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Microsoft to open source some of Silverlight
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft is expected to show a new friendliness to the open-source community by unveiling plans to release the source code to a part of its Silverlight technology at MIX 07 next week, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.
Microsoft's Vista sales boost 3Q profit
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_on_hi_te/earns_microsoft"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070427/2007_04_26t165042_450x360_us_microsoft_results.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=vShGekvDHJMNFUrkim8JGg--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="In this file photo Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates gestures during the opening of Microsoft's Global Technical Support Centre and the launching of Windows Vista and Office 2007 in Bucharest February 1, 2007. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Shares of Microsoft Corp. soared nearly 4 percent Friday, after the company posted a 65 percent jump in third-quarter profit, boosted by sales of its new Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007, and by upgrade coupons issued over the holidays.</p><br clear="all"/>
Dow ends at record on profits, but GDP weighs
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070427/bs_nm/markets_stocks_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070428/2007_04_27t091511_388x450_us_markets_stocks.jpg?x=112&y=130&sig=.VENooj8jakwM1EDB.fgLw--" align="left" height="130" width="112" alt="Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange April, 25, 2007. (Chip East/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The Dow Jones industrial average rose
on Friday, with robust earnings pushing the blue-chip index to
its third straight record close even as data showed the economy
grew in the first quarter at its slowest pace in four years.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft: Windows XP Sales Will Fade In 2008 as Vista Takes Hold
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Officials at the software maker said they expect that Windows Vista will account for 85% of OS sales in fiscal 2008 compared to 15% for Windows XP.
Microsoft quarterly profits blast off
(USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - SEATTLE - Software maker Microsoft said Thursday its fiscal third-quarter profit jumped 65%, helped by revenue from Windows Vista upgrade coupons issued over the holidays.
U.S. stock futures dip, Microsoft helps stem slide
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070427/bs_nm/markets_stocks_us_europe_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070427/2007_04_27t062847_450x351_us_markets_stocks_us_europe.jpg?x=130&y=101&sig=Stca1XvoyxrY.fmJhDL9xQ--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="A sign at the New York Stock Exchange, April 18, 2007. (Eric Thayer/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. stock futures edged lower on Friday
but would likely not stray far from the broader market's
six-year highs after Microsoft Corp reported strong
earnings after the bell on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Vista Security
(PC World)
PC World - Though Windows Vista may be safer than XP, Microsoft's far-from-impregnable new operating system is already proving to be vulnerable.
Microsoft profit tops Wall St view on Vista sales
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070427/bs_nm/microsoft_results_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070427/2007_04_26t165042_450x360_us_microsoft_results.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=vShGekvDHJMNFUrkim8JGg--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="In this file photo Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates gestures during the opening of Microsoft's Global Technical Support Centre and the launching of Windows Vista and Office 2007 in Bucharest February 1, 2007. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. posted a 65 percent
rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, topping Wall Street
estimates due to better-than-expected demand for its new
Windows Vista operating system.</p><br clear="all"/>
Deferred revenue drives Microsoft to solid Q3
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Deferred revenue from the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007 helped Microsoft increase revenue 32 percent year over year for its fiscal third quarter, with the company reporting $14.4 billion in revenue for the three months ended March 31.
Windows Vista Helps Microsoft Beat Views
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Microsoft easily beat Wall Street's forecast for its fiscal third quarter Thursday, thanks to a strong start for its Windows Vista and Office 2007 products.
