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Hundreds turn out to welcome Windows Vista in Tokyo
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Hundreds of people braved chilly weather in Tokyo on Monday night and the early hours of Tuesday to be among the first in the world to buy a retail copy of the Windows Vista operating system.
Vista launch starts upgrade clock ticking
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Moses crossing the desert. The Red Sox breaking the curse of the Bambino. Microsoft getting shrink-wrap around a Vista box. All involved more than their share of blood, sweat, toil, and tears. But for the folks out in Redmond, Wash., the day has finally arrived: Vista is shipping to consumers Jan. 30.
Gates promises Vista will wow PC buyers
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070129/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_vista_launch"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070129/capt.xkan10101291636.japan_windows_vista_xkan101.jpg?x=100&y=130&sig=WA8sL.hYRgx6wM1a4pMydw--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="A Japanese shopper buys Windows Vista as the Microsoft Corporation's first new operation system since 2001 goes on sale at a Japanese retailer during a midnight promotional event in Tokyo, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)" border="0" /></a>AP - "Wow" hasn't tended to be a big part of Bill Gates' vocabulary, but to hear him speak in the hours before Microsoft Corp.'s planned launch of the long-awaited Vista operating system, you'd never know it.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft, Cisco back UK IT skills programs
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft and several partners launched on Monday two IT training programs in the U.K. in an effort to increase the employability of those who lack basic computer skills.
Dell Begins Shipping Windows Vista PCs
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Dell has begun taking orders for desktop notebook and laptop computers loaded with Microsoft's new operating system, Windows Vista.
Vista is ready for consumers but businesses key
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070129/tc_nm/microsoft_vista_adoption_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070129/2007_01_29t114537_450x275_us_microsoft_vista_adoption.jpg?x=130&y=79&sig=0wStBo7OIwPcJaV9i7y24w--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="Customers wait to buy Microsoft's new 'Windows Vista' operating system on the day of its debut at an electronics retail shop in Tokyo, January 30, 2007. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - After more than five years of
development, over 50 million lines of software code, a $6
billion investment and a few headaches, Microsoft Corp.'s
Windows Vista finally reaches consumers this week.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Vista goes on sale tonight
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070129/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_vista"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070129/capt.nybz30301291725.microsoft_vista_gates_today_nybz303.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=C2tI6m8KY4t3lfWbdaZTRw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="In this handout photo released NBC Universal, Microsoft Founder, Bill Gates, listens to during an interview with Today host Meredith Vieira about his newest operating system Vista, Monday Jan. 29, 2007. Vista is due to be released tomorrow. (AP Photo/NBC Universal, Virginia Sherwood)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft is ready to begin consumer sales of its new Vista operating system just after midnight tonight. The software giant is putting its considerable marketing might behind the long-awaited upgrade to Windows, with appearances being made by Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Targets Phishers
(PC World)
PC World - New browser security technology is in the works and due for display at RSA in February.
Some retailers plan to open doors after hours to sell Windows Vista
(USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Microsoft's long-awaited Vista operating system will become widely available to consumers tonight - and the world will be watching to see how well it sells.
Microsoft UK changes tactics with license dodgers
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft will take a new approach toward mid-size companies it suspects of using unlicensed software, sending a series of letters culminating in a threat of legal action from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), a company official said Monday.
