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Google buys DoubleClick for 3.1 billion dollars
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070414/bs_afp/usitinternetcompanygoogledoubleclicktakeover"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070414/capt.sge.oub57.140407031509.photo00.photo.default-341x512.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=bvHdNWIynYxzHVhqrdOn9w--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="A Google sign in California. A bidding war between Google and Microsoft ended on Friday with Google agreeing to pay 3.1 billion dollars to add online advertising firm DoubleClick to its Internet money-making arsenal(AFP/Getty Images/File/Thos Robinson)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A bidding war between Google and Microsoft ended on Friday with Google agreeing to pay 3.1 billion dollars to add online advertising firm DoubleClick to its Internet money-making arsenal.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft warns of dangerous flaw in DNS server
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Attackers are trying to take advantage of a newly disclosed vulnerability in several of Microsoft's server products that could allow them to run unauthorized code on affected computers, the company has warned.
Windows XP to be discontinued in early 2008
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft's plan to phase out OEM shipments of Windows XP, the predecessor to the new Windows Vista platform, is not sitting well with some observers, based on Internet-driven feedback.
Hackers Attacking New Microsoft Zero-Day Bug
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Unlike a Microsoft vulnerability on a desktop that affects a single user, this zero-day DNS bug could affect a company's entire roster of employees.
Microsoft Delays Beta of Virtualization Software
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft's efforts in server virtualization have hit a bump in the road. The public beta of Viridian, Microsoft's server-virtualization software, will be shipping in the second half of 2007, not in the first half as previously indicated, the company announced Thursday.
Microsoft Warns of Dangerous Flaw in DNS Server
(PC World)
PC World - Attackers are trying to take advantage of a newly-disclosed vulnerability in several of Microsoft Corp.'s server products that could alow them to run unauthorized code on affected computers, the company has warned.
CBS Shows Coming to MSN, Joost and Others
(PC World)
PC World - CBS Corp. will distribute its television programs more widely over the Internet, adding new deals with Joost, Microsoft Corp.'s MSN and AOL LLC to existing agreements with Apple Inc.'s iTunes and Google Inc.'s YouTube.
China improving on piracy, says top Microsoft lawyer
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft is seeing some improvements to the considerable problem of software piracy in China, it's top lawyer said on Thursday.
Microsoft Investigates DNS Attacks
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The company is working to shield users from attacks targeting the Windows Server DNS service as well as OEM BIOS hacks.
CBS shows coming to MSN, Joost, AOL, and others
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - CBS will distribute its television programs more widely over the Internet, adding new deals with Joost, Microsoft's MSN and AOL to existing agreements with Apple's iTunes and Google's YouTube.
Poll: Most Americans filing taxes online
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_bi_ge/taxes_ap_poll"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070413/capt.4c354a3f5e17471aae4dc988e3afac34.taxes_ap_poll_wx102.jpg?x=108&y=130&sig=aWyQtHu6S_A6MNVxLDlhhw--" align="left" height="130" width="108" alt="**Quinniece Garrett, left, prepares income taxes for Amariles Soler at FoodChange in Harlem, Wednesday, April 11, 2007, one of 11 such centers in the five boroughs of New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)" border="0" /></a>AP - The frantic ritual of racing to the post office to get tax returns postmarked just in time to satisfy the Internal Revenue Service is giving way to the online age.</p><br clear="all"/>
Calif. grandmother blogs from Baghdad
