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Microsoft to sell Xbox 360 with larger hard drive
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070328/wr_nm/microsoft_xbox_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070322/2007_03_21t143707_450x272_us_microsoft_xboxlive_fraud.jpg?x=130&y=78&sig=UPpkja5J57LsLlrN98ZLBw--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="Visitors play with Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 game consoles during the opening day of Madrid's International Data Processing, Multimedia and Communications SIMO Fair November 7, 2006. Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said it is actively investigating reports of 'fraudulent behavior and theft' on its Xbox Live online video gaming service, which has more than 6 million subscribers. (Victor Fraile/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it
will begin selling a new version of its Xbox 360 console that
transmits high-definition video and comes with a larger hard
drive in its latest effort to position the video game machine
as a digital media hub.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft to release Xbox 360 Elite
(AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. will sell a version of its Xbox 360 with a 120-gigabyte hard drive and a souped up high-definition video connection, in a bid to broaden the appeal of its popular console beyond video games.
Microsoft maps data management plans
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft is working on tools and technologies intended to make it easier for developers to deal with data.
Microsoft Gets Help From EMC In Network Management
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft is driving deeper into network management with the help of EMC.
Microsoft, EMC team on network management
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft is licensing technology from EMC, and the companies are developing new technologies aimed at making it easier for businesses to monitor and manage their IT systems.
Exploit Circulating For 'Critical' ActiveX Microsoft Bug
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The vulnerability causes memory corruption and may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause Internet Explorer to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code.
Microsoft: Windows Vista Exceeds XP's Initial Sales
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft reported on Monday that it has sold more than 20 million copies of its new operating system, Windows Vista, during the first month of the software's general availability.
Russian faces trial for Microsoft piracy
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070327/ap_on_hi_te/russia_piracy_microsoft"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070326/capt.sge.jdf08.260307202348.photo00.photo.default-512x352.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=9CVYg7r1vJHcSw8QbDzlmw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Photo of Microsoft's logo. The European Commission has given US software giant Microsoft three extra weeks to explain why it has failed to comply with an EU anti-trust ruling from 2004, a spokesman said Monday.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Russian school principal accused of installing pirated Microsoft software in school computers was ordered Tuesday to stand trial for a second time, in a case widely seen as a misguided attempt to crack down on software bootlegging.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft-Backed Startup Offers A Zoom Lens For Mobile Apps
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The company, ZenZui, has developed a software interface that lets mobile users easily zoom in on and enlarge content on their favorite Web sites.
Microsoft Brings Mercora's Social Radio To Phones
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The deal means exposure to some 6 million to 8 million Windows Mobile users through Microsoft's Windows Mobile sites online.
Microsoft to sell Xbox 360 with larger hard drive
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070328/tc_nm/microsoft_xbox_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070322/2007_03_21t143707_450x272_us_microsoft_xboxlive_fraud.jpg?x=130&y=78&sig=UPpkja5J57LsLlrN98ZLBw--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="Visitors play with Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 game consoles during the opening day of Madrid's International Data Processing, Multimedia and Communications SIMO Fair November 7, 2006. Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said it is actively investigating reports of 'fraudulent behavior and theft' on its Xbox Live online video gaming service, which has more than 6 million subscribers. (Victor Fraile/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it
will begin selling a new version of its Xbox 360 console that
transmits high-definition video and comes with a larger hard
drive in its latest effort to position the video game machine
as a digital media hub.</p><br clear="all"/>
Yahoo to offer unlimited e-mail storage
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070328/tc_nm/yahoo_mail_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070327/capt.sge.jne50.270307210627.photo00.photo.default-512x358.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=e7AQ3C.NW2UMeK8i4KUlmA--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="This handout photo shows Yahoo! corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The battle for the devotion of people who use the Internet on the go intensified on Tuesday as Google unveiled a new mobile Internet search engine. Google made its new mobile search engine available to the public on the same day that Sunnyvale, California-based rival Yahoo enticed website publishers to enhance the "oneSearch" mobile search engine Yahoo released early this year.(AFP/HO/File)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Yahoo Inc. plans to offer
