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America Online to buy ad-targeting network
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070725/tc_afp/technologyusinternetcompanyadvertiseaol"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070725/capt.sge.ezh81.250707054740.photo00.photo.default-512x277.jpg?x=130&y=70&sig=LzB72HCdrxNpRiLTFSTkfQ--" align="left" height="70" width="130" alt="File picture of America Online (AOL) headquarters in Virginia. AOL is following the leads of rivals Google and Microsoft by buying a firm specializing in tailoring Internet ads to the tastes or interests of website visitors(AFP/File/Manny Ceneta)" border="0" /></a>AFP - America Online (AOL) is following the leads of rivals Google and Microsoft by buying a firm specializing in tailoring Internet ads to the tastes or interests of website visitors.</p><br clear="all"/>
Web business strategy focus of Microsoft meeting
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070724/bs_nm/microsoft_meeting_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070725/2007_07_24t182011_450x300_us_microsoft_meeting.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=ig_GRb.wUHScgHls.rxiDQ--" 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 March 12, 2007. Microsoft Corp has showed early signs of narrowing the gap with Google Inc in its Web business, leading Wall Street to ask whether the world's biggest software company may be able to turn an overlooked unit into a financial powerhouse. (Christian Charisius/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp has showed
early signs of narrowing the gap with Google Inc in
its Web business, leading Wall Street to ask whether the
world's biggest software company may be able to turn an
overlooked unit into a financial powerhouse.</p><br clear="all"/>
Acer Disappointed by Slow Vista Uptake
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The president of Acer told the Financial Times Deutschland this week that he thinks Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows Vista, gives PC users little reason to upgrade.
What will Windows 7 look like?
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Analysts said Microsoft probably is keeping tight-lipped about what Windows 7 will look like because at this point, company engineers and executives don't even know.
Microsoft Readies Beta Program For Web Analytics Software
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft is designing Gatineau to compete with software that allows businesses to create detailed traffic reports for their Web sites.
Windows Vista Market Share Rises, Mac OS Share Flat
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Net Applications shows Windows Vista gaining market share steadily, rising from 0.18% in January to 4.52% in June.
Microsoft And Chinese Authorities Bust $2 Billion Fake Software Ring
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Microsoft said the investigation was the largest of its kind in the world, and it was led by China's Public Security Bureau and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Microsoft, Yahoo tweak privacy policies
(AP)
AP - Hopping on the privacy-protection bandwagon, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are limiting how long their Internet search engines retain potentially sensitive data about their users.
Microsoft and Ask call for heightened Internet privacy
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070723/tc_afp/technologyusinternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070723/capt.sge.eod30.230707223518.photo00.photo.default-512x352.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=CP_3oPx.1rffuGavUOxtsA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Photo of Microsoft's logo. Microsoft and Internet search rival Ask.com are bolstering online privacy and calling for a tech industry summit devoted to that goal, they said Monday.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Microsoft and Internet search rival Ask.com are bolstering online privacy and calling for a tech industry summit devoted to that goal, they said Monday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Acer: PC Industry 'Disappointed' with Vista
(PC World)
PC World - Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
MySpace finds 29,000 sex offenders
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_hi_te/myspace_security"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070725/2007_07_24t175759_450x308_us_myspace_sexoffenders.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=d2oUAuZTIFPrc4mubBOYXg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A generic picture of a woman in an office using a computer mouse. MySpace said on Tuesday it detected and deleted 29,000 convicted sex offenders on its service, more than four times the figure it had initially reported. OFFPO (Catherine Benson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking Web site — more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago, officials in two states Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Apple shares fall on iPhone numbers
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_hi_te/apple_iphone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070725/capt.dc9c09c0a07d4280948d5ef5afbce3a5.earns_apple_caps101.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=kWAZ2r00TmizqThU1pH6Ng--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Apple customers Jason Payne, right, and Loan Thach, left, try out the new Apple iPhone at an Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif., Tuesday, July 24, 2007. AT&T Inc. wiped some of the glow off Apple Inc.'s iPhone on Tuesday, releasing numbers that showed fewer people than expected signed up for service in the first two days of the multimedia cell phone's release.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - AT&T Inc. wiped some of the glow off Apple Inc.'s iPhone on Tuesday, releasing numbers that showed fewer people than expected signed up for service in the first two days of the multimedia cell phone's release.</p><br clear="all"/>
NJ town planning beach of the future
(AP)
AP - At the beach of the future, high tide will meet high tech.
