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Partners and retailers rally apps, support for Vista
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - With the consumer launch of Windows Vista on the horizon, Microsoft's software and retail partners are preparing for the launch with applications and support for the new OS.
Microsoft offers cash for Wikipedia edit
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_wikipedia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070124/capt.pagw10301242049.wikipedia_paid_entries_pagw103.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=O8anwVpvGawriQAkEnAb5Q--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="Gregory Kohs sits by a computer screen at a public library in Media, Pa., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. Last year Kohs launched MyWikiBiz, a service that offered to write Wikipedia entries for businesses for $49 to $99. But a few days afterward, MyWikiBiz's account on Wikipedia was blocked. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales called Kohs to tell him MyWikiBiz was 'antithetical' to Wikipedia's mission, as Kohs recalls the conversation. (AP Photo/George Widman)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp. landed in the Wikipedia doghouse Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft extends service on XP
(AP)
AP - On the eve of the consumer launch of its new Windows Vista operating system, Microsoft Corp. is extending the period in which it will offer support for the previous version, Windows XP.
Wal-Mart Taps Microsoft, Novell For Linux Deployment
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Wal-Mart said the Linux deployment will allow it to reduce IT costs by paving the way for a move to lower-cost, commodity servers without sacrificing performance.
Microsoft extends life of Windows XP
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070124/tc_afp/usitinternetsoftware"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070124/capt.sge.lkq56.240107193443.photo00.photo.default-352x512.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=OS0deqDgJ1b58ItGkaYjsw--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="A South Korean man walks past advertising boards for Microsoft Windows XP in Seoul. Microsoft announced that it was extending technical support for home Windows XP operating systems, a signal that it was not abandoning them for Vista software launching next week.(AFP/File/Park Ji-Hwan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Microsoft announced that it was extending technical support for home Windows XP operating systems, a signal that it was not abandoning them for Vista software launching next week.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft's Ajax Framework Ready For Download
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - ASP.Net Ajax 1.0 is available, but will Web developers bite?
Vista Update Already Set
(PC World)
PC World - Even before launch, Microsoft is compiling items for the first service pack.
Microsoft Extends Windows XP Support To 2014
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The extended support for Windows XP Home and Windows XP Media Center matches policies already in place for the business-oriented Windows XP Professional.
Microsoft already gearing up for Vista service pack
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - On the verge of the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft is already accepting orders for features to go in the OS's first service pack.
Will Vista be big deal or ho-hum?
(USATODAY.com)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20070124/tc_usatoday/willvistabebigdealorhohum"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070123/capt.pd10201232243.microsoft_tour_pd102.jpg?x=130&y=100&sig=HkbWDX55p9DDstm7739H0A--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="Microsoft technology presenter Jeff Lin conducts a seminar in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007, as the company launches Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. The Microsoft Across America Tour is scheduled to appear in cities across the country.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)" border="0" /></a>USATODAY.com - To promote next week's release of its Windows Vista operating system to consumers, Microsoft is using the tag line "The Wow starts now." But on Wall Street, the wow started more like six months ago.</p><br clear="all"/>
Wii helps Nintendo year-end profits soar
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070125/ap_on_hi_te/japan_nintendo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070120/2007_01_19t180706_450x320_us_nintendo_wii_weightloss.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=onoYr5PNOAepuctxkP31mA--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="A Nintendo employee demonstrates the company's Wii controller in Tokyo, June 7, 2006. Video gamers who'd rather battle virtual villains than fight the flab can take heart. Use of the new Nintendo Wii can lead to weight loss. (Issei Kato/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Booming year-end sales of the wand-wielding Wii game console sent profit at Nintendo soaring 43 percent for the nine months ended December, the Japanese manufacturer of Pokemon and Super Mario games said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
EBay announces aggressive buyback
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070125/ap_on_hi_te/earns_ebay"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070124/capt.caps10401242052.earns_ebay_caps104.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=3EHknecBwcF7BjknuSwaoA--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="A hiring sign is posted in front of the offices of eBay and PayPal in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. EBay Inc. is expected to post fourth-quarter earnings after the bell. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - EBay Inc. is following its 24 percent jump in fourth-quarter profit with an ambitious stock buyback that Wall Street interpreted as a measure of executives' bullishness for future growth.</p><br clear="all"/>
Idea of paid entries roils Wikipedia
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070125/ap_on_hi_te/wikipedia_paid_entries"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070124/capt.pagw10101242047.wikipedia_paid_entries_pagw101.jpg?x=100&y=130&sig=rWs9N4GWdDr1394pr4Ek5A--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Gregory Kohs sits by a computer screen at a public library in Media, Pa., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. Last year Kohs launched MyWikiBiz, a service that offered to write Wikipedia entries for businesses for $49 to $99. But a few days afterward, MyWikiBiz's account on Wikipedia was blocked. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales called Kohs to tell him MyWikiBiz was 'antithetical' to Wikipedia's mission, as Kohs recalls the conversation. (AP Photo/George Widman)" border="0" /></a>AP - When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder for behaving unethically.</p><br clear="all"/>
Blogger gets 'un-cease-and-desist' note
(AP)
AP - A lawyer for the virtual world "Second Life" has responded to a parody with something that's quite different from the usual corporate cease-and-desist letter.
