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After Microsoft Buy, Tellme Setting Sights (And Ears) On Mobile
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - With financial backing coming soon from Microsoft, Tellme Networks has put a trio of mobile search services on the fast track.
Coming soon: a Microsoft fuel-cell charger
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - A New York-based company that is one of a handful developing fuel cells for consumer electronics devices says it has started commercial production of a fuel cell-based recharger for Microsoft.
Microsoft, Adobe competition heats up
(AP)
AP - It has not escaped Microsoft's attention that some of the coolest sites on the Web — YouTube and MySpace included — get much of their flash from Flash and other design programs sold by Adobe Systems Inc.
Adobe and Microsoft Media Players Face Off in Vegas
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In the halls of Las Vegas, two software giants are facing off with their new media players. As they head into the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show this week, Adobe and Microsoft each have announced a new generation of software for experiencing media playback and interaction.
Online video and the death of Hollywood
(FT.com)
FT.com - The rush towards video over the internet is on. Microsoft promises that by the end of the year, its Xbox will become a platform for internet tele­vision. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is hiring internet television software engineers. Even the telecommunications stalwart, AT&T, is updating its network to deliver video to its phone customers. While still in its infancy, internet television appears to be the dominant technology story of the next decade.
Microsoft Warns of New DNS Exploits
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In what has become a string of vulnerabilities in recent weeks, Microsoft has confirmed limited, targeted attacks against its Windows Server Domain Name System (DNS) service.
Supplier: Microsoft to Brand, Sell Consumer Fuel-Cell Chargers
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Medis, a startup specializing in fuel cells, began delivery of its first products to Microsoft on Friday. Medis executives said Microsoft will brand the products as its own and sell them as portable recharging stations for consumer devices.
Microsoft Readies Support for Software-as-Service
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp. has consolidated some of its efforts to help Web hosting companies offer software-as-a-service (SAAS) into a new program tailored for offerings to independent software vendors (ISVs).
Microsoft Unveils Silverlight as Flash Killer
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp. this week will reveal new technology to deliver rich media applications on the Web, part of a broader strategy to go head to head with Web and design tools powerhouse Adobe Systems Inc.
Coming Soon: A Microsoft Fuel Cell Charger
(PC World)
PC World - A New York-based company that is one of a handful developing fuel cells for consumer electronics devices says it has started commercial production of a fuel cell-based recharger for Microsoft Corp.
Judges reject appeals from webcasters
(AP)
AP - Internet radio broadcasters were dealt a setback Monday when a panel of copyright judges threw out requests to reconsider a ruling that hiked the royalties they must pay to record companies and artists.
Microsoft, Adobe competition heats up
(AP)
AP - It has not escaped Microsoft's attention that some of the coolest sites on the Web — YouTube and MySpace included — get much of their flash from Flash and other design programs sold by Adobe Systems Inc.
Vonage message mixed on technology patch
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_hi_te/vonage_verizon_suit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070407/capt.sge.mvh28.070407010331.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=8kQQuWQfi04.zO9UKKLsdA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Attendees at Vonage display booths at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show January 2007 in Las Vegas. A US federal appeals court on Friday blocked a judge's decision to bar Internet telephony firm Vonage from signing up new customers as punishment for violating patents of rival Verizon(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)" border="0" /></a>AP - Vonage Holdings Corp. is delivering conflicting messages on its ability to deploy a substitute technology should the Internet phone provider lose its bid to overturn a jury's verdict that it infringed on Verizon Communications Inc.'s patents.</p><br clear="all"/>
Apple's Steve Jobs maintains $1 salary
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_hi_te/apple_executive_compensation"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070403/capt.sge.lqq03.030407115442.photo01.photo.default-397x512.jpg?x=100&y=130&sig=3XriTTpM_WmFh5A09yQXGA--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs, seen here holding an iPod in 2005. After launching action against Microsoft and Intel, the European Union's competition watchdog has taken aim at another US computer giant, Apple, over the price of songs on its online music store.(AFP/Getty Images/File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs received a salary of $1 last year, according to documents filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.</p><br clear="all"/>
Yahoo expands newspaper partnership
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_newspapers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070417/2007_04_16t152649_428x450_us_yahoo_newspapers.jpg?x=123&y=130&sig=cXgyZTopYIwwBlwEiz6LYw--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="Yahoo's home page is seen in an undated publicity image. Yahoo Inc. said on Monday it has expanded an online advertising partnership with U.S. newspapers including McClatchy Co, while two of the largest publishers opted to stay out of the deal. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - The publishers of more than 260 U.S. newspapers are hitching their online aspirations to Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. in an expanded partnership that underscores the battle lines being drawn as the media grapple for ad revenue shifting to the Web.</p><br clear="all"/>
Personal portals show the Web world what you watch
(Reuters)
Reuters - Netvibes, one of Europe's hottest
Internet companies, has put the power to create
all-you-need-to-know Web portals in the hands of individuals on
Monday, challenging the decade-old strategies of online giants.