Amazon.com 2Q profit more than triples
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_amazon"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070724/capt.f21fff26685e4d71b5f03d80bf010458.earns_amazon_fx102.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=Mep7lMaSOH26mwwks7xGmA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="An Amazon.com employee prepares copies of J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,'for shipping at the Amazon.com fulfillment center in Fernley, Nev., Monday, July 16, 2007. Amazon.com Inc. is expected to release quarterly earnings on Tuesday, July 24, 2007. (AP Photo/David Calvert)" border="0" /></a>AP - Investors went on an Amazon.com Inc. shopping spree Tuesday after the Web retailer said its second-quarter profit more than tripled, thanks to strong sales of books, music and electronics worldwide.</p><br clear="all"/>
Netflix woes deepen with plunging stock
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_hi_te/netflix_woes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070723/capt.14cd7b65b21c47cea0bb89246e4f6d5c.earns_netflix_nybz172.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=ovZzVnw0QwgVokQcpOFuqg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Netflix customer Carleen Ho holds up DVD movies, 'Talladega Nights' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean' that she rented from Netflix, at her home in Palo Alto, Calif., in this Jan. 24, 2007 file photo. Netflix is expected to release quarterly earnings on Monday, July 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Netflix Inc. frustrated investors and customers alike Tuesday as its stock price plunged to its lowest point in more than two years while its Web site was inaccessible most of the day because of unexplained technical problems.</p><br clear="all"/>
America Online to buy ad-targeting network
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070725/tc_afp/technologyusinternetcompanyadvertiseaol"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070725/capt.sge.ezh81.250707054740.photo00.photo.default-512x277.jpg?x=130&y=70&sig=LzB72HCdrxNpRiLTFSTkfQ--" align="left" height="70" width="130" alt="File picture of America Online (AOL) headquarters in Virginia. AOL is following the leads of rivals Google and Microsoft by buying a firm specializing in tailoring Internet ads to the tastes or interests of website visitors(AFP/File/Manny Ceneta)" border="0" /></a>AFP - America Online (AOL) is following the leads of rivals Google and Microsoft by buying a firm specializing in tailoring Internet ads to the tastes or interests of website visitors.</p><br clear="all"/>
Canadian gym puts Wii workout on its schedule
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070724/tc_nm/gym_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070725/2007_07_24t153051_450x258_us_gym.jpg?x=130&y=74&sig=0Ea_2.S_t3umrXMJVU_Lrw--" align="left" height="74" width="130" alt="Handout photo shows trainer Kevin Laface (R) exercising with client Kim Bey at the virtual workout station Wii Workout in Studeo 55, a gym in Vancouver July 18, 2007. Studeo 55 introduced the Nintendo Wii workout station last week into circuit training where users can punch, run and jump with the system's movement-sensitive controller. (Colleen Coplick/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A Canadian health club is
offering a new form of exercise for people bored with the
treadmill or cycling classes -- the Wii Workout Station.</p><br clear="all"/>
AT&T Reports iPhone Failed To Connect, At Least In Terms Of Service Activations
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - All those long lines of first-day Apple iPhone buyers didn't immediately pay off as expected for the device's service provider, AT&T, but the company on Tuesday still reported better-than-expected earnings, aided by strong wireless growth.
You're never alone with Plone
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Ask Plone users what they like best about the open source content management software and chances are a key feature they'll list along with ease of use and multilingual support is the community of experts that's grown around the product.
Free Security Tool Ferrets out Unpatched Software
(PC World)
PC World - A Danish security vendor is offering a free tool designed to inform users when their applications need patching.
MySpace finds 29,000 sex offenders
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_hi_te/myspace_security"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070725/2007_07_24t175759_450x308_us_myspace_sexoffenders.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=d2oUAuZTIFPrc4mubBOYXg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A generic picture of a woman in an office using a computer mouse. MySpace said on Tuesday it detected and deleted 29,000 convicted sex offenders on its service, more than four times the figure it had initially reported. OFFPO (Catherine Benson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking Web site — more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago, officials in two states Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
America Online to buy ad-targeting network
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070725/tc_afp/technologyusinternetcompanyadvertiseaol"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070725/capt.sge.ezh81.250707054740.photo00.photo.default-512x277.jpg?x=130&y=70&sig=LzB72HCdrxNpRiLTFSTkfQ--" align="left" height="70" width="130" alt="File picture of America Online (AOL) headquarters in Virginia. AOL is following the leads of rivals Google and Microsoft by buying a firm specializing in tailoring Internet ads to the tastes or interests of website visitors(AFP/File/Manny Ceneta)" border="0" /></a>AFP - America Online (AOL) is following the leads of rivals Google and Microsoft by buying a firm specializing in tailoring Internet ads to the tastes or interests of website visitors.</p><br clear="all"/>
Lawsuit seeks to shut down Facebook
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_lawsuit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070724/capt.5fa71e185c154e05ae9491013b73ff91.facebook_lawsuit_ny127.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=dHfiGwcX6IHSHKPPlluy_g--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg smiles at his office in Palo Alto, Calif., in this Monday, Feb. 5, 2007 file photo. The owners of a rival social networking Web site are trying to shut down Facebook.com, charging in a federal lawsuit that Facebook's founder stole their ideas while they were students at Harvard. The three founders of ConnectU say Zuckerberg agreed to finish computer code for their site, but repeatedly stalled and eventually created Facebook using their ideas. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - The owners of a rival social networking Web site are trying to shut down Facebook.com, charging in a federal lawsuit that Facebook's founder stole their ideas while they were students at Harvard.</p><br clear="all"/>
San Francisco power outage knocks out major Web site
(Reuters)
Reuters - Sporadic power outages cascaded
across San Francisco for two hours on Tuesday, causing minor
disruptions in the downtown business district, but knocking out
Craigslist, the world's most popular local site.
