Corp., discusses his company's innovative communications alliance with Microsoft Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007 in New York. Microsoft and Nortel are betting that companies will want high-tech products that integrate e-mail, instant messages, voice and video. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp. will make its new Windows Vista operating system available for sale and download online, marking a new step for the software company, which has previously sold Windows only on packaged discs or pre-loaded on computers.</p><br clear="all"/>
MS pushes premium versions of Vista, new purchasing options
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft wants to make sure consumers and small businesses know there are myriad ways they can acquire Windows Vista -- particularly in premium versions -- when it becomes generally available on Jan. 30.
Microsoft trots out online ad tools from its labs
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - At a time when it's losing ground in key areas of the online services market, Microsoft is parading several Internet advertising technologies it hopes will boost its revenue in this area.
Microsoft CEO Takes On Apple's iPhone
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Ballmer denounces the upcoming smartphone as uninteresting without the Apple name on it.
Microsoft, Nortel unveil ICA's first products
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft and Nortel Networks top executives unveiled on Wednesday the first offerings from a unified communications alliance the companies launched last July.
Microsoft, Nortel offer new products, services
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070117/wr_nm/nortel_microsoft_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070117/2007_01_17t133924_450x295_us_nortel_microsoft.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=Ot_FKEjA.RvZru8r73X1zA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Nortel executives are silhouetted during a video presentation at the telecom company's annual meeting of shareholders in Toronto June 29, 2006. Nortel Networks Corp. and Microsoft Corp. together rolled out a raft of products and services on Wednesday aimed at delivering business communications over software and Internet networks. (J. P. Moczulski/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Nortel Networks Corp. and Microsoft
Corp. together rolled out a raft of products and services on
Wednesday aimed at delivering business communications over
software and Internet networks.</p><br clear="all"/>
Vista Launches with Plenty of Third-Party Anti-virus Options
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Despite earlier fears that lack of communication between Microsoft and its security partners would delay the arrival of aftermarket security products for Windows Vista users, a range of software makers are already shipping products designed for the OS.
Internet Explorer 7 Hits 100 Million Mark
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - News has come from Microsoft this week that more than 100 million people have installed Internet Explorer 7 so far, making it the second most-used browser in the U.S., trailing only Internet Explorer 6.
Microsoft, HP, And First Data Partner On Point-Of-Sale System
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The system, with Microsoft software, First Data payment-processing, and Hewlett-Packard hardware, is designed for more than 2 million retailers who now operate with little more than a cash register and dial-up connection for credit card authorization.
Microsoft Partners With Teradata In Business Intelligence
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The two companies are working to integrate Teradata's Enterprise Data Warehouse with Microsoft's SQL Server Analysis Services.
Apple reports record 1Q profit
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_hi_te/earns_apple"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070117/capt.caps10501171704.earns_apple_caps105.jpg?x=111&y=130&sig=Zi6VSbc0pb56HIZBKo4aSw--" align="left" height="130" width="111" alt="A customer plays a Apple Red iPod Nano at an Apple Store in Palo Alto, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007. Apple Inc. is expected to provide clarity on how well its products, especially the iPod player, fared during the holiday period when it reports its fiscal first-quarter earnings. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - With the iPod juggernaut still soaring, Apple Inc. reaped record profits during the holiday quarter and stands to remain a Wall Street darling despite issuing a second-quarter forecast that fell below analyst expectations.</p><br clear="all"/>
EBay heightens security precautions
(AP)
AP - Executives at eBay Inc. are touting security as their top priority in 2007 after an internal survey showed that online scammers may be denting the company's reputation.
Microsoft to offer Windows Vista online
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_vista"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070117/capt.nyr10701171932.microsoft_nortel_nyr107.jpg?x=84&y=130&sig=hyWmzXM2GaJKvTHuuN22nA--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="Mike Zafirovski, CEO of Nortel Networks Corp., discusses his company's innovative communications alliance with Microsoft Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007 in New York. Microsoft and Nortel are betting that companies will want high-tech products that integrate e-mail, instant messages, voice and video. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp. will make its new Windows Vista operating system available for sale and download online, marking a new step for the software company, which has previously sold Windows only on packaged discs or pre-loaded on computers.</p><br clear="all"/>
Skype to launch domestic calling plans
(AP)
AP - The Internet phone service Skype is introducing new domestic calling plans for 24 countries, plus Hong Kong, where users will pay a monthly subscription and a connection fee but no per-minute charges.
Review: Alltel Celltop program simplified
(AP)
AP - It remains to be seen whether the iPhone can bring Apple's simplifying magic to the mobile torture known as using the Internet on a cell phone.
