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RIM to roll out "virtual BlackBerry" software
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070423/wr_nm/rim_blackberry_software_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070423/2007_04_23t002614_450x297_us_rim_blackberry_software.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=lRFmsXT54DT2yW77od37HA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A journalist looks at her Blackberry communication device on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 18, 2007. Research In Motion Ltd. (Jim Young/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Research In Motion Ltd. is set to roll
out new software that will let users turn smartphones running
on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile platform into virtual
BlackBerries.</p><br clear="all"/>
Patent Suit Hits Microsoft
(PC World)
PC World - Vertical Computer Systems Inc. is suing Microsoft Corp. for patent infringement related to Microsoft's.Net framework for building Windows-based software.
Microsoft Wants To Double The Number Of PCs In The World By 2015
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - And most of them will run Windows if $3 software deal takes off in developing countries.
Microsoft hit with patent suit over .Net
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Vertical Computer Systems is suing Microsoft for patent infringement related to Microsoft's .Net framework for building Windows-based software.
Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Over the past year, Mozilla's open-source Firefox browser has been slowly but steadily nibbling away at the overwhelming dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. According to the Web analyst firm Net Applications, Firefox had 15 percent of the browser market in March 2007, five percentage points more than a year ago. All of the increase has come at the expense of Internet Explorer.
Windows XP Redux: Dell Revives Predecessor To Vista
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Dell said it would add Windows XP as an option for its Inspiron 1405, 1705, 1505, and 1501 notebook PCs and its Dimension E520 and E521 desktops.
Microsoft Teams With Unisys for Free Exchange Trial
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp. has partnered with Unisys Corp. 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.
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.
Man gets 5,000 calls for YouTube posting
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070423/ap_on_hi_te/youtube_calls"><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>AP - Ryan Fitzgerald is unemployed, lives with his father and has a little bit of time on his hands.</p><br clear="all"/>
RIM to unveil new software application
(AP)
AP - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. is introducing a software application that can make Palm Treos and other Windows-based mobile devices made by rivals work like a BlackBerry.
Teen pockets $25,000 in texting contest
(AP)
AP - OMG! Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pa., was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from "Mary Poppins" in 15 seconds.
Presidential debates set for cyberspace
(AP)
AP - The 2008 presidential contenders may soon be slugging it out in cyberspace, with pioneering online-only debates being planned for early next fall, a new media partnership says.
Review: MotorStorm a graphics showcase
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070422/ap_on_hi_te/games_motorstorm"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070418/capt.fba58e8a0e8244f1a7ea4e810347e8ad.games_motorstorm_nyet319.jpg?x=130&y=73&sig=i7_v9ySL1ZC1uWP4V1IARw--" align="left" height="73" width="130" alt="This image, courtesy of Sony Computer Entertainment America, shows a racing scene in the new PlayStation 3 video game 'MotorStorm.' (AP Photo/Sony)" border="0" /></a>AP - Still wondering just how powerful that pricey PlayStation 3 is? The off-road racing video game "MotorStorm" is a mud-caked showcase of the system's excellent graphics.</p><br clear="all"/>
Internet key in probe of Va. Tech gunman
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070422/ap_on_hi_te/virginia_tech_shooting_internet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070421/capt.10691c7dca4547c3bb09be7241308c8d.virginia_tech_shooting_vacd106.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=FG2rcS1vWXsZtynwCPgz2Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Ammunition clips bought by eBay member 'blazers5505' is shown on a laptop computer in Blacksburg, Va., Saturday, April 21, 2007. The Virginia Tech killer went to eBay to buy ammunition clips for one of the types of guns used in the rampage, a spokesman for the auction site confirmed Saturday. Using the handle blazers5505, Seung-Hui Cho bought two 10-round magazines for the Walther P22 — one of two handguns used in the massacre of 32 people. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0" /></a>AP - Computer forensics are playing a key role in the probe of the Virginia Tech gunman, with investigators revealing he bought ammunition clips on eBay designed for one of two handguns used to kill 32 people and himself.</p><br clear="all"/>
RIM to roll out "virtual BlackBerry" software
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070423/wr_nm/rim_blackberry_software_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070423/2007_04_23t002614_450x297_us_rim_blackberry_software.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=lRFmsXT54DT2yW77od37HA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A journalist looks at her Blackberry communication device on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 18, 2007. Research In Motion Ltd. (Jim Young/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Research In Motion Ltd. is set to roll
out new software that will let users turn smartphones running
on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile platform into virtual
BlackBerries.</p><br clear="all"/>
Time Warner customers get Wi-Fi hotspots
(AP)
AP - In a big win for a little Wi-Fi startup called Fon, Time Warner Cable Inc. will let its home broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hotspots, a practice shunned by most U.S. Internet service providers.
Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Over the past year, Mozilla's open-source Firefox browser has been slowly but steadily nibbling away at the overwhelming dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. According to the Web analyst firm Net Applications, Firefox had 15 percent of the browser market in March 2007, five percentage points more than a year ago. All of the increase has come at the expense of Internet Explorer.
