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Looking Past Windows Vista
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Computer hardware makers got some help last month from the world's largest software company.
Microsoft sharpens interoperability focus
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft says it will focus on four key areas to improve interoperability between its own software and other vendors' products.
Microsoft Launches YouTube Rival In Public Beta
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Hoping to take advantage of the popularity of Web 2.0 services, MSN Soapbox lets users tag and categorize videos within the same screen.
Dow ends at record, scores best week since November
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070216/bs_nm/markets_stocks_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070217/2007_02_16t185551_450x307_us_markets_stocks.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=OktMz2WuneH1c_YVR970oQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange February 15, 2007. (Keith Bedford/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The Dow Jones industrial average
posted its best week since November on Friday, helped by
optimism about merger activity and reassuring comments about
inflation from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Shares Fall After Warning On Windows Vista
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft Corp. shares
fell as much as 2.7 percent early Friday, their biggest drop in
nine months, after Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said analysts' forecasts for fiscal 2008 revenue for Windows Vista were "overly aggressive."
Microsoft drags Nasdaq down
(FT.com)
FT.com - US stocks got a much-needed boost this week from Ben Bernanke's upbeat comments on the economy.
Russian Judge Dismisses Closely Watched Windows Piracy Case
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - A school principal is spared five years in jail after $9,700 worth of pirated Microsoft software is found in his school computers.
Microsoft falls on Vista fears
(FT.com)
FT.com - Wall Street stocks opened lower on Friday with investor confidence hit by the release of weaker-than-expected housing data showing a sharp drop in the pace of homebuilding.
Vista Sales Slower Than Expected
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp. chief executive officer Steve Ballmer believes that sales forecasts for its new Vista operating system may be "overly aggressive."
Microsoft CEO: Vista Revenue Forecasts Too Aggressive
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Steve Ballmer says analysts' forecasts
for revenue from Windows Vista in fiscal 2008 were "overly aggressive."
Co-Inventor of the TV remote dies
(AP)
AP - Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died. Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device that made the couch potato possible, died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at 93, Zenith Electronics Corp. said Friday.
CFO of AOL leaving for private equity
(AP)
AP - AOL Chief Financial Officer Steve Swad will join a private-equity firm and become the latest senior manager to leave as the Internet company tries to transform itself into an online advertising conduit.
Cuba embraces open-source software
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070216/ap_on_hi_te/cuba_software"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070214/capt.37858d35f82e415186764bb50d084e59.cuba_technologies_hav102.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=MGu8_RENmgIoXTmazMP2lQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Richard Stallman, President and founder of the Free Software Foundation, speaks during the International Conference on Communication and Technologies in Havana, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007.(AP Photo/ Javier Galeano)" border="0" /></a>AP - Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire — Microsoft Corp. — by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source software.</p><br clear="all"/>
Watches lose ground to cell phones
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070216/ap_on_hi_te/time_change"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070216/capt.kyer10102161615.time_change_kyer101.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=49hsm1fAA0YdsE4Us9B_GA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Allison Elliott wears her grandmother's gold wind-up wrist watch while holding a cell phone and iPod, and sitting in front of her computer in Lexington, Ky., Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007. Elliott says she occasionally wears her grandmother's watch as a piece of jewelry, 'even if I know that it doesn't keep perfect time,' and is more likely to use her high tech devices to track the time. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)" border="0" /></a>AP - Allison Elliott occasionally wears the delicate gold windup watch that belonged to her grandmother. But it's really just for show.</p><br clear="all"/>
MySpace faces stiff competition in Japan
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070216/ap_on_hi_te/japan_social_networking"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070216/capt.nybz20802160511.japan_social_networking_nybz208.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=S_O.IyEyUD4h4ml6xW2Fzw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Tony Elison, senior vice president at Viacom International Japan, which is offering SNS in Japan, speaks to The Associated Press in Tokyo Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. 'MySpace is about me, me, me.' 'In mixi, it isn' about me. It's all about us,' he said. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)" border="0" /></a>AP - Visit Japan's top social-networking site, the 8-million-strong "Mixi," and you'll see prim, organized columns and boxes of stamp-size photos — not the flashy text and teen-magazine-like layout of its American counterpart, MySpace.com. The difference in appearance between the two online hangouts reflects a broader clash of cultures — and illustrates the challenge News Corp.'s MySpace faces as it jumps into the Japanese market.</p><br clear="all"/>
Wikipedia breaks into U.S. top 10 sites
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Wikimedia Foundation popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia cracked the top ten list of most popular Web sites in the U.S. for the first time in January, according to comScore Networks.