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_hi_te/baghdad_blogger"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070414/capt.c2dc7561c4fe48029b727e31dd9e6d61.baghdad_blogger_fx107.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=nuxYlgIRR6tXqvl1JJx5xg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Major Armando Hernandez, left, Major Vincent Mitchel, rear, and Jane Stillwater pose in a press room, Tuesday, April 10, 2007, located in the Green Zon of Baghdad, Iraq. Inspired by a sense of outrage and determined to blog from inside the war zone, Stillwater ate peanut butter sandwiches for months to save up for a ticket to Kuwait. She got a small Texas newspaper to sponsor her, and eventually boarded a troop transport to Baghdad. (AP Photo/Stars and Stripes, Monte Morin)" border="0" /></a>AP - Jane Stillwater is an unlikely war correspondent. She's 64, a self-described Berkeley "flower child, 40 years later" and broke. So how did this mother of four grown children end up in Baghdad, churning out commentary ranging from shock at Thursday's bombing of the Iraqi parliament cafeteria, to the weirdness of touring Saddam Hussein's bathroom?</p><br clear="all"/>
Google to acquire DoubleClick for $3.1B
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_hi_te/google_doubleclick"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070414/2007_04_13t181434_371x450_us_doubleclick_google.jpg?x=107&y=130&sig=J.yAnTlp.UCUqfc7URzaVQ--" align="left" height="130" width="107" alt="Google said on Friday it will acquire DoubleClick Inc., a leading online advertising network, for $3.1 billion, consolidating Google's grip on the Internet ad market. In this file photo, DoubleClick offices are shown in a Denver, Colorado suburb April 22, 2005. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Seeking to expand its already well-honed ability to sell targeted Internet advertisements, online search leader Google Inc. said it has agreed to pay $3.1 billion in cash to acquire ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc.</p><br clear="all"/>
eBay says pope's old car is for sale
(AP)
AP - Forget biodiesel. This 1999 metallic gray Volkswagen Golf might run on a higher power. For the second time in two years, eBay is hosting an auction for a car said to be Pope Benedict XVI's old hatchback.
Researchers explore scrapping Internet
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_hi_te/rebuilding_the_internet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070413/capt.3467be7ed03041c2921c88a4ef3b44cc.rebuilding_the_internet_cadd202.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=0eozpBkMMqsKgybKb39Z3A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Leonard Kleinrock comments on the dark side of the Internet - spam, pornography, among others - at his office in the UCLA Computer Science Department in Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 27, 2007. Kleinrock created the basic principles of packet switching, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT. He was the first to develop the underlying principles of packet switching, the communications technology of the Internet, a decade before the Internet was founded. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)" border="0" /></a>AP - Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over.</p><br clear="all"/>
Higher digital music prices not a good deal
(Reuters)
Reuters - Four years ago when Apple launched
the iTunes Music Store, the company preached the good news of
an easy-to-understand pricing structure for consumers: all
tracks at 99 cents, most albums for $9.99.
Samsung Plans Blu-ray-HD DVD Disc Player
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Though not the first, the player will allow consumers access to every HD movie title available regardless of the authoring format.
MetroPCS Aims To Be The Anti-Vonage
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - When cell phone service provider MetroPCS Communications goes public, expected as soon as this week, it hopes to avoid the fate of telecom brethren Vonage and Clearwire, whose offerings quickly turned south.
Wi-Fi Bug Found in Linux
(PC World)
PC World - A bug has been found in a major Linux Wi-Fi driver that can allow an attacker to take control of a laptop-- even when it is not on a Wi-Fi network.
Tax scam uses IRS' Free File program
(AP)
AP - The Internal Revenue Service on Friday warned of Internet scam artists trying to obtain people's bank account numbers and other information by posing as a participant in a program offering free tax preparation software to low- and middle-income taxpayers.
