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Microsoft starts Ignition for music promotion
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070602/tc_nm/microsoft_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070602/2007_06_02t130306_450x300_us_microsoft.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=dYpM_Oal7ckDuhcRQ0yLCQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A technician adjusts a spotlight at the exhibition stand of Microsoft in Hanover March 12, 2007. Microsoft is introducing an initiative on Monday to promote emerging music acts across its entire digital footprint, Billboard has learned. (Christian Charisius/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft is introducing an initiative
on Monday to promote emerging music acts across its entire
digital footprint, Billboard has learned.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft adds copyrighted books to online library
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070601/tc_afp/usitinternetbook"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070601/capt.sge.jeu60.010607231206.photo00.photo.default-512x323.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=i9FArLeB9u4dHbFNW96IDA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="the logo for Microsoft at their office in Herndon, Virginia. Microsoft on Friday added copyrighted books to its online library, saying it has permission to offer the works to searchers on the Internet.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Microsoft on Friday added copyrighted books to its online library, saying it has permission to offer the works to searchers on the Internet.</p><br clear="all"/>
Patent Office reopens Microsoft-Eolas case
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Just when it seemed certain Microsoft had lost its now 8-year-old patent dispute with Eolas Technologies, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has reopened the case, giving Microsoft a chance to prove that Eolas' patent for browser plug-ins should not be valid.
Patent Office Reopens Microsoft-Eolas Case
(PC World)
PC World - Just when it seemed certain Microsoft Corp. had lost its now 8-year-old patent dispute with Eolas Technologies Inc., the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has reopened the case, giving Microsoft a chance to prove that Eolas' patent for browser plug-ins should not be valid.
Microsoft Sued Over Ultimate TV DVR System
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - A group of inventors maintain that Microsoft misled them during negotiations to purchase intellectual property related to interactive television.
Microsoft adds copyrighted works to book search engine
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft will expand its books search engine by including copyrighted works in its index for the first time starting Thursday evening.
Microsoft, Google Take Search Wars to Books
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Microsoft on Thursday unveiled improvements to its online book search program that include an increase in available material and more comprehensive search options. Google fired back with its own response.
Microsoft to offer improved tools to search books
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070601/wr_nm/microsoft_books_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070601/2007_06_01t010100_450x305_us_microsoft_books.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=T_S93KXpZE3MjHad8XDtmw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates delivers a speech at Peking University in Beijing April 20, 2007. Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it would offer improved capacity to search copyrighted books on the Internet as the company battles Google Inc. for advertising dollars from Web-based services. (Jason Lee/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday
it would offer improved capacity to search copyrighted books on
the Internet as the company battles Google Inc. for advertising
dollars from Web-based services.</p><br clear="all"/>
Ballmer translates 'software and service'
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Speaking at a lunch meeting in Seattle on Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tried to explain the difference between the words "as" and "and" when placed between the words "software" and "service."
Cisco, Microsoft, Others Get Together On Security
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Tech firms have spent years designing a road map for how to better secure networks. Now, they're building the intersections needed for broad use of those plans.
Man charged for putting TV show on Web
(AP)
AP - Federal authorities have charged a Chicago man with copyright violations for allegedly uploading several episodes of Fox's "24" on the Internet before the show's season premiere earlier this year.
Egypt frees Muslim Brotherhood blogger
(AP)
AP - A Muslim Brotherhood blogger was released Saturday after a 45-day detention, but the crackdown against the group continued, with 51 Brotherhood members arrested in recent days, police said.
Poll: A fifth vacation with laptops
(AP)
AP - Sun block. Beach umbrella. Laptop. One in five people toted laptop computers on their most recent vacations, an AP-Ipsos poll released Friday said. Along with the 80 percent who said they brought along their cell phones, the survey shows going on vacation no longer means being out of the electronic loop.
Google hits the streets, raises concerns
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_hi_te/google_candid_camera"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070531/capt.3d4a414fadc34601ac4bfb87b29f6df1.google_developer_day_cams103.jpg?x=130&y=98&sig=vVg.Ue0t_GDT9IzJR4sR.A--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Hewlett-Packard employee Jamie El-Fattal , left, checks out the Google maps program during Google Developer Day 2007 in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, May 31, 2007. The gathering is organized by Google to expose web developers throughout the world to the company's technologies. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)" border="0" /></a>AP - Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.</p><br clear="all"/>
Sweden cracks down on web credit checks
(AP)
AP - Swedes will no longer be able to snoop through each other's finances anonymously after a popular Web site agreed to tighten the rules on its credit information services, officials said Friday.
Pornographer Indicted for Online Film Distribution
(PC World)
PC World - A well-known director and producer of adult films has been indicted on obscenity charges for distributing his movies online and through the mail, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.