Vista for home computers to make overdue debut
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070129/bs_afp/usitsoftwareinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070129/capt.sge.msc01.290107065252.photo00.photo.default-369x512.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=FDb0UN7NnmCzC8wsaGqwEg--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="A passerby walks by a billboard for Microsoft's software, Windows Vista. Windows Vista for home computers will make its debut on Tuesday, with Microsoft grandly launching an operating system that took five years and six billion dollars to ready for the world.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Windows Vista for home computers will make its debut on Tuesday, with Microsoft grandly launching an operating system that took five years and six billion dollars to ready for the world.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google to share YouTube revenues with users
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070129/tc_afp/britainusitinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070129/capt.sge.mtg94.290107100252.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=HLAPf2lqfzRi2H.38TfF0A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="YouTube's co-founder Chad Hurley attends the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Hurley told the Financial Times (FT) that Google plans to share advertising revenues from YouTube with users of the video-sharing website.(AFP/Joel Saget)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Internet giant Google plans to share advertising revenues from YouTube with users of the video-sharing website.</p><br clear="all"/>
Shanghai stages 4G telephony rollout, claims a world first
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070129/tc_afp/chinatelecomitmobile"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070129/capt.sge.mtp32.290107104040.photo00.photo.default-512x319.jpg?x=130&y=81&sig=FmMIgpJugATLwYmV_O3t3Q--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="A man uses his mobile phone on the busy Nanjing road shopping area of Shanghai. China has launched a trial run of home-grown fourth-generation mobile technology in Shanghai in what it called the world's first rollout of the wireless application.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)" border="0" /></a>AFP - China has launched a trial run of home-grown fourth-generation mobile technology in Shanghai in what it called the world's first rollout of the wireless application, state press reported.</p><br clear="all"/>
Repairs to quake-hit Asia Internet cables delayed again
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070129/tc_afp/asiaquakeinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070129/capt.sge.mti81.290107101151.photo00.photo.default-512x335.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=9QFvwYyaE1gewX9l_kMIhQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) official Ha Yung-kuen points to a map showing cable systems in the South China Sea during a press conference on January 2. The OFTA said bad weather had again delayed full repairs to undersea cables damaged last year by an earthquake, which badly disrupted Internet access in parts of Asia.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Hong Kong's telecom regulator says bad weather had again delayed full repairs to undersea cables damaged last year by an earthquake, which badly disrupted Internet access in parts of Asia.</p><br clear="all"/>
Nokia, Siemens progress on network tie-up
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070129/tc_afp/finlandtelecomcompany"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070129/capt.sge.mww36.290107162244.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=I7BKx3l5hSkaM7_oMzFbfw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Nokia chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo presents the telecommunications equipment maker's 2006 annual results on January 25. Nokia and Siemens have said that progress had been made on their planned network tie-up despite a bribery probe into Siemens' equipment unit.(AFP/Lehtikuva/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Telecommunications equipment makers Nokia and Siemens have said that progress had been made on their planned network tie-up despite a bribery probe into Siemens' equipment unit.</p><br clear="all"/>
Newspapers lose ground in Web-savvy schools: study
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070129/wr_nm/newspapers_schools_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070129/2007_01_29t113251_450x327_us_newspapers_schools.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=pQDVLrMFkQ3zx_akZGgxRA--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Newspaper boxes in downtown Detroit in a file photo. More teachers are using national and international online news sites in the classroom, leaving behind newspapers that fail to grasp the Internet's importance in trying to reach students, a study found. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - More U.S. teachers are using national
and international online news sites in the classroom, leaving
behind newspapers that fail to grasp the Internet's importance
in trying to reach students, a study found.</p><br clear="all"/>
Gates promises Vista will wow PC buyers
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070129/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_vista_launch"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070129/capt.xkan10101291636.japan_windows_vista_xkan101.jpg?x=100&y=130&sig=WA8sL.hYRgx6wM1a4pMydw--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="A Japanese shopper buys Windows Vista as the Microsoft Corporation's first new operation system since 2001 goes on sale at a Japanese retailer during a midnight promotional event in Tokyo, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)" border="0" /></a>AP - "Wow" hasn't tended to be a big part of Bill Gates' vocabulary, but to hear him speak in the hours before Microsoft Corp.'s planned launch of the long-awaited Vista operating system, you'd never know it.</p><br clear="all"/>
Verizon Wireless revenue rises
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070129/bs_nm/verizon_results_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070129/2007_01_29t074709_450x340_us_verizon_results.jpg?x=130&y=98&sig=1JBAMmdYJZa5Lu91CMcwog--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Traffic passes the Verizon headquarters in New York in a file photo. The telecommunications company said on Monday its fourth quarter earnings fell but sales rose, bolstered by growth in its wireless venture and rise in Internet subscribers. (Peter Morgan/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S.
mobile phone service based on subscribers, said on Monday its
quarterly revenue rose nearly 16 percent on strong customer
growth and the use of data services such as wireless e-mail.</p><br clear="all"/>
New Linux Foundation Must Be Part Lawyer, Part Peacemaker
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The Linux Foundation faces challenges on the legal front, but also on nuts-and-bolts issues such as setting standards.
Hundreds turn out to welcome Windows Vista in Tokyo
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Hundreds of people braved chilly weather in Tokyo on Monday night and the early hours of Tuesday to be among the first in the world to buy a retail copy of the Windows Vista operating system.
