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Novell Tells Terms of Microsoft Linux Deal
(PC World)
PC World - Novell Inc. has published details of its landmark November 2006 partnership agreements with Microsoft Corp.
Novell goes public with terms of Microsoft Linux deal
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Novell has published details of its landmark November 2006 Linux partnership agreements with Microsoft.
Microsoft sues alleged stock scammers
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Hoping to tackle the growing problem of pump-and-dump stock scams Microsoft has quietly filed lawsuits against at least three alleged perpetrators who it says used its MSN Hotmail networks to promote stocks.
Microsoft Cancels Key Developer Conference
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp. has cancelled its fall developer conference, citing inconvenient timing for the show in light of the launch of important new infrastructure and developer-platform products.
Microsoft Sues Alleged Stock Scammers
(PC World)
PC World - Hoping to tackle the growing problem of pump-and-dump stock scams Microsoft Corp. has quietly filed lawsuits against at least three alleged perpetrators who it says used its MSN Hotmail networks to promote stocks.
Microsoft cancels key developer conference
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft has cancelled its fall developer conference, citing inconvenient timing for the show in light of the launch of important new infrastructure and developer-platform products.
Microsoft Announces Ship Date For Forza Motorsport 2
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The video game for Xbox coincides with this weekend's running of the 91st Indianapolis 500.
Microsoft Car Stereo Patent To Challenge iPod?
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - While the technology is likely to support Microsoft's Zune portable media player, the patent indicates that the dock also would support third party devices.
Microsoft offers Zune team 'iPod Amnesty Bin'
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - In what can be seen as either a joke or a real attempt to get employees to give up Apple iPods in favor of the Zune MP3 player, the team at Microsoft that builds Zune has set up a bin at its headquarters so employees can drop in iPods they don't want to use anymore.
Lawsuit Claims Microsoft Xbox Sparked Fire That Killed Baby
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The suit was filed by Wade Kline's estate and seeks unspecified damages in excess of $50,000.
Back-to-back disasters show cell gaps
(AP)
AP - The response by emergency workers following a tornado that ripped through Greensburg recently shared at least one thing with the reaction to a massive ice storm in January that downed power lines for days in the same region.
Virtual tours offer trips through time
(AP)
AP - Kathy Choi touches a kiosk screen, then looks up at a larger wall screen to see digitally created yellowish-brown mounds snaking through bright green grassland dotted with brilliant blue rivers and lakes.
Clinton asks YouTube users for song help
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070527/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_theme_song"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070525/capt.d742dc48a8b642819177c66fe20d1c45.clinton_2008_iacn110.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=i1RevAwQVT2NiiYCXu.Bvw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks during a town hall meeting, Friday, May 25, 2007, in Mason City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton wants YouTube viewers to pick her campaign theme song — and the response, so far, has been music to her ears.</p><br clear="all"/>
U.S. colleges retool programming classes
(AP)
AP - The lesson plan was called "Artificial Unintelligence," but it was written more like a comic book than a syllabus for a serious computer science class.
Sony develops film-thin, bending display
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070527/ap_on_hi_te/japan_sony_thin_display"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070525/capt.tok10505250445.japan_sony_thin_display_tok105.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=3x53VTFAXO_7p.c1hBMXdQ--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="In this photo released by Sony Corp., the company's new 0.3 millimeter (0.01 inch) display is shown at Atsugi Technology Center in Atsugi, southwest of Tokyo May 21, 2007. In the race for ever thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all, a razor-thin display that bend like paper while showing full-color video. (AP Photo/Sony Corp., HO)" border="0" /></a>AP - In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all — a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video.</p><br clear="all"/>
Traffic up on gasoline price Web sites
(AP)
AP - The higher gasoline prices go, the more money business Web entrepreneur Jason Toews makes.
Will Mobile Phones Take Over In the Office?
(PC World)
PC World - Enterprise desktop phones face growing competition from wireless handsets, but they aren't going the way of the typewriter just yet.