Pricing software could reshape retail
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_on_hi_te/the_right_price"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070416/capt.sge.pjg24.160407150547.photo00.photo.default-512x335.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=NHHjgjProwetjdBxzpU5cw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="People carrying shopping bags cross a street in New York City in 2006. US consumers regained some of their legendary voracious appetite for shopping last month as retail sales spiked by a more-than-expected 0.7 percent.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)" border="0" /></a>AP - A large retail chain had a problem. It sold three similar power drills: one for about $90, a purportedly better one at $120 and a top-tier one at $130. The higher the price, the more the store profited.</p><br clear="all"/>
Schools banning iPods to beat cheaters
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_on_hi_te/ipod_cheating"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070425/capt.175ed90ee642444abe6b38562f3e9029.earns_apple_caps104.jpg?x=92&y=130&sig=KEymm0ce8bqbiLyxE4UNqQ--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="An Apple customer uses an Apple iPod at an Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif., Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Apple Inc., on a tear with its popular iPod players and Macintosh computers, is expected to report strong quarterly results Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - Banning baseball caps during tests was obvious — students were writing the answers under the brim. Then, schools started banning cell phones, realizing students could text message the answers to each other.</p><br clear="all"/>
Nintendo plans to boost Wii production
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_on_hi_te/japan_nintendo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070426/capt.xkan10304261038.japan_nintendo_xkan103.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=5PHcC.TJMkcQs53T8VUHyQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="A boy plays Nintendo's demonstration video game at a mass sales store specializing in electric appliances in Tokyo on Thursday April 26, 2007. Booming sales of the popular Wii and DS game machines lifted Nintendo Co.'s earnings 77 percent for the latest fiscal year, showing that the Japanese maker is holding its own against bigger rivals Sony and Microsoft. Nintendo reported group net profit of 174.29 billion yen (US$1.47 billion; euro1.08 billion) in the year through March, up dramatically from 98.38 billion yen a year earlier. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)" border="0" /></a>AP - Nintendo's president acknowledged Friday that the shortage of the hit Wii game machine was "abnormal," and promised production was being boosted to increase deliveries by next month.</p><br clear="all"/>
CEO: Google working to grow in China
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_on_hi_te/china_google"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070427/capt.xed10204270944.china_google_xed102.jpg?x=95&y=130&sig=VzbBby1xDyqDbVbyy_cWaw--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt, right, listens to President of Google Greater China Kai-Fu Lee, left, during a press conference in Beijing China Friday April 27, 2007.Google Inc., No. 2 in China's Web search market, is expanding its investment and technology in an effort to make up for its late entry and become the industry leader,Schmidt said Friday. Baidu.com Inc. has about 55 percent of China's search engine market, ahead of Google with 21.7 percent, according to market data company iResearch Inc. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)" border="0" /></a>AP - Google Inc., No. 2 in China's Web search market, is giving its local managers more autonomy and investing more in China in an effort to make up for its late entry and take the lead in the industry, CEO Eric Schmidt said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
MySpace launches new China service
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_on_hi_te/china_myspace"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070426/2007_04_26t133152_450x348_us_myspace_china.jpg?x=130&y=100&sig=ZqaFYoAjY66bdMbavgEBoA--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="A screenshot of MySpace.cn, taken on April 26, 2007. News Corp.'s MySpace launched a test in China this week, extending the popular social network into the one of the fastest-growing regions of the globe, the companies involved said on Thursday. (www.myspace.cn/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - News Corp.'s popular social networking site MySpace launched a test version of its new China service on Friday, making a late entry into the intensely competitive Chinese Internet market.</p><br clear="all"/>
EarthLink scales back, focuses muni Wi-Fi effort
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - EarthLink is pulling in the reins on its municipal Wi-Fi business, focusing on existing deals and big cities for the rest of this year.
In Pictures: Xbox 360 Elite
(PC World)
PC World - Xbox 360 EliteThe $480 Xbox 360 Elite, which comes dressed in matte black with metallic details, has several improvements over its predecessor. It packs a roomy 120GB hard disk (up from 20GB), a High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), and a wireless controller. Like the previous version of the Xbox, the Xbox 360 Elite plays regular DVDs, stores music ripped from audio CDs or digital photos, and connects to a PC to enable digital content streaming. ...
India limits Vodafone's Hutchison Essar stake
(FT.com)
FT.com - Indian regulators on Friday night gave Vodafone permission to take a 52 per cent stake in Hutchison Essar, the country's fourth-largest mobile operator.
Microsoft to open source some of Silverlight
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft is expected to show a new friendliness to the open-source community by unveiling plans to release the source code to a part of its Silverlight technology at MIX 07 next week, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.
