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Microsoft says January Xbox 360 sales hit 294,000
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070221/tc_nm/microsoft_xbox_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070221/2007_02_20t204427_450x299_us_microsoft_xbox.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=5I6JSPYqII5VmP6x3iTbQQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A visitor makes his way on a striped carpet past a mural at the Xbox 360 booth at the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles in this file photo from May 11, 2006. Microsoft Corp. sold 294,000 Xbox 360 video game consoles in January, a company executive said on Tuesday, citing preliminary research data. (Chris Pizzello/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. sold
294,000 Xbox 360 video game consoles in January, a company
executive said on Tuesday, citing preliminary research data.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Takes Aim At Big Piracy Problem
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Microsoft is acting to cash in on one of its big opportunities: getting people who are using illegal copies of its software to pay up.
Bill Gates keeps close eye on kids' computer time
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070220/tc_nm/microsoft_gates_daughter_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070221/2007_02_20t192824_450x318_us_microsoft_gates_daughter.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=W2W276W7mamCpeJyuzBQrg--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates listens to a question while speaking with journalists on Parliament Hill in Ottawa February 20, 2007. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Just because you're the daughter of Bill
Gates does not mean you get to play on your computer all day
long.</p><br clear="all"/>
Windows Vista well received: Gates
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070220/tc_nm/microsoft_gates_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070221/2007_02_20t174516_450x303_us_microsoft_gates.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=GpxaGBr3V0F6SBCmdHM0Og--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates listens to a question while speaking with journalists on Parliament Hill in Ottawa February 20, 2007. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. founder Bill
Gates said on Tuesday the company's Windows Vista operating
system had been incredibly well received.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft offers Vista deployment tools
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Hoping to accelerate the adoption of Vista for businesses, Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled tools that will help companies deploy the new Windows client OS, including software that allows older versions of Windows to run virtually alongside Vista.
Microsoft Releases SP2 for SQL Server
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In what analysts are calling a significant move, Microsoft on Tuesday released Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005, promising full compatibility with Windows Vista and Office 2007.
Microsoft falls victim to shady 'scareware'
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft said it moved quickly to remove a banner advertisement that appeared on its instant-messaging program for a software application that falsely hypes security threats on a user's computer.
Microsoft Updates SQL Server 2005
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp. released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SQL Server 2005 on Tuesday, a free upgrade [<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/servicepacks/sp2.mspx">available for download</a>], in addition to new virtualization licensing for the database.
Microsoft releases SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SQL Server 2005 on Tuesday, a free upgrade available for download, in addition to new virtualization licensing for the database.
The Most Annoying Things About Windows Vista
(PC World)
PC World - From screens that mysteriously black out to search that's limited by default, here are the things that really bug us about Microsoft's new operating system.
Google shuts hole in desktop product
(AP)
AP - A potentially devastating hole in Google Inc.'s prevalent desktop search product could have exposed personal files on users' computers to data thieves. Google fixed the defect within weeks of being informed about it and says it has no evidence the vulnerability was exploited.
Hewlett-Packard 1Q profit up 26 percent
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070221/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_hp"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070220/capt.caps10102201551.earns_hp_caps101.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=vytgkHpAk8DDiApDffTecw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Hewlett Packard printers are on display at a Best Buy store in Mountain View, Calif., Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007. Hewlett-Packard Co. is scheduled to report its first quarter results after financial markets close, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hewlett-Packard Co.'s first-quarter profit jumped 26 percent as the company benefited from higher sales of laptop computers, printers and printing supplies during a robust holiday spending season.</p><br clear="all"/>
Viacom in licensing deal with Joost
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_on_hi_te/viacom_joost"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070220/2007_02_20t063800_450x300_us_viacom_joost.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=2zFfX_E4mHb8BOdoHRQ71A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Crowds gather across the street during the MTV Video Music Awards in New York, August 31, 2006. Media conglomerate Viacom is expected to announce a licensing deal with Joost, a new Internet service that specializes in commercial video content, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. (Keith Bedford/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. agreed Tuesday to license television shows and movies to Joost, the new online video distribution channel launched by the founders of Kazaa and Skype.</p><br clear="all"/>
Australia to ban old-style bulbs
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_on_hi_te/ban_the_bulb"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070208/capt.njmd10302082037.ban_the_bulb_njmd103.jpg?x=92&y=130&sig=hfGl6_s7AmO4kCylEPN1dA--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="An 1881 incandescent light bulb with the name Edison etched onto it is displayed at the Edison Museum in Edison, N.J., Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Australian government on Tuesday announced plans to phase out incandescent light bulbs and replace them with more energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs across the country.</p><br clear="all"/>
E-Trade to unveil global trading platform
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_on_hi_te/e_trade_global"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070220/2007_02_20t085626_450x384_us_etrade_trading.jpg?x=130&y=110&sig=kd1l_s7i_3WU4BOMu6hCOg--" align="left" height="110" width="130" alt="A screen grab of ETrade.com. Online bank and brokerage E*Trade Financial Corp. said on Tuesday it has launched a pilot global trading platform that gives U.S. retail customers electronic access to foreign stocks and currencies in international markets. (www.etrade.com/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - E-Trade Financial Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a global trading platform that makes it the first U.S. discount brokerage to give customers the ability to trade foreign-listed stocks online.</p><br clear="all"/>
Raketu Tries Combining IPTV, Social Networking
(PC World)
PC World - A new application from Raketu Communications Inc. aims to integrate IPTV (Internet Protocol television) with social networking, two of the Internet's hip technologies.