EarthLink Wins Full Contract for Philadelphia Wi-Fi Net
(PC World)
PC World - Update: Similar San Francisco project is still under discussion.
Novell Tells Terms of Microsoft Linux Deal
(PC World)
PC World - Novell Inc. has published details of its landmark November 2006 partnership agreements with Microsoft Corp.
Facebook opens site to other companies
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070527/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_developers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070525/capt.18f53bd85e68437b8a06eacf8d4d1095.facebook_advertising_caps121.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=28pGVt7kxqf5snG56w5vfg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Facebook.com worker Ginnie Chan, left, works at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., Monday, Feb. 5, 2007. Facebook has avoided the acquisition frenzy that's gobbled up MySpace.com, YouTube and other startups, and the company is now striving to become a general portal like Yahoo, not just a social networking site for college students. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - Facebook Inc. is encouraging other companies to sell products and create software for use on the popular social networking site, hoping to expand into an all-purpose destination on the Web.</p><br clear="all"/>
Traffic up on gasoline price Web sites
(AP)
AP - The higher gasoline prices go, the more money business Web entrepreneur Jason Toews makes.
Researchers turn Web blather to books
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070527/ap_on_hi_te/blather_to_books"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070524/capt.732e0c8499aa4b79b6deebf16ec9c8a8.blather_to_books_px106.jpg?x=87&y=130&sig=op_56JoLzEkLDbLvnV.r7A--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="Luis von Ahn, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, poses on campus in Pittsburgh Wednesday, May 23, 2007. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, including Von Ahn, have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online.(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)" border="0" /></a>AP - A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online.</p><br clear="all"/>
EU probes Google over privacy concerns
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070527/ap_on_hi_te/eu_google_privacy_probe"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070521/capt.4f4e797b13754729a43fff5a8f09ddc0.google_salesforce__caps101.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=nuLWV9pIWJcnGFECqxrwwQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Front desk of Google headquarters is shown in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, May 15, 2007. Salesforce.com Inc.'s shares surged by more than 5 pecent in response to a published report that the online software provider is nearing an alliance with Internet search leader Google Inc. to gang up on Microsoft Corp. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - An independent European Union panel has launched an investigation into whether Google Inc.'s Internet search engine abides by European privacy rules.</p><br clear="all"/>
China tells 'dating' websites to stop selling sex
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070527/tc_afp/chinainternetsex"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070527/capt.sge.hgu46.270507072408.photo00.photo.default-512x340.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=CIsw5AbB.N_eCnIgnWnojw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="People pass an internet cafe in Beijing, 06 March 2007. A Chinese Internet watchdog has accused 12 dating websites in Beijing of being a cover for prostitution and has ordered them to clean up their act, state media said Sunday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A Chinese Internet watchdog has accused 12 dating websites in Beijing of being a cover for prostitution and has ordered them to clean up their act, state media said Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google's Data Retention Challenged
(PC World)
PC World - European data protection officials have written to Google warning that the search giant may be in breach of E.U. privacy because of the way it retains data on individual searches.
EarthLink Wins Full Contract for Philadelphia Wi-Fi Net
(PC World)
PC World - Update: Similar San Francisco project is still under discussion.
Users upset over Google Analytics outage
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The Google Analytics Web site monitoring service suffered an outage that affected some users for more than 24 hours this week, prompting many to vent on blogs and forums their frustration with the situation and with what they perceived as unresponsiveness on Google's part.
Web 2.0 Site Becomes Lobbying Tool For Campaign Appearances
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Eventful.com is fast becoming a popular site for presidential hopefuls to connect with online-savvy voters.
Groups Praise US Broadband Data Bill
(PC World)
PC World - A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate this week would require the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to reconsider what bandwidth rates qualify as broadband, a move that won praise from some groups that call current broadband penetration statistics misleading.
Groups praise U.S. broadband data bill
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate this week would require the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to reconsider what bandwidth rates qualify as broadband, a move that won praise from some groups that call current broadband penetration statistics misleading.
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