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Microsoft's On the Go, Launching Windows Mobile 6
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft recently disclosed details about its new Windows Mobile 6 operating system for smartphones, which will be formally introduced at the 3GSM telecommunications conference in Barcelona this coming week. Major advances over earlier versions of Windows Mobile include better security, more accurate search capabilities, and more desktop-like functionality. Enhancements also include the ability to edit Office documents, which can be especially important for business users on the go.
Microsoft: Vista follow-up likely in 2009
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - With Vista just out the door, Microsoft is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up client operating system by the end of 2009, according to the executive in charge of building the product's core components.
A first look at Windows Mobile 6
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft's recently announced Windows Mobile 6 software for smart phones is a step forward for the company, offering some important improvements over previous versions of the software. But just how good is the new software?
Microsoft: Vista Follow-up Likely in 2009
(PC World)
PC World - With Vista just out the door, Microsoft Corp. is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up client operating system by the end of 2009, according to the executive in charge of building the product's core components.
Microsoft's new OS Vista spurs computer sales
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070209/tc_afp/usitsoftwareretail"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070209/capt.sge.qvr48.090207195103.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=vtrDM9tGE669zNBOm66xjg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Boxes of the new Windows Vista software sit on a shelf at a New York Best Buy store in January 2007. US sales of computers carrying Microsoft's new operating system Vista soared in the week after it was launched, defying the expectations of analysts who gave Vista lackluster reviews.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US sales of computers carrying Microsoft's new operating system Vista soared in the week after it was launched, defying the expectations of analysts who gave Vista lackluster reviews.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Looks Beyond Desktops with Windows Mobile 6
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - With the launch of Vista, Microsoft is likely to keep its dominance on the desktop intact, but the company's fresh focus on mobility could help boost its share in the wireless market.
Windows Vista Spurs New PC Sales
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - According to new data from market research firm Current Analysis, Microsoft's Windows Vista launch has been a boon to PC manufacturers, stimulating triple-digital sales increases during the first week Vista-equipped machines came to market.
Microsoft's Hotmail Brand Will Live On
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Product manager Richard Sim explains why Microsoft ditched plans to adopt the name Windows Live Mail for the service.
Windows Vista Gooses U.S. PC Sales
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The sales spike may have been driven more by tech-savvy early adopters than by everyday consumers.
Windows Mobile 6 Available Soon
(PC World)
PC World - The latest version of Microsoft's mobile platform blurs the line between smartphones and connected PDAs.
Anna Nicole fans express emotions online
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070211/ap_on_en_tv/anna_nicole_smith"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070208/capt.ny23102082258.anna_nicole_smith_ny231.jpg?x=96&y=130&sig=HbLn1LNRrk91.h3yWC7pyg--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="This handout image from Playboy, shows a cover of the June 1993 Playmate of the Year issue of Playboy magazine, featuring Anna Nicole Smith. Smith, the pneumatic blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale - jeans model, Playboy centerfold, widow of an octogenarian billionaire, reality-show subject, tragic mother - died Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007 after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39. ONE TIME USE ONLY, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE. (AP Photo/Playboy)" border="0" /></a>AP - Fans of Anna Nicole Smith aren't making pilgrimages to the place where she spent her final days. They're not leaving flowers. They're not gathering in crowds to express their grief. Instead, emotions are being expressed in a way as uniquely modern as Smith's fame — on blogs, Web pages and online message boards where true fans battle naysayers to get their voices heard.</p><br clear="all"/>
Lawmakers hold 'tele-town hall meetings'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070210/ap_on_hi_te/tele_town_hall_meetings"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070210/capt.b495a62940c44fa680fac27b3822b241.tele_town_hall_meetings_wx104.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=Uzd9XqayhgHAMPsQhywNlA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Rep. Jerry Moran, R- Kan., talks on the phone with constituents in his Capital Hill office Monday, Jan. 29, 2007, in Washington. Moran is taking advantage of a new technology that allows him to talk to thousands of people on a single phone call. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)" border="0" /></a>AP - On a recent weeknight, Kansas Rep. Jerry Moran spoke to nearly 10,000 of his constituents at once — from the comfort of his Capitol Hill office.</p><br clear="all"/>
Tip-seeking farmers swarm online forums
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070210/ap_on_bi_ge/online_farmers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070209/capt.nybz25002091759.crop_report___nybz250.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=Vm0xRvTd4a9HcBYmbbyICA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Soybean farmer Bill Waren harvests the fall's last soybean crop on his farm in Freeland, Md., in this Nov. 10, 2005 file photo. The high prices farmers are getting for their corn remain steady, and soybean prices have risen, the Agriculture Department said Friday, Feb. 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Tucked away in the den of his 127-year-old farmhouse, Ed Winkle huddles over his computer. The screen's soft glow lights up his eyeglasses, reflecting messages about tractors, corn hybrids and crop insurance.</p><br clear="all"/>
Students charged in online snow-day hoax
(AP)
AP - Two teenage girls posted a fake announcement on their school district's Web site that said school was closed for the day due to winter weather, police said.
Japan uses satellites to track disasters
(AP)
AP - Japan launched a satellite-based alert system Friday that will instantly send warnings of tsunamis and updates on volcanic activity to help speed evacuations, an emergency official said.
EMI's DRM-Free Talks Unlikely To Change Online Music Stores
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Steve Jobs and Apple's influence in the online music market is forcing some labels to rethink their strategy even though profit margins on CDs are higher than on music downloads.
