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Microsoft to unveil coffee-table-shaped computer
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070530/tc_nm/microsoft_surface_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070530/2007_05_30t004949_450x338_us_microsoft_surface.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=ff4htuuKtInau.dioBT.jQ--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Microsoft Corp. unveiled a coffee-table-shaped 'surface computer' in a major step towards co-founder Bill Gates's view of a future where the mouse and keyboard are replaced by more natural interaction using voice, pen and touch. (PRNewsFoto/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. will unveil a
coffee-table-shaped "surface computer" on Wednesday in a major
step towards co-founder Bill Gates's view of a future where the
mouse and keyboard are replaced by more natural interaction
using voice, pen and touch.</p><br clear="all"/>
Adobe's ColdFusion warms to .Net
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Adobe's ColdFusion software for building Internet applications and Web sites is being improved with Microsoft .Net support, enabling .Net objects to be invoked from within the ColdFusion language.
Microsoft Debuts 'Minority Report'-Like Surface Computer
(PC World)
PC World - Tabletop PC introduced at 'D: All Things Digital' conference will respond to touch commands from multiple users at once.
Street-level panoramas on Microsoft and Google maps
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070530/tc_afp/usitmaptravelcompanygoogle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070530/capt.sge.ibe90.300507024232.photo00.photo.default-512x323.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=IIAdRBAilOIlA68IDOzVSw--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="The logo of Microsoft at their office in Herndon, Virginia, December 2005. Google and Microsoft are battling anew for online travelers with rival Internet mapping services that provide vivid real-world views of major US cities.(AFP/File/Paul J.Richards)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Google and Microsoft are battling anew for online travelers with rival Internet mapping services that provide vivid real-world views of major US cities.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft offers 3D maps for New York, other cities
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft has enhanced its Windows Live Search Maps with a 3D map of New York, one in an ongoing series of cities in U.S., U.K., and Canada that are being featured in 3D through the service.
Novell Says Open Source License Changes Could Kill Microsoft Deal
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Novell said that proposed revisions to the General Public License could force the company to modify its relationship with Microsoft or find alternatives to the deal.
Microsoft: One Million Zunes Sold and Counting
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Zune is singing a new tune these days. A Microsoft executive has announced that over one million units of its music player have shipped. As the Zune has been out about nine months, that puts the Redmond, Washington-based company ahead of its previously announced plan to sell one million in a year.
Google, Microsoft Mapping Software Gets Real
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Google and Microsoft returned from the holiday weekend poised to battle it out on the mapping front with updates that utilize 3-D and 360-degree virtual tour technology.
Nudity Delays Halo 2 for Windows Vista
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Last week, Microsoft issued a somewhat cryptic press release stating that it was delaying the release of the Windows Vista version of its popular Halo 2 game.
Linux Foundation To Microsoft: Touch One Of Us, Fight Us All
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office desktop applications are threatened by open source code, but the company will be reluctant to file a patent suit, foundation officials said.
GoDaddy agrees to run domains in limbo
(AP)
AP - GoDaddy.com, the leading registration company for Internet addresses, has agreed to take over and manage more than 850,000 domain names belonging to customers of a troubled rival, officials announced Tuesday.
Google committed to presence in S.Korea
(AP)
AP - Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt said Wednesday his company is committed to expanding its presence in South Korea, a market that has proven a challenge for the world's No. 1 search engine.
IBM's buyback binge includes $11.5B loan
(AP)
AP - IBM Corp. disclosed Tuesday that it is taking on $11.5 billion in new debt to finance the aggressive accelerations of its stock repurchase plan, which appears to be one of the largest such steps ever.
FTC probing proposed $3.1B Google deal
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070529/ap_on_hi_te/google_doubleclick"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070528/capt.sge.hrd37.280507203809.photo00.photo.default-512x338.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=p1PovL1oFjj2VMuCCVMrRQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="File photo shows the logo of web search engine Google. Google's chief, Eric Schmidt, will visit South Korea this week to discuss business cooperation with local partners, officials said Monday. Schmidt is scheduled to hold separate talks Tuesday with Seok Jong-Hun, president of South Korea's second-largest portal Daum Communications, and with Kim Shin-Bae, president of top local mobile carrier SK Telecom.(AFP/DDP/File/Torsten Silz)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Federal Trade Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion purchase of ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc.</p><br clear="all"/>
Moroccans cut off from YouTube
(AP)
AP - Internet users in Morocco unable to access the video-sharing Web site YouTube since last week expressed fears Tuesday that the government has stepped up its campaign to restrict independent media.
Adobe's ColdFusion warms to .Net
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Adobe's ColdFusion software for building Internet applications and Web sites is being improved with Microsoft .Net support, enabling .Net objects to be invoked from within the ColdFusion language.
In Pictures: NHK's Successor to HDTV
(PC World)
PC World - NHK Super Hi-Vision SensorThis prototype image sensor from NHK can pick up a video image with Super Hi-Vision resolution of 7680 by 4320.NHK Super Hi-Vision CameraThis prototype camera, fitted with NHK's new Super Hi-Vision image sensor, can capture a live monochrome video image at 7680 by 4320 resolution.Prototype CameraUntil now NHK used this experimental Super Hi-Vision camera, which contains four image sensors with half-SHV resolution. A new image sensor just developed should change this. ...