Dell Hires Motorola Exec To Head Consumer Unit
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The No. 1 PC maker is in the midst of a major shake up that started when its Chief Executive Kevin Rollins quit in January.
Motorola's Garriques leaves for Dell job
(AP)
AP - The head of Motorola Inc.'s cell phone business resigned Friday, focusing new attention on a division whose performance has faltered after two years of success fueled by Razr handsets.
Red Hat unaffected by Oracle, Novell
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Red Hat has scheduled a March release for RHEL5 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5), the latest version of its open-source operating system, while it tries to fend off new competitive threats from Oracle and the Microsoft-Novell partnership.
Microsoft sharpens interoperability focus
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft says it will focus on four key areas to improve interoperability between its own software and other vendors' products.
Wikipedia breaks into U.S. top 10 sites
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Wikimedia Foundation popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia cracked the top ten list of most popular Web sites in the U.S. for the first time in January, according to comScore Networks.
YouTube anti-piracy software policy draws fire
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070216/wr_nm/youtube_media_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070217/2007_02_16t193332_450x302_us_youtube_media.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=VqkAlxSzNsbU74MPuCsfTQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="A screenshot of YouTube.com, taken on February 16, 2007. The media industry is clashing with YouTube over its proposal to offer anti-piracy tools only to companies that have distribution deals with the top online video-sharing service, media insiders said. (www.youtube.com/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The media industry is clashing with
YouTube over its proposal to offer anti-piracy tools only to
companies that have distribution deals with the top online
video-sharing service, media insiders said.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Launches YouTube Rival In Public Beta
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Hoping to take advantage of the popularity of Web 2.0 services, MSN Soapbox lets users tag and categorize videos within the same screen.
No Turning Back from Rich Internet Apps
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Offering more than just dazzling interfaces, rich Internet apps for the enterprise will personalize interaction, empower mobile users and improve client and back-end flexibility. Here's what to look for -- and what to look out for -- when choosing RIA development approaches.
CFO of AOL leaving for private equity
(AP)
AP - AOL Chief Financial Officer Steve Swad will join a private-equity firm and become the latest senior manager to leave as the Internet company tries to transform itself into an online advertising conduit.
FDA warns about dangerous Internet drug mistake
(Reuters)
Reuters - A drug used to treat schizophrenia
was mailed to some consumers who had ordered other medications
via the Internet, and several users had to seek emergency
treatment because they could not breathe, U.S. health officials
said on Friday.
Vonage Subscriber Growth Slows
(PC World)
PC World - Vonage Holdings Corp. lost less money in the fourth quarter of 2006 than a year earlier, but it didn't attract as many new subscribers to its VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service despite heavy marketing.
Google sues Polish poets over gmail.pl
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070216/tc_afp/polandusitinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070216/capt.sge.tfk03.160207205006.photo00.photo.default-276x205.jpg?x=130&y=96&sig=FkDRG1jKoiagLz5fbUjm3g--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="Google has launched legal action against a group of Polish poets, demanding that they give up their Internet domain name gmail.pl which resembles the US firm's internationally known email service www.gmail.com.(Gmail)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Google has launched legal action against a group of Polish poets, demanding that they give up their Internet domain name gmail.pl, a member of the cultural collective said.</p><br clear="all"/>
Fears for Spears, says Web site posting
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070216/ap_en_mu/people_britney_spears"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070216/capt.sge.tge77.160207232717.photo00.photo.default-317x512.jpg?x=80&y=130&sig=07bvkUQrt42y9I75mlWMiA--" align="left" height="130" width="80" alt="US pop princess Britney Spears, seen here 02 February 2007, briefly checked into a rehabilitation facility in the Caribbean this week, US media reported.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Bryan Bedder)" border="0" /></a>AP - An e-mail from Britney Spears' former assistant Felicia Culotta saying the 25-year-old pop star needs to get her act together because she's headed for "rock bottom" has been posted on a Web site's gossip blog.</p><br clear="all"/>
Cuba search engine trawls Castro speeches, not Web
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070216/wr_nm/cuba_internet_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070217/2007_02_16t180106_450x333_us_cuba_internet.jpg?x=130&y=96&sig=ScH.Ys2LKhhpAxyrFFJB2g--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="A screenshot of http://www.infosoc.cu/buscador/, taken on February 16, 2007. Cuba built an Internet search engine that allows users to trawl through speeches by Cuban leader Fidel Castro and other government sites, but does not browse Web pages outside the island. (http://www.infosoc.cu/buscador//Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Cuba built an Internet search engine
that allows users to trawl through speeches by Cuban leader
Fidel Castro and other government sites, but does not browse
Web pages outside the island.</p><br clear="all"/>
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