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LG Electronics signs pact with Microsoft
(AP)
AP - South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. has signed a patent cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. covering a variety of hardware and software products, the companies said Thursday.
Microsoft, LG Elec agree licensing deal
(Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. and South
Korea's LG Electronics (066570.KS) said on Thursday they agreed
a patent cross-licensing deal, sending LG shares to their
highest in more than a year.
LG Electronics, Microsoft in patents deal
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070607/tc_afp/skoreausitlgmicrosoft"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070607/capt.sge.ktc06.070607054951.photo00.photo.default-512x366.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=Jb.3srC7ta.NJK032_ZfYg--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="An LG sign at the company's headquarters in Seoul, March 2006. Microsoft Corp and LG Electronics said Thursday they have reached a patent cross-licensing agreement aimed at further developing each other's current and future products.(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Microsoft Corp and South Korea's LG Electronics (LGE) said Thursday they have reached a patent cross-licensing agreement aimed at further developing each other's current and future products.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft brings new Pac-Man to Xbox 360
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070606/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_xbox_pac_man"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070606/capt.5003f4c5f8aa43e099c36cf97338a35c.microsoft_xbox_pac_man_nybz196.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=TO3IiaPnev8ZAlt5_HI1CA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="This undated handout photo provided by Microsoft Corp. shows a screen shot from the 'Pac-Man Championship Edition' video game for the Microsoft Xbox 360 console. (AP Photo/Microsoft Corp.)" border="0" /></a>AP - Get those ghosts!</p><br clear="all"/>
Broadcom Launches Advanced Bluetooth Features For Windows Vista
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Bluetooth for Windows supports Windows Vista and is designed to let PC users experience new wireless audio and entertainment capabilities.
Google Security Survey Finds Microsoft Web Servers Vulnerable
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft IIS Web servers were found to be twice as likely to distribute malware as open source Apache Web servers.
Adobe Revs Acrobat For Windows Vista And Office 2007
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Adobe has said its upgrade decisions have more to do with having finite developer resources and that it has no anti-Microsoft agenda.
Microsoft sees mobile software sales jump in Asia
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070606/tc_nm/microsoft_mobile_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070606/2007_06_06t125401_359x450_us_microsoft_mobile.jpg?x=103&y=130&sig=YeccojKMgv016LSqrWCu1g--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates makes a point during his keynote address at the 2005 Microsoft Mobile and Embedded DevCon Electronics conference, in Las Vegas, May 10, 2005. Microsoft Corp. said it expects sales of its Windows Mobile program in the Asia-Pacific region to jump by over 75 percent in the business year to June, helped by closer ties with wireless carriers and device makers. (Jeff Christensen/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said it expects
sales of its Windows Mobile program in the Asia-Pacific region
to jump by over 75 percent in the business year to June, helped
by closer ties with wireless carriers and device makers.</p><br clear="all"/>
French TV Sues Microsoft Over Vista Name
(PC World)
PC World - French television presenter Philippe Gildas has sued Microsoft Corp. for "violation of intellectual property," accusing the software publisher of illegally using the trademark "Vista."
Microsoft Releases SDK For Analog Devices' Blackfin Platform
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Developers will be able to use the .Net Micro Framework to create applications for the Blackfin processor using familiar tools such as Visual Studio.
NEC releases pink Hello Kitty laptop
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_hi_te/japan_hello_kitty_laptop"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070607/capt.tok80306070602.japan_hello_kitty_laptop_tok803.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=BQEX8_P2l2rrLNCRj_rlNQ--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="NEC Corp.'s new laptop is displayed in Tokyo Wednesday, June 6, 2007. Japan's cutest cat in glittering pink crystal decorates the company's new laptop in the Japanese electronics maker's latest efforts to woo working women. The pink laptop, available for 199,500 yen (US$1,650; euro1,200) went on sale Wednesday. (AP Photo/ Kyodo News)" border="0" /></a>AP - Japan's cutest cat in glittering crystal decorates NEC Corp.'s new pink laptop in the Japanese electronics maker's latest effort to woo working women.</p><br clear="all"/>
Sony's U.S. video-game unit cuts jobs
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_hi_te/japan_sony"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070607/2007_06_07t015004_450x300_us_sony_job_cuts.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=KNj40QfYd_uwRbicdJZKaA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A man tries out the new PlayStation 3 video game console at a Sony showroom in Tokyo in this November 6, 2006 file photo. Sony Corp.'s game unit said on Thursday it plans to cut jobs in the United States, but the scale and timing of the cut have not been decided. (Toshiyuki Aizawa/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sony's U.S. video-game unit is cutting jobs to become more competitive, the company said Thursday, as the PlayStation 3 machine struggles against rival offerings from Microsoft and Nintendo.</p><br clear="all"/>
LG Electronics signs pact with Microsoft
(AP)
AP - South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. has signed a patent cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. covering a variety of hardware and software products, the companies said Thursday.