Motion Computing Launches Tablet PC for Doctors
(PC World)
PC World - Promising to save doctors and nurses from as much as 60 minutes of paperwork per day, Motion Computing Inc. announced a tablet PC for hospital workers.
Alltel 4Q net earnings slip 12 percent
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_alltel"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070220/capt.nybz27602201408.earns_alltel_nybz276.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=FPxVMENdWMt1Ax_BievZOw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Customers and employees of Alltel Corp., gather at one of the company's Little Rock, Ark., wireless stores in this Jan. 19, 2006 file photo, near one of it's new wireless Pocket PC offerings displaying the Alltel logo. Alltel Corp. reported Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007 that profits from its wireless business rose as it built sales and added customers in its fourth quarter, but overall earnings slid 12 percent, showing the effect of Alltel's spinoff of its traditional phone business. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Alltel Corp. reported Tuesday that profits from its wireless business rose as it built sales and added customers in its fourth quarter, but overall earnings slid 12 percent, showing the effect of Alltel's spinoff of its traditional phone business.</p><br clear="all"/>
Africa's Inexpensive Laptops
(PC World)
PC World - African countries are bracing themselves for this month's rollout of US$150, Linux-based laptops for school children under the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative.
Windows Vista well received: Gates
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070220/tc_nm/microsoft_gates_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070221/2007_02_20t174516_450x303_us_microsoft_gates.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=GpxaGBr3V0F6SBCmdHM0Og--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates listens to a question while speaking with journalists on Parliament Hill in Ottawa February 20, 2007. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. founder Bill
Gates said on Tuesday the company's Windows Vista operating
system had been incredibly well received.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google shuts hole in desktop product
(AP)
AP - A potentially devastating hole in Google Inc.'s prevalent desktop search product could have exposed personal files on users' computers to data thieves. Google fixed the defect within weeks of being informed about it and says it has no evidence the vulnerability was exploited.
Raketu Tries Combining IPTV, Social Networking
(PC World)
PC World - A new application from Raketu Communications Inc. aims to integrate IPTV (Internet Protocol television) with social networking, two of the Internet's hip technologies.
Raketu looks to combine IPTV, social networking
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - A new application from Raketu Communications aims to integrate IPTV (Internet Protocol television) with social networking, two of the Internet's hip technologies.
Spears has entered rehab, Web sites say
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_en_mu/people_britney_spears"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070218/capt.wxs10102171621c.addition_people_britney_spears_wxs101.jpg?x=130&y=96&sig=4F1ze0EDxUAtY522DTTCVA--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="In this photo made from video provided by KABC-TV, Pop singer Britney Spears is at a Sherman Oaks, Calif., tattoo parlor Friday night, Feb. 16, 2007. Spears was there to get a couple of tiny tattoos on her wrist, a pair of pink and red lips, according to KABC-TV. (AP Photo/KABC-TV)" border="0" /></a>AP - Britney Spears entered rehab Tuesday after a bizarre weekend that included shaving her head and getting a new tattoo.</p><br clear="all"/>
Viacom lands video deal with Joost
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070220/wr_nm/viacom_joost_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070220/2007_02_20t063800_450x300_us_viacom_joost.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=2zFfX_E4mHb8BOdoHRQ71A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Crowds gather across the street during the MTV Video Music Awards in New York, August 31, 2006. Media conglomerate Viacom is expected to announce a licensing deal with Joost, a new Internet service that specializes in commercial video content, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. (Keith Bedford/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Viacom Inc., engaged in a public
copyright battle with Google Inc.'s YouTube, has agreed to
offer videos to Joost, the Internet video service created by
the founders of Skype and Kazaa.</p><br clear="all"/>
Viacom in licensing deal with Joost
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_on_hi_te/viacom_joost"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070220/2007_02_20t063800_450x300_us_viacom_joost.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=2zFfX_E4mHb8BOdoHRQ71A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Crowds gather across the street during the MTV Video Music Awards in New York, August 31, 2006. Media conglomerate Viacom is expected to announce a licensing deal with Joost, a new Internet service that specializes in commercial video content, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. (Keith Bedford/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. agreed Tuesday to license television shows and movies to Joost, the new online video distribution channel launched by the founders of Kazaa and Skype.</p><br clear="all"/>
Wikimedia Foundation denies financial difficulties
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070220/tc_afp/internetwikipedia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070220/capt.sge.udk66.200207180306.photo00.photo.default-354x512.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=CzIGAcG4FSwkIxiH7obW3Q--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Florence Devouard, the president of the Wikimedia Foundation, seen here in January 2007, which runs the free Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, denied rumours circulating on the web that it is dangerously short of money.(AFP/File/Thierry Zoccolan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The president of the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the free Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, denied rumours circulating on the web that it is dangerously short of money.</p><br clear="all"/>
Update: Viacom, Joost enter Internet TV deal
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Joost, the online TV service developed by the founders of Internet telephone company Skype, has struck a licensing deal with Viacom International Inc.
Microsoft Updates SQL Server 2005
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp. released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SQL Server 2005 on Tuesday, a free upgrade [<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/servicepacks/sp2.mspx">available for download</a>], in addition to new virtualization licensing for the database.
Viacom, Joost Make a Deal
(PC World)
PC World - Joost, the online TV service developed by the founders of Internet telephone company Skype Ltd., has struck a licensing deal with Viacom International Inc.
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