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The Search For Microsoft Researcher Jim Gray
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Colleagues rallied to look for the renowned computer scientist, but to no avail
Microsoft: Attacks on Windows flaw rise
(AP)
AP - Hackers stepped up attacks Friday on computers running some versions of Windows, a day after Microsoft disclosed a hole related to the mouse cursor.
Despite Vulnerabilities, Apple's Mac OS X Weathers The Security Storm
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Security pros say the Mac platform isn't a high-risk operating system and is more secure than Microsoft's Windows XP.
Hands-On With Deepfish
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Microsoft's Deepfish technology isn't really a browser, it's a browser feature. But it's a feature that Microsoft's Pocket Internet Explorer desperately needs.
Windows Vista Goes to Boot Camp
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - "You can even run Windows software." That's the provocative promise that Apple has been making ever since June 2005, when it shocked its diehard supporters with the news that future Macs would run on Intel processors.
Microsoft Nixes 'Big Bang' Service Pack For Windows Vista
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - One reason is that new tools such as Windows Update allow Microsoft to dribble out smaller fixes to its new OS whenever necessary.
Microsoft Warns of New Zero-Day Exploit
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - On Thursday, Microsoft warned that hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in animated cursor, or .ANI, files for Windows. Some security researchers are comparing it to last year's widespread Windows Metafile (WMF) attacks.
Red Hat CEO Undaunted by Oracle, Microsoft
(PC World)
PC World - Red Hat Inc.'s latest financial results prove the company can withstand new competitive challenges, according to Matthew Szulik, the company's chairman and CEO.
Virus Disguised as IE 7 Download
(PC World)
PC World - If you receive an e-mail offering a download of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2, delete it. A new virus is making the rounds that comes disguised as a test version of Microsoft Corp. current Web browser.
New virus comes disguised as IE 7 download
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - If you receive an e-mail offering a download of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2, delete it. A new virus is making the rounds that comes disguised as a test version of Microsoft's current Web browser.
Apple, Beatles label plan announcement
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070402/ap_on_hi_te/emi_apple"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070401/capt.b7e62dbcea7d4ab5903cf2264114e1f2.emi_apple_nyol778.jpg?x=91&y=130&sig=_DS37dSSLvknwu7f3aE12g--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="Apple CEO Steve Jobs plays a Beatles song on iTunes as he introduces the iPhone at the MacWorld in San Francisco in this Jan. 9, 2007, file photo. Record company EMI Group PLC said it planned to unveil 'an exciting new digital offering' with computer company Apple Inc. on Monday, April 2, 2007, raising expectations that The Beatles' music catalog is about to be made available through Apple's iTunes online music store. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - Record company EMI Group PLC said Sunday it planned to unveil "an exciting new digital offering" with computer company Apple Inc., raising expectations that The Beatles' music catalog is about to be made available through Apple's iTunes online music store.</p><br clear="all"/>
Creator of bomb-sniffing device honored
(AP)
AP - Timothy Swager began developing bomb-sniffing technology a decade ago under a Pentagon-funded research project to help explosives disposal teams clear land mines — but it hasn't been used for that purpose.
Google fools: Web service through toilet
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070402/ap_on_hi_te/google_april_fools"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070401/capt.7924490f2ad8490db078a70f98905788.google_april_fools_nyol788.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=TQPPSXiPZ3m9ggx2kj22OQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, Calif., in this July 17, 2006, file photo. Senior executives at Google launched their annual April Fools' Day prank Sunday, April 1, 2007, posting a link on the company's home page to a site offering consumers free high-speed wireless Internet through their home plumbing systems.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - Presiding over a company with a market value of $143 billion apparently gives Silicon Valley's most famous billionaires a good sense of humor — and a case of corporate potty mouth.</p><br clear="all"/>
Startup extends ads to video downloads
(AP)
AP - In what analysts think might be a first in the highly experimental advertising market, YuMe Networks Inc. is powering an ad campaign that allows the customization of video ads for some television shows that are downloaded from a Web site.
