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Microsoft to buy medical info search company
(Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Monday
it will buy Medstory Inc., a California-based start-up company
that develops Web search technology for medical information.
McKesson Offers Health Care Apps On Red Hat Linux
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The partnership is the latest jab designed at replacing Microsoft Windows, which is widely used on desktops found in hospitals and doctors' offices.
VMware Attacks Microsoft Licence Changes
(PC World)
PC World - Virtualization leader VMware has published a white paper condemning what it calls Microsoft's moves to block competition in the virtualization market, the most public sign to date of the friction between the companies.
Microsoft jumps into medical search via acquisition
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft announced plans to acquire health care search engine Medstory on Feb. 26, positioning the deal as a strategic move into the consumer health market.
Microsoft to Add BPEL Support to Vista
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp. hopes to boost the adoption of BPM (business process management) applications by adding support for Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) in the workflow layer of Windows Vista, the company said Monday. It also has formed an alliance of software vendors aimed at making BPEL a more mainstream technology.
With Acquisition, Microsoft Pushes Further Into Online Health Care
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft has agreed to acquire Medstory Inc., which has an online search engine for delivering health information on the Web. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Microsoft injects Vista with BPEL
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft Corp. hopes to boost the adoption of BPM (business process management) applications by adding support for Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) in the workflow layer of Windows Vista, the company said Monday. It also has formed an alliance of software vendors aimed at making BPEL a more mainstream technology.
Microsoft Sued Over Office Live Brand
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Office Live LLC, a Los Angeles-based provider of online professional services, is suing Microsoft for trademark infringement over its Office Live suite of business applications.
Tech firms in a fever about health
(USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - IBM, Intel, Microsoft and other tech companies are increasingly betting that the health care industry will help them grow as their traditional markets mature. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is to kick off a health care tech conference in New Orleans today. The health care Information and Management Systems Society show is expected to draw 900 exhibitors and 25,000 doctors, hospital staffers and others.
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.
NY youths in plea deal in MySpace case
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070227/ap_on_hi_te/myspace_hacking"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070226/capt.la10102262108.myspace_hacking_online_extortion__la101.jpg?x=130&y=99&sig=ZBJODdVdetTj0u7_BkeKRA--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="Defendants Shaun Harrison, right and Saverio Mondelli, appear in a Los Angeles courtroom Monday, Feb. 26, 2007. The New York computer programmers have been accused of plotting to extort money from the operators of MySpace.com. Harrison and Mondelli, both 19, pleaded no contest Monday to unauthorized access of a computer system and were sentenced to three years probation. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)" border="0" /></a>AP - Two New York men accused of trying to extort $150,000 from MySpace.com by developing code that tracked visitors pleaded no contest Monday to illegal computer access in a bargain with the prosecution.</p><br clear="all"/>
Match.com to announce overseas expansion
(AP)
AP - The online dating service Match.com has decided to look overseas for some new corporate love interests.
Groups offer ringtones with a statement
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070226/ap_on_hi_te/environmental_ringtones"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070220/capt.nmtj10402201927.mobile_activism_nmtj104.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=o6E5_PlldrlvGueaEXCOcA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="University of New Mexico student Torri Lester talks on a cell phone as she leaves the campus in Albuquerque, N.M., Monday, Feb. 19, 2007. Lester said she used the phone to download games, caller tunes, and ringtones of her favorite songs. Peter Leyden, director of the New Politics Institute, which has been studying the potential impacts of cell phones on political and social campaigns, says that about four in five voting-age Americans have cells phones and that number is expected to keep growing. (AP Photo/Toby Jorrin)" border="0" /></a>AP - Amid the cacophony of cell phone ringtones these days, add these: the clickety-click-click of a rare Central American poison arrow dart frog, the howl of a Mexican gray wolf and the bellows of an Arctic beluga whale. An environmental group is hoping that the more people hear these sounds from threatened animals, the more they'll wonder where they came from — and question the fate of the animals and birds that make them.</p><br clear="all"/>
Electronic Arts replaces CEO Probst
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070227/ap_on_hi_te/electronic_arts_ceo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070226/capt.fx10102262328.electronic_arts_new_ceo_fx101.jpg?x=84&y=130&sig=ljO8XJwUR75KFx.e1dofhA--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="John Riccitiello, former president of video-game developer Electronic Arts Inc., poses for a portrait at the company's headquarters in this file photo from Thursday, July 31, 2003, in Redwood City, Calif. Electronic Arts Inc. replaced Larry Probst as chief executive on Monday, naming former Riccitiello as the new leader of world's largest video game publisher. (AP Photo/David Paul Morris)" border="0" /></a>AP - Electronic Arts Inc. replaced Larry Probst as chief executive on Monday, naming former EA executive John Riccitiello as the new leader of world's largest video game publisher. Riccitiello, who will become CEO April 2, joined Redwood City, Calif.-based EA in October 1997, rising to president and chief operating officer before quitting in April 2004.</p><br clear="all"/>
Apple TV launch delayed until March
(AP)
AP - Apple Inc. has delayed until March the launch of its gadget for streaming video and other content from computers to TVs, but the company would not explain why. The company had said in January the $299 Apple TV set-top box would be available this month.
