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XenSource expands its virtualization capabilities
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - A new version of the XenSource virtualization hypervisor, released Monday, now works on servers running the Windows 2000 operating system from Microsoft.
Microsoft's Windows Vista In At Department Of Interior
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - In contrast with other federal agencies, technology officials at the U.S. Department of the Interior appear set on migrating their 70,000-plus PC users to Microsoft's latest operating system.
Microsoft First Notified Of .ANI Bug In December
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - An exploit for the zero-day vulnerability hit the wild last week, more than three months after Microsoft learned of the bug. Microsoft says it took more than three months to craft the patch.
Microsoft issuing animated cursor security patch
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070402/wr_nm/microsoft_security_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070402/2007_04_02t150534_450x300_us_microsoft_security.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=mHnQAFzqWckY.O0k8NB5NQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="People work with computers at a media center in Hanoi April 19, 2006. Microsoft Corp. plans to patch a security hole in Windows on Tuesday related to an animated cursor that hackers have used to launch attacks after users click on links to malicious Web sites. (Kham/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. plans to patch a
security hole in Windows on Tuesday related to an animated
cursor that hackers have used to launch attacks after users
click on links to malicious Web sites.</p><br clear="all"/>
Attacks Escalate As Microsoft Announces Emergency .ANI Patch
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft is getting ready to release an off-cycle patch Tuesday for the bug that has spawned more than 100 malicious sites and a worm over the last few days.
Microsoft Set To Patch Animated Cursor Flaw Early
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - After skipping Patch Tuesday in March, Microsoft plans to release an out-of-cycle patch on April 3 to fix a dangerous Windows animated cursor vulnerability that has the security world watching.
Microsoft offers new Vista enterprise licenses
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft Corp. is offering two new licensing options for Windows Vista enterprise customers that want to take advantage of emerging scenarios for large data centers.
Microsoft Offers New Vista Enterprise Licenses
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp. is offering two new licensing options for Windows Vista enterprise customers that want to take advantage of emerging scenarios for large data centers.
Attacks Increase; Windows Patch Due Early
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft will ship Tuesday a fix for a known Windows flaw deemed too serious to delay.
With attacks increasing Windows patch coming early
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft has decided to rush out a fix for a flaw in its Windows operating system, saying that the problem has become too serious to ignore.
EU launches antitrust probe into iTunes
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_on_hi_te/eu_apple"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070402/capt.xag10104021355.britain_music_drm_apple_emi_xag101.jpg?x=103&y=130&sig=aW8CNfuHMFmabufsxeelWQ--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="Apple computer CEO Steve Jobs looks on in the lobby of the EMI record company headquarters in London, Monday April 2, 2007. Jobs was at the launch of digital rights management (DRM) free recordings that EMI will make available on the Apple ITunes website from May 2007. The so called new premium downloads will be available at a higher quality and with DRM removed for 0.99 pence sterling (US$ 1.29, euro 1.29). Apple will be the first online store to offer this service. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)" border="0" /></a>AP - The European Commission confirmed Tuesday it had opened an antitrust probe into Apple's iTunes and the way it sells music online in coordination with major music companies.</p><br clear="all"/>
Mexico City explores wireless Internet
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_on_hi_te/mexico_wireless_internet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070402/capt.mogb10104021423.mexico_city_biking_mogb101.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=p3pS427aT3WsZU6nolphCg--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, center, leads a group of cyclists to work in downtown Mexico City, Monday, April 2, 2007. In a city famous for its teeming traffic, the new mayor has vowed to ride his bike to work once a month, and is asking his fellow city workers to do the same. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)" border="0" /></a>AP - The city's new mayor said he hopes to offer high-speed wireless Internet to all 8.7 million residents of this sprawling metropolis, even as it struggles to supply basic services such as water and electricity.</p><br clear="all"/>
