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Microsoft 4Q profit rises 7 percent
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070720/ap_on_hi_te/earns_microsoft"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070719/capt.6c2c5a468d6e48c79a5a1fb2daafb78f.earns_microsoft_nybz144.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=OgBSXZVCmqsOnppIspM_GA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Mark Bolger, the Director of Marketing for Microsoft Surface Computing, demonstrates an application on a new computer in this May 25, 2007 file photo at the Starwood Hotel in Seattle. Microsoft Corp. is expected to release quarterly earnings on Thursday, July 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Andrei Pungovschi, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Windows Vista attracted most of the hype, but Office 2007 was the sleeper hit that bolstered Microsoft Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter results, despite a hefty charge to cover the cost of repairing defective video game consoles.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Q4 profit up slightly despite Xbox charge
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft managed to earn a slight profit for its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter despite a billion-dollar-plus charge related to expenses the company incurred to fix faulty Xbox360 consoles.
Microsoft profit up on Office, swallows Xbox charge
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070720/bs_nm/microsoft_results_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070720/2007_07_19t171339_450x311_us_microsoft_results.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=VOShIOtUhhkBOrkz32oVzQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Guests play the Xbox 360 'Halo 3' Multiplayer Beta during a preview party at Quixote Studios in Los Angeles May 15, 2007. Microsoft Corp. eked out a gain in quarterly net profit despite a $1 billion charge to pay for repairs to its Xbox 360 game consoles, and the company slightly raised full-year earnings and revenue forecasts. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp posted a 7
percent gain in net profit as demand for its Office software
and improved results from its online arm more than compensated
for a $1.1 billion charge to repair Xbox video game consoles.</p><br clear="all"/>
PluggedIn: Vista's growing pains leave room for XP
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070719/tc_nm/column_pluggedin_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070720/2007_07_19t192112_450x322_us_column_pluggedin.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=7kbZICzmCH7kX4wYVxiuRA--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Microsoft Windows Vista software sit on display at a store in New York January 30, 2007. Problems are part of the normal growing pains that come with every major upgrade to the Windows operating system. To ease those pains, some consumers are seeking out machines equipped with the more compatible Windows XP. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - David Daoud ran into trouble when he
started using Vista, the new version of Windows that Microsoft
Corp. and PC makers have spent millions of dollars
advertising since it came out six months ago.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Edges Q4 Sales Expectations; Raises Its Outlook
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Strong sales of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity software helped the company beat Wall Street's revenue estimates for its fiscal fourth quarter.
Microsoft Q4 Profit up Slightly Despite Xbox Charge
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp. managed to earn a slight profit for its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter despite a billion-dollar-plus charge related to expenses the company incurred to fix faulty Xbox360 consoles.
Microsoft Beats $51 Billion Annual Revenue, Setting Record
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft credited growth to "solid customer acceptance" of Windows Vista and Office 2007 and increasing sales of SQL Server, Windows Server and Visual Studio.
Microsoft teams up with JiWire to deliver Wi-Fi ads
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - As part of its plan to earn more revenue from online advertising, Microsoft is teaming with a San Francisco-based provider of mobile broadband advertising to deliver advertising to users of municipal Wi-Fi networks.
Microsoft profit up 11 percent in quarter despite Xbox problem
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070719/bs_afp/uscompanysoftware"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070719/capt.sge.dmi84.190707210155.photo00.photo.default-432x512.jpg?x=109&y=130&sig=0Mapc2EsmnzT_g8zcjon9Q--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="Xbox 360 video game console. Microsoft said Thursday its profit for the just-ended quarter rose 11 percent from a year ago to 3.03 billion dollars, boosted by the new Windows Vista operating system and the new Office software suite.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Microsoft said Thursday its profit for the past quarter rose 11 percent from a year ago to 3.03 billion dollars, boosted by the new Windows Vista operating system and the new Office software suite.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Q4 profit rises despite Xbox charge
(Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on
Thursday it eked out a gain in net profit despite taking a $1
billion charge to pay for repairs to its Xbox 360 game
consoles.
Computer program can't lose at checkers
(AP)
AP - Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me." Canadian researchers report they have "solved" checkers, developing a program that cannot lose in a game popular with young and old alike for more than a thousand years.
Study: 1 in 25 youths asked for sex pics
(AP)
AP - Four percent of American youths online have been asked to send a sexually explicit photo of themselves over the Internet, researchers say in a new study.
Swedish woman gets superfast Internet
(AP)
AP - She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed. Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said.
Review: Playing the iPhone market
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070720/ap_on_hi_te/tech_test_iphone_market"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070719/capt.74a96d6f3c674f57b27fb2e41e6dcfa7.tech_test_iphone_market_nybz152.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=vplJX9HOY5y5XIarpegpEw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Apple employees cheers as an excited customer leaves the Apple Store with his new iPhone in this June 29, 2007 file photo in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - With lines snaking around Apple stores and hype in overdrive, the iPhone seemed like a good investment — not for keeping but for reselling.</p><br clear="all"/>
Facebook buys small startup Parakey
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070720/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_acquisition"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070715/2007_07_15t163223_411x450_us_facebook_privacy.jpg?x=118&y=130&sig=TO1mG8XL56MflTd6eppf1A--" align="left" height="130" width="118" alt="A Facebook profile is seen in an undated publicity photo. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Facebook Inc., the owner of the Internet's second most popular social networking site, said Thursday that it bought Parakey, a startup run by two of the engineers that helped build Firefox's popular Web browser.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google's 2Q profit lets down investors
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070720/ap_on_hi_te/earns_google"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070719/capt.2c3eaad59bba4143b7628aa3b53c1723.earns_google_fx110.jpg?x=130&y=79&sig=fayENf_MsMNPJ20Nc3zyVQ--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="Two women walk past a Google sign at the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, July 17, 2007. Google Inc. is expected to release quarterly earnings on Thursday, July 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0" /></a>AP - Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have always told Wall Street that positioning the Internet search leader to realize its long-term ambitions is more important to them than meeting the earnings expectations of shortsighted investors. Just in case anyone forgot, the company punctuated the point with its second-quarter results.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Q4 profit up slightly despite Xbox charge
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft managed to earn a slight profit for its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter despite a billion-dollar-plus charge related to expenses the company incurred to fix faulty Xbox360 consoles.
