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Sun, 30 Sep 07
France's Schneider ordered to pay 44 million dollars in China patent case (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070930/bs_afp/chinafrancetradecopyright


The logo of French electrical equipment giant Schneider Electric. A court in eastern China has ordered the French electrical company to pay 330 million yuan (44 million dollars) for infringing the copyright of a Chinese enterprise, a company official and state press said Sunday.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)AFP - An eastern China court has ordered a French electrical company to pay 330 million yuan (44 million dollars) for infringing the copyright of a Chinese enterprise, a company official and state press said Sunday.

Sun, 30 Sep 07
Facebook warned in N.Y. on safety claims (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070930/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_predators
AP - The social networking Web site Facebook has been warned that it could face a consumer fraud charge for failing to live up to claims that youngsters there are safer from sexual predators than at most sites and that it promptly responds to concerns, a spokesman for New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Sunday.

Sun, 30 Sep 07
Barry Diller's IAC revamps iWon.com (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070930/ap_on_hi_te/iwon_relaunch
AP - IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Internet company controlled by media mogul Barry Diller, plans to relaunch its iWon.com Web site Monday with new games, more prizes and plans to add social networking functions.

Sun, 30 Sep 07
Cell phones double as electronic wallets (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070930/ap_on_hi_te/philippines_cell_phone_wallet
AP - It's Thursday, so 18-year-old Dennis Tiangco is off to a bank to collect his weekly allowance, zapped by his mother — who's working in Hong Kong — to his electronic wallet: his cell phone.

Sat, 29 Sep 07
Backpacker turns Myanmar activist via Facebook (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070929/wr_nm/myanmar_facebook_dc
Reuters - A chance encounter in a Myanmar coffee shop turned teenage backpacker Alex Bookbinder into a political activist at the forefront of an Internet campaign that has attracted tens of thousands of supporters.

Sat, 29 Sep 07
Robots take on social tasks (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070929/ap_on_hi_te/home_robots


Colin Angle, iRobot co-founder and CEO, demonstrates his company's new iRobot Looj Gutter Cleaning robot during a presentation at the Digial Life trade show at New York's Javits Convention Center, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. The Looj cleans an entire stretch of gutter from one location, reducing the number of times a ladder must be repositioned and climbed during gutter cleaning. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Dominated by home-cleaning gadgets, the consumer robotics market is expanding with the arrival of 'bots that can spy inside your home when you're away or arrange virtual meetings of family or friends.

Sat, 29 Sep 07
Japan to develop next next-generation network (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070930/tc_afp/japanitmediainternet


This file photo shows Japanese women enjoying net surfing with a notebook computer and Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) device at an Internet cafe, in Tokyo. A research group will be set up in Japan to develop optical technology that will replace the Internet Protocol as the global standard in communications, a report said Sunday.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AFP - A research group will be set up in Japan to develop optical technology that will replace the Internet Protocol as the global standard in communications, a report said Sunday.

Sat, 29 Sep 07
Firmware Update Breaks Hacked iPhones (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070929/tc_pcworld/137872
PC World - Users are reporting that a new update to Apple Inc.'s iPhone is making previously unlocked iPhones unusable.

Sat, 29 Sep 07
Google Buys Mobile Social Network Zingku (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070929/tc_pcworld/137853
PC World - Google Inc. Friday confirmed that it has acquired Zingku Inc., a mobile social networking company geared toward teenagers and young adults, another in a series of moves to boost its mobile services.

Fri, 28 Sep 07
Hollywood studios go after two piracy sites (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070928/wr_nm/piracy_dc


A screenshot of CinemaTube.net, taken on September 28, 2007. The Motion Picture Assn. of America has filed suit against two Web sites that it claims are allowing Internet users to view pirated films, many of which are still in theaters. (cinematube.net/Reuters)Reuters - The Motion Picture Assn. of America has filed suit against two Web sites that it claims are allowing Internet users to view pirated films, many of which are still in theaters.

Fri, 28 Sep 07
Telekom Malaysia to spin off mobile units (FT.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20070928/bs_ft/fto092820070331525670
FT.com - Telekom Malaysia, the country's biggest telecoms group, said that it will list its mobile phone operations separately next year in what is expected to be one of the country's biggest initial public offerings.

Fri, 28 Sep 07
Software update disables hacked iPhones (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070929/ap_on_hi_te/apple_iphone


The new Apple iPhone is seen in this June 29, 2007 file photo in New York. Apple Inc. has issued a software update that creates problems for iPhones modified to work with a cellular carrier other than AT&T Inc. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, file)AP - Apple Inc. has issued a software update that creates problems for iPhones modified to work with a cellular carrier other than AT&T Inc. and disables at least some unofficial programs installed on other iPhone handsets.

Fri, 28 Sep 07
Bain Capital Partners to buy out 3Com (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_on_hi_te/3com_buyout


3Com Corp. offices are seen, Friday, Sept. 28, 2007 in Marlborough, Mass. 3Com Corp., a makes of networking hardware and software, will be sold to affiliates of private equity firm Bain Capital Partners LLC for $2.2 billion and taken private, 3Com said Friday. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)AP - Network equipment maker 3Com Corp. is giving up its independence in a $2.2 billion buyout by Bain Capital Partners, but it's gaining freedom from the whims of the market and a chance to expand in China.

Fri, 28 Sep 07
Apple lawyer to leave for Qualcomm (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_on_hi_te/apple_personnel
AP - In a shuffle between companies with legal challenges spanning the globe, Apple Inc. general counsel Donald Rosenberg is leaving for Qualcomm