Calif. grandmother blogs from Baghdad
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_hi_te/baghdad_blogger"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070414/capt.c2dc7561c4fe48029b727e31dd9e6d61.baghdad_blogger_fx107.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=nuxYlgIRR6tXqvl1JJx5xg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Major Armando Hernandez, left, Major Vincent Mitchel, rear, and Jane Stillwater pose in a press room, Tuesday, April 10, 2007, located in the Green Zon of Baghdad, Iraq. Inspired by a sense of outrage and determined to blog from inside the war zone, Stillwater ate peanut butter sandwiches for months to save up for a ticket to Kuwait. She got a small Texas newspaper to sponsor her, and eventually boarded a troop transport to Baghdad. (AP Photo/Stars and Stripes, Monte Morin)" border="0" /></a>AP - Jane Stillwater is an unlikely war correspondent. She's 64, a self-described Berkeley "flower child, 40 years later" and broke. So how did this mother of four grown children end up in Baghdad, churning out commentary ranging from shock at Thursday's bombing of the Iraqi parliament cafeteria, to the weirdness of touring Saddam Hussein's bathroom?</p><br clear="all"/>
Google to acquire DoubleClick for $3.1B
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_hi_te/google_doubleclick"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070414/2007_04_13t181434_371x450_us_doubleclick_google.jpg?x=107&y=130&sig=J.yAnTlp.UCUqfc7URzaVQ--" align="left" height="130" width="107" alt="Google said on Friday it will acquire DoubleClick Inc., a leading online advertising network, for $3.1 billion, consolidating Google's grip on the Internet ad market. In this file photo, DoubleClick offices are shown in a Denver, Colorado suburb April 22, 2005. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Seeking to expand its already well-honed ability to sell targeted Internet advertisements, online search leader Google Inc. said it has agreed to pay $3.1 billion in cash to acquire ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc.</p><br clear="all"/>
Higher digital music prices not a good deal
(Reuters)
Reuters - Four years ago when Apple launched
the iTunes Music Store, the company preached the good news of
an easy-to-understand pricing structure for consumers: all
tracks at 99 cents, most albums for $9.99.
Researchers explore scrapping Internet
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_hi_te/rebuilding_the_internet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070413/capt.3467be7ed03041c2921c88a4ef3b44cc.rebuilding_the_internet_cadd202.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=0eozpBkMMqsKgybKb39Z3A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Leonard Kleinrock comments on the dark side of the Internet - spam, pornography, among others - at his office in the UCLA Computer Science Department in Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 27, 2007. Kleinrock created the basic principles of packet switching, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT. He was the first to develop the underlying principles of packet switching, the communications technology of the Internet, a decade before the Internet was founded. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)" border="0" /></a>AP - Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over.</p><br clear="all"/>
Update: Google to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Google has agreed to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cash, an acquisition that strengthens Google's status as an online advertising powerhouse.
Google to pay $3.1 bln for DoubleClick ad business
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070414/tc_nm/doubleclick_google_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070414/2007_04_13t181434_371x450_us_doubleclick_google.jpg?x=107&y=130&sig=J.yAnTlp.UCUqfc7URzaVQ--" align="left" height="130" width="107" alt="Google said on Friday it will acquire DoubleClick Inc., a leading online advertising network, for $3.1 billion, consolidating Google's grip on the Internet ad market. In this file photo, DoubleClick offices are shown in a Denver, Colorado suburb April 22, 2005. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Google Inc. said on
Friday it would pay $3.1 billion for Web ad supplier
DoubleClick Inc., its biggest acquisition, accelerating a push
into the graphic ad market led by Yahoo Inc. .</p><br clear="all"/>
Google buys DoubleClick for 3.1 billion dollars
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070413/tc_afp/usitinternetcompany"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070413/capt.sge.otm14.130407221310.photo00.photo.default-512x333.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=z2J3QDMEZLkOGzfTqzTe9g--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google announced that it is buying online advertising firm DoubleClick for 3.1 billion dollars.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Paul Morris)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Google announced on Friday that it is buying online advertising firm DoubleClick for 3.1 billion dollars.</p><br clear="all"/>
Women don't click with Internet videos
(Reuters)
Reuters - Women prefer the
remote over the mouse when it comes to watching videos even
though they outnumber men in cyberspace.
Correction: Women don't click with Internet videos
(Reuters)
Reuters - (Corrects word in paragraph 7 to time-wasting from
time-saving)
Google to Buy DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion
(PC World)
PC World - Google Inc. has agreed to buy DoubleClick Inc. for US$3.1 billion in cash, an acquisition that strengthens Google's status as an online advertising powerhouse.
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