Broadcom wins Qualcomm California patent case
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070529/bs_nm/broadcom_qualcomm_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070529/2007_05_29t162641_450x301_us_broadcom_qualcomm.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=Gu3_vtQV7Ammyg4L2sxK.g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A Qualcomm office is seen in this undated file photo. Qualcomm Inc. said on Tuesday that a U.S. federal jury had found it infringed three patents held by Broadcom Corp. in the latest of their ongoing legal disputes. (Files/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A federal jury told wireless chip
supplier Qualcomm Inc. to pay smaller rival Broadcom
Corp. $19.6 million in damages for infringing three of
its patents, the companies said on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Novell Says Open Source License Changes Could Kill Microsoft Deal
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Novell said that proposed revisions to the General Public License could force the company to modify its relationship with Microsoft or find alternatives to the deal.
CDW agrees to be acquired in $7.3B deal
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070530/ap_on_bi_ge/cdw_buyout"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070529/2007_05_29t081728_450x301_us_cdw_buyout_talks.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=4FR1izpnxhX3bEVAAYrLzQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="The CDW facility in Vernon Hills, Illinois in an undated file photo. Private equity firms are in talks for a buyout of CDW Corp., a technology retailer with a market capitalization of about $6 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Tuesday. (CDW Corp./Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - CDW Corp. on Tuesday announced that the distributor of hardware, software and technology accessories has agreed to be acquired by a private equity company in a $7.3 billion deal.</p><br clear="all"/>
Adobe's ColdFusion warms to .Net
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Adobe's ColdFusion software for building Internet applications and Web sites is being improved with Microsoft .Net support, enabling .Net objects to be invoked from within the ColdFusion language.
Google buys US Internet security firm GreenBorder
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070530/tc_afp/usitinternetsecuritycompanygooglegreenborder"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070530/capt.sge.ibg81.300507030515.photo00.photo.default-512x333.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=mVJqm6Q8MK0Nsib6H.rXpg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, July 2006. Google Inc., the world's No. 1 Web search provider, has just bought a US Internet security start-up firm, GreenBorder, which specializes in using "virtualization" to create safe zones for online activities.(AFP/GettyImages/File/David Paul Morris)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US Internet security start-up firm GreenBorder, which specializes in using "virtualization" to create safe zones for online activities, revealed on Tuesday it has been bought by Google.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google adds some street-level views to U.S. maps
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070530/wr_nm/google_maps_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070530/2007_05_30t005401_450x317_us_google_maps.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=DYjNZq98kZ2gsQgfBhRx7A--" 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. Google Inc. said on Tuesday it was introducing street-level map views of various U.S. cities, giving Web users a panoramic, 360-degree images as well as the overhead views Google Maps has offered. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Google Inc. said on Tuesday it
was introducing street-level map views of various U.S. cities,
giving Web users a panoramic, 360-degree images as well as the
overhead views Google Maps has offered.</p><br clear="all"/>
Street-level panoramas on Microsoft and Google maps
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070530/tc_afp/usitmaptravelcompanygoogle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070530/capt.sge.ibe90.300507024232.photo00.photo.default-512x323.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=IIAdRBAilOIlA68IDOzVSw--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="The logo of Microsoft at their office in Herndon, Virginia, December 2005. Google and Microsoft are battling anew for online travelers with rival Internet mapping services that provide vivid real-world views of major US cities.(AFP/File/Paul J.Richards)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Google and Microsoft are battling anew for online travelers with rival Internet mapping services that provide vivid real-world views of major US cities.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google committed to presence in S.Korea
(AP)
AP - Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt said Wednesday his company is committed to expanding its presence in South Korea, a market that has proven a challenge for the world's No. 1 search engine.
GoDaddy agrees to run domains in limbo
(AP)
AP - GoDaddy.com, the leading registration company for Internet addresses, has agreed to take over and manage more than 850,000 domain names belonging to customers of a troubled rival, officials announced Tuesday.
Interest in Digital Yields New Scatter Market
(AdWeek.com)
AdWeek.com - NEW YORK More dollars are expected to be spent on online extensions of broadcast network shows in this upfront than ever before, but a sizable amount--as much as $150 million overall--also may be held back for digital opportunities that arise during the course of next season, according to media buyers. Call it the "digital scatter market."
VeriSign's CEO Out As Board Member Steps In
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The security company's board elected William Roper Jr. to replace Stratton Sclavos as CEO and serve as president, and elected Edward Mueller as chairman.
VeriSign replaces CEO Sclavos
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - VeriSign, a vendor of cybersecurity products and operator of the .com and .net top-level domains, has replaced CEO Stratton Sclavos with a member of its board of directors.
Google Buys Antivirus, Anti-Spam Company
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Is the security software that protects against malware and spyware by quarantining Internet sessions from the rest of the system destined for Google's toolbar?
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