unlimited e-mail storage to its roughly quarter of a billion
users, starting in May, it said on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Souped-up Xbox 360 set for April
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070328/tc_nm/media_xbox_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070322/2007_03_21t143707_450x272_us_microsoft_xboxlive_fraud.jpg?x=130&y=78&sig=UPpkja5J57LsLlrN98ZLBw--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="Visitors play with Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 game consoles during the opening day of Madrid's International Data Processing, Multimedia and Communications SIMO Fair November 7, 2006. Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said it is actively investigating reports of 'fraudulent behavior and theft' on its Xbox Live online video gaming service, which has more than 6 million subscribers. (Victor Fraile/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Sixteen months after the
release of its Xbox 360, Microsoft Corp. is unveiling a $480
"elite" version of its next-generation console April 29 that
will come with a 120GB hard drive and cables for HD hookups.</p><br clear="all"/>
Cingular launches U.S. mobile banking
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070327/tc_nm/cingular_banking_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070328/2007_03_27t145958_450x313_us_cingular_banking.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=2JM7JYWEhqnZziNrFz3ksQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="A man uses his phone in a file photo. AT and T said on Tuesday it has taken a step toward the long-promised notion of phones replacing credit cards, checks and cash by signing agreements with Wachovia and several other banks. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - AT&T Inc. said on
Tuesday it has taken a step toward the long-promised notion of
phones replacing credit cards, checks and cash by signing
agreements with Wachovia Corp. and several other banks.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google seeks world of instant translations
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070327/tc_nm/google_translate_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070328/2007_03_27t210457_450x300_us_google_translate.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=U9pZ7zxUgCj9wLyCKqonaA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Franz Och, head of statistical machine translation efforts at Google, is photographed at his office in Mountain View, California, March 20, 2007. In Google's vision of the future, people will be able to translate documents instantly into the world's main languages, with machine logic, not expert linguists, leading the way. Picture taken March 20, 2007. To match feature GOOGLE-TRANSLATE/ (Adam Tanner/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - In Google Inc.'s
vision of the future, people will be able to translate
documents instantly into the world's main languages, with
machine logic, not expert linguists, leading the way.</p><br clear="all"/>
DoubleClick eyes sale, talks with Microsoft: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - Online advertising firm DoubleClick
Inc. is exploring a sale and is in talks with Microsoft Corp.
and other potential suitors, according to people familiar with
the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site.
Microsoft to release Xbox 360 Elite
(AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. will sell a version of its Xbox 360 with a 120-gigabyte hard drive and a souped up high-definition video connection, in a bid to broaden the appeal of its popular console beyond video games.
SKorea's LG to install Google on millions of phones
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070328/tc_afp/skoreausinternettelecomlggoogle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070328/capt.sge.jog61.280307040240.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=Uj9.X9CA76dZrRZTvWY.jw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A general view of a Google logo during a reception at the American Film Market, in Santa Monica, November, 2006. South Korea's LG Electronics said Wednesday it has reached a deal with the world's leading search engine Google to pre-install its services on millions of mobile phones.(AFP/GettyImages/Thos Robinson)" border="0" /></a>AFP - South Korea's LG Electronics said Wednesday it has reached a deal with the world's leading search engine Google to pre-install its services on millions of mobile phones.</p><br clear="all"/>
Linux Foundation Announces New Board
(PC World)
PC World - The recently formed Linux Foundation, a merger of two Linux evangelizing industry consortiums, named its 15-person board of directors Tuesday. Along with executives from IT firms, the board also features the founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, a leading end-user of open-source software, and a lawyer whose work is focused on consortiums and standards development.
Google Apps' Gmail faces downtime problems
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - For at least the third time this month, Google is grappling with performance and availability problems in the Gmail service of Google Apps, the suite of hosted services that many consider a potential threat to Microsoft's Office suite of desktop software.