EMI, Apple to sell DRM-free songs online
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_on_hi_te/emi_apple"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070402/capt.xag10404021354.britain_music_drm_apple_emi_xag104.jpg?x=82&y=130&sig=tSM2G62dJFu9Fl2Qz963KQ--" align="left" height="130" width="82" alt="Apple computer CEO Steve Jobs trips of lighting lead in the lobby of the EMI record company headquarters in London, Monday April 2, 2007. Jobs was at the launch of digital rights management (DRM) free recordings that EMI will make available on the Apple ITunes website from May 2007. The so called new premium downloads will be available at a higher quality and with DRM removed for 0.99 pence sterling (US$ 1.29, euro1.29). Apple will be the first online store to offer this service. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)" border="0" /></a>AP - Breaking from the rest of the recording industry, EMI Group said Monday it will begin selling songs online that are free of copy-protection technology through Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store. The deal, however, doesn't include music from the label's biggest act, The Beatles.</p><br clear="all"/>
IBM gives feds $45M in translation tech
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_on_hi_te/ibm_military_donation"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070402/capt.baf8ebc9f0c0412a9acf52a10d3f76f5.ibm_military_donation_nybz172.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=fWSAexdQC6P5GGDsb7oVRw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="This undated handout photo from IBM Corp. shows a screen displaying IBM's Multilingual Automatic Speech Translator software, known as MASTOR, with English and Arabic text. To honor an employee's son who was badly wounded in Iraq, IBM Corp. plans to give the U.S. military $45 million worth of Arabic-English translation technology that the Pentagon had been testing for possible purchase. (AP Photo/IBM Corp.)" border="0" /></a>AP - To honor an employee's son who was badly wounded in Iraq, IBM Corp. plans to give the U.S. military $45 million worth of Arabic-English translation technology that the Pentagon had been testing for possible purchase.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google to sell EchoStar satellite TV ads
(AP)
AP - Google Inc. will sell and select some of the ads shown to EchoStar Communications Corp.'s 13.1 million satellite TV subscribers, marking the online search leader's latest effort to extend its marketing muscle beyond the Internet.
Mexico City to be one, giant Wi-Fi hotspot by 2008: mayor
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070403/tc_afp/mexicointernetchina"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070403/capt.sge.lnt12.030407060644.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=N6lMGDm8ovZEJFwwmN6J2A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Mexico City with the Popocatepetl volcano in the distance. All of Mexico City will be one free, wireless Internet hotspot by 2008, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced Monday.(AFP/File/Luis Acosta)" border="0" /></a>AFP - All of Mexico City will be one free, wireless Internet hotspot by 2008, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced Monday.</p><br clear="all"/>
FCC strengthens rules against pretexting
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has prohibited telephone and mobile phone carriers from releasing customer records over the phone without a password in an effort to protect against the practice of pretexting.
Spansion passes Intel in cell-phone flash market
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Spansion posted a sharp rise in the number of NOR flash chips it sold to mobile phone makers in 2006, allowing the company to push Intel to second place in that market segment, according to an analyst report released Monday.
XenSource expands its virtualization capabilities
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - A new version of the XenSource virtualization hypervisor, released Monday, now works on servers running the Windows 2000 operating system from Microsoft.
StorNext 3.0 expands enterprise storage tools
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Quantum Monday updated its StorNext storage management software, joining the trend among vendors that are expanding storage systems for enterprises.