China's "patron saint" stock tip blogger faces trial
(Reuters)
Reuters - A Chinese blogger who billed himself as
the "patron saint" of stock tippers will be charged with
conducting an illegal business believed to involve as much as
10 million yuan ($1.32 million), Xinhua news agency said.
Netflix woes deepen with plunging stock
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_hi_te/netflix_woes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070723/capt.14cd7b65b21c47cea0bb89246e4f6d5c.earns_netflix_nybz172.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=ovZzVnw0QwgVokQcpOFuqg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Netflix customer Carleen Ho holds up DVD movies, 'Talladega Nights' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean' that she rented from Netflix, at her home in Palo Alto, Calif., in this Jan. 24, 2007 file photo. Netflix is expected to release quarterly earnings on Monday, July 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Netflix Inc. frustrated investors and customers alike Tuesday as its stock price plunged to its lowest point in more than two years while its Web site was inaccessible most of the day because of unexplained technical problems.</p><br clear="all"/>
MySpace deletes 29,000 sex offenders
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070724/tc_nm/myspace_sexoffenders_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070725/2007_07_24t175759_450x308_us_myspace_sexoffenders.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=d2oUAuZTIFPrc4mubBOYXg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A generic picture of a woman in an office using a computer mouse. MySpace said on Tuesday it detected and deleted 29,000 convicted sex offenders on its service, more than four times the figure it had initially reported. OFFPO (Catherine Benson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Popular Internet social network
MySpace said on Tuesday it detected and deleted 29,000
convicted sex offenders on its service, more than four times
the figure it had initially reported.</p><br clear="all"/>
Amazon.com 2Q profit more than triples
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070724/ap_on_hi_te/earns_amazon"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070724/capt.f21fff26685e4d71b5f03d80bf010458.earns_amazon_fx102.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=Mep7lMaSOH26mwwks7xGmA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="An Amazon.com employee prepares copies of J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,'for shipping at the Amazon.com fulfillment center in Fernley, Nev., Monday, July 16, 2007. Amazon.com Inc. is expected to release quarterly earnings on Tuesday, July 24, 2007. (AP Photo/David Calvert)" border="0" /></a>AP - Amazon.com Inc.'s second-quarter profit more than tripled, boosted by strong sales of books, music and electronics worldwide. The Web retailer's stock soared 12.5 percent in after-hours trading.</p><br clear="all"/>
SEC settles with men accused of Web Ponzi scheme
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Securities and Exchange
Commission said on Tuesday it settled fraud charges with two
men accused of operating an Internet-based Ponzi scheme that
raised $41.9 million in four months.
Amazon net jumps on strong U.S. sales, stock zooms
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070724/wr_nm/amazon_results_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070724/2007_07_24t163306_450x300_us_amazon_results.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=HaiHNlHw95CPtBJ041dlDg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A worker checks a shipment of outgoing boxes at the Amazon.com warehouse facility in New Castle, Delaware, in this November 24, 2006 file photo. Amazon.com Inc. posted quarterly net profit on Tuesday that leaped a surprising 250 percent as sales rose 35 percent and subscriptions to the online retailer's discount shipping program accelerated, sending shares up 12 percent after-hours. (Tim Shaffer/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Amazon.com Inc. posted quarterly
net profit on Tuesday that more than tripled, surprising Wall
Street as U.S. sales jumped and the company raised its 2007
sales and operating earnings outlook, sending shares up more
than 20 percent.</p><br clear="all"/>
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