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Bill Gates says China to remain largest broadband market
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070420/bs_afp/chinausitinternetcompanymicrosoft"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070420/capt.sge.qsm67.200407080657.photo00.photo.default-369x512.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=ivHCUjPs5OQQ4JO1yN_4Rw--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="China is set to remain the world's largest broadband market after recently overtaking the US, Bill Gates, seen here, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft Corp, told a forum in Beijing(AFP)" border="0" /></a>AFP - China is set to remain the world's largest broadband market after recently overtaking the US, Bill Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft Corp, told a forum in Beijing.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft discounts student software in developing countries
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070420/tc_afp/uschinaitinternetsoftwarecompanymicrosoft"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070420/capt.sge.qre45.200407030436.photo00.photo.default-369x512.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=lTH4S33UvIpKuRLmCVmAwA--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates speaks at Beijing's Tsinghua University. Microsoft announced a new commitment to help close the digital divide by creating new products and programs that will help bring social and economic opportunity to an estimated 5 billion people who are not yet enjoying the benefits of technology.(AFP/STR)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Microsoft is offering a low-cost, scaled-down version of its student software in developing countries to help billions of poor people access computer technology, the company said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Dell once again offers Windows XP
(AP)
AP - Back by popular demand: Windows XP. PC maker Dell Inc. said on its Web site Thursday it will once again let home PC buyers choose between Microsoft Corp.'s older operating system and Windows Vista when they purchase certain new machines.
Microsoft teams with Unisys for free Exchange trial
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft has partnered with Unisys to offer a free trial of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that enables enterprise customers to evaluate the software's e-mail, calendaring, and unified-messaging features.
Correction: April 18 barcode story
(AP)
AP - In an April 18 story about a barcode invented by a Microsoft researcher, The Associated Press misspelled his last name. He is Gavin Jancke, not Jenke.
Correction: Microsoft barcode story
(AP)
AP - In an April 18 story about a barcode invented by a Microsoft researcher, The Associated Press misspelled his last name. He is Gavin Jancke, not Jenke.
Microsoft Releases Betas Of New Visual Studio, .Net Framework
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - There are more than 200 new features in the new version of Visual Studio, most aimed at supporting the newest versions of Microsoft software, enhancing developer productivity, and driving team productivity.
Intel CEO Says Vista Service Pack To Be Released October Or November
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Otellini told financial analysts that the first Windows Vista Service Pack is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter.
Gates Spearheads Microsoft Philanthropy
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In Beijing on Thursday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates let his philanthropic heart bleed over into his corporate strategy with a plan to offer a scaled-down version of Windows, Office, and other Microsoft software for $3 to people in developing nations.
Microsoft: Samsung Deal Could Improve Xbox, Zune
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Microsoft executives said the patent deal struck with Samsung Thursday morning could have implications for the Zune MP3 player and the Xbox, as well as for Windows PCs.
System update led to Blackberry outage
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070420/ap_on_hi_te/blackberry_outage"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070418/capt.84f73516056e4e6785ad51265a9105b3.blackberry_outage_fx102.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=1_NjvrqZw1r8E_0KKIgBdA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A display promotes the BlackBerry device at a Cingular store in San Francisco, Wednesday, April 18, 2007. BlackBerry addicts breathed sighs of relief Wednesday as e-mail began to trickle into their portable devices after more than 12 hours of down time and little explanation from the company.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)" border="0" /></a>AP - BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. said an insufficiently tested software update at the company's network data center was the cause of a service outage this week that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access.</p><br clear="all"/>
Candidates seek votes in cyberspace
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070419/ap_on_hi_te/campaign_in_cyberspace"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070419/capt.ba9fea3a0c724d8e9ffd951092981849.campaign_in_cyberspace_wx115.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=XGQDw4UlrvPgw_6zIIAVig--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Kulia Petzoldt, not shown, looks over the website for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., during a coffee and campaigning playgroup meeting of Families for Obama in Burke, Va., Friday, March 23, 2007. Obama supporters from cyberspace formed Families for Obama, which has already grown to 24 chapters nationwide. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)" border="0" /></a>AP - To find volunteer Redaktisto Noble, you have to go to John Edwards presidential campaign headquarters. Not in Iowa or New Hampshire, but in cyberspace.</p><br clear="all"/>
Dell once again offers Windows XP
(AP)
AP - Back by popular demand: Windows XP. PC maker Dell Inc. said on its Web site Thursday it will once again let home PC buyers choose between Microsoft Corp.'s older operating system and Windows Vista when they purchase certain new machines.
