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Microsoft Challenges Adobe With Publisher Partnerships
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - In a war of digital readers, Microsoft is using its Windows Presentation Foundation technology to block out Adobe's Flash and PDF software.
Linux, Innuendo, And Doubt
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer subtly raises the intellectual-property issue again.
Windows Vista Not Available In Some Custom-Built Dell's
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Compatibility issues with some peripherals are forcing customers to take Windows XP or wait for their build-to-order PC to become Vista ready.
Google Apps aims beyond Microsoft Office
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Following Google's announcement on Thursday that it would offer an enhanced version of its Google Apps, dubbed Google Apps Premier Edition, the company left no doubt about the direction in which it was heading.
Microsoft MP3 verdict music to lawyers' ears: analysts
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070223/tc_afp/usfranceitpatent"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070223/capt.sge.afe51.230207224344.photo00.photo.default-512x323.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=7il9m88eqe8zMmxVuuEzLQ--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="The logo for Microsoft at their office in Herndon, Virginia. The digital music industry could be at risk of a fundamental shake-up after Microsoft was found guilty of infringing Alcatel-Lucent patents on the ubiquitous MP3 format.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The digital music industry could be at risk of a fundamental shake-up after Microsoft was found guilty of infringing Alcatel-Lucent patents on the ubiquitous MP3 format.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Will Fight to Keep Office Live Name
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp. said it will seek to invalidate claims by a California company that has sued it for trademark infringement over the "Office Live" name.
Microsoft ruling weighs on Wall Street
(FT.com)
FT.com - US stocks sagged this week in thin trading as investors fretted over a small but unexpected rise in inflation, higher oil prices and troubles for mortgage lenders.
Microsoft ponders Ruby language
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft is "very interested" in the Ruby programming language and also plans to expand its Expression design tools line, a Microsoft official said this week.
MP3 ruling could haunt music tech firms
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070223/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_alcatel"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070223/capt.sge.uxm28.230207003407.photo00.photo.default-512x323.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=LI5.HmbXTluirtfO0q0K2A--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="The logo for Microsoft at their office in Herndon, Virginia. A US jury found Microsoft guilty of infringing Alcatel-Lucent patents and ordered the software giant to pay the French-US firm 1.5 billion dollars.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)" border="0" /></a>AP - A federal jury's ruling that Microsoft infringed on two MP3 patents and must pay $1.52 billion in damages could turn into a major sour note for other technology companies in the digital music business.</p><br clear="all"/>
First Microsoft Office 2007 Vulnerability Uncovered
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - A remotely exploitable vulnerability that exists within Office's Publisher 2007 allows a hacker to remotely execute arbitrary code as a logged-in user, security firm eEye says.
Hi-tech entrepreneurs mull build or sell
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070224/ap_on_hi_te/next_big_deal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070207/2007_02_06t205517_411x450_us_comcast_facebook.jpg?x=118&y=130&sig=yYW5.xsytq7PnYhH7nigow--" align="left" height="130" width="118" alt="A Facebook profile page is seen in an undated handout image. Facebook.com, the social networking Web site, said on Tuesday it is moving into television by teaming up with cable operator Comcast's online video site Ziddio to produce a new series from users' clips called 'Facebook Diaries'. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - As Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich.</p><br clear="all"/>
Europe seeks to tighten some online laws
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070224/ap_on_hi_te/europe_online_anonymity"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070222/capt.fra11902221310.europe_online_anonymity_fra119.jpg?x=130&y=98&sig=qdj.pxJZQNSxtLqPROSWBg--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="People surf the internet in an internet cafe in Frankfurt, central Germany, in a Nov. 10, 2005 file photo. In privacy-conscious Europe, proposals from several key governments have sparked concerns that the state could force companies to keep detailed tabs on their Internet, e-mail and telephone habits. Proponents want to help terror investigations by reducing the cloaks of anonymity. Critics see a big step toward the ubiquitous government described in George Orwell's 1984. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)" border="0" /></a>AP - Some European countries are proposing outlawing the use of fake information to open e-mail accounts or set up Web sites, a move intended to help terror investigations but which could face resistance on a privacy-conscious continent.</p><br clear="all"/>
Security scanner can see through clothes
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070224/ap_on_hi_te/airport_x_ray_screening"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070223/capt.wxs90102232241.airport_x_ray_screening_wxs901.jpg?x=130&y=68&sig=XpnOcnS393ZYaHTGK6OvRw--" align="left" height="68" width="130" alt="These four undated images provided by American Science and Engineering, are sample images according to American Science and Engineering, of what airport screeners see while using the new airport X-Ray machines on both male and female passengers. The Phoenix airport on Friday, Feb. 23, 2007, became the first in the United States to test new X-ray technology that can see through people's clothes and show the body's contours. (AP Photo/American Science and Engineering)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sky Harbor International Airport became the country's first to begin testing a controversial new federal screening system that takes X-rays of passenger's bodies in an effort to find concealed explosives and other weapons.</p><br clear="all"/>
Text messages land teacher in hot water
(AP)
AP - A middle school teacher trying to buy pot was arrested after she sent text messages to state trooper instead of a dealer, police said.
Philly teacher assaulted over iPod
(AP)
AP - A high school teacher was assaulted by two students and hospitalized with broken vertebrae after he took an iPod away from one of them during class, officials said.
