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Microsoft Goes Open Source?
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp.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.
Deferred Revenue From Vista Upgrades Boosts Microsoft's Earnings
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Concerns continue to be raised about application compatibility and hardware requirements
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"/>
New toys read brain waves
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070430/ap_on_hi_te/mind_reading_toys"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070429/capt.caps10604292246.mind_reading_toys_caps106.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=f0m.GnS7ylHcpzKihfKNaA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="NeuroSky worker Cynthia Lee wears one of their head sets at NeuroSky headquarters in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, March 27, 2007. The startup company aims to add more realistic elements to video games by using brain wave-reading technology to help game developers make gaming more realistic. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - A convincing twin of Darth Vader stalks the beige cubicles of a Silicon Valley office, complete with ominous black mask, cape and light saber.</p><br clear="all"/>
'Rabbit ears' find new life in HDTV age
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070429/ap_on_hi_te/rabbit_ear_revival"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070428/capt.cd30304281810.rabbit_ear_revival_cd303.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=XGPUTe5Es9X4epQk2dtKHw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Richard Schneider, president of Antennas Direct, poses for a photo on the roof of his house with a high definition television antenna March 26, 2007, in Wildwood, Mo. Schneider, who started building the antennas in his garage a few years ago, says it's ironic that 80-year-old technology has been 'rejigged' to provide the best quality picture with modern high definition televisions. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)" border="0" /></a>AP - Buying an antenna for a high-definition television seems as out of place as using a rotary phone to make a call. But some consumers are spending thousands of dollars on LCD or plasma TVs and hooking them up to $50 antennas that don't look much different from what grandpa had on top of his black-and-white picture tube.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google helps make public records available
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070430/ap_on_hi_te/google_state_records"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070427/capt.xed10404271027.china_google_xed104.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=J_7ePNOAewsC3be1kWKr0A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Chinese walk past the Google offices 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 - The Internet search company hopes to eventually persuade federal agencies to employ the same tools — an effort that excites advocates of open government but worries some consumer privacy experts.</p><br clear="all"/>
Pricing software could reshape retail
(AP)
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.
School sued over MySpace photo response
(AP)
AP - A woman denied a teaching degree on the eve of graduation because of a MySpace photo has sued the university.
Fast Search sides with newspapers in Web sales war
(Reuters)
Reuters - A Norwegian company that supplies
search technology to business users is looking to help
newspaper publishers make more money from online advertising
without sharing it with big Internet services.
India's "breadbasket" aims to be new IT hotspot
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070430/tc_nm/india_technology_city_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070430/2007_04_29t225234_450x267_us_india_technology_city.jpg?x=130&y=77&sig=lJutdlEp7wFiDAYZggMrXw--" align="left" height="77" width="130" alt="A view of an IT park in Chandigarh on September 17, 2006. While Bangalore continues to host the bulk of India's IT business and is home to more than 1,500 top firms, poor roads and traffic woes are now pushing IT firms to look beyond Bangalore -- to newer cities like Chandigarh, hundreds of miles north. (Ajay Verma/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Fed up with traffic snarls
and scarred roads, a software engineer in India's flagship IT
hub of Bangalore took to the streets in protest last year --
doodling on his laptop while trotting along on a bullock-cart.</p><br clear="all"/>
FTSE led higher by telecoms gains
(FT.com)
FT.com - London equities moved into positive territory on Monday, led by strong gains for Cable & Wireless on the back of break-up reports.
Microsoft Goes Open Source?
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp.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.
HP Looks To Neoview For Gains In Data Warehousing
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The company is combining its NonStop database engine with its Integrity and ProLiant servers and its StorageWorks hardware and software.
Google helps make public records available
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070430/ap_on_hi_te/google_state_records"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070427/capt.xed10404271027.china_google_xed104.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=J_7ePNOAewsC3be1kWKr0A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Chinese walk past the Google offices 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 - The Internet search company hopes to eventually persuade federal agencies to employ the same tools — an effort that excites advocates of open government but worries some consumer privacy experts.</p><br clear="all"/>
Fast Search sides with newspapers in Web sales war
(Reuters)
Reuters - A Norwegian company that supplies
search technology to business users is looking to help
newspaper publishers make more money from online advertising
without sharing it with big Internet services.
Google, 4 U.S. states partner on gov't info search
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070430/wr_nm/google_government_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070430/2007_04_30t004720_450x289_us_google_government.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=Ms0CbGGWTWVmbQ7iB3EJ3g--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="The logo of Google Inc. is seen outside their headquarters building in Mountain View, California August 18, 2004. Google Inc. (Clay McLachlan/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Google Inc. said on Sunday it was
working with the governments of Arizona, California, Utah and
Virginia to make it easier for consumers to search for
hard-to-find public information on state sites.</p><br clear="all"/>
Three Minutes with a Chief Yahoo
(PC World)
PC World - Cofounder David Filo tells discusses the search portal's evolution, and its challenges as it expands internationally.
Google aims to expand China market share
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070429/ap_on_hi_te/china_google"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070427/capt.xed10404271027.china_google_xed104.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=J_7ePNOAewsC3be1kWKr0A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Chinese walk past the Google offices 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"/>
Chile asks Google to fix map gaffe
(AP)
AP - Chile has asked Google Inc. to correct its popular online mapping service that shows a southern Chilean town — named after a national hero — as part of neighboring Argentina.
MySpace launches new China service
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070429/ap_on_hi_te/china_myspace"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070430/capt.0bcc1bf85a4d487e9e2677cb99804c5d.student_singer_ohdk102.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=ZL_tV8fjXUSfkdUE_xFqJQ--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Kate Voegele practices inside her dorm room at Miami (Ohio) University Tuesday, April 3, 2007, in Oxford, Ohio. Her roommate Sarah Peck works on her laptop at right. Voegele has her first CD with MySpace music due out in May. (AP Photo/David Kohl)" 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"/>
Hispanic social-networking sites prosper
(AP)
AP - Indie rocker Eric Monterrosa checks his ElHood.com Web page at least three times a day, answering fans, surfing for other new Latin artists and keeping in touch with friends from his native Colombia.
Chile: Google Earth moves a village to Argentina
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070428/wr_nm/chile_google_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070428/2007_04_28t164833_450x317_us_chile_google.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=NkD2EHlQJMqY5OwzNTIhxA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Larry Page, co-founder of Google, walks by a map of the world during keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada January 6, 2006. The Chilean government wants Google to fix its Earth geographical search program that places a village named after Chilean independence hero Bernardo O'Higgins in Argentina. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The Chilean government wants Google to
fix its Earth geographical search program that places a village
named after Chilean independence hero Bernardo O'Higgins in
Argentina.</p><br clear="all"/>
EarthLink Takes A Deep Breath
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - EarthLink to focus on current municipal wireless projects.
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