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Microsoft puts brakes on Soapbox video sharing
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft has put the brakes on its Soapbox video-sharing site while it implements new technology to detect videos uploaded by users that could have copyright restrictions.
Report: Apple Will Delay Leopard Launch To Ensure Windows Vista Compatibility
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - A Taiwanese electronics publication reports that Apple will push back the launch of Mac OS X 10.5 to September.
EU concerned about Microsoft gaining market share
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070322/tc_afp/eusoftwareitcompany"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070322/capt.sge.hxl73.220307180040.photo00.photo.default-512x323.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=zha7ZyoHreKLDA4WkgVQrA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="The logo for Microsoft at their office in Herndon, Virginia. European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has expressed concern that US software giant Microsoft was gaining market share, even while failing to comply with an anti-trust ruling.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)" border="0" /></a>AFP - European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes expressed concern on Thursday that US software giant Microsoft was gaining market share, even while failing to comply with an anti-trust ruling.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Joins the OpenAjax Alliance
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In a move that could signal a general movement toward a standards-based Ajax, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, Microsoft joined the OpenAjax Alliance on Wednesday.
Microsoft, Fuji Xerox Agree To Share Technology
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The patent contract includes integrating software based on Windows and Linux.
Microsoft Still Acting Like A Monopoly, EU Complains
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The focus shifts from Microsoft's influence on the desktop to its dominance of the workgroup server market.
Microsoft Denies Breach of Xbox Live Security
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Despite widespread and growing complaints from Xbox Live gamers, Microsoft insists that there is no evidence of any security breaches on its popular gaming platform.
Federal agency bans Microsoft Vista
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070322/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_government"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070323/capt.beec7d2afbe6495cb62040aa683eb863.microsoft_new_sealand_prime_minister_wajn101.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=yAf8s9ZcT7mGiEsmfK_akQ--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, left, is greeted by Microsoft Corp. CFO Chris Liddell, CEO Steve Ballmer and Microsoft General Manager of New Zealand Helen Robinson, right, on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash., Friday, March 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Joe Nicholson)" border="0" /></a>AP - At least two federal government agencies are refusing to upgrade their computers with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating system, citing concern over costs and compatibility issues.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft mogul upbeat ahead of space mission
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070322/tc_nm/space_simonyi_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070322/2007_03_22t105945_450x328_us_space_simonyi.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=CvM5roAZadGmxdXHc2dKiA--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Charles Simonyi (R), a former software developer at Microsoft, cosmonauts Oleg Kotov (C) and Fyodor Yurchikhin of Russia pose for an official photo at Star City, outside Moscow, March 20, 2007. Simonyi said on Thursday he was more nervous about public appearances than blasting off for a trip to the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket. (Sergei Remezov/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Former Microsoft software
guru Charles Simonyi said on Thursday he was more nervous about
public appearances than blasting off for a trip to the
International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Mogul Upbeat Ahead Of Space Mission
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Former Microsoft exec Charles Simonyi said on Thursday he was more nervous about public appearances than blasting off for a trip to the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket.