Newspapers lose ground in Web-savvy schools: study
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070129/wr_nm/newspapers_schools_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070129/2007_01_29t113251_450x327_us_newspapers_schools.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=pQDVLrMFkQ3zx_akZGgxRA--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Newspaper boxes in downtown Detroit in a file photo. More teachers are using national and international online news sites in the classroom, leaving behind newspapers that fail to grasp the Internet's importance in trying to reach students, a study found. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - More U.S. teachers are using national
and international online news sites in the classroom, leaving
behind newspapers that fail to grasp the Internet's importance
in trying to reach students, a study found.</p><br clear="all"/>
MySpace donates sex offender database to center
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070129/wr_nm/myspace_sexoffender_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070129/2007_01_29t103231_450x366_us_myspace_sexoffender.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=PJN_b8ug.IKbiGw5UFzHXw--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="The Internet homepage of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. News Corp.'s popular social network MySpace said on Monday it will donate a national computer database on U.S. sex offenders to the NCMEC. (www.missingkids.com/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - News Corp.'s popular Internet social
network MySpace said on Monday it will donate a national
computer database on U.S. sex offenders to the National Center
for Missing & Exploited Children.</p><br clear="all"/>
Second Life and the future of the operating system
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Linden Lab’s Second Life isn’t the first virtual community to spring up on the Internet — text-based MUDs (multi-user domains) date back to the mid-1970s.
Repairs to quake-hit Asia Internet cables delayed again
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070129/tc_afp/asiaquakeinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070129/capt.sge.mti81.290107101151.photo00.photo.default-512x335.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=9QFvwYyaE1gewX9l_kMIhQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) official Ha Yung-kuen points to a map showing cable systems in the South China Sea during a press conference on January 2. The OFTA said bad weather had again delayed full repairs to undersea cables damaged last year by an earthquake, which badly disrupted Internet access in parts of Asia.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Hong Kong's telecom regulator says bad weather had again delayed full repairs to undersea cables damaged last year by an earthquake, which badly disrupted Internet access in parts of Asia.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google to share YouTube revenues with users
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070129/tc_afp/britainusitinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070129/capt.sge.mtg94.290107100252.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=HLAPf2lqfzRi2H.38TfF0A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="YouTube's co-founder Chad Hurley attends the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Hurley told the Financial Times (FT) that Google plans to share advertising revenues from YouTube with users of the video-sharing website.(AFP/Joel Saget)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Internet giant Google plans to share advertising revenues from YouTube with users of the video-sharing website.</p><br clear="all"/>
Earthlink Offers Zero-Day Protection
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Earthlink and Sana Security today announced the availability of Earthlink Protect and Control Center 2.0 with AttackShield. AttackShield protects against brand new threats using behavioral analysis technology from Sana Security. It can block malicious software without any need for an identifying signature. This protection supplements the suite's existing signature-based antispyware and antivirus protection.
'Get a First Life' website lampoons virtual Second Life
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070128/tc_afp/usitinternetcompany"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070128/capt.sge.mre20.280107233656.photo00.photo.default-285x214.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=GC._vIfEmKt3UTZQ0sx4YQ--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A Vancouver blogger has discovered that the popular Second Life virtual world has a sense of humor when it comes to his "Get a First Life" parody website.(Get a First Life)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A Vancouver blogger has discovered that the popular Second Life virtual world has a sense of humor when it comes to his "Get a First Life" parody website.</p><br clear="all"/>
Calling all bloggers at Davos
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070128/tc_afp/davosinternetblogs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070128/capt.sge.mrb78.280107225632.photo00.photo.default-512x333.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=BXzWErs31HbgY2yA1a7JmA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Logo of the World Economic Forum taken at the Congress Centre, 24 January 2006. The World Economic Forum this year provided another medium for the world's rich and powerful to find ways of improving the state of the world: its very own blog for all 2,400 participants.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The World Economic Forum this year provided another medium for the world's rich and powerful to find ways of improving the state of the world: its very own blog for all 2,400 participants.</p><br clear="all"/>
Cyber-bullying replaces schoolyard bullying among US kids
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070128/tc_afp/afplifestyleusschools"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070128/capt.sge.mrb75.280107225617.photo00.photo.default-451x511.jpg?x=114&y=130&sig=cDHJcZ7x8CXAhszvkBw3sg--" align="left" height="130" width="114" alt="Teenagers surf the Web at an Internet cafe. Cyberspace has replaced the schoolyard as the preferred space for bullying among many US kids, who are going online to threaten, insult and harass each other outside the watchful eye of teachers or parents.(AFP/File/Francois Guillot)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Cyberspace has replaced the schoolyard as the preferred space for bullying among many US kids, who are going online to threaten, insult and harass each other outside the watchful eye of teachers or parents.</p><br clear="all"/>
YouTube to share some ad revenue with users
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070128/wr_nm/youtube_payment_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070129/2007_01_29t080132_450x303_us_youtube_payment.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=hYl0wYJs7wshi8a59TeQuw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley at the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 27, 2007. (Pascal Lauener/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley said
the leading online video service is mulling a plan to share
advertising revenue with users who contribute to the site,
according to a user clip and media reports from Davos,
Switzerland.</p><br clear="all"/>
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