News aggregation site employs human eyes
(AP)
AP - The news-aggregation site Topix has developed software for filtering out spam and other junk from its message forums. To filter in the good postings, however, the site has turned to human volunteers.
Google interested in DoubleClick purchase: report
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070402/media_nm/doubleclick_google_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070402/2007_04_02t020950_450x363_us_doubleclick_google.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=kwAXhDUo30T2dfJYH5n25Q--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="A screenshot of DoubleClick.com, taken on April 2, 2007. Google Inc. has emerged along with Microsoft Corp. as a contender to buy DoubleClick Inc., presenting competition that stands to increase the final sale price of the online-advertising company, people familiar with the situation said in The Wall Street Journal. (www.doubleclick.com/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Google Inc. has emerged along with
Microsoft Corp. as a contender to buy DoubleClick Inc.,
presenting competition that stands to increase the final sale
price of the online-advertising company, people familiar with
the situation said in The Wall Street Journal.</p><br clear="all"/>
Apple invades the living room
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070331/tc_nm/apple_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070331/2007_03_31t031929_450x432_us_apple.jpg?x=130&y=124&sig=Wz8HZ9RbAcSlJozz4Tlcfw--" align="left" height="124" width="130" alt="An Apple TV box in an undated handout photo. The long-awaited home entertainment adapter has finally shipped, and for the first time reviewers and consumers can see for themselves whether Apple's iPod magic can extend into the living room. (Courtesy of Apple/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The long-awaited Apple TV home
entertainment adapter has finally shipped, and for the first
time reviewers and consumers can see for themselves whether
Apple's iPod magic can extend into the living room.</p><br clear="all"/>
AT&T, America Movil seek Telecom Italia deal
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070402/bs_nm/olimpia_att_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070402/2007_04_01t220635_450x314_us_olimpia_att.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=AMyoVwEp2YZEvZ2bebNWmw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="File photo shows a woman walking past a Telecom shop in downtown Rome, September 14, 2006. Top U.S. phone company AT and T said it and Mexican cell phone operator America Movil are in talks to buy stakes in a company that controls Telecom Italia for about 4.8 billion euro ($6.4 billion). (Dario Pignatelli/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Top U.S. phone company AT&T
said it and Mexican cell phone operator America Movil
are in talks to buy stakes in a company that controls
Telecom Italia for about 4.8 billion euro ($6.4
billion).</p><br clear="all"/>
Mozilla Updates Mobile Browser
(PC World)
PC World - Update: Minimo, the Mozilla mobile browser, became available this week in the midst of changes within the Minimo project that make its future uncertain.
Blogger leads China to free-thinking revolution
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070401/tc_afp/technologychinarightsinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070401/capt.sge.kyr63.010407044357.photo00.photo.default-512x339.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=d7TtAgRhOzVlO2zDAGZxtA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Isaac Mao, a Shanghai-based software engineer for US chipmaker Intel, shows off his website, CNBlog.org, China's first online discussion forum about blogging technology, during an interview in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, 29 March 2007.(AFP/STR/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - It was spring 2002 when Isaac Mao, a Shanghai-based software engineer for US chipmaker Intel, first came across Internet blogs.</p><br clear="all"/>
TMZ star of celebrity news sites
(Reuters)
Reuters - In little more than a year
after its launch, AOL's celebrity news site TMZ.com has become
the most popular site in the category, according to
Nielsen//NetRatings.
Google interested in DoubleClick purchase: report
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070402/media_nm/doubleclick_google_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070402/2007_04_02t020950_450x363_us_doubleclick_google.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=kwAXhDUo30T2dfJYH5n25Q--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="A screenshot of DoubleClick.com, taken on April 2, 2007. Google Inc. has emerged along with Microsoft Corp. as a contender to buy DoubleClick Inc., presenting competition that stands to increase the final sale price of the online-advertising company, people familiar with the situation said in The Wall Street Journal. (www.doubleclick.com/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Google Inc. has emerged along with
Microsoft Corp. as a contender to buy DoubleClick Inc.,
presenting competition that stands to increase the final sale
price of the online-advertising company, people familiar with
the situation said in The Wall Street Journal.</p><br clear="all"/>
Startup extends ads to video downloads
(AP)
AP - In what analysts think might be a first in the highly experimental advertising market, YuMe Networks Inc. is powering an ad campaign that allows the customization of video ads for some television shows that are downloaded from a Web site.
