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Microsoft to offer Xbox 360 memory unit
(Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. on Monday
announced plans to launch a 512MB Memory Unit for the Xbox 360
video game and entertainment system and an increase in the
official size limit of Xbox LIVE(R) Arcade games from 50 MB to
150 MB.
Stock turmoil strikes Gates
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Bill Gates sold over 20 million shares of Microsoft Corp. stock last month, with just around 2 million of the shares affected by global stock market turmoil.
One Patent Claim Against Microsoft Dropped
(PC World)
PC World - A judge in a San Diego court late Thursday dismissed one of several patent claims Alcatel-Lucent SA has made against Microsoft Corp. in several high-profile cases against the vendor, but that does not mean the software company is out of the woods yet.
VMware Accuses Microsoft Of Restricting Its Customers
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft's virtualization technology shuts out third parties, the vendor claims.
The Next Round Of Microsoft Vs. Linux: Health Care
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Both camps are making waves in the industry, which is poised for dramatic IT growth
Bill Gates to testify on competitiveness
(Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. Chairman
Bill Gates will testify Wednesday at a congressional hearing on
American business competitiveness, the Senate Health, Education
and Labor Committee said on Friday.
Analysts: Outlook grim for Microsoft online business
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Despite its CEO's claims that Microsoft eventually will trump Google to be number one in online search revenue, the company's online business is "massively underperforming" against the competition, according to a leading financial analyst.
Microsoft OneCare Comes In Last In Antivirus Test
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - An antivirus test puts Germany's G Data Security Software with its Anti-Virus Kit at the top of the list, and Microsoft's OneCare last out of 17 products.
Microsoft's Unified Communications Fuels Growth In PBX Sales
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Growth in sales of IP PBXs to small and midsize businesses should reach 33% on a cumulative basis for the next five years, research firm AMI-Partners says.
Microsoft wins round with Alcatel-Lucent
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070302/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_alcatel"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070305/2007_03_04t174111_450x300_us_palm_speculation.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=9fsB.FupDMLtP30tlS7zlw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Microsoft Corporation Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates (C), Palm, Inc., President and CEO Ed Colligan (R) and Verizon Wireless President and CEO Denny Strigl (L) announce a strategic alliance to expand the smartphone market with a new line of Treo smartphones from Verizon Wireless national wireless broadband network at a press conference in San Francisco, September 26, 2005. Treo smartphone maker Palm Inc. (Lou Dematteis/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Speech coding technology used in several Microsoft Corp. applications does not infringe on an Alcatel-Lucent SA patent, a federal judge decided Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Diebold weighs strategy for voting unit
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070304/ap_on_hi_te/diebold_voting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070304/capt.cd10203041921.diebold_voting_cd102.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=N95R2ULWZYmnKIycUa6YDQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Randy Fox, right, explains how to work the printer housing on a Diebold Electronic Voting Systems unit during a training session in Cleveland in this Oct. 11, 2006 file photo. Just five years after Diebold boldly plunged into the changing United States e-voting market, some close observers think it may soon try to find a way out. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)" border="0" /></a>AP - Diebold Inc. saw great potential in the modernization of elections equipment. Now, analysts say, executives may be angling for ways to dump its e-voting subsidiary that's widely seen as tarnishing the company's reputation.</p><br clear="all"/>
Police turn to YouTube to catch suspects
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070304/ap_on_hi_te/crime_fighting_youtube"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070304/capt.e1b0f881734e42d189755862113ab795.crime_fighting_youtube_masm101.jpg?x=130&y=81&sig=ck5FLf1tv.M6fUqSN.HQdg--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Franklin Police officer Brian Johnson poses, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007, in Franklin, Mass., with a computer showing the surveillance tape he uploaded to YouTube.com, in hopes of solving a crime. Johnson posted a 32-second clip from a security camera on the video-sharing Web site, then e-mailed about 300 people and organizations to say the department was seeking information on the suspects. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)" border="0" /></a>AP - Patrolman Brian Johnson of the Franklin, Mass., Police Department studied a surveillance video showing two men using allegedly stolen credit cards at a Home Depot.</p><br clear="all"/>
Carmakers adding high-tech perks
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070304/ap_on_hi_te/pimp_my_ride"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070304/capt.d791bd5e22bd4c9aac7c500415eb9d62.pimp_my_ride_cali102.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=MG0r2VxoWlum8USjcHkS9A--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Aaron Priest, of La Mesa, Calif., sits in his new $38,000 sports sedan, with its do everything voice command dash monitor displaying a route to a recent destination in San Diego Wednesday, February 28, 2007. Priest says his friends are uninterested in the cars power, but enthralled by the its electronic wizardry. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)" border="0" /></a>AP - When friends check out Aaron Priest's new Acura TL sedan, the oohs and aahs start on the inside.</p><br clear="all"/>
Movie firms working on digital film system
(AP)
AP - Tired of being turned away at the theater box office when a movie's sold out? Unhappy there's no art-house theater in your neighborhood to cater to your hoity-toity theatrical tastes?