Patent Suit Hits Microsoft
(PC World)
PC World - Vertical Computer Systems Inc. is suing Microsoft Corp. for patent infringement related to Microsoft's.Net framework for building Windows-based software.
Presidential debates set for cyberspace
(AP)
AP - The 2008 presidential contenders may soon be slugging it out in cyberspace, with pioneering online-only debates being planned for early next fall, a new media partnership says.
Internet key in probe of Va. Tech gunman
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070422/ap_on_hi_te/virginia_tech_shooting_internet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070421/capt.10691c7dca4547c3bb09be7241308c8d.virginia_tech_shooting_vacd106.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=FG2rcS1vWXsZtynwCPgz2Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Ammunition clips bought by eBay member 'blazers5505' is shown on a laptop computer in Blacksburg, Va., Saturday, April 21, 2007. The Virginia Tech killer went to eBay to buy ammunition clips for one of the types of guns used in the rampage, a spokesman for the auction site confirmed Saturday. Using the handle blazers5505, Seung-Hui Cho bought two 10-round magazines for the Walther P22 — one of two handguns used in the massacre of 32 people. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0" /></a>AP - Computer forensics are playing a key role in the probe of the Virginia Tech gunman, with investigators revealing he bought ammunition clips on eBay designed for one of two handguns used to kill 32 people and himself.</p><br clear="all"/>
China busts fake ticket Web site
(Reuters)
Reuters - Chinese police have arrested three men
for setting up a fake Olympic Games ticket Web site, the
official Xinhua agency said on late on Saturday.
Google Apps Draw Converts
(PC World)
PC World - Google Inc. has pushed further into Microsoft Corp.'s turf with a major upgrade of its Google Apps hosted suite. Like the free Standard and Education Edition versions, the new Premier offering has Gmail Web mail (with BlackBerry support), Calendar shared scheduling, IM and integrated Docs & Spreadsheets apps. But for US$50 per user per year, Premier customers will get 10GB of e-mail storage per user, instead of 2GB. A Premier subscription also buys a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee, IT management tools and phone support, and tools for integration with other business data.
Fed breach leaks Social Security numbers
(AP)
AP - The Social Security numbers of 63,000 people who received Agriculture Department grants have been posted on a government Web site since 1996, but they were taken down last week. Free credit monitoring is being offered to those affected.
Privacy groups challenge Google's DoubleClick deal
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070421/wr_nm/doubleclick_advertising_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070421/2007_04_20t221017_450x294_us_doubleclick_advertising.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=WY4qrCk2fBpYboACFTLpow--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="The logo of Google Inc. is seen outside its headquarters building in Mountain View, California August 18, 2004. Consumer privacy groups on Friday sought to derail Google's $3.1 billion deal to buy online ad supplier DoubleClick, filing a complaint with U.S. regulators to block the merger on privacy grounds. (Clay McLachlan/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Consumer privacy groups on Friday
sought to derail Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion deal to buy online
ad supplier DoubleClick Inc., filing a complaint with U.S.
regulators to block the merger on privacy grounds.</p><br clear="all"/>
Music blogs traffic in mainstream MP4 videos
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070421/wr_nm/blogs_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070421/2007_04_21t133816_450x338_us_blogs.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=lR1VGDpRFNMjtH9hrupr_w--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A man flips through stacks of compact discs at a music store in a file photo. The trend of distributing advanced copies of music video clips appears to be a looming headache for the recording industry as it continues to attempt to convert music videos into a revenue stream, whether it's through sales of videos via iTunes or through new ad-supported models from YouTube. (File/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - By now the practice has become old
hat: an eagerly anticipated album gets distributed and devoured
by MP3 bloggers before it ever hits stores. But when Columbia
Records released Beyonce's "B'Day Anthology Video Album" on
April 3, it marked a rare instance of a similar phenomenon
happening with a music DVD.</p><br clear="all"/>
Ticketmaster takes legal action against eBay's StubHub
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070420/wr_nm/ticketmaster_ebay_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070421/2007_04_20t131006_450x285_us_ticketmaster_ebay.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=c7IiQPLXnoMKGY04L38E0Q--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Online auction company EBay Inc.'s Chief Executive Meg Whitman addresses a news conference in Brussels in this February 7, 2006 file photo. Ticketmaster is suing eBay Inc. in Los Angeles, accusing the Internet auction company's subsidiary StubHub of fraudulently obtaining premium tickets to sell online. . (Francois Lenoir/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Ticketmaster is suing eBay Inc. in
Los Angeles, accusing the Internet auction company's subsidiary
StubHub of fraudulently obtaining premium tickets to sell
online.</p><br clear="all"/>
Former magazine editor sentenced for U.S. sex crime
(Reuters)
Reuters - A former editor at the entertainment
magazine Us Weekly was sentenced on Friday to six years in
prison for attempting to seduce an undercover FBI agent posing
as a minor on the Internet.
U.S. newspaper Web sites deliver slower growth
(Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. newspaper publishers are betting
the Internet is the key to their survival, but a worsening
classified advertising slump is hampering efforts to make good
on their digital strategies.
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