PlayStation 3 selling well in Europe: report
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070417/tc_afp/japanelectronicsgamecompanysony"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070417/capt.sge.pnh86.170407040238.photo00.photo.default-512x361.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=fOdQyTPLH0YstHMcqTxZlw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="The first copies of the new Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) are packed and ready to go on sale after midnight 23 March 2007 at the Sony Center in Berlin. The PlayStation 3's solid launch in Europe has helped the console in the "perception wars" that affected its sales in Japan, Sony chief executive Howard Stringer said in an interview published Tuesday.(AFP/DDP/Clemens Bilan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The PlayStation 3's solid launch in Europe has helped the console in the "perception wars" that affected its sales in Japan, Sony chief executive Howard Stringer said in an interview published Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
South Korean mobile users hooked up to encyclopedia
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070417/tc_afp/skoreainternettelecommobile"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070417/capt.sge.pnf90.170407033302.photo00.photo.default-512x325.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=ibBiVePO6e3KAS.apkAbNg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="A South Korean woman walks past mobile handsets displayed at an electronic shop in Seoul, 15 February 2007. Millions of South Koreans can get access to the Encyclopedia Britannica through their mobile phones from Tuesday, the leading operator here said.(AFP/File/Yeon-Je Jung)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Millions of South Koreans can get access to the Encyclopedia Britannica through their mobile phones from Tuesday, the leading operator here said.</p><br clear="all"/>
McNealy touts open-source education site
(AP)
AP - Since Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Scott McNealy stepped down as chief executive to focus on his chairmanship full-time, he's been spearheading a side project to transform education the way digital music upended the recording industry.
Oracle's Project X revealed
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Like the mainframe, ERP (enterprise resource planning) software soldiers on, though companies complain bitterly about its inflexibility. Oracle just took a significant step toward softening that rigidity with its new Application Integration Architecture (AIA), announced by Oracle president Chuck Phillips at the company's Collaborate ‘07 User Group Conference.
Personal portals show the Web world what you watch
(Reuters)
Reuters - Netvibes, one of Europe's hottest
Internet companies, has put the power to create
all-you-need-to-know Web portals in the hands of individuals on
Monday, challenging the decade-old strategies of online giants.
Google says not encroaching on broadcasters
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070417/wr_nm/google_ceo_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070417/2007_04_16t232253_450x300_us_google_ceo.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=LhT5yelwRbTQci0NGXqDPg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive officer of Google Inc., is interviewed by Reuters in Palo Alto, California November 11, 2006. Google moved to reassure broadcasters on Monday that the Internet company was not encroaching on their turf after announcing two major deals that widen its scope in the advertising industry. (Kimberly White/Files/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Google moved to reassure broadcasters
on Monday that the Internet company was not encroaching on
their turf after announcing two major deals that widen its
scope in the advertising industry.</p><br clear="all"/>
Four-fold increase in serious child abuse on Web
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070417/wr_nm/internet_abuse_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070417/2007_04_16t211722_450x293_us_internet_abuse.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=9Z7pMgZ7cXD48xgMXyxxbw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="A generic picture of a woman typing in an office on an IBM computer keyboard. Images of child abuse posted and sold online are rapidly becoming more graphic and more sadistic and involving younger children, a British-based Internet monitoring group said on Tuesday. (Catherine Benson CRB./Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Images of child abuse posted and sold
online are rapidly becoming more graphic and more sadistic and
involving younger children, a British-based Internet monitoring
group said on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Judges reject appeals from webcasters
(AP)
AP - Internet radio broadcasters were dealt a setback Monday when a panel of copyright judges threw out requests to reconsider a ruling that hiked the royalties they must pay to record companies and artists.
Why Online Games Are Dictatorships
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Online games like World of Warcraft and Second Life are absolute dictatorships, where the whim of the companies controlling them is law. Cory Doctorow wonders if it's possible to create a game that's a democracy, where your in-world property is really yours.
Yahoo expands newspaper partnership
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_newspapers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070417/2007_04_16t152649_428x450_us_yahoo_newspapers.jpg?x=123&y=130&sig=cXgyZTopYIwwBlwEiz6LYw--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="Yahoo's home page is seen in an undated publicity image. Yahoo Inc. said on Monday it has expanded an online advertising partnership with U.S. newspapers including McClatchy Co, while two of the largest publishers opted to stay out of the deal. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - The publishers of more than 260 U.S. newspapers are hitching their online aspirations to Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. in an expanded partnership that underscores the battle lines being drawn as the media grapple for ad revenue shifting to the Web.</p><br clear="all"/>
Yahoo expands newspaper ad partners with McClatchy
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070416/media_nm/yahoo_newspapers_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070417/2007_04_16t152649_428x450_us_yahoo_newspapers.jpg?x=123&y=130&sig=cXgyZTopYIwwBlwEiz6LYw--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="Yahoo's home page is seen in an undated publicity image. Yahoo Inc. said on Monday it has expanded an online advertising partnership with U.S. newspapers including McClatchy Co, while two of the largest publishers opted to stay out of the deal. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Yahoo Inc. said on Monday it has
expanded an online advertising partnership with U.S. newspapers
to include McClatchy Co., while two large publishers said they
would not join the group.</p><br clear="all"/>
V.I. Labs adds snooping to antipiracy product
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Antipiracy tools vendor V.I. Laboratories has joined forces with ICG (Internet Crimes Group) to offer software developers and enterprise IT shops a way to keep track of criminals who are illegally publishing their software.
Google-DoubleClick deal seen spurring Web ad M&A
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070416/wr_nm/advertising_internet_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070417/2007_04_16t180313_450x308_us_advertising_internet.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=IRfdFTjCXsQ9Cp_oYSGdtw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A laptop screen shows the homepage of Google.cn. in Beijing June 8, 2006. Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick Inc. will create a new powerhouse in digital advertising that could spur a wave of takeovers in the online marketing sector. (Jason Lee/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion purchase of
DoubleClick Inc. will create a new powerhouse in digital
advertising that could spur a wave of takeovers in the online
marketing sector.</p><br clear="all"/>
Rivals Complain About Google-DoubleClick Deal
(PC World)
PC World - The planned merger of two online advertising giants, Google Inc. and DoubleClick Inc., has some rivals calling for regulatory intervention-- but for customers, trust may be of greater concern than antitrust.
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