EU launches antitrust probe into iTunes
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_on_hi_te/eu_apple"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070402/capt.xag10104021355.britain_music_drm_apple_emi_xag101.jpg?x=103&y=130&sig=aW8CNfuHMFmabufsxeelWQ--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="Apple computer CEO Steve Jobs looks on in the lobby of the EMI record company headquarters in London, Monday April 2, 2007. Jobs was at the launch of digital rights management (DRM) free recordings that EMI will make available on the Apple ITunes website from May 2007. The so called new premium downloads will be available at a higher quality and with DRM removed for 0.99 pence sterling (US$ 1.29, euro 1.29). Apple will be the first online store to offer this service. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)" border="0" /></a>AP - The European Commission confirmed Tuesday it had opened an antitrust probe into Apple's iTunes and the way it sells music online in coordination with major music companies.</p><br clear="all"/>
Mexico City explores wireless Internet
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_on_hi_te/mexico_wireless_internet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070402/capt.mogb10104021423.mexico_city_biking_mogb101.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=p3pS427aT3WsZU6nolphCg--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, center, leads a group of cyclists to work in downtown Mexico City, Monday, April 2, 2007. In a city famous for its teeming traffic, the new mayor has vowed to ride his bike to work once a month, and is asking his fellow city workers to do the same. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)" border="0" /></a>AP - The city's new mayor said he hopes to offer high-speed wireless Internet to all 8.7 million residents of this sprawling metropolis, even as it struggles to supply basic services such as water and electricity.</p><br clear="all"/>
EMI, Apple to sell DRM-free songs online
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_on_hi_te/emi_apple"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070402/capt.xag10404021354.britain_music_drm_apple_emi_xag104.jpg?x=82&y=130&sig=tSM2G62dJFu9Fl2Qz963KQ--" align="left" height="130" width="82" alt="Apple computer CEO Steve Jobs trips of lighting lead in the lobby of the EMI record company headquarters in London, Monday April 2, 2007. Jobs was at the launch of digital rights management (DRM) free recordings that EMI will make available on the Apple ITunes website from May 2007. The so called new premium downloads will be available at a higher quality and with DRM removed for 0.99 pence sterling (US$ 1.29, euro1.29). Apple will be the first online store to offer this service. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)" border="0" /></a>AP - Breaking from the rest of the recording industry, EMI Group said Monday it will begin selling songs online that are free of copy-protection technology through Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store. The deal, however, doesn't include music from the label's biggest act, The Beatles.</p><br clear="all"/>
Mexico City to be one, giant Wi-Fi hotspot by 2008: mayor
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070403/tc_afp/mexicointernetchina"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070403/capt.sge.lnt12.030407060644.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=N6lMGDm8ovZEJFwwmN6J2A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Mexico City with the Popocatepetl volcano in the distance. All of Mexico City will be one free, wireless Internet hotspot by 2008, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced Monday.(AFP/File/Luis Acosta)" border="0" /></a>AFP - All of Mexico City will be one free, wireless Internet hotspot by 2008, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced Monday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google to sell EchoStar satellite TV ads
(AP)
AP - Google Inc. will sell and select some of the ads shown to EchoStar Communications Corp.'s 13.1 million satellite TV subscribers, marking the online search leader's latest effort to extend its marketing muscle beyond the Internet.
Young People Do Like Newspapers -- Online -- New NAA Numbers Show
(Editor and Publisher)
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK While newspaper circulation continues to slide, readership is growing, especially with younger readers -- when taking online newspaper sites into consideration. According to the latest data from the Newspaper Association of America, newspaper Web sites contributed a 13.7% increase in total newspaper audience for adults 25-to-34.
JavaScript botnet code leaked to Internet
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Software that could be used to turn a Web browser into an unwitting hacker's tool has been posted to the Interne, after it was downloaded by a quick-thinking attendee at last month's Shmoocon hacker conference.
Carmakers face rise in online advertising prices
(Reuters)
Reuters - The automotive industry saw prices for
digital advertisements rise 10 percent to 20 percent last year,
but still got more mileage from spending on the Internet than
on television or newspapers, a top industry ad executive said
on Monday.
FAQ: iTunes and DRM-Free Music
(PC World)
PC World - Apple's new plans--to distribute one record company's higher-quality music files that will play anywhere--can be confusing. Our FAQ will set you straight.
JavaScript Botnet Code Leaked to Internet
(PC World)
PC World - Software that could be used to turn a Web browser into an unwitting hacker's tool has been posted to the Internet, after it was downloaded by a quick-thinking attendee at last month's Shmoocon hacker conference.
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