DoubleClick eyes sale, talks with Microsoft: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - Online advertising firm DoubleClick
Inc. is exploring a sale and is in talks with Microsoft Corp.
and other potential suitors, according to people familiar with
the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site.
SKorea's LG to install Google on millions of phones
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070328/tc_afp/skoreausinternettelecomlggoogle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070328/capt.sge.jog61.280307040240.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=Uj9.X9CA76dZrRZTvWY.jw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A general view of a Google logo during a reception at the American Film Market, in Santa Monica, November, 2006. South Korea's LG Electronics said Wednesday it has reached a deal with the world's leading search engine Google to pre-install its services on millions of mobile phones.(AFP/GettyImages/Thos Robinson)" border="0" /></a>AFP - South Korea's LG Electronics said Wednesday it has reached a deal with the world's leading search engine Google to pre-install its services on millions of mobile phones.</p><br clear="all"/>
Yahoo users get unlimited e-mail storage
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070328/tc_afp/usitinternetcompanyemailyahoo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070328/capt.sge.job35.280307024447.photo00.photo.default-512x397.jpg?x=130&y=100&sig=lXe15V7raesTboarNXD17g--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="Yahoo sign in Times Square, January 2006, in New York. Yahoo announced Tuesday it was giving users of its web-based e-mail service unlimited storage capacity as a tribute to Yahoo Mail's 10th birthday and today's data-rich Internet lifestyle.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Yahoo announced Tuesday it was giving users of its web-based e-mail service unlimited storage capacity as a tribute to Yahoo Mail's 10th birthday and today's data-rich Internet lifestyle.</p><br clear="all"/>
Dell Division Will Design Web 2.0 Data Centers
(PC World)
PC World - Dell Inc. on Tuesday announced it launched a division to design customized data centers for companies that rely on servers to run their businesses, such as Web 2.0 firms or Internet search engines.
Web attacks get personal
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Malware purveyors are increasingly tailoring their virus distribution and attack techniques to take advantage of different classes of end-users, according to researchers with the Internet Security Systems' X-Force team at IBM.
Internet Video Gives Rise To Infomercial Resurgence
(AdWeek.com)
AdWeek.com - NEW YORK In the 1950s and 1960s, DuPont produced dozens of product films, such as police showing the effectiveness of bulletproof vests, and showed them to clients and small audiences at trade shows. Fast-forward 50 years: DuPont has unearthed that archival footage to form the basis of Science Stories, a series of two-and-a-half minute videos explaining the DuPont products that make possible such things as fire-retardant clothing and shatterproof glass.
ASNE Study: Percentage of Minority Journalists Down Slightly
(Editor and Publisher)
Editor and Publisher - WASHINGTON The percentage of minority journalists working in U.S .newsrooms decreased slightly to 13.62% this year from 13.87% a year ago, according to the American Society of Newspaper Editors' annual survey, which included full-time online journalists for the first time.
Yahoo and Google heating up mobile search competition
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070327/tc_afp/usitinternetcompany"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070327/capt.sge.jne50.270307210627.photo00.photo.default-512x358.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=e7AQ3C.NW2UMeK8i4KUlmA--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="This handout photo shows Yahoo! corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The battle for the devotion of people who use the Internet on the go intensified on Tuesday as Google unveiled a new mobile Internet search engine. Google made its new mobile search engine available to the public on the same day that Sunnyvale, California-based rival Yahoo enticed website publishers to enhance the "oneSearch" mobile search engine Yahoo released early this year.(AFP/HO/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The battle for the devotion of people who use the Internet on the go intensified on Tuesday as Google unveiled a new mobile Internet search engine.</p><br clear="all"/>
Yahoo Launches Mobile Services For Publishers
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The search engine bolsters its offerings with Yahoo Mobile Ad Network, Yahoo Mobile Content Engine, Yahoo Mobile Media Directory, and Yahoo Mobile Site Submit.
Dell division will design Web 2.0 datacenters
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Dell on Tuesday announced it has launched a division to design customized datacenters for companies that rely on servers to run their businesses, such as Web 2.0 firms or Internet search engines.
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