Paris Hilton's private items on Internet
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070125/ap_on_en_tv/people_paris_hilton"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070124/capt.ny13301240115.people_paris_hilton_ny133.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=DtD_TWEr4VWR3c5bmxGd6A--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Paris Hilton, arrives at a private party thrown by her parents Rick and Kathy Hilton in this June 14, 2006, file photo in New York. For those who haven't yet, somehow, had their fill of Paris Hilton, there's a new Web site that has posted a seemingly endless offering of the celebutante's belongings. The Web site, ParisExposed.com, launched Tuesday. It boasts that it has an array of Hilton photographs, home videos, diaries, love letters, recorded phone conversations and phone numbers of friends and celebrities, all left behind at a Los-Angeles based storage facility. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - For those who haven't yet, somehow, had their fill of Paris Hilton, there's a new Web site that has posted a seemingly endless offering of the celebutante's belongings.</p><br clear="all"/>
Mobile phones set to propel music industry into online age
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070125/tc_afp/afpentertainmentmusicmidemfrance"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070125/capt.sge.lmu29.250107032941.photo00.photo.default-512x351.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=Bzhb7_deJ09WiZGK0l9VKA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A man visits a music stand during the 41st MIDEM, the world's biggest and most influential music trade fair in Cannes. Mobile phones are proving the saviour of the struggling music industry and could be the vital springboard needed to propel the business finally into digital sales, industry experts have said.(AFP/Valery Hache)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Mobile phones are proving the saviour of the struggling music industry and could be the vital springboard needed to propel the business finally into digital sales, industry experts have said.</p><br clear="all"/>
Sony to launch high-end PS3 in Europe
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070125/tc_nm/sony_playstation_europe_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070125/2007_01_24t234433_450x325_uk_sony_playstation_europe.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=pA2F2q4CpvFyLO9NtAWadw--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="A customer buys a Sony PlayStation 3 on the first day of its sale in Taipei in this file photo from November 17, 2006. apan's Sony said on Thursday it will launch the high-end version of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console on March 23 in Europe. (Richard Chung/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Japan's Sony Corp. said on Thursday it
will launch the high-end version of its PlayStation 3 (PS3)
game console on March 23 in Europe, but it has no plan at the
moment to offer the basic model there.</p><br clear="all"/>
Qualcomm posts higher Q1 net
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070125/bs_nm/qualcomm_results_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070125/2007_01_24t174906_300x450_us_qualcomm_results.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=iR3IW6o756fQh..a7sI_rw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm, is seen in an undated publicity photo. Qualcomm Inc. posted a better-than-expected rise in quarterly profit on Wednesday on solid demand for its wireless chips, sending shares up more than 3 percent. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Qualcomm Inc. posted a 4.5
percent rise in quarterly profit, driven by sales of chips for
high-end cell phones, and affirmed its 2007 outlook, reassuring
investors after disappointing views from rivals.</p><br clear="all"/>
Wal-Mart Taps Microsoft, Novell For Linux Deployment
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Wal-Mart said the Linux deployment will allow it to reduce IT costs by paving the way for a move to lower-cost, commodity servers without sacrificing performance.
