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Microsoft Pressures Testers After Software Leak
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp. is taking tough measures to find out who leaked a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Home Server to The Hotfix.net blog after the software preview was posted on the site by a user named "Richard" soon after it was released to a small group of testers.
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.owy23.140407160436.photo00.photo.default-512x333.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=RReRC21Pg_mHhrtSd4i4Zw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Google's headquarters in Mountain View, 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/David Paul Morris)" 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.
'Virtual humans' sought for crash tests
(AP)
AP - An international consortium of nine automakers and two parts suppliers is asking researchers for proposals to develop "virtual humans" — computer programs that will help them design safer cars and trucks.
Fan sites look back at rise of Potter
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070415/ap_on_en_ot/books_potter_fan_sites"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070412/capt.81db6749b3114c95933c7b5438cde759.books_potter_fan_sites_ny317.jpg?x=130&y=111&sig=mQjM9DV91PHcNFXCfDEzkQ--" align="left" height="111" width="130" alt="This image, provided in 2007 by Steve Vander Ark, shows a portion of 'The Harry Potter Lexicon' Web page, one of several popular Harry Potter fan sites on the Internet. (AP Photo/Courtesy Steve Vander Ark)" border="0" /></a>AP - Emerson Spartz remembers the good old days. It was Fall 1999, Spartz was 12 and he decided to create a little Web site about a hot new series of fantasy books.</p><br clear="all"/>
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"/>
NCAA tries to monitor hi-tech recruiting
(AP)
AP - When basketball scouts arrived at last summer's Nike All-America Camp, they gazed as intently at their cell phones as they did at the games. Then they started sending messages, one after another.
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"/>
Aussie "TV employee" teen gets YouTube clips removed
(Reuters)
Reuters - An Australian teenager had hundreds of
clips removed from Internet video-sharing site YouTube by
pretending to be an employee of the state broadcasting network,
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Samsung aims for higher end of cheap phone mkt: CEO
(Reuters)
Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
(005930.KS) will be very selective in choosing new markets for
its mobile phones and will not take on handset leader Nokia
(NOK1V.HE) in the cheapest models, Samsung Chief Executive Yun
Jong-yong said in an interview published on Sunday.
EU moving towards cross-border roaming caps by summer
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070415/bs_afp/eutelecomsectorregulate"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070415/capt.sge.ozb65.150407032556.photo00.photo.default-407x512.jpg?x=103&y=130&sig=1S.Ky.UmEGb.xz.rttSSwg--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="A shop selling mobile phones in Paris. Calling home from European beaches will be cheaper for mobile phone users this summer if EU lawmakers and the European Commission get their way on planned caps for so-called roaming rates.(AFP/File/Jacques Demarthon)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Calling home from European beaches will be cheaper for mobile phone users this summer if EU lawmakers and the European Commission get their way on planned caps for so-called roaming rates.</p><br clear="all"/>
What Makes An Open Source Project Successful?
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Sure, enthusiasm runs high now, but what happens to projects when reality hits? Only the strong survive.
Pirated material destroyed in China
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070415/ap_on_bi_ge/china_piracy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070414/capt.xed11704141147.china_piracy_xed117.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=F1wsO9IIYlNdh1X.yknmpg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Beijing Cultural Law Enforcement Agency officers destroy pirated DVDs and CDs video and music material in the outskirts of Beijing, China Saturday April 14, 2007. The United States filed two new complaints against China at the WTO on Tuesday over copyright policy and restrictions on the sale of American movies, music and books — the culmination of years of agitation in Washington over one of the world's biggest sources of illegally copied goods ranging from DVDs, CDs and designer clothes to sporting goods and medications. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)" border="0" /></a>AP - Chinese authorities destroyed 42 million pieces of pirated digital videodiscs, compact discs, computer software and illegal publications in the government's latest campaign to curtail rampant theft of intellectual property, state media reported.</p><br clear="all"/>
Aussie "TV employee" teen gets YouTube clips removed
(Reuters)
Reuters - An Australian teenager had hundreds of
clips removed from Internet video-sharing site YouTube by
pretending to be an employee of the state broadcasting network,
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Web site revived to speculate on World Bank chief
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070414/wr_nm/worldbank_wolfowitz_speculation_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070415/2007_04_14t193451_450x326_us_worldbank_wolfowitz_speculation.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=3OTXqFVN4bWpbJLgwniICA--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz arrives at the International Monetary and Financial Committee meeting during a second day of the IMF and World Bank spring meeting in Washington April 14, 2007. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz
has so far offered no indication he may resign but Internet
chatter is already speculating over a possible successor to the
former Bush administration official.</p><br clear="all"/>
Fan sites look back at rise of Potter
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_en_bu/books_potter_fan_sites"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070412/capt.421389c8a92c4793ad8d698d25ad8c64.books_potter_fan_sites_ny316.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=yuB3OZoEb5vx17irQf7LAw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Emerson Spartz, a Notre Dame University sophomore, sits in his dorm room next to computer displaying his Harry Potter Web site, Mugglenet.com, Tuesday March 27, 2007 in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Joe Raymond)" border="0" /></a>AP - Emerson Spartz remembers the good old days. It was Fall 1999, Spartz was 12 and he decided to create a little Web site about a hot new series of fantasy books.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Pressures Testers After Software Leak
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp. is taking tough measures to find out who leaked a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Home Server to The Hotfix.net blog after the software preview was posted on the site by a user named "Richard" soon after it was released to a small group of testers.
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/20070414/tc_afp/usitinternetcompanygoogledoubleclicktakeover"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070414/capt.sge.owv30.140407154524.photo00.photo.default-512x333.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=Jg4fRbmNDicBgCNffGosrQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Google's headquarters in Mountain View, 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/David Paul Morris)" 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"/>
Titanic's passenger list goes online
(Reuters)
Reuters - The names, ages and professions of
passengers listed on the Titanic's fateful journey have gone
online for the first time, 95 years after the luxury ocean
liner sank on its maiden voyage.
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"/>
Viacom And Yahoo Strike Web Advertising Deal
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Yahoo will serve sponsored search and contextual ads across Viacom's 33 broadband Web sites, and the deal may later be expanded to cover some 140 Viacom sites worldwide.
Higher digital music prices not a good deal
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070414/en_nm/digital_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070414/2007_04_14t131807_306x450_us_digital.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=xnTKWO6LaB5VkmhJgnbx0w--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="In this file photo Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs speaks during a special event in Tokyo August 4, 2005. (Toshiyuki Aizawa/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/>
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