Ericsson profit climbs but misses forecast
(Reuters)
Reuters - Ericsson (ERICb.ST), the world's
biggest mobile network maker, reported softer second-quarter
earnings than expected on Friday, posting flat sales in its key
European market and disappointing the market in its multimedia
drive.
Facebook buys start-up Parakey for undisclosed sum
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070720/wr_nm/facebook_parakey_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070711/i/r2834122514.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=L0EFvk0DqWKT1I_a0AMUhw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A Facebook profile is seen in an undated publicity photo. Facebook, which allows users to share their online activities with a circle of friends, is seeing some of the first successful products snapped up by venture capital backers or in outright acquisition deals. REUTERS/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Facebook Inc., the fast growing
Silicon Valley social networking site, said on Thursday it has
acquired Internet start-up, Parakey, run by two of the
co-creators of the popular Web browser, Mozilla Firefox.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft profit up on Office, swallows Xbox charge
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070720/bs_nm/microsoft_results_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070720/2007_07_19t171339_450x311_us_microsoft_results.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=VOShIOtUhhkBOrkz32oVzQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Guests play the Xbox 360 'Halo 3' Multiplayer Beta during a preview party at Quixote Studios in Los Angeles May 15, 2007. Microsoft Corp. eked out a gain in quarterly net profit despite a $1 billion charge to pay for repairs to its Xbox 360 game consoles, and the company slightly raised full-year earnings and revenue forecasts. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp posted a 7
percent gain in net profit as demand for its Office software
and improved results from its online arm more than compensated
for a $1.1 billion charge to repair Xbox video game consoles.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google's 2Q profit lets down investors
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070720/ap_on_hi_te/earns_google"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070719/capt.2c3eaad59bba4143b7628aa3b53c1723.earns_google_fx110.jpg?x=130&y=79&sig=fayENf_MsMNPJ20Nc3zyVQ--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="Two women walk past a Google sign at the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, July 17, 2007. Google Inc. is expected to release quarterly earnings on Thursday, July 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0" /></a>AP - Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have always told Wall Street that positioning the Internet search leader to realize its long-term ambitions is more important to them than meeting the earnings expectations of shortsighted investors. Just in case anyone forgot, the company punctuated the point with its second-quarter results.</p><br clear="all"/>
Facebook buys start-up Parakey for undisclosed sum
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070720/wr_nm/facebook_parakey_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070711/i/r2834122514.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=L0EFvk0DqWKT1I_a0AMUhw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A Facebook profile is seen in an undated publicity photo. Facebook, which allows users to share their online activities with a circle of friends, is seeing some of the first successful products snapped up by venture capital backers or in outright acquisition deals. REUTERS/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Facebook Inc., the fast growing
Silicon Valley social networking site, said on Thursday it has
acquired Internet start-up, Parakey, run by two of the
co-creators of the popular Web browser, Mozilla Firefox.</p><br clear="all"/>
EU OKs German online search-engine grant
(AP)
AP - The European Union on Thursday authorized Germany to give $165 million for research on Internet search-engine technologies that could someday challenge U.S. search giant Google Inc.
Facebook buys small startup Parakey
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070720/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_acquisition"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070715/2007_07_15t163223_411x450_us_facebook_privacy.jpg?x=118&y=130&sig=TO1mG8XL56MflTd6eppf1A--" align="left" height="130" width="118" alt="A Facebook profile is seen in an undated publicity photo. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Facebook Inc., the owner of the Internet's second most popular social networking site, said Thursday that it bought Parakey, a startup run by two of the engineers that helped build Firefox's popular Web browser.</p><br clear="all"/>
SEC member criticizes "terrorist" watch list
(Reuters)
Reuters - The U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission should fix or drop a new online tool which
identifies corporations with investments in "sponsors of
terrorism" countries, an agency commissioner said.
Swedish woman gets superfast Internet
(AP)
AP - She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed. Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said.
Study: 1 in 25 youths asked for sex pics
(AP)
AP - Four percent of American youths online have been asked to send a sexually explicit photo of themselves over the Internet, researchers say in a new study.
Much ado over click-fraud statistics
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The battle between advertisers and online search networks over the pervasiveness of click-fraud continues to grow more heated with researchers claiming rapid growth of automated ad impressions and outside observers noting an overall lack of transparency in the space.
Strong Google Revenue Disappoints Investors But May Ease Antitrust Scrutiny
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Performance was driven by the core search and ads business, the company said. But Microsoft is gaining market share, and regulators may soon have Google under the microscope.
IEEE 802.20 changes rules to prevent steamrolling
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The working group for the emerging IEEE 802.20 mobile broadband standard, which was suspended last year after a fight over members' real company affiliations, has changed its voting rules.
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