YouTube gets Va. Tech shooting footage
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070420/ap_on_hi_te/virginia_tech_youtube"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070419/i/r3010492141.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=642y4g4EJmEid8bO2ROwmg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="An image that NBC News say they received from Cho Seung-Hui, the shooter in the Virginia Tech shootings, is seen as it is aired on the NBC Nightly News, April 18, 2007. REUTERS/Courtesy of NBC News/Handout" border="0" /></a>AP - It was inevitable that the online video world would offer its take on a crime glimpsed as it unfolded most dramatically via a cell phone camera, carried out by a student who put together a CD-ROM of his manifesto and mailed it to a TV news network.</p><br clear="all"/>
Web sites ignored warnings on hormones
(AP)
AP - Many Web sites have ignored federal warnings against making unfounded health claims in promoting hormone products to treat menopause, the government said Thursday.
Software upgrade behind BlackBerry outage: report
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070420/tc_nm/rim_blackberry_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070420/2007_04_20t032606_450x297_us_rim_blackberry.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=HzVKXfkmwAysuWxtu4hkQw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A journalist looks at her Blackberry communication device on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 18, 2007. A massive service outage of Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry e-mail that frustrated thousands of users across North America earlier this week was caused by a 'non-critical' software upgrade, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Thursday. (Jim Young/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A massive service outage of Research
In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry e-mail that
frustrated thousands of users across North America earlier this
week was caused by a "non-critical" software upgrade, the Wall
Street Journal reported on its Web site on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Nintendo's Wii again No. 1 new game console
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070420/tc_nm/nintendo_sales_npd_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070420/2007_04_19t193712_289x450_us_nintendo_sales_npd.jpg?x=83&y=130&sig=9ngRFI93wYUbZaCK9J88tg--" align="left" height="130" width="83" alt="In this file photo a sales clerk grabs bags containing the Nintendo Wii on the day of its Japanese launch at an electronics retail shop in Tokyo December 2, 2006. Nintendo Wii was again the No. 1 current-generation video game console, selling 259,000 units in the United States in March, according to market research firm NPD. (Kiyoshi Ota/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. sales of video games, devices
and accessories rose 33 percent to $1.1 billion in March,
propelled by sales of new video game consoles like the popular
Wii from Nintendo Co. Ltd.(7974.OS), market research firm NPD
said on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
New attack puts routers, cell phones at risk
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - A security researcher at Juniper Networks has developed a new form of attack that can be used to run unauthorized software on a wide range of computing devices, including routers and mobile phones.
Ubuntu Linux Releases 'Feisty Fawn' Into The Wild
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The 7.04 server and desktop edition includes a Java boost from Sun Microsystems and a vote of confidence from PC magnate Michael Dell.