Mom donates laptops to wounded soldiers
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070324/ap_on_hi_te/walter_reed_laptops"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070323/capt.dcmc20103231947.walter_reed_laptops_dcmc201.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=sJR63V9YKzx9KJcEwz8ngg--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Laptops for the Wounded founder Laura Brown of Wyoming, right, and supporter Phil Drouin of East Hartford, Conn., left, pose with Col. Ladonna Howell, internal director of the Soldier Family Assistance Center at Walter Army Medical Center, Friday, March 23, 2007, in Washington. Brown and Drouin, donated on behalf of their organization 10 laptops for the wounded soldiers in rehabilitation at Walter Reed. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)" border="0" /></a>AP - Laura Brown, a mother with a son who fought in the Iraq war, is trying to improve conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center — one laptop computer at a time.</p><br clear="all"/>
TV Guide to offer Web video search tool
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_hi_te/online_video_search"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070323/capt.a2a6cabda4ae4b00a94d8389cc24508d.video_search_la102.jpg?x=130&y=98&sig=14VRydi8P1UnnKm0qGtOAw--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Richard Battista, Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., chief executive, poses with work-in-progress display of the TV Guide Digital Media Web page at the company headquarters in Los Angeles Wednesday, March 21, 2007. Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., which publishes TV Guide magazine, will soon launch a test version of an online video search tool to help viewers find clips and full episodes of the hundreds of TV shows now being posted on the Web.(AP Photo/Reed Saxon)" border="0" /></a>AP - TV Guide, which has helped viewers navigate through thousands of TV shows for 53 years, now wants to do the same for Internet video. Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. will launch a test version next month of an online video search tool that allows viewers to find clips and full episodes of TV shows now being posted on the Web. A formal launch is planned for September.</p><br clear="all"/>
Vote on '.xxx' Internet address nears
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_hi_te/internet_pornography"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070323/capt.51755a039a9f4e8493d6717aee59598d.internet_pornography_fljc101.jpg?x=130&y=103&sig=Kgjm6hBkWia3t1.YPBe.hQ--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="Stuart Lawley, chairman and president of ICM Registry Inc., poses for a photo in his Jupiter, Fla home, Thursday, March 22, 2007 by one of his computers. Online pornographers and religious groups are in a rare alliance as a key Internet oversight agency nears a decision on creating a virtual red-light district through a '.xxx' Internet address. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)" border="0" /></a>AP - Online pornographers and religious groups are in a rare alliance as a key Internet oversight agency nears a decision on creating a virtual red-light district through a ".xxx" Internet address. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which has already rejected similar proposals twice since 2000, planned to vote as early as next week on whether to approve the domain name for voluntary use by porn sites.</p><br clear="all"/>
Questions on `.xxx' bid and domain names
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_hi_te/internet_pornography_q_a"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070323/capt.bf8833541ba745bcb1885f852e7ac9e0.internet_pornography_fljc102.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=71hq4gZ1AaNgufXH5yX3VA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Stuart Lawley, chairman and president of ICM Registry Inc., poses for a photo in his Jupiter, Fla home, Thursday, March 22, 2007 by one of his computers. Online pornographers and religious groups are in a rare alliance as a key Internet oversight agency nears a decision on creating a virtual red-light district through a '.xxx' Internet address. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the Internet's key oversight agency, is nearing a vote on creating a voluntary ".xxx" domain name for pornography sites.</p><br clear="all"/>
European Web sites go for long addresses
(AP)
AP - What's in an Internet domain name? Sixty-three characters max.
Zell offers $33-per-share for Tribune: L.A. Times
(Reuters)
Reuters - Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell
is offering to buy Tribune Co. for $33 a share, the Los Angeles
Times reported on its Web site on Friday, citing a source
familiar with the matter.
Cablevision loses network DVR court case
(Reuters)
Reuters - Cablevision Systems Corp. has
lost a legal battle against several Hollywood studios and
television networks to introduce a network-based digital video
recorder service to its subscribers.
FCC unlikely to lift airplane cell phone ban
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will ask fellow commissioners to keep in place a ban on mobile phone use during airplane flights.
Red Hat Responds to Claims It's the 'Next Microsoft'
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Red Hat responds to claims it is playing the bully in asserting its rights over the use of JBoss trademarks.
New MIT Supply Chain Software Is Far Out -- In Space
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Researchers at MIT have created software to model supply chains for delivering oxygen, food, fuel, exploration equipment, and spare parts to outer space.
Zell offers $33-per-share for Tribune: L.A. Times
(Reuters)
Reuters - Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell
is offering to buy Tribune Co. for $33 a share, the Los Angeles
Times reported on its Web site on Friday, citing a source
familiar with the matter.
