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Microsoft Gets Enterprise Fever
(PC World)
PC World - Get ready to rumble: the fight for enterprise applications customers is going to heat up as Microsoft Corp. this week confirmed its intention to more aggressively compete with the dominant high-end ERP and CRM players Oracle Corp. and SAP AG.
Microsoft gets enterprise fever
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Get ready to rumble: the fight for enterprise applications customers is going to heat up as Microsoft Corp. this week confirmed its intention to more aggressively compete with the dominant high-end ERP and CRM players Oracle Corp. and SAP AG.
Microsoft Pays Enterprise Customers To Adopt Windows Live Search
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - CEO Steve Ballmer outlines the company's new initiative to become an Internet, information, and advertising company.
Utility Lets Microsoft Windows Vista Users Forego Registration Indefinitely
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - SkipRearm can help IT managers reset the activation clock, and Microsoft doesn't seem concerned about software pirates taking advantage of it.
Update: Microsoft offers enterprises incentives for search
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - In an apparent attempt to boost its disappointing Web search market share, Microsoft is giving financial incentives to large enterprise customers whose employees use Microsoft's Live Search engine.
Microsoft Offers Incentives for Search
(PC World)
PC World - In an apparent attempt to boost its disappointing Web search market share, Microsoft Corp. is giving financial incentives to large enterprise customers whose employees use Microsoft's Live Search engine.
Ballmer Questions Google Business Strategy
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer criticized rival Google Inc., saying it is devoted primarily to ad-supported search while Microsoft has reinvented itself many times over.
Cisco, Microsoft Gear Up For Growing Battle
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - With Cisco planning to buy WebEx and Microsoft acquiring Tellme Networks Inc., the two tech giants increasingly look like rivals as they compete to bundle e-mail, phones, and other communication tools into a single system.
Ballmer questions business strategy of Google
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer criticized rival Google, saying it is devoted primarily to ad-supported search while Microsoft has reinvented itself many times over.
Microsoft: 'Financial incentives' for Live Search data
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - In an apparent attempt to boost its disappointing Web search market share, Microsoft is giving financial incentives to large enterprise customers whose employees use Microsoft's Live Search engine.
Courts to release trial tapes online
(AP)
AP - A computer and an Internet connection may soon be all that are needed for anyone to hear closing arguments in a corruption trial or listen to the testimony of a mob turncoat.
Livedoor founder gets 2 1/2 years in prison
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070316/ap_on_hi_te/japan_internet_trial"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070316/capt.tok80303160120.japan_internet_trial_tok803.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=bXXJ0sfO.Pq8tQt_sV6gaQ--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Takafumi Horie, center, founder of Internet services company Livedoor Co., arrives at the Tokyo District Court in Tokyo Friday, March 16, 2007. The Tokyo District Court on Friday sentenced Horie, 34, to two years and six months in jail in a case that has come to symbolize the challenges Japan faces in policing rising startups. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Tomohisa Kato)" border="0" /></a>AP - Former dot-com mogul Takafumi Horie was found guilty of securities laws violations and sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison on Friday, in a case that has come to symbolize the challenges Japan faces in policing rising startups.</p><br clear="all"/>
Qualcomm, Broadcom agree to drop suits
(AP)
AP - Qualcomm Inc. and Broadcom Corp. agreed to dismiss patent and trade-secret claims against each other Friday, ending several skirmishes in the long-running legal battle between the two wireless technology companies.
Intern sold Civil War items on eBay
(AP)
AP - An intern with the National Archives stole about 165 Civil War documents — including the War Department's announcement of President Lincoln's death — and sold most of them on eBay, prosecutors charged Thursday.
Cisco to pay $3.2 billion for WebEx
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070316/ap_on_hi_te/cisco_webex"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070315/capt.1c5e2eba7fbb41559dab848005915c97.cisco_webex_caps103.jpg?x=130&y=72&sig=U8EIizW9ZTlUf373fyRwbg--" align="left" height="72" width="130" alt="Exterior view of WebEx Communications Inc. headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Thursday, March 15, 2007. Cisco Systems Inc. said Thursday it has agreed to acquire the online meeting company WebEx Communications Inc. for about $3.2 billion in cash. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - Cisco Systems Inc. said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire the online meeting company WebEx Communications Inc. for about $3.2 billion in cash.</p><br clear="all"/>
Internet radio startup Slacker faces a snag
(Reuters)
Reuters - Slacker Inc., a new venture from the
executives behind MusicMatch, Rio and iRiver America, wants to
revolutionize Internet radio by making it portable.