U.S. newspapers press for more positive image
(Reuters)
Reuters - The U.S. newspaper industry is
pressing hard to show advertisers that its products are worth
every dollar despite bleak financial forecasts, with data
released on Monday showing a rise in Web site visitors.
AOL goes for gold with "Million Dollar Bill"
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070402/wr_nm/media_aol_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070316/2007_03_16t140754_450x245_us_timewarner_aol.jpg?x=130&y=70&sig=1tLvNHi8VyEK303RbPgexA--" align="left" height="70" width="130" alt="People walk in front of the Time Warner Inc. headquarters building at Columbus Circle in New York October 13, 2005. Time Warner Inc. could spin off a stake in online division AOL or merge it with another Internet company as early as this year, a move that would boost the value of the world's largest media company, a UBS analyst said on Friday. (Nicholas Roberts/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - AOL will go from "Gold
Rush" to more common currency for its next big Internet event.</p><br clear="all"/>
Apple, Beatles label plan announcement
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070402/ap_en_bu/emi_apple"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070401/capt.b7e62dbcea7d4ab5903cf2264114e1f2.emi_apple_nyol778.jpg?x=91&y=130&sig=_DS37dSSLvknwu7f3aE12g--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="Apple CEO Steve Jobs plays a Beatles song on iTunes as he introduces the iPhone at the MacWorld in San Francisco in this Jan. 9, 2007, file photo. Record company EMI Group PLC said it planned to unveil 'an exciting new digital offering' with computer company Apple Inc. on Monday, April 2, 2007, raising expectations that The Beatles' music catalog is about to be made available through Apple's iTunes online music store. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - Record company EMI Group PLC said Sunday it planned to unveil "an exciting new digital offering" with computer company Apple Inc., raising expectations that The Beatles' music catalog is about to be made available through Apple's iTunes online music store.</p><br clear="all"/>
Comedy Central begins online classics for comics
(Reuters)
Reuters - School's in session at
Comedy Central with Monday's launch of online classes devoted
to the art of stand-up comedy.
Topix taps Web readers to bolster local news
(Reuters)
Reuters - Web news search site Topix, owned by
three top U.S. newspaper publishers on Monday will begin
recruiting users to report local news that traditional outlets
do not sufficiently cover in a bid for more readers.
Google fools: Web service through toilet
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070402/ap_on_hi_te/google_april_fools"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070401/capt.7924490f2ad8490db078a70f98905788.google_april_fools_nyol788.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=TQPPSXiPZ3m9ggx2kj22OQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, Calif., in this July 17, 2006, file photo. Senior executives at Google launched their annual April Fools' Day prank Sunday, April 1, 2007, posting a link on the company's home page to a site offering consumers free high-speed wireless Internet through their home plumbing systems.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - Presiding over a company with a market value of $143 billion apparently gives Silicon Valley's most famous billionaires a good sense of humor — and a case of corporate potty mouth.</p><br clear="all"/>
Apple/EMI in deal, but Beatles not included: source
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070401/wr_nm/apple_beatles_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070402/2007_04_01t162343_450x340_us_apple_beatles.jpg?x=130&y=98&sig=j5Q42TYps9DedqRj8vF2YQ--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Ringo holds a gold-plated drum as the other Beatles look on in a 1964 ceremony in Chicago. Apple and music label EMI plan to announce 'an exciting new digital offering,' EMI said on Sunday, a move that could involve putting the Beatles music catalog online. (PRNewsFoto/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Apple Inc. and music label EMI
Group plan to announce "an exciting new digital offering," EMI
said on Sunday, renewing speculation of a deal to put the
Beatles music catalog online.</p><br clear="all"/>
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