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Windows Vista Release Will Create 5,000 New Tech Jobs in Massachusetts, Says Study
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The study, commissioned by Microsoft, estimates that more than 6,500 companies in Massachusetts will be involved in the production, sales, or distribution of Vista-related products.
Key Linux Foundations Set To Merge
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - As Microsoft prepares to release Windows Vista to the masses, disparate Linux camps are banding together to prepare a counterattack. The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) is merging with the Free Standards Group (FSG) to form The Linux Foundation.
One Week To Go Before Vista Debut
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Software launches are not usually met with kind of glitzy fanfare and long lines normally expected of new Star Wars films or game console launches. But major retailers, including Best Buy and CompUSA, are hoping to spark a new level of excitement as they prepare for the January 30 consumer release of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows Vista.
Vista's coming, so how should PC users handle it?
(USATODAY.com)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20070122/tc_usatoday/vistascomingsohowshouldpcusershandleit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070122/capt.dn10201221604.windows_vista_retailers_dn102.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=NkOI5RsVey384Kc1Fc78wg--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="A display promoting Microsoft Corps. upcoming release of the Windows Vista operating system is seen at a CompUSA store in Frisco, Texas, Friday, Jan. 19, 2007. Some retailers are planning to use tactics normally reserved for must-have electronics gadgets such as new video-game consoles when the Windows Vista computer operating system goes on sale to the public next week. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)" border="0" /></a>USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - It is the countdown to Microsoft's most important product launch in at least five years and Microsoft has sky-high hopes. It expects Windows Vista to be its most successful PC operating system yet. But the sheer size of the next-generation software - it packs dozens of new features - and lingering questions over security have caused anxiety among some business and home users.</p><br clear="all"/>
IBM Renews Microsoft Rivalry With Social-Networking Software
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - IBM's Lotus unit will introduce Monday a set of social networking services that functions like a MySpace for office workers.
Microsoft offers Vista preview to fight piracy
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft is offering a free online "test drive" of its Windows Vista OS in its latest effort to fight software piracy and counterfeiting.
Microsoft's Allchin proposed support for iPod
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - A senior Microsoft executive was so frustrated by his experience with digital music players made by global partners that he proposed turning to Apple's iPod for salvation, documents made public as part of an Iowa antitrust case reveal.
IBM renews Microsoft rivalry with new Web software
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070122/wr_nm/ibm_web_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070122/2007_01_22t113709_450x289_us_ibm_web.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=qLT55arK5ei6O2tScMl0qg--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="The IBM logo in Paris in a file photo. IBM's Lotus unit will introduce on Monday a set of social networking services that functions like a MySpace for office workers and which analysts say marks a renewed challenge to Microsoft. (Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - IBM's Lotus unit will introduce
on Monday a set of social networking services that functions
like a MySpace for office workers and which analysts say marks
a renewed challenge to Microsoft Corp..</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Plans Downloadable Versions Of Windows Vista, Office
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft plans for the first time to make its new Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity suite available for downloading by PC users over the Internet.
Numbers behind Windows 95, Vista
(AP)
AP - Some numbers behind Microsoft Corp.'s evolution from Windows 95 to this month's consumer release of Windows Vista:
Sun, Intel to partner on server chips
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070123/ap_on_bi_ge/sun_intel"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070122/capt.caps10101221922.sun_intel_caps101.jpg?x=130&y=102&sig=Wd1dXLx8hgFMn9b3QxSLAw--" align="left" height="102" width="130" alt="Intel CEO and president Paul Otellini, right, and Sun Microsystems CEO and president Jonathan Schwartz, left, shake hands during a joint news conference in San Francisco, Monday, Jan. 22, 2007. Sun Microsystems has agreed to use chips from Intel Corp. in some of its servers and for Intel to endorse Sun's Solaris operating system, both companies said Monday. The deal marks a major design win for Intel, the world's largest computer chip maker, which has been fighting to reverse plunging profits and regain market share lost to archrival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - The new alliance between Sun Microsystems Inc. and Intel Corp. joins two storied Silicon Valley companies with recent financial woes in a battle for the lucrative market for corporate servers and software.</p><br clear="all"/>
MySpace to distribute Amber alerts
(AP)
AP - The social-networking Web site MySpace.com will now distribute Amber alerts to members notifying them of missing children in their communities.
Dell opens business center in Malaysia
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070123/ap_on_hi_te/malaysia_dell"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070123/capt.tok10501230600.malaysia_dell_tok105.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=KGSiLdy47B95LkwVgQDdUA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this file photo provided by Dell Computers service technicians at Dell staff the company's newest Enterprise Command Center (ECC) which opened Jan. 26, 2006 in Penang, Malaysia. U.S. computer maker Dell Inc. on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007, opened its first global business center outside the United States to provide 24-hour engineering and technology support to its branches worldwide. (AP Photo/Dell Inc., HO, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Computer maker Dell Inc. on Tuesday opened its first global business center outside the United States to provide 24-hour engineering and technology support to its branches worldwide.</p><br clear="all"/>
Venture capitalist invested $25B in 2006
(AP)
AP - Venture capitalists invested $25.5 billion in 2006, marking the industry's biggest burst of dealmaking since the dot-com bust clogged the financial spigot for entrepreneurs five years ago.