Noncritical software upgrade behind BlackBerry outage: WSJ
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070420/bs_nm/rim_blackberry_reason_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070420/2007_04_20t001709_450x297_us_rim_blackberry_reason.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=okCypl81IbKzvPvMo.PH6g--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A journalist looks at her Blackberry communication device on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 18, 2007. A massive service outage of Research In Motion Ltd.'s (Jim Young/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A massive service outage of Research
In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry e-mail that
frustrated thousands of users across North America earlier this
week was caused by a noncritical software upgrade, the Wall
Street Journal reported on its Web site on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
YouTube gets Va. Tech shooting footage
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070420/ap_on_hi_te/virginia_tech_youtube"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070419/i/r3010492141.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=642y4g4EJmEid8bO2ROwmg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="An image that NBC News say they received from Cho Seung-Hui, the shooter in the Virginia Tech shootings, is seen as it is aired on the NBC Nightly News, April 18, 2007. REUTERS/Courtesy of NBC News/Handout" border="0" /></a>AP - It was inevitable that the online video world would offer its take on a crime glimpsed as it unfolded most dramatically via a cell phone camera, carried out by a student who put together a CD-ROM of his manifesto and mailed it to a TV news network.</p><br clear="all"/>
Software upgrade behind BlackBerry outage: report
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070420/tc_nm/rim_blackberry_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070420/2007_04_20t032606_450x297_us_rim_blackberry.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=HzVKXfkmwAysuWxtu4hkQw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A journalist looks at her Blackberry communication device on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 18, 2007. A massive service outage of Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry e-mail that frustrated thousands of users across North America earlier this week was caused by a 'non-critical' software upgrade, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Thursday. (Jim Young/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A massive service outage of Research
In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry e-mail that
frustrated thousands of users across North America earlier this
week was caused by a "non-critical" software upgrade, the Wall
Street Journal reported on its Web site on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google Inc.'s 1Q profit rises 69 percent
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070420/ap_on_hi_te/earns_google"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070419/capt.f0851b4b47914fb8a332e3cfe971ec93.earns_google_caps101.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=BjnFgSNWxwDNEiRKf61Nbg--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Japanese university computer students from schools in Tokyo pose for pictures as they tour around Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Thursday, April 19, 2007. Google is expected to report first-quarter earnings after the closing bell Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - Just like its Internet-leading search engine has a knack for finding the information people ask for, Google Inc. keeps giving Wall Street what it wants — scintillating earnings growth that eclipses analyst estimates quarter after quarter.</p><br clear="all"/>
U.S. album sales down, digital sales up
(AP)
AP - U.S. album sales are down 17 percent so far this year, a downward spiral caused in part by a surge in online music purchases and fewer big-name albums being released in the first quarter.
Dell once again offers Windows XP
(AP)
AP - Back by popular demand: Windows XP. PC maker Dell Inc. said on its Web site Thursday it will once again let home PC buyers choose between Microsoft Corp.'s older operating system and Windows Vista when they purchase certain new machines.
Google streamlining YouTube video copyright claims
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070419/tc_afp/usitinternetcopyrightcompanygoogleyoutube"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070419/capt.sge.qqm77.190407220536.photo00.photo.default-512x340.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=QZ2ZWv45eEjbMfFxRQoWmw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="YouTube webpage. Google said Thursday that it is building a tool for television and film studios to get copyrighted video clips quickly removed from its superstar website YouTube.(AFP/File/Samantha Sin)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Google said Thursday that it is building a tool for television and film studios to get copyrighted video clips quickly removed from its superstar website YouTube.</p><br clear="all"/>
Popular Web Sites Highly Vulnerable to Attack
(PC World)
PC World - A report finds that banking, shopping, and other sites are likely to contain flaws that allow phishing or expose customer data.
Yahoo sued in US court for giving user data to China
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070419/tc_afp/uschinaitinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070419/capt.sge.qqh53.190407211816.photo00.photo.default-512x335.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=IF2jbGW0WrTIAxCgQBLncw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Sign in front of Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The wife of a Yahoo user jailed in China for promoting democracy online is suing the Internet search engine company for helping Chinese officials track him down and convict him.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The wife of a Yahoo user jailed in China for promoting democracy online is suing the Internet search engine company for helping Chinese officials track him down and convict him.</p><br clear="all"/>
Classified ad decline weighs on U.S. newspapers
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070419/media_nm/newspapers_results_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070419/2007_04_19t130111_392x450_us_newspapers_results.jpg?x=113&y=130&sig=KboKVqWb_bryb5coDTIoew--" align="left" height="130" width="113" alt="File photo of newspaper boxes in Detroit, Michigan August 3, 2005. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A sharp drop in classified advertising
sales brought on by free Internet listings and a cooling real
estate market helped push U.S. newspaper publishers' financial
results lower in the first quarter.</p><br clear="all"/>
'DVD Jon' Looking For DRM Code Breakers
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - DoubleTwist is working on interoperability technology that would make it possible to play music bought from Apple's iTunes store on any device.
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