NHL, Sling Media enter video partnership
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_hi_te/hkn_sling_media"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070607/capt.8dc9f1e7bdd245198263c3c0a60bb2d7.senators_ducks_stanley_cup_finals_ana104.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=PmtzKo8G6skAJP2mzVts7g--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Ottawa Senators' goalie Ray Emery reacts after first period by the Anaheim Ducks' Rob Niedermayer during Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals in Anaheim, Calif., on Wednesday, June 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Dave Sanford, Pool)" border="0" /></a>AP - The NHL has partnered with Sling Media Inc. for its upcoming video clip-sharing service, signaling a professional sports league's support for an emerging technology that has some media companies on edge.</p><br clear="all"/>
Big Ten joins Google book project
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070606/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_google_big_ten"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070605/capt.sge.kgy39.050607200352.photo00.photo.default-512x333.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=27BygqnUnOUoTyu9eBS7CQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google and Salesforce announced an alliance on Tuesday in which the Internet giant's advertising platform will be merged with offerings from the fast-growing online business applications firm.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Paul Morris)" border="0" /></a>AP - Twelve major universities will digitize select collections in each of their libraries — up to 10 million volumes — as part of Google Inc.'s book-scanning project. The goal: a shared digital repository that faculty, students and the public can access quickly.</p><br clear="all"/>
Australian fine wines go under the hammer
(Reuters)
Reuters - A collection of more than
50,000 bottles of Australian fine wines will be sold online
from Friday following the collapse of a wine investment company
in what the auctioneers say is the country's largest wine
auction.
Service brings iTunes music to any mobile phone
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Even before Apple's much anticipated iPhone hits the shelves later this month, users of many different kinds of phones can listen to their iTunes music, via a new service from Seattle company Melodeo.
Amp'd Mobile Bankruptcy Casts Shadow On MVNOs
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - The joint venture of EarthLink (NasdaqGS:ELNK - News) and SK Telecom doesn't want to follow in the footsteps of Walt Disney's Mobile ESPN, which shut down last year, or Amp'd Mobile, which filed for bankruptcy reorganization protection on Friday.
HP Enhances Virtualization Software For Integrity Servers
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Improvements include new trending capabilities that simulate future usage patterns when planning consolidations for HP-UX, Windows or Linux.
Google acquires server software company PeakStream
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Google on Tuesday acquired PeakStream, a Redwood City, Calif., developer of software for multicore and parallel processors, the company said.
Australian fine wines go under the hammer
(Reuters)
Reuters - A collection of more than
50,000 bottles of Australian fine wines will be sold online
from Friday following the collapse of a wine investment company
in what the auctioneers say is the country's largest wine
auction.
Russia monitors Internet to dampen ethnic violence
(Reuters)
Reuters - Russian authorities for the first time
blocked nationalists from using a popular Internet blog to
organize anti-migrant demonstrations, one of the leaders of a
nationalist group told Reuters on Wednesday.
Giuliani health plan seeks individual coverage: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - Republican presidential candidate
Rudolph Giuliani is preparing to lay out a health-care plan
that would mark a significant change in how health insurance is
paid for in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported
in its online edition on Wednesday.
Vietnamese fishermen "salvage" Internet lines
(Reuters)
Reuters - Fishermen who were allowed to take unused
war-era undersea copper cables have gone too far, "salvaging"
fibre-optic lines providing some of Vietnam's Internet and
other international communications.
Google's street views have privacy advocates crying "Don't be Evil"
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070607/tc_afp/usitinternetrightscompanygoogle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070607/capt.sge.ktl24.070607063906.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=kxkZW.dNdLrNWci_ZiEIlg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="File picture shows Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco. Street-scene photographs added to Google Maps and Earth last week capture passers-by in delicate situations and have privacy advocates accusing the world's most popular Internet search firm of breaking its own "Don't be Evil" code(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Street-scene photographs added to Google Maps and Earth last week capture passers-by in delicate situations and have privacy advocates accusing the world's most popular Internet search firm of breaking its own "Don't be Evil" code.</p><br clear="all"/>
Monster names new CFO, shakes up management
(Reuters)
Reuters - Shares of Monster Worldwide Inc.,
parent of jobs Web site Monster.com, fell more than 2 percent
on Wednesday after it said its chief financial officer was
resigning in a management shake-up.
China Supports DNS, Root Servers on Talks Agenda
(PC World)
PC World - China is seeking to put technical Internet management issues on the agenda of the next Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting, a U.N.-run forum concerning the development of the Internet.
Google Calls For Raising H-1B Visa Cap
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Executives with the search engine testify that the current annual cap of 65,000 H-1B visas is not enough to fulfill Google's specialized skills requirements.
Service brings iTunes music to any mobile phone
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Even before Apple's much anticipated iPhone hits the shelves later this month, users of many different kinds of phones can listen to their iTunes music, via a new service from Seattle company Melodeo.
Retail Web Sites Get 25% Of Their Traffic From Search Engines
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - One-word searches, including domain and URL searches, accounted for 23.7% of search terms sending traffic to shopping and classified Web sites, Hitwise reported.
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