Siemens to buy UGS for $3.5 billion
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070125/bs_nm/ugs_siemens_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070125/2007_01_24t203004_450x308_us_ugs_siemens.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=_aSJD7j4ikLeUaPh7kHygQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A man enters the Siemens headquarters in Munich November 23, 2006. German conglomerate Siemens AG said on Wednesday it has agreed to buy industrial design software maker UGS Corp. for $3.5 billion and will sell shares in automotive engineering unit VDO. (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - German conglomerate Siemens AG
(SIEGn.DE) said on Wednesday it has agreed to buy industrial
design software maker UGS Corp. for $3.5 billion and will sell
shares in automotive engineering unit VDO.</p><br clear="all"/>
EBay announces aggressive buyback
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070125/ap_on_hi_te/earns_ebay"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070124/capt.caps10401242052.earns_ebay_caps104.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=3EHknecBwcF7BjknuSwaoA--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="A hiring sign is posted in front of the offices of eBay and PayPal in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. EBay Inc. is expected to post fourth-quarter earnings after the bell. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - EBay Inc. is following its 24 percent jump in fourth-quarter profit with an ambitious stock buyback that Wall Street interpreted as a measure of executives' bullishness for future growth.</p><br clear="all"/>
Mobile phones set to propel music industry into online age
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070125/tc_afp/afpentertainmentmusicmidemfrance"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070125/capt.sge.lmu29.250107032941.photo00.photo.default-512x351.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=Bzhb7_deJ09WiZGK0l9VKA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A man visits a music stand during the 41st MIDEM, the world's biggest and most influential music trade fair in Cannes. Mobile phones are proving the saviour of the struggling music industry and could be the vital springboard needed to propel the business finally into digital sales, industry experts have said.(AFP/Valery Hache)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Mobile phones are proving the saviour of the struggling music industry and could be the vital springboard needed to propel the business finally into digital sales, industry experts have said.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google Dusts Off Discussion Groups
(PC World)
PC World - Search giant enhances its venerable discussion forum service to make it relevant.
Idea of paid entries roils Wikipedia
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070125/ap_on_hi_te/wikipedia_paid_entries"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070124/capt.pagw10101242047.wikipedia_paid_entries_pagw101.jpg?x=100&y=130&sig=rWs9N4GWdDr1394pr4Ek5A--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Gregory Kohs sits by a computer screen at a public library in Media, Pa., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. Last year Kohs launched MyWikiBiz, a service that offered to write Wikipedia entries for businesses for $49 to $99. But a few days afterward, MyWikiBiz's account on Wikipedia was blocked. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales called Kohs to tell him MyWikiBiz was 'antithetical' to Wikipedia's mission, as Kohs recalls the conversation. (AP Photo/George Widman)" border="0" /></a>AP - When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder for behaving unethically.</p><br clear="all"/>
Armani brings haute couture live to Internet
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070125/en_nm/fashion_armani_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070125/2007_01_24t203431_450x291_us_fashion_armani.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=U3_7y6heaJVlBe0JXC6hzw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Italian designer Giorgio Armani (C) appears at the end of his Spring-Summer 2007 Haute Couture fashion collection in Paris, January 24, 2007. (Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Never had an invitation to a glamorous
fashion show?</p><br clear="all"/>
MySpace to speed overseas expansion in '07
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070125/wr_nm/myspace_international_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070125/2007_01_24t142154_450x346_us_myspace_international.jpg?x=130&y=99&sig=08xtC0LUOo5Nm8gOxPELig--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="A screenshot of MySpace.com, taken on January 24, 2007. News Corp.'s popular Internet social Web site, MySpace, plans to more than double the number of countries it will operate in by the end of the year, a senior MySpace executive told Reuters on Wednesday. (www.myspace.com/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - News Corp.'s popular Internet social
Web site, MySpace, plans to more than double the number of
countries it serves by the end of the year, a senior executive
told Reuters on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft offers cash for Wikipedia edit
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_wikipedia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070124/capt.pagw10301242049.wikipedia_paid_entries_pagw103.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=O8anwVpvGawriQAkEnAb5Q--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="Gregory Kohs sits by a computer screen at a public library in Media, Pa., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. Last year Kohs launched MyWikiBiz, a service that offered to write Wikipedia entries for businesses for $49 to $99. But a few days afterward, MyWikiBiz's account on Wikipedia was blocked. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales called Kohs to tell him MyWikiBiz was 'antithetical' to Wikipedia's mission, as Kohs recalls the conversation. (AP Photo/George Widman)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp. landed in the Wikipedia doghouse Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site.</p><br clear="all"/>
Mobile shopping app comes to BlackBerry
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Free software for Research in Motion's BlackBerry builds an online store right into the device, expanding users' shopping options while saving the trouble of roving the mobile Internet in search of the right product.
Norway toughens iTunes stance
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Apple could face legal action by the Norwegian government in March if the U.S. company refuses to unlock its iTunes online music store from its iPod media player.
Online Retailer's Anti-War Comment Sparks Anger
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Employee fired after a U.S. soldier's request was met with negative response.
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