Technology creates extreme genealogists
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070304/ap_on_re_us/extreme_genealogy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070303/capt.nyr10903031842.sharpton_genealogy_nyr109.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=_YJx3XcEliPrzBoppN5htg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photo provided by Ancestry.com,, the Rev. Al Sharpton encourages people to learn about their family history, Saturday, March 3, 2007, in New York. Genealogical detectives from Ancestry.com were able to show that Sharpton's family history intersects that of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond. (AP Photo/Ancestry.com, Diane Bondareff)" border="0" /></a>AP - Lee Drew had a chat with some cousins the other day.</p><br clear="all"/>
The 50 Most Important People on the Web
(PC World)
PC World - Here's who's shaping what you read, watch, hear, write, buy, sell, befriend, flame, and otherwise do online.
Microsoft to offer Xbox 360 memory unit
(Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. on Monday
announced plans to launch a 512MB Memory Unit for the Xbox 360
video game and entertainment system and an increase in the
official size limit of Xbox LIVE(R) Arcade games from 50 MB to
150 MB.
Alltel steps up efforts to sell itself - WSJ
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070305/bs_nm/alltel_sale_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070305/2007_03_05t053101_450x300_us_alltel_sale.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=_UCBoDYPFBK.A0VQzQX0Sg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Alltel headquarters are seen in an undated publicity photo. Alltel Corp. has stepped up efforts to sell itself to carriers such as AT and T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp., said people familiar with the matter, as the Little Rock, Ark.-based wireless company tries to chart a new future, The Wall Street Journal reported. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Alltel Corp. has stepped up
efforts to sell itself to carriers such as AT&T Inc. ,
Verizon Communications Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp.
, said people familiar with the matter, as the Little
Rock, Ark.-based wireless company tries to chart a new future,
The Wall Street Journal reported.</p><br clear="all"/>
The Next Round Of Microsoft Vs. Linux: Health Care
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Both camps are making waves in the industry, which is poised for dramatic IT growth
Rivals Launch Competing Windows-on-Mac Products
(PC World)
PC World - Both VMWare and Parallels update their virtualization software.
The 50 Most Important People on the Web
(PC World)
PC World - Here's who's shaping what you read, watch, hear, write, buy, sell, befriend, flame, and otherwise do online.
Rock archive web site countersues bands, labels
(Reuters)
Reuters - A rock archive Web
site is fighting back against a copyright lawsuit brought by
some of music's most notable classic rock acts, dragging two
major record labels into the battle.
Egypt's bloggers test state media control
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070305/wr_nm/egypt_bloggers_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070305/2007_03_05t054749_450x315_us_egypt_bloggers.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=s.C3ZbruG8ZUvNjTJgZ4zw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Egyptians work on their computers in a cafe in Cairo January 6, 2006. Egyptian bloggers have come into the spotlight, on the one hand as an important forum for political debate, on the other as the target of government attempts to limit their freedom of expression. (Aladin Abdel Naby/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Egyptian bloggers have come into the
spotlight, on the one hand as an important forum for political
debate, on the other as the target of government attempts to
limit their freedom of expression.</p><br clear="all"/>
Singapore approves bidders for broadband project
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has qualified 12 bidders for the government's Next Generation National Broadband Project. The announcement comes follows IDA's December 2006 call for interested companies and consortiums to demonstrate their capabilities for approval to bid on the project.
YouTube builds network of content providers
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070304/tc_afp/usinternetcompany"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070304/capt.sge.clq18.040307170437.photo00.photo.default-512x340.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=3ZsomQp1UPbD4bgNoJQLPQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="YouTube, the video social-networking website owned by Google, is building a vast network of content providers, a company spokesman told AFP.(AFP/File/Samantha Sin)" border="0" /></a>AFP - YouTube, the video social-networking website owned by Google, is building a vast network of content providers, a company spokesman told AFP.</p><br clear="all"/>
Connecticut Investigating Best Buy's Intrastore Web Site
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Best Buy is getting into some hot water because of an intrastore version of its Web site. The Connecticut Attorney General's office has launched a probe into the chain's use of an internal version of its Web site that looks and acts virtually identical to the public Web version except that it sometimes offers higher prices.
FCC Orders Telcos to Support VoIP
(PC World)
PC World - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has ruled that incumbent local exchange carriers must connect to VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) services, overruling two state public service commission opinions.
Three Minutes With eBay Innovator Max Mancini
(PC World)
PC World - The auction site's new senior director of platform and innovation tells about developer plans the Disruptive Innovation team.
Internet-taught militants are new Singapore security threat
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070303/tc_afp/singaporeattacksinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070303/capt.sge.cfo07.030307062238.photo00.photo.default-381x512.jpg?x=96&y=130&sig=Ty6Qpbr8mSL155nr8eJn7A--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="File photo of Singaporean Minister of Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng. A breed of "self-radicalised individuals" who absorbed militant ideas through the Internet have emerged as a new security threat to the city-state, according to Wong. The minister said the government has investigated "a few" Singaporeans who have been influenced by radical Islamic ideas they read from the Internet, local media quoted him as saying in parliament on Friday.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A breed of "self-radicalised individuals" who absorbed militant ideas through the Internet have emerged as a new security threat to the city-state, Singapore's interior minister said in remarks published Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Berners-Lee Gives Lawmakers A View Of The Internet's Future
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Very smart phones and hyperdata sharing are all part of his vision.
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