Microsoft's On the Go, Launching Windows Mobile 6
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft recently disclosed details about its new Windows Mobile 6 operating system for smartphones, which will be formally introduced at the 3GSM telecommunications conference in Barcelona this coming week. Major advances over earlier versions of Windows Mobile include better security, more accurate search capabilities, and more desktop-like functionality. Enhancements also include the ability to edit Office documents, which can be especially important for business users on the go.
3GSM: Wireless Industry To Focus On Growth
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Riding the wave of demand for
mobile communications in developing countries and finding new
ways to make money from maturing markets will be preoccupations
at the world's top wireless trade show, 3GSM, in Barcelona.
JBoss Founder Departs Senior VP Post At Red Hat
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Marc Fleury saw a need for an open source Java application server where there were few or no Java middleware projects underway.
Is HP Serious About Its Software Business This Time?
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Driven by in-house development and acquisitions, it has a new plan to become a top-tier software vendor. It's worth a look.
EMI's DRM-Free Talks Unlikely To Change Online Music Stores
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Steve Jobs and Apple's influence in the online music market is forcing some labels to rethink their strategy even though profit margins on CDs are higher than on music downloads.
Xerox Works Deal to Rival Google
(PC World)
PC World - Xerox Corp. research subsidiary the Palo Alto Research Center has struck a licensing deal with a high-profile startup in the hopes of building a search engine that could one day rival Google Inc.
New tech puts online ad measures to test
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070209/ap_on_hi_te/online_measurements"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070209/capt.caps20102091845.online_measurements_caps201.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=mat11u6wkC5njiJHyuozAQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="his photo provided by Yahoo of Peter Daboll, Yahoo's chief of insights in this undated photo. He is the former chief executive of comScore Media Metrix, the measurement company that declared Yahoo second on the onlinehangout MySpace in page views. In just three years, the online hangout MySpace.com has edged out veteran portal Yahoo as the busiest Web site in the United States - by page views - along with unique visitors - as the yardstick for a site's worth. Marketers review the metrics to help determine where to place their ads; Web sites cite them in boasting of industry leadership. The problem, experts say, is that counting page views isn't precise to begin with. Newer technologies such as Ajax and RSS and the increased availability of online video have cast even more doubt on the metric - long the rough gauge of how many eyeballs are viewing how many ads on a site. (AP Photo/Yahoo, Richard Morgenstein)" border="0" /></a>AP - At Yahoo's finance site, stock quotes update automatically and continually, the numbers flashing green and red as prices rise and fall. Wall Street investors can easily leave a single Web page up all day.</p><br clear="all"/>
Conference Attendees Drop Ball on Wi-Fi Security
(PC World)
PC World - More than half of the [<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wireless.html">wireless</a>] LAN devices being used at this week's RSA Conference on information security are themselves unsecured.
Xerox works deal with startup to rival Google
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Xerox research subsidiary the Palo Alto Research Center has struck a licensing deal with a high-profile startup in the hopes of building a search engine that could one day rival Google.
PluggedIn: Ancient Asian board game goes online
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070209/wr_nm/column_pluggedin_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070210/2007_02_09t161203_450x299_us_column_pluggedin.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=JVpL_xs__WdEaREY2i887w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A booth assistant (L) demonstrates a board game Go projected by NEC's mirror projector on a whiteboard to a visitor at a booth during the World PC Expo in Tokyo October 20, 2006. Go is an ideal candidate to benefit from the online boom as gaming companies move to offer international networks to connect hundreds of millions of players, most of them in East Asia. (Kiyoshi Ota/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - As boisterous teenagers wage bloody beast
wars in virtual universes at a clamorous downtown Internet
cafe, a handful of men, oblivious to the din, stare transfixed
at an ancient, slow-paced, black-and-white board game on their
screens.</p><br clear="all"/>
Video sold of battle to save Anna Nicole Smith
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070209/wr_nm/annanicole_video_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070209/2007_02_09t144753_296x450_us_annanicole_video.jpg?x=85&y=130&sig=GBorwWR_ZIx55mizS9c3PQ--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="Anna Nicole Smith arrives at the taping of television show 'The Comedy Central's Roast of Pamela Anderson' at Sony studios in the Culver City area of Los Angeles in this August 7, 2005 file photo. Grainy video footage of paramedics working on the unresponsive body of Smith turned up on the Internet and on German television on Friday a day after the sudden death of the former Playboy model in Florida. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Grainy video footage of paramedics
working on the unresponsive body of Anna Nicole Smith turned up
on the Internet and on German television on Friday a day after
the sudden death of the former Playboy model in Florida.</p><br clear="all"/>
Militant Islamic groups turn to YouTube
(AP)
AP - Anyone with an Internet connection can watch videos of bombings and sniper attacks against U.S. forces — shot and edited by Islamic militants and broadcast on YouTube, the world's largest video-sharing Web site.
Google Still Plays Catch-Up With eBay
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Traffic figures for the competing e-commerce sites are on opposite ends in the spectrum, according to an Internet metrics company.
YouTube founders reaped fortunes from sale to Google
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070209/tc_afp/usitinternetcompany"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070209/capt.sge.qvq14.090207194326.photo00.photo.default-512x340.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=z2LEQv.y8dQuEWuAGeQ4Cw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="YouTube Web page. YouTube founders received more than a half-billion dollars in Google stock when the search engine bought the video-sharing website last year, regulatory documents revealed.(AFP/File/Samantha Sin)" border="0" /></a>AFP - YouTube founders received more than a half-billion dollars in Google stock when the search engine bought the video-sharing website last year, regulatory documents revealed.</p><br clear="all"/>
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