Confiscated airline carry-on items become big sellers on eBay
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070224/tc_afp/usattacksairlinetravelinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070224/capt.sge.afy52.240207070344.photo00.photo.default-512x353.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=S7QyLckDn0UhvA4gHxufFw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A worker holds a manual slicer at the Commonwealth Garage and Warehouse in Harrisburg, PA. The State Agency for Surplus Property (SASP) at the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania airport collects confiscated items like scissors, knives, lighters and the occasional machete from 12 different airports, including JFK and LaGuardia in New York, but also at Boston, Philadelphia and Syracuse, then sorts it, photographs it and puts up for sale on eBay as part of a program started in 2004 to raise new state revenues(AFP/File/Mannie Garcia)" border="0" /></a>AFP - What happens to those scissors, lighters and the occasional machete confiscated at US airports? Some land in an Ali Baba-style cave here, to be auctioned on eBay.</p><br clear="all"/>
Skype Asks FCC to Force Open Mobile Networks
(PC World)
PC World - Skype Ltd. is looking to a 1968 ruling by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to open up the country's mobile phone industry for "unlocked" devices and third-party applications-- such as Skype.
HUSBAND SHARES MOM'S SECRETS WITH WIFE WHO HEARS THEM ALL
(Dear Abby)
Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: My husband recently began carrying on his phone conversations on "speaker mode" when he got his new cell phone. As a result, I end up hearing most of his conversations in our small house or while we're driving in the car.
Linux, Innuendo, And Doubt
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer subtly raises the intellectual-property issue again.
Microsoft Challenges Adobe With Publisher Partnerships
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - In a war of digital readers, Microsoft is using its Windows Presentation Foundation technology to block out Adobe's Flash and PDF software.
Europe seeks to tighten some online laws
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070224/ap_on_hi_te/europe_online_anonymity"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070222/capt.fra11902221310.europe_online_anonymity_fra119.jpg?x=130&y=98&sig=qdj.pxJZQNSxtLqPROSWBg--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="People surf the internet in an internet cafe in Frankfurt, central Germany, in a Nov. 10, 2005 file photo. In privacy-conscious Europe, proposals from several key governments have sparked concerns that the state could force companies to keep detailed tabs on their Internet, e-mail and telephone habits. Proponents want to help terror investigations by reducing the cloaks of anonymity. Critics see a big step toward the ubiquitous government described in George Orwell's 1984. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)" border="0" /></a>AP - Some European countries are proposing outlawing the use of fake information to open e-mail accounts or set up Web sites, a move intended to help terror investigations but which could face resistance on a privacy-conscious continent.</p><br clear="all"/>
Confiscated airline carry-on items become big sellers on eBay
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070224/tc_afp/usattacksairlinetravelinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070224/capt.sge.afy52.240207070344.photo00.photo.default-512x353.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=S7QyLckDn0UhvA4gHxufFw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A worker holds a manual slicer at the Commonwealth Garage and Warehouse in Harrisburg, PA. The State Agency for Surplus Property (SASP) at the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania airport collects confiscated items like scissors, knives, lighters and the occasional machete from 12 different airports, including JFK and LaGuardia in New York, but also at Boston, Philadelphia and Syracuse, then sorts it, photographs it and puts up for sale on eBay as part of a program started in 2004 to raise new state revenues(AFP/File/Mannie Garcia)" border="0" /></a>AFP - What happens to those scissors, lighters and the occasional machete confiscated at US airports? Some land in an Ali Baba-style cave here, to be auctioned on eBay.</p><br clear="all"/>
YouTube fans prefer home-made video: HitWise
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070224/tc_afp/usitinternetfilmcopyrightcompanygoogleyoutube"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070224/capt.sge.afw40.240207055730.photo00.photo.default-348x512.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=rsZhVnRpSWxr18pGSZUGnQ--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="User logs onto YouTube. Despite much public ado about piracy at YouTube, research released on Friday showed that the Google-owned website is thriving and many visitors are looking for homemade works(AFP/File/Samantha Sin)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Despite much public ado about piracy at YouTube, research released on Friday showed that the Google-owned website is thriving and many visitors are looking for homemade works.</p><br clear="all"/>
Nine Easy Web-Based Collaboration Tools
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - If e-mail attachments are your idea of advanced collaboration, these Web-based tools from vendors like Google and Zoho can help jump-start your workflow, without straining your budget or brain.
Racy Web photos linked to 'Idol' singer
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070224/ap_en_mu/tv_american_idol"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070223/capt.49a819da60a947f98393ee3a511aeb6d.tv_american_idol_nyol915.jpg?x=130&y=77&sig=zBZ6HVZHT0Faj1rFDZLi5A--" align="left" height="77" width="130" alt="'American Idol' judges Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul trade barbs during the 2007 Fox Winter Press Tour in this January file photo in Pasadena, Calif. Four saw the door as the Fox talent show whittled its semifinalists down to 20. (AP Photo/Rene Macura, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Internet was abuzz Friday over a series of racy photos linked to an "American Idol" contestant. The pictures, posted on several Web sites, included one with four women posing topless at the beach, their hands covering their breasts, and others with a woman engaged in a sex act.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google Gets Hand In Trademark Dispute
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Previously critical of the search engine, the Electronic Frontier Foundation supports Google's argument that sponsored links do not constitute infringing uses of trademarks.
Imprisoned Blogger's Supporters Say Egypt No Place For U.N. Internet Talks
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Several human rights groups have condemned the sentencing of Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman to four years in prison.
Second Google Desktop attack reported
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Google's PC search software is vulnerable to a variation on a little-known Web-based attack called anti-DNS pinning that could give an attacker access to any data indexed by Google Desktop, security researchers said this week.
Second Google Desktop Vulnerability Reported
(PC World)
PC World - Google's PC search software is vulnerable to a variation on a little-known Web-based attack called anti-DNS (Domain Name System) pinning, that could give an attacker access to any data indexed by Google Desktop, security researchers said this week.
Tech Vendors Look To Cash In On Google's New App Offering
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Several companies are jumping on the Google Apps bandwagon because they see an opportunity to offer add-on products to the search king's office software products.
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