SanDisk Doubles Capacity Of Memory Card
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The higher-capacity card reflects both competitive pressure and the demand for more storage as consumers turn to digital cameras for shooting large quantities of still pictures and video.
EU aims to roll-out mobile TV by Euro 2008 championship
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070316/tc_afp/afplifestylegermanyittelecommobileshowtelevisionfbl"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070316/capt.sge.gdb19.160307183256.photo00.photo.default-512x359.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=XmHqg3rcxxHBSi.y3Egsug--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Visitors check out TV programmes on mobile phones at German Broadcaster ZDF's stand at the CeBIT computer, digital IT and telecommunications fair. Europe is laying the groundwork to roll out mobile TV services and hopes to have a system up and running in time for the European football championship in 2008.(AFP/John MacDougall)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Europe is laying the groundwork to roll out mobile TV services and hopes to have a system up and running in time for the European football championship in 2008, officials said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Firefox takes new tack on testing bug fixes
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Mozilla is changing the way it publishes security fixes for its Firefox browser.
Google's Blog Software Hijacked by Scammers
(PC World)
PC World - Google's blogger.com is being hijacked to spread malware through fake blogs, a security vendor has warned.
Courts to release trial tapes online
(AP)
AP - A computer and an Internet connection may soon be all that are needed for anyone to hear closing arguments in a corruption trial or listen to the testimony of a mob turncoat.
Internet radio startup Slacker faces a snag
(Reuters)
Reuters - Slacker Inc., a new venture from the
executives behind MusicMatch, Rio and iRiver America, wants to
revolutionize Internet radio by making it portable.
Prankster declares live comedian dead on Wikipedia
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070317/tc_afp/afpentertainmentit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070317/capt.sge.gej72.170307003214.photo00.photo.default-512x385.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=38XvBtv14pDehmxc3bCWOw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Wikipedia called actor-comedian Sinbad, seen here in 2006, on Friday to apologize after a prankster declared the performer dead in the communally crafted online encyclopedia.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Livingston)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Wikipedia called actor-comedian Sinbad on Friday to apologize after a prankster declared the performer dead in the communally crafted online encyclopedia.</p><br clear="all"/>
Two plead guilty in U.S. Internet gambling case
(Reuters)
Reuters - A Miami executive and his wife pleaded
guilty to participating in a $3.3 billion illegal Internet
sports gambling operation in New York on Friday, the Queens
District Attorney's office said.
Stolen US Civil War documents sold on eBay
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070316/tc_afp/usitinternethistory"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070316/capt.sge.gei70.160307235739.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=KiyCLW7DCOGKiKUGuLoquA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Entrance of eBay headquarters in San Jose, Calif. Criminal charges were filed against a collector who stole 165 Civil War documents from the National Archives and sold them on eBay, US prosecutors said Friday.(AFP/File/Hector Mata)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Criminal charges were filed against a collector who stole 165 Civil War documents from the National Archives and sold them on eBay, US prosecutors said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google Acquires In-Game Ad Company Adscape
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The search engine is expected to integrate Adscape's technology with its AdWords and AdSense programs.
Google's Blog Software Hijacked by Scammers
(PC World)
PC World - Google's blogger.com is being hijacked to spread malware through fake blogs, a security vendor has warned.
Colorado Woman Sues To Hold Web Crawlers To Contracts
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Web site owner Suzanne Shell's lawsuit against the Internet Archive poses a question: "Can software programs be held liable for their actions?"
Slacker personalizes Internet radio with iPod rival
(Reuters)
Reuters - Fans of Internet radio who want to
listen to their favorite stations away from the computer will
soon be able to do so with a new digital music player called
Slacker.
Massachusetts Congressman Favors A Return Of Internet Gambling
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The congressman is in the "thinking stage" of drafting legislation that would in effect repeal the Unlawful Enforcement Gambling Act.
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