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Quietly But Surely, Microsoft Mimics The Salesforce.com Way
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Exchange and SharePoint are available as hosted services, with more on the way.
Beware of fake Microsoft security alerts
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - With Microsoft's monthly patch release expected on Tuesday, scammers are sending out fake security bulletins that attempt to install malicious software on victim's computers.
Beware of Fake Microsoft Security Alerts
(PC World)
PC World - With Microsoft Corp.'s monthly patch release expected on Tuesday, scammers are sending out fake security bulletins that attempt to install malicious software on victim's computers.
Microsoft tests tool for assessing hardware with Vista
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft has released the beta of a tool that will test business PCs to see if they are compatible with Windows Vista.
Microsoft's art collection grows up
(AP)
AP - Leah Erickson let out an exasperated growl when she spotted a banner advertising "Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007" crookedly thumbtacked above a row of photographs framed and lit with museumlike care.
Microsoft Hires Linux Foundation Engineering Manager
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Tom Hanrahan brings to Microsoft 30 years of experience in engineering management and open source community development.
Six Updates Planned for Microsoft's Patch Tuesday
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - On Thursday, Microsoft gave I.T. administrators a sneak peak of next week's security updates. June's Patch Tuesday will see six sets of software patches. Four of those six will fix critical flaws in Windows and related software.
Bill Gates delivers a call to arms on global inequities
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Bill Gates returned to Harvard University on Thursday to address its graduating class and receive an honorary degree after dropping out of the college 33 years ago to found Microsoft. He spent much of his address on the issues of global poverty and disease, advancing ideas on how to encourage more people to get involved in trying to resolve those huge problems.
Microsoft buys data management vendor
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft has purchased a small, privately held data management company and will use the technology to enhance its SQL Server database, Office, and related business software, the company said Thursday.
Bill Gates Delivers Call to Arms on Global Inequities
(PC World)
PC World - Bill Gates returned to Harvard University on Thursday to address its graduating class and receive an honorary degree after dropping out of the college 33 years ago to found Microsoft Corp. He spent much of his address on the issues of global poverty and disease, advancing ideas on how to encourage more people to get involved in trying to resolve those huge problems.
Vietnam releases 'cyber' dissident
(AP)
AP - Vietnam has released one of its best-known dissidents from prison, two weeks before its president is to make a historic visit to the United States, an official said Sunday.
Watchdog group slams Google on privacy
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070610/ap_on_hi_te/google_privacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070609/capt.e21b8d394a8546dfbda8a9f6333bc07d.google_privacy_nybz149.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=upCl161_S7p_yO02yBztNQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Exhibitors of the Google company work on laptop computers in front of an illuminated sign of the Google logo at the industrial fair Hannover Messe in Hanover, Germany,in this April 17, 2007 file photo. Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users. In a report released Saturday, June 9, 2007, London-based Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade. The category is reserved for companies with 'comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy.' (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.</p><br clear="all"/>
Church of England calls Sony game 'sick'
(AP)
AP - The Church of England accused Sony Corp. on Saturday of using an English cathedral as the backdrop to a violent computer game and said it should be withdrawn from shop shelves.
