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Microsoft curtails how long it stores Web searches
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070723/wr_nm/privacy_microsoft_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070723/2007_07_22t211605_450x300_us_privacy_microsoft.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=PiGgdTkWdbMwKtKPJvyt0g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A technician adjusts a spotlight at the exhibition stand of Microsoft in preparation for the CeBIT computer fair in the northern German town of Hanover in this file photo from March 12, 2007. Microsoft said on Sunday the software maker was taking new steps to protect consumer privacy in the areas of Web search and online advertising and called on the Internet industry to support it. (Christian Charisius/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Sunday
the software maker was taking new steps to protect consumer
privacy in the areas of Web search and online advertising and
called on the Internet industry to support it.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Didn't License GNU
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft has revealed that its patent deal with Linspire doesn't cover the new version of the GNU General Public License (GPL), the company's latest effort to distance itself from the GPLv3.
Research, Patents, And Demos Hint At Microsoft's Future Plans
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Ad-supported software, a new Windows taskbar, and "Web 3.0" are on the drawing board.
No Green Light Yet for Vista Service Pack
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Earlier this week, Microsoft Windows watcher Winbeta.org posted an e-mail from the software giant's Windows Driver Kit team that ended up launching a media feeding frenzy on news sites around the world. According to Microsoft's e-mail to the site, the release of a beta version of the first service pack for Vista was available for download.
Vista SP1 Muddle Blamed on Microsoft Typo
(PC World)
PC World - Rumors of an imminent Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) roll out have been blamed on a typo in an official Microsoft e-mail.
Microsoft Xbox 360 Sales Plunge 60% As Problems Mount
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft said it shipped 700,000 Xbox 360 units in its latest fiscal quarter, compared to 1.8 million in the same quarter in 2006.
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 earnings up; Vista and Office 'doing well'
(USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - SEATTLE - Microsoft said 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.
Earnings misses, subprime woes punish Wall Street
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070720/bs_nm/markets_stocks_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070720/2007_07_20t150821_450x329_us_markets_stocks.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=K1Gwf3h3tEi79aqF8XxVPQ--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange July 16, 2007. U.S. stocks tumbled on Friday, battered by disappointing results from bellwether stocks such as Caterpillar Inc. and Google Inc., and worry that fallout from the risky subprime mortgage market may spread. (Jamie Fine/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. stocks tumbled on Friday,
battered by disappointing results from such bellwethers as
Caterpillar and Google, and more signals that fallout from the
risky subprime mortgage market may spread.</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.
New processors present problems, payoff
(AP)
AP - A fundamental change in the design of microprocessors is presenting software developers with a challenge — and a huge financial opportunity.
School conducts anti-phishing research
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070722/ap_on_hi_te/phony_phishing"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070718/capt.285620cca476478dbe9bce015dc9cf1d.phony_phishing_inmc102.jpg?x=100&y=130&sig=QYmEC4x0z5QXZ8ejacbtEg--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Kevin McGrath, a 25-year-old doctoral student at Indiana University whose e-mail was secretly hijacked for a university experiment, surfs the internet from his parents home Thursday, July 12, 2007 in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Brian Bohannon)" border="0" /></a>AP - The e-mail appeared to be a routine correspondence between two friends. "Check this out!" it read, then listed a Web address.</p><br clear="all"/>
Chips: High tech aids or tracking tools?