Build your own social sites, Netscape founder says
(Reuters)
Reuters - Ning, the latest startup of
Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, is looking to get a jump
ahead of MySpace and Facebook by giving consumers free tools to
create and operate specialized online social networks of their
own.
AOL in talks to buy Third Screen Media - WSJ
(Reuters)
Reuters - Time Warner Inc.'s AOL is in talks to
acquire mobile phone advertising start-up Third Screen Media,
the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday, citing people familiar
with the matter.
Girls go mild in Israeli wartime drama
(Reuters)
Reuters - In "Close to Home," a film
now receiving its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York's IFC
Center, two 18-year-old girls prowl the streets, making small
talk about their lives and loves, taking time out along the way
to talk on their cell phones, smoke, window shop and indulge in
some snacks.
Tiny Open-Source Company Tackles E-Mail Exchange
(PC World)
PC World - A tiny provider of open-source e-mail exchange software is using a disruptive pricing model to compete against Microsoft Corp. and other large providers of proprietary e-mail service technology.
HP to buy storage software vendor PolyServe
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Hewlett-Packard Co. is acquiring a storage software company that the company says will give it important leverage in the enterprise-class network-attached storage (NAS) market.
Comedy Web block on TV
(Reuters)
Reuters - In a reversal of the
trend of distributing branded TV programming to the Internet,
Comedy Central is bringing original Web programming to
late-night television viewers, the cable network said Monday.
Build your own social sites, Netscape founder says
(Reuters)
Reuters - Ning, the latest startup of
Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, is looking to get a jump
ahead of MySpace and Facebook by giving consumers free tools to
create and operate specialized online social networks of their
own.
Match.com to announce overseas expansion
(AP)
AP - The online dating service Match.com has decided to look overseas for some new corporate love interests.
Study: Yahoo Benefits From New Search Ad System
(PC World)
PC World - People are clicking more often on ads served up by Yahoo Inc.'s search engine since the company switched to a new ad-ranking system earlier this month, according to comScore Networks Inc., a firm that measures Web usage and traffic.
Kraft Seeks Laughs With Satire Site
(AdWeek.com)
AdWeek.com - As a maker of dorm food staples, Kraft Foods needs to fish where the fish are--which in this case means a Web site that once attracted visitors by showing pictures of young ladies with the site's name scrawled on their chests.
Digital Signs, Now Available Online
(AdWeek.com)
AdWeek.com - A new out-of-home digital media company is hoping to simplify and optimize the buying of place-based digital signage with the industry's first unwired network of digital signs.
Friend: Racy pix not 'Idol' contestant
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070226/ap_en_mu/american_idol_nj"><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 - A close friend of "American Idol" semi-finalist Antonella Barba says that the aspiring singer is not the subject of some graphically sexual pictures purported to be of her that were posted on the Internet last week.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft jumps into medical search via acquisition
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft announced plans to acquire health care search engine Medstory on Feb. 26, positioning the deal as a strategic move into the consumer health market.
BitTorrent to launch movie, TV downloads
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070226/ap_on_hi_te/downloading_movies"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/net/20070226/capt.5c00fbc1333eddb9dbbdab60db267715.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=48.8oRLu8ashX7JWhT8row--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="In this screen shot provided by BitTorrent Inc. showing a roster of over 34 major partners from around the world, including 20th Century Fox, Lions Gate, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. BitTorrent Inc., makers of a technology often used to trade pirated copies of Hollywood movies, is launching a legitimate Web site that will sell downloads of films and TV shows licensed from the studios. (AP Photo/BitTorrent Inc.)" border="0" /></a>AP - BitTorrent Inc., makers of a technology often used to trade pirated copies of Hollywood movies, is launching a Web site that will sell downloads of films and TV shows licensed from the studios.</p><br clear="all"/>
Jaduka Offers Phone API for Web Developers
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The software allows for interaction between Internet-based services and the standard Public Switched Telephone Network.
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