YouTube's Chen: Better content needed
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070609/ap_on_hi_te/taiwan_youtube"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070606/capt.27d550f197b84519aa987630a0fc7ce0.11th_annual_webby_awards___nysc110.jpg?x=130&y=106&sig=v8OiiH_Ghcw3bSDcA0awXQ--" align="left" height="106" width="130" alt="YouTube founders Steve Chen, left and Chad Hurley,winners of the Webby Person of the Year award, hold the award at the 11th Annual Webby Awards, Tuesday, June 5, 2007 in New York. The Webbys are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.(AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)" border="0" /></a>AP - YouTube co-founder Steve Chen said on Saturday consumers in many parts of the world will have access to the popular video-sharing Web site on their mobile phones by next year.</p><br clear="all"/>
Relief in store for cable TV subscribers
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070609/ap_on_hi_te/bye_bye_cable_box"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070606/capt.4a6b5d12a7a243e19ea39ab7dfab8bb7.bye_bye_cable_box_wx101.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=bF1zzGgATjcqA2.0jyp3Uw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photograph provided by Motorola, a 'cable card', used in some applications for cable TV reception, is seen in a Motorola DCH6416 High-Definition Two-Tuner Digital Video Recorder. This is one model of the new set-top boxes cable companies will be required to ship to consumers after July 1. (AP Photo/Motorola)" border="0" /></a>AP - It has been 11 years since Congress voted to break the cable television industry's stranglehold on set-top boxes — the devices that consumers need to receive digital programming and change channels.</p><br clear="all"/>
Paris Hilton not eating in jail, but won't appeal
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070610/en_nm/hilton_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070610/2007_06_09t173401_450x304_us_hilton_prison.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=YyNhxO.WuJTOG4siF8UAQQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="A view of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, June 9, 2007, where Paris Hilton is being held. A sobbing Paris Hilton was ordered back to jail on Friday as a judge overruled a sheriff's decision to place the hotel heiress under house arrest for psychological problems after she spent three days behind bars. The slender 26-year-old celebrity trembled and cried quietly throughout the hearing, then broke into loud sobs when the judge ordered her back into custody. (Phil McCarten/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Paris Hilton has not eaten or slept
since arriving at the medical ward of a Los Angeles jail and is
being given psychotropic drugs, celebrity Web site TMZ.com
reported on Saturday, citing law enforcement sources.</p><br clear="all"/>
iPhone hype has gadget geeks camping and drooling
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070609/tc_nm/apple_iphone_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070609/2007_06_09t073257_450x328_us_apple_iphone.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=TVMmG8.Sw99m.hOL1S8WLw--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs holds the new iPhone in San Francisco, California January 9, 2007. (Kimberly White/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - With free wireless Internet, a hot
dog stand and a few friends, Daniel Eran Dilger calculates he
could survive for days outside a store in a dogged attempt to
grab the latest must-have consumer gadget.</p><br clear="all"/>
Online tweets tell you what everyone is up to, all the time
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070609/tc_afp/lifestyleusitinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070609/capt.sge.lpx97.090607170754.photo00.photo.default-335x512.jpg?x=84&y=130&sig=AhidBwdkz.pqeN6IvGjGWQ--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="A woman sends a text on her mobile phone. Internet and mobile phone message boards are atwitter with Twitter, the raging online trend to share one's every move with friends Haiku-style every moment of the day.(AFP/File/David Hancock)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Internet and mobile phone message boards are atwitter with Twitter, the raging online trend to share one's every move with friends Haiku-style every moment of the day.</p><br clear="all"/>
Pick Your Open Source Poison: Microsoft's Patent Claims Or GPLv3
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Controversy swirls around the revised General Public License, and Microsoft keeps the heat on.
Boomi Offers SMBs Hosted Integration For SaaS Apps
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Boomi On-Demand enables small and medium-sized businesses to connect back-office applications with software available as a service on the Web.
Watchdog group slams Google on privacy
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070610/ap_on_hi_te/google_privacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070609/capt.e21b8d394a8546dfbda8a9f6333bc07d.google_privacy_nybz149.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=upCl161_S7p_yO02yBztNQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Exhibitors of the Google company work on laptop computers in front of an illuminated sign of the Google logo at the industrial fair Hannover Messe in Hanover, Germany,in this April 17, 2007 file photo. Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users. In a report released Saturday, June 9, 2007, London-based Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade. The category is reserved for companies with 'comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy.' (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.</p><br clear="all"/>
Paris Hilton not eating in jail, but won't appeal
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070610/en_nm/hilton_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070610/2007_06_09t173401_450x304_us_hilton_prison.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=YyNhxO.WuJTOG4siF8UAQQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="A view of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, June 9, 2007, where Paris Hilton is being held. A sobbing Paris Hilton was ordered back to jail on Friday as a judge overruled a sheriff's decision to place the hotel heiress under house arrest for psychological problems after she spent three days behind bars. The slender 26-year-old celebrity trembled and cried quietly throughout the hearing, then broke into loud sobs when the judge ordered her back into custody. (Phil McCarten/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Paris Hilton has not eaten or slept
since arriving at the medical ward of a Los Angeles jail and is
being given psychotropic drugs, celebrity Web site TMZ.com
reported on Saturday, citing law enforcement sources.</p><br clear="all"/>
Search Site Sticks to China
(PC World)
PC World - Baidu.com Inc. Friday said its not planning to expand into Europe, following reports that China's largest search engine would announce such plans later this month.