Microsoft's Vista sales boost 3Q profit
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_on_hi_te/earns_microsoft"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070427/2007_04_26t165042_450x360_us_microsoft_results.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=vShGekvDHJMNFUrkim8JGg--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="In this file photo Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates gestures during the opening of Microsoft's Global Technical Support Centre and the launching of Windows Vista and Office 2007 in Bucharest February 1, 2007. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Shares of Microsoft Corp. soared nearly 4 percent Friday, after the company posted a 65 percent jump in third-quarter profit, boosted by sales of its new Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007, and by upgrade coupons issued over the holidays.</p><br clear="all"/>
EarthLink scales back, focuses muni Wi-Fi effort
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - EarthLink is pulling in the reins on its municipal Wi-Fi business, focusing on existing deals and big cities for the rest of this year.
TV Tidbits: Notes of Interest
(Mediaweek.com)
Mediaweek.com - Adult Swim, which recently hit the big screen with Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, will expand to a seventh night of programming effective on Friday, July 6 at 11 p.m. ET. In addition, the rapidly growing adult-themed cable network will add three new series -- Superjail, Fat Guy Stuck in Internet and Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil -- plus new episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force; Assy McGee; The Boondocks; Frisky Dingo; Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law; Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job; Metalocalypse; Moral Orel; Robot Chicken; Squidbillies and The Venture Bros. ...
The Cost Of User-Generated Content
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Quiznos' attempts to be hip backfired, when ads comparing its sandwiches to rival Subway's resulted in an online quandary.
Ex-eToys co-founder starts shopping site
(AP)
AP - Online retail is a tough business and women customers are a tough crowd. Frank Han knows. He's been there, done that, and he's doing it again.
Design your own watch without leaving home
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070427/wr_nm/column_pluggedin_april26_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070428/2007_04_27t154039_450x388_us_column_pluggedin_april26.jpg?x=130&y=112&sig=dQlTcUV43dndZHkwwv4j7Q--" align="left" height="112" width="130" alt="A screen grab of 121time.com. With the variety and vintages of watches available and the intense interest shown by watch collectors and enthusiasts, finding an ideal timepiece on the Web has never been easier at well-known sites like Amazon.com or eBay. But smaller watchmakers are tapping into the Web with a novel proposition for buyers: a custom-designed watch, built-to-order and delivered in 10 days. (www.121time.com/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Looking for the perfect watch? The
Internet has a wealth of resources to find just the right
accessory for your wrist -- new, gently used, antique, or
custom-made.</p><br clear="all"/>
EarthLink Scales Back, Focuses Muni Wi-Fi Effort
(PC World)
PC World - EarthLink Inc. is pulling in the reins on its municipal Wi-Fi business, focusing on existing deals and big cities for the rest of this year, in a move that raises questions about the growing trend of city-wide wireless networks.
Congressman Seeks To Lift Online Gambling Ban
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - In introducing a bill to legalize online gambling, Rep. Frank said U.S. prohibitions remove consumer protections for Americans who continue to gamble online.
CEO: Google working to grow in China
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_on_hi_te/china_google"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070427/capt.xed10204270944.china_google_xed102.jpg?x=95&y=130&sig=VzbBby1xDyqDbVbyy_cWaw--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt, right, listens to President of Google Greater China Kai-Fu Lee, left, during a press conference in Beijing China Friday April 27, 2007.Google Inc., No. 2 in China's Web search market, is expanding its investment and technology in an effort to make up for its late entry and become the industry leader,Schmidt said Friday. Baidu.com Inc. has about 55 percent of China's search engine market, ahead of Google with 21.7 percent, according to market data company iResearch Inc. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)" border="0" /></a>AP - Google Inc., No. 2 in China's Web search market, is giving its local managers more autonomy and investing more in China in an effort to make up for its late entry and take the lead in the industry, CEO Eric Schmidt said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Bill Would Overturn Increase In Internet Radio Royalties
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The bill would overturn a decision that would require Internet broadcasters to pay three times as much as their over-the-airwaves counterparts for the right to play music.
Malware Writers Target Google AdWords
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Google has removed paid advertisements that link to 20 search terms online criminals hijacked to steal the personal identities of people searching the Internet. Google canceled the ads on Tuesday, but security researchers said there might be additional links that need to be removed.
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