MySpace sues Colo. man for alleged spam
(AP)
AP - The popular online hangout MySpace.com has sued a Colorado man once accused of being one of the world's top three spammers, saying the man gained access to MySpace profiles using stolen passwords and used the information to send spam bulletins.
China's Baidu receives license to provide news
(Reuters)
Reuters - Chinese Internet search leader
Baidu.com Inc. has received a news service license from
Beijing, which will allow the firm known as "China's Google" to
become a fully-fledged online news portal, government and
industry sources said on Tuesday.
Parallels acknowledges ownership by SWSoft
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Parallels, which makes Parallels Desktop for Mac software, acknowledged Monday that it is owned by SWSoft after a report in Fortune magazine broke news of the relationship between the companies.
Texas Instruments 4Q earnings up 2 pct.
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070123/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_texas_instruments"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070122/capt.dn10401221932.earns_texas_instruments_dn104.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=fq9pOiOPHGB9CpqOKL9TRg--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="A view of an entrance to Texas Instruments complex is seen in Dallas, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007. Texas Instruments Inc. releases fourth-quarter earnings after the bell. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)" border="0" /></a>AP - Texas Instruments Inc. is planning to close a small digital chip fabrication plant and make other changes to increase efficiency and profitability as it faces challenges from customers asking for less inventory and a wireless market skewing toward low-priced, basic-featured cell phones.</p><br clear="all"/>
Oracle Beefs Up Linux Support With Management Tools
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - No extra charge for Unbreakable Linux support customers.
PSI sues IBM for right to share System z
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Mainframe computer vendor Platform Solutions Inc. (PSI) has countersued IBM, saying the giant company should not have accused it of infringing patents when it created computers that allow customers to run IBM's System z operating system and software on mainframes from other vendors.
China's Baidu receives license to provide news
(Reuters)
Reuters - Chinese Internet search leader
Baidu.com Inc. has received a news service license from
Beijing, which will allow the firm known as "China's Google" to
become a fully-fledged online news portal, government and
industry sources said on Tuesday.
MySpace to send U.S. users missing children alerts
(Reuters)
Reuters - Popular online social network MySpace
said on Tuesday it will begin sending online alerts to users in
certain U.S. regions to help find missing children as part of
an expansion of plans to expand safeguards for users.
Media can learn from White House hopefuls
(Reuters)
Reuters - What do Hillary Clinton
announcing her presidential candidacy on her Web site and the
continuing travails of big media's digital transformation have
in common? Plenty.
MySpace to distribute Amber alerts
(AP)
AP - The social-networking Web site MySpace.com will now distribute Amber alerts to members notifying them of missing children in their communities.
SPECIAL REPORT: Can Online Ads Save Us?
(Editor and Publisher)
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Staff cuts, shrinking newsholes, angry investors, plummeting circulation, pessimistic analysts, stagnant print advertising revenue -- the business model that has sustained the newspaper industry for more than a century is now in flux. To prosper, or at the very least survive, newspaper owners and publishers are increasingly banking on the rapid advertising growth of their Web sites.
SuccessFactors Launches Simplicity Lab
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The online human resource management software provider takes a different approach to end user experiences.
MySpace sues Colo. man for alleged spam
(AP)
AP - The popular online hangout MySpace.com has sued a Colorado man once accused of being one of the world's top three spammers, saying the man gained access to MySpace profiles using stolen passwords and used the information to send spam bulletins.
Hackers to target mobile banking, study says
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - This year could see a sharp rise in hacker attacks on Internet-enabled smartphones as a number of new banking and payment initiatives enter the mobile channel, a research group warned Monday.
Google antiphishing site exposes private user data
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Google has removed a few user names and passwords posted inadvertently to a phishing blacklist it compiles and makes publicly available on the Web, the Mountain View, California, company said Monday.
Google to run video ads from BMG, Warner
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070122/wr_nm/google_ads_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070123/2007_01_22t170122_450x282_us_google_ads.jpg?x=130&y=81&sig=tzyNMfdBRbQLKP1KbH0X2A--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="The Google booth is seen at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 5, 2006. Google Inc. said on Monday it would expand testing of its much-anticipated video advertising system by working with two major music labels to embed video ads on Web sites that make money running them. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Google Inc. said on Monday it
would expand testing of its much-anticipated video advertising
system by working with two major music labels to embed video
ads on Web sites that make money running them.</p><br clear="all"/>
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