Judge hits Vonage with injunction
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070323/wr_nm/vonage_verizon_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070323/2007_03_23t132056_450x336_us_vonage_verizon.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=VKuz7yRhelslLgnIUVy_aw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A Vonage V-Phone in an undated file photo. A federal judge issued a permanent injunction on Friday barring Vonage Holdings Corp. from using Internet phone call technology owned by Verizon Communications Inc. (Vonage Marketing Inc./Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A federal judge dealt a blow to
Vonage Holdings Corp. that sent its stock reeling on Friday,
when he agreed to bar the company from using Internet phone
call technology patented by Verizon Communications Inc.</p><br clear="all"/>
Anna Nicole Smith diaries sell for over $500,000
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070323/wr_nm/annanicole_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070324/2007_03_23t191209_450x300_uk_annanicole.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=KNjlT15nDzctMFkcbPJhPg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Anna Nicole Smith is seen arriving with her lawyer Howard Stern for her hearing at the Supreme Court in Washington in this February 28, 2006, file photo. Two diaries written by Smith have sold on online auction site eBay for more than $500,000 to a German man planning to use them as the basis of a book, according to the memorabilia house that sold them. (Chris Kleponis/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Two diaries written by Anna Nicole
Smith have sold on online auction site eBay for more than
$500,000 to a German man planning to use them as the basis of a
book, according to the memorabilia house that sold them.</p><br clear="all"/>
TV Guide to offer Web video search tool
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_hi_te/online_video_search"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070323/capt.a2a6cabda4ae4b00a94d8389cc24508d.video_search_la102.jpg?x=130&y=98&sig=14VRydi8P1UnnKm0qGtOAw--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Richard Battista, Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., chief executive, poses with work-in-progress display of the TV Guide Digital Media Web page at the company headquarters in Los Angeles Wednesday, March 21, 2007. Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., which publishes TV Guide magazine, will soon launch a test version of an online video search tool to help viewers find clips and full episodes of the hundreds of TV shows now being posted on the Web.(AP Photo/Reed Saxon)" border="0" /></a>AP - TV Guide, which has helped viewers navigate through thousands of TV shows for 53 years, now wants to do the same for Internet video. Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. will launch a test version next month of an online video search tool that allows viewers to find clips and full episodes of TV shows now being posted on the Web. A formal launch is planned for September.</p><br clear="all"/>
Many Americans see little point to Web: survey
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070323/wr_nm/internet_holdouts_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070322/capt.sge.hzi61.220307222329.photo00.photo.default-512x359.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=TJqLl3OTz1bxP766qL_Wmg--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Computer at an Internet cafe. A US federal judge on Thursday upheld a veto on a child-protection law targeting Internet pornography, ruling that it violated freedom of expression and other constitutional rights.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A little under
one-third of U.S. households have no Internet access and do not
plan to get it, with most of the holdouts seeing little use for
it in their lives, according to a survey released on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
European Web sites go for long addresses
(AP)
AP - What's in an Internet domain name? Sixty-three characters max.
Questions on `.xxx' bid and domain names
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_hi_te/internet_pornography_q_a"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070323/capt.bf8833541ba745bcb1885f852e7ac9e0.internet_pornography_fljc102.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=71hq4gZ1AaNgufXH5yX3VA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Stuart Lawley, chairman and president of ICM Registry Inc., poses for a photo in his Jupiter, Fla home, Thursday, March 22, 2007 by one of his computers. Online pornographers and religious groups are in a rare alliance as a key Internet oversight agency nears a decision on creating a virtual red-light district through a '.xxx' Internet address. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the Internet's key oversight agency, is nearing a vote on creating a voluntary ".xxx" domain name for pornography sites.</p><br clear="all"/>
Vote on '.xxx' Internet address nears
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_hi_te/internet_pornography"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070323/capt.51755a039a9f4e8493d6717aee59598d.internet_pornography_fljc101.jpg?x=130&y=103&sig=Kgjm6hBkWia3t1.YPBe.hQ--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="Stuart Lawley, chairman and president of ICM Registry Inc., poses for a photo in his Jupiter, Fla home, Thursday, March 22, 2007 by one of his computers. Online pornographers and religious groups are in a rare alliance as a key Internet oversight agency nears a decision on creating a virtual red-light district through a '.xxx' Internet address. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)" border="0" /></a>AP - Online pornographers and religious groups are in a rare alliance as a key Internet oversight agency nears a decision on creating a virtual red-light district through a ".xxx" Internet address. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which has already rejected similar proposals twice since 2000, planned to vote as early as next week on whether to approve the domain name for voluntary use by porn sites.</p><br clear="all"/>
Neiman Marcus sues domain name companies
(AP)
AP - Neiman Marcus Group Inc. is suing a pair of domain name companies, accusing them of improperly registering more than 40 Internet addresses that resemble the department store chain's trademarks.
Update: Judge hits Vonage with injunction
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - A federal judge on Friday issued a permanent injunction against VoIP service provider Vonage to stop it from using patented Verizon technology.
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