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070722/ap_on_hi_te/chipping_america"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070722/capt.88ab0420ed2f4ba78cda85a76b1202ff.chipping_america_ny339.jpg?x=130&y=106&sig=a4WalYWQZecNAh4b4hLL7A--" align="left" height="106" width="130" alt="Demonstrators prepare to march against microchip implants planned for Alzheimer's patients, in front of the Alzheimer's Community Care Headquarters in West Palm Beach, Fla., May 12, 2007. March organizer Katherine Albrecht, left, said a payer before starting the march. (AP Photo/Gary I. Rothstein)" border="0" /></a>AP - CityWatcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little notice itself — until a year ago, when two of its employees had glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their forearms.</p><br clear="all"/>
Poker pros to face off with computer
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070722/ap_on_hi_te/poker_robot"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070721/capt.5d6fa20560bf4130a5910f8f5c6dac0e.poker_robot_ny440.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=61i6zF9oFYc1G3VSbnR3zg--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Phil Laak plays in the World Series of Poker at the Rio hotel and casino in Las Vegas, in this July 30, 2006 file photo. Laak and partner, Ali Eslami, are scheduled to challenge a computer in the world's first scientific poker showdown between man and machine a two-day contest in Vancouver, Canada, beginning July 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)" border="0" /></a>AP - Poker champion Phil Laak has a good chance of winning when he sits down this week to play 2,000 hands of Texas Hold'em — against a computer.</p><br clear="all"/>
Researchers seek cash for software flaws
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070721/ap_on_hi_te/selling_security_info"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070718/capt.9c8fa7bde8224b098a7e456090aad017.world_series_of_poker_nvjh101.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=wAzZC4K3XV_PB3he3rc9BA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Poker player Jerry Yang, of Temecula, Calif., puts his hands together while playing at the final table of the World Series of Poker at the Rio hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Tuesday, July 17, 2007. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)" border="0" /></a>AP - For some security researchers who uncover flaws in leading computer programs, a nod of appreciation from software companies is no longer enough. Now they want money.</p><br clear="all"/>
Online Search Privacy Urged
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft, Ask.com pressure Google by offering anonymity options and scrubbing saved query data.
VoIP Woes: Lost Service Without Warning
(PC World)
PC World - On Monday evening, my wife reached me on my mobile phone. She was spending a long weekend with her family in Maine.
Big subsidies for big phone companies
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070722/ap_on_bi_ge/telephone_tax"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070722/capt.60cfe26a90d545a4a693126866eb60c7.telephone_tax_wx111.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=boUsEehn5PKpQbMAvqICug--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Senator Trent Lott, R-Miss., left, confers with Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss., at the state Legislature in the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., in this Jan. 4, 2006, file photo. Mississippi's competitive cellular carriers received more than $314 million in federal funds from a telephone tax from 2003 through the first four months of 2007, the most of any state, according to an Associated Press analysis of more than 20,000 disbursement records. Pickering, a former member of Lott's staff, helped shape the 1996 telecommunications law, according to his congressional biography. (AP Photo/Rogelio Solis, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A decade-old telephone tax intended to help bring affordable service to rural areas has instead turned into something quite different: a bottomless and politically protected well of cash for cell phone companies that do big business in rural America.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft Didn't License GNU
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft has revealed that its patent deal with Linspire doesn't cover the new version of the GNU General Public License (GPL), the company's latest effort to distance itself from the GPLv3.
Microsoft curtails how long it stores Web searches
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070723/wr_nm/privacy_microsoft_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070723/2007_07_22t211605_450x300_us_privacy_microsoft.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=PiGgdTkWdbMwKtKPJvyt0g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A technician adjusts a spotlight at the exhibition stand of Microsoft in preparation for the CeBIT computer fair in the northern German town of Hanover in this file photo from March 12, 2007. Microsoft said on Sunday the software maker was taking new steps to protect consumer privacy in the areas of Web search and online advertising and called on the Internet industry to support it. (Christian Charisius/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Sunday
the software maker was taking new steps to protect consumer
privacy in the areas of Web search and online advertising and
called on the Internet industry to support it.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft curtails how long it stores Web searches
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070723/wr_nm/privacy_microsoft_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070723/2007_07_22t211605_450x300_us_privacy_microsoft.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=PiGgdTkWdbMwKtKPJvyt0g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A technician adjusts a spotlight at the exhibition stand of Microsoft in preparation for the CeBIT computer fair in the northern German town of Hanover in this file photo from March 12, 2007. Microsoft said on Sunday the software maker was taking new steps to protect consumer privacy in the areas of Web search and online advertising and called on the Internet industry to support it. (Christian Charisius/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Sunday
the software maker was taking new steps to protect consumer
privacy in the areas of Web search and online advertising and
called on the Internet industry to support it.</p><br clear="all"/>
Wireless Standards Group Changes Rules for Parity
(PC World)
PC World - 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.