NETeller quits U.S. after illegal gambling arrests
(Reuters)
Reuters - British money transfer firm NETeller Plc
closed its U.S. Internet gambling services on Thursday, wiping
out over 65 percent of its business, after two of the group's
founders were arrested there this week.
Apple's iPod takes on global currency markets
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070118/tc_nm/ipod_currencies_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070118/2007_01_18t023741_300x450_us_ipod_currencies.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=RVYnIpzNp02Te36XJNVuvA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="The new iPod nano is displayed at the Paris Apple Expo, September 13, 2006. Having already stormed world fashion, Apple's hip iPod music player is finally making its presence felt in global currency markets. (Charles Platiau/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Having already stormed world fashion,
Apple's hip iPod music player is finally making its presence
felt in global currency markets.</p><br clear="all"/>
Alltel unveils easier-to-use cell phone interface
(Reuters)
Reuters - Alltel Corp. , the biggest rural
U.S. wireless provider, said on Thursday it revamped its cell
phone user interface to make it easier for consumers to
navigate wireless data applications.
NetBeans adds ties to devices, ALM
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems will advance the NetBeans open-source tools platform on devices and the application lifecycle management (ALM) front on Thursday.
DVD security group probes hacker report
(AP)
AP - A business group behind copy-protection software for next-generation DVDs was investigating reports that hackers found a way to circumvent its technology, a group member said Wednesday.
NETeller quits U.S. after illegal gambling arrests
(Reuters)
Reuters - British money transfer firm NETeller Plc
closed its U.S. Internet gambling services on Thursday, wiping
out over 65 percent of its business, after two of the group's
founders were arrested there this week.
Skype to launch domestic calling plans
(AP)
AP - The Internet phone service Skype is introducing new domestic calling plans for 24 countries, plus Hong Kong, where users will pay a monthly subscription and a connection fee but no per-minute charges.
Review: Alltel Celltop program simplified
(AP)
AP - It remains to be seen whether the iPhone can bring Apple's simplifying magic to the mobile torture known as using the Internet on a cell phone.
Microsoft to offer Windows Vista online
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_vista"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070117/capt.nyr10701171932.microsoft_nortel_nyr107.jpg?x=84&y=130&sig=hyWmzXM2GaJKvTHuuN22nA--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="Mike Zafirovski, CEO of Nortel Networks Corp., discusses his company's innovative communications alliance with Microsoft Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007 in New York. Microsoft and Nortel are betting that companies will want high-tech products that integrate e-mail, instant messages, voice and video. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp. will make its new Windows Vista operating system available for sale and download online, marking a new step for the software company, which has previously sold Windows only on packaged discs or pre-loaded on computers.</p><br clear="all"/>
EBay heightens security precautions
(AP)
AP - Executives at eBay Inc. are touting security as their top priority in 2007 after an internal survey showed that online scammers may be denting the company's reputation.
Expedia partners with top China hotel operator
(Reuters)
Reuters - Expedia, the top U.S. online travel
agency, has partnered with China's biggest hotel operator, Jin
Jiang Hotels, to expand its presence in the country's booming
tourism sector.
First lady: Do more to stop child porn
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_go_pr_wh/laura_bush_france"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070117/i/r3903614080.jpg?x=130&y=77&sig=qGHyA85JapJI.izXcKP8yg--" align="left" height="77" width="130" alt="ATTENTION EDITORS - CAPTION CORRECTION - CORRECTING TITLE OF JOLANTA KWASNIEWSKA
(From L-R): Former Poland First Lady Jolanta Kwasniewska of Poland, First Ladies Laura Bush of the U.S., Suzanne Mubarak of Egypt, Queen Silvia of Sweden, First Lady Bernadette Chirac of France, Queen Paola of Belgium, First Lady Lyudmila Putina of Russia, Margarida Sousa Barroso, wife of EU Commission's President Jose Manuel Barroso, and St. Petersburg's Governor Valentina Matviyenko pose in front of the Elysee Palace before the meeting of the International centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) in Paris January 17, 2007. REUTERS/ Jacky Naegelen (FRANCE)" border="0" /></a>AP - Laura Bush said at a gathering of first ladies Wednesday that police must work with counterparts in other countries to keep children safe from abuse and Internet pornographers.</p><br clear="all"/>
Judge sets $5 mln bail for one NETeller founder
(Reuters)
Reuters - A U.S. judge set bail at $5 million
for one of the two founders of UK online money transfer company
NETeller who are accused of illegally laundering Internet
gambling proceeds, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Sprint sees 'open' model for WiMax
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Sprint Nextel wants its WiMax wireless service to look more like home broadband and less like cellular, but it may take a while to get there.
Microsoft trots out online ad tools from its labs
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - At a time when it's losing ground in key areas of the online services market, Microsoft is parading several Internet advertising technologies it hopes will boost its revenue in this area.
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