Paris Hilton not eating or sleeping: report
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070609/en_nm/hilton_prison_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070610/2007_06_08t140912_450x311_us_hilton_prison.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=q61U4o5vxWKtBUtnCrSCDQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Members of the media gather outside the Metropolitan Court as they wait for heiress Paris Hilton to arrive in Los Angeles, June 8, 2007. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Paris Hilton has not eaten or slept
since arriving at the medical ward of a Los Angeles jail and is
being given psychoactive drugs, celebrity Web site TMZ.com
reported on Saturday, citing law enforcement sources.</p><br clear="all"/>
iPhone hype has gadget geeks camping and drooling
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070609/tc_nm/apple_iphone_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070609/2007_06_09t073257_450x328_us_apple_iphone.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=TVMmG8.Sw99m.hOL1S8WLw--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs holds the new iPhone in San Francisco, California January 9, 2007. (Kimberly White/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - With free wireless Internet, a hot
dog stand and a few friends, Daniel Eran Dilger calculates he
could survive for days outside a store in a dogged attempt to
grab the latest must-have consumer gadget.</p><br clear="all"/>
Printing books online: an author you can't refuse
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070609/wr_nm/column_pluggedin_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070609/2007_06_09t122712_450x310_us_column_pluggedin.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=FYNeqqM1o.N5R_ss81pudw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A screengrab of blurb.com taken June 9, 2007. (Screengrab/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller are
among the world's most respected authors, but for a while they
had a hard time finding a publisher.</p><br clear="all"/>
Jewelry merchant on eBay fined $400,000
(Reuters)
Reuters - A jewelry company on eBay Inc. that
allegedly bid on its own auctions to illegally drive up prices
by as much as 20 percent agreed to pay $400,000 in restitution
and penalties, the New York state attorney general's office
said on Saturday.
YouTube's Chen: Better content needed
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070609/ap_on_hi_te/taiwan_youtube"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070606/capt.27d550f197b84519aa987630a0fc7ce0.11th_annual_webby_awards___nysc110.jpg?x=130&y=106&sig=v8OiiH_Ghcw3bSDcA0awXQ--" align="left" height="106" width="130" alt="YouTube founders Steve Chen, left and Chad Hurley,winners of the Webby Person of the Year award, hold the award at the 11th Annual Webby Awards, Tuesday, June 5, 2007 in New York. The Webbys are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.(AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)" border="0" /></a>AP - YouTube co-founder Steve Chen said on Saturday consumers in many parts of the world will have access to the popular video-sharing Web site on their mobile phones by next year.</p><br clear="all"/>
Online tweets tell you what everyone is up to, all the time
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070609/tc_afp/lifestyleusitinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070609/capt.sge.lpx97.090607170754.photo00.photo.default-335x512.jpg?x=84&y=130&sig=AhidBwdkz.pqeN6IvGjGWQ--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="A woman sends a text on her mobile phone. Internet and mobile phone message boards are atwitter with Twitter, the raging online trend to share one's every move with friends Haiku-style every moment of the day.(AFP/File/David Hancock)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Internet and mobile phone message boards are atwitter with Twitter, the raging online trend to share one's every move with friends Haiku-style every moment of the day.</p><br clear="all"/>
June Set Aside As Internet Safety Month
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The Senate asks consumers and companies to work together and protect themselves from the dangers of the Internet.
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