Banned Spanish royal sex romp cartoon on sale on eBay
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070721/en_afp/spainroyalsmedia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070721/capt.sge.eat56.210707193609.photo00.photo.default-402x512.jpg?x=102&y=130&sig=2FEugI29.xf6x2.ECiE_gQ--" align="left" height="130" width="102" alt="Spain's Crown Prince and Princess Letizia are seen in January 2007. A Spanish satirical magazine that was ordered removed from newsstands because its cover featured a cartoon depicting the heir to Spain's throne having sex with his wife was for sale Saturday on eBay.(AFP/File/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A Spanish satirical magazine that was ordered removed from newsstands because its cover featured a cartoon depicting the heir to Spain's throne having sex with his wife was for sale Saturday on eBay.</p><br clear="all"/>
Internet entrepreneur details Dow Jones proposal
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070721/wr_nm/dowjones_greenspan_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070721/2007_07_20t222907_450x263_us_dowjones_greenspan.jpg?x=130&y=75&sig=omIi5IGO6WqWzplWr7CHmA--" align="left" height="75" width="130" alt="The Dow Jones news ticker in New York's Times Square displays that News Corp. has made a tentative deal to buy the Dow Jones Company July 17, 2006. Internet entrepreneur Brad Greenspan outlined a new proposal on Friday to keep Dow Jones out of Rupert Murdoch's hands, saying his plan could help boost the stock price to above $100 (49 pounds). (Jamie Fine/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Internet entrepreneur Brad Greenspan
outlined a new proposal on Friday to keep Dow Jones & Co Inc
out of Rupert Murdoch's hands, saying his plan could help boost
the stock price to above $100.</p><br clear="all"/>
Commontales.com Enhances Web Site For Creating Digital Time Capsules
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Brothers Tom and Michael Kane run Commontales.com, which allows families and groups of friends to preserve their history for future generations.
50 Cent sues over 'Shoot the Rapper'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070720/ap_en_mu/people50_cent"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070719/capt.f2af7af745614c6e84556c4cfd2915e3.50_cent_nydb101.jpg?x=90&y=130&sig=_VBsUrK_9ZYOlytv4rysUw--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="In this photo provided by Hard Rock Cafe, rapper 50 Cent performs at an 'MTV Live Powered by Verizon' taping, Wednesday, July 18, 2007, at Hard Rock Cafe in New York. (AP Photo/Hard Rock Cafe, Diane Bondareff)" border="0" /></a>AP - Rapper 50 Cent sued an Internet advertising company for $1 million Friday, claiming it illegally used his image in a game where the player pretends to shoot him.</p><br clear="all"/>
SEC suspends "terrorist" watch list Web tool
(Reuters)
Reuters - The U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission on Friday suspended its online search tool to help
investors identify companies active in "sponsors of terrorism"
countries after lawmakers and business groups criticized the
site as unfair to some companies.
Rapper 50 Cent Sues in New York over Internet ad
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070720/en_nm/suit_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070719/capt.f2af7af745614c6e84556c4cfd2915e3.50_cent_nydb101.jpg?x=90&y=130&sig=_VBsUrK_9ZYOlytv4rysUw--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="In this photo provided by Hard Rock Cafe, rapper 50 Cent performs at an 'MTV Live Powered by Verizon' taping, Wednesday, July 18, 2007, at Hard Rock Cafe in New York. (AP Photo/Hard Rock Cafe, Diane Bondareff)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Rapper 50 Cent on Friday sued Internet
advertising company Traffix Inc. for using his image without
permission in the graphic "Shoot the Rapper" ad, which he says
promotes violence and threatens his safety.</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 co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have always told Wall Street that positioning the Internet search leader to realize long-term ambitions is more important than hitting the short-term financial targets of investors.</p><br clear="all"/>
Web video sites mined by talent scouts
(AP)
AP - Voice-over work in Indiana wasn't too lucrative, so Daniel Geduld made a classic actor's move: He headed for L.A. And like most Hollywood dreamers, Geduld didn't get hired for much.
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