Paris Hilton to taste life behind bars
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070603/en_afp/entertainmentusfilmcrimehilton"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070603/capt.sge.jkw24.030607070040.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=LiwmHAJpQti3SE9Z4ZBqpQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A guard and prisoners arrive to install a sign at the entrance of the Century Regional Detention Facility of Lynwood, California 01 June, where Paris Hilton, must spend 45 days for driving on a suspended license. The 26-year-old hotel heiress is to begin her sentence 05 June and will be eligible for a reduced sentence for good behavior.(AFP/File/Gabriel Bouys)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Celebrity party girl Paris Hilton faces perhaps her most trying test Tuesday when she starts a stint behind bars, deprived of such essentials as make-up, mobile phones and martinis.</p><br clear="all"/>
Motorola Readies Multimedia Handsets
(PC World)
PC World - The day after announcing that 4,000 employees will be laid off, Motorola Inc. CEO Ed Zander told investors that he plans to boost profits with a wide range of multimedia handsets, instead of relying on a single blockbuster product like the Razr cell phone.
TurboLinux MP3 Player Debuts
(PC World)
PC World - The TurboLinux Wizpy, a multimedia media player that contains a PC-bootable version of the Linux operating system, will go on sale worldwide in June.
Photoshop Plug-in Supports Google Service
(PC World)
PC World - Adobe has teamed-up with Google to jointly announce a new plug-in for Photoshop CS3 Extended that links the software up with Google 3D Warehouse.
Pornographer Indicted for Online Film Distribution
(PC World)
PC World - A well-known director and producer of adult films has been indicted on obscenity charges for distributing his movies online and through the mail, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.
Accident forces George Michael to cancel Prague gig
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070602/en_nm/czech_concert_michael_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070602/2007_06_02t111052_450x313_uk_czech_concert_michael.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=xKYRDCCMRstULZ.wgcyEOg--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="British singer George Michael performs during a concert in Bucharest May 31, 2007 as a part of the pop singer's '25 Live' tour, celebrating 25 years of career and promoting his latest album 'Twenty Five'. An accident involving one of the trucks carrying concert equipment for Michael forced him to cancel a show in Prague on Saturday, the Web site of a Czech newspaper reported. (Bogdan Cristel - ROMANIA/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - An accident involving one of the trucks
carrying concert equipment for George Michael forced the
British pop singer to cancel a show in Prague on Saturday, the
Web site of a Czech newspaper reported.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google Unplugged: Why Its Offline Approach Is A Strategic Turning Point
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - It's a challenge to the Microsoft business model, but also a new phase in the increasingly important courtship of Web developers.
Credit Suisse Disruptive Technology Portfolio: Investors Like Changes At VeriSign
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Chairman and CEO Scalvos resigns after 12 years; SAIC exec brought in.
iTunes crosses language barrier with Foreign Exchange
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070602/tc_nm/itunes_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070602/2007_06_02t122206_450x299_us_itunes.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=pIRnMnk2fGoQddnKEFyT6g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A customer (2nd L) discusses an Apple product with a shop assistant (C) while customers shop at an Apple store in Tokyo in this August 25, 2006 file photo. Apple's iTunes Music Store is introducing a new original programming feature designed to promote foreign-language music in its stores around the world, Billboard has learned. (Kiyoshi Ota/Files/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Apple's iTunes Music Store is
introducing a new original programming feature designed to
promote foreign-language music in its stores around the world,
Billboard has learned.</p><br clear="all"/>
A Search Engine for Open-Source Code
(PC World)
PC World - Krugle aspires to be the Google of software code search, even referring to itself as a verb. And recently, Krugle has started to become the go-to search site for open-source developers, partnering with key websites, including SourceForge.net, the leading repository for open-source software projects, to embed Krugle search. Krugle also announced a similar partnership with CollabNet, a community of 1 million developers.
A search engine for open source code
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Krugle aspires to be the Google of software code search, even referring to itself as a verb. And recently, Krugle has started to become the go-to search site for open source developers, partnering with key Web sites, including SourceForge.net, the leading repository for open source software projects, to embed Krugle search. Krugle also announced a similar partnership with CollabNet, a community of 1 million developers.
Groups call for competitive spectrum auction
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - New broadband providers should be given a better chance of winning pieces of valuable wireless spectrum to be auctioned by early next year, several groups said Friday.
Microsoft adds copyrighted books to online library
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070601/tc_afp/usitinternetbook"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070601/capt.sge.jeu60.010607231206.photo00.photo.default-512x323.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=i9FArLeB9u4dHbFNW96IDA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="the logo for Microsoft at their office in Herndon, Virginia. Microsoft on Friday added copyrighted books to its online library, saying it has permission to offer the works to searchers on the Internet.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Microsoft on Friday added copyrighted books to its online library, saying it has permission to offer the works to searchers on the Internet.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google's Book Search available in publisher sites
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Google is making its controversial Book Search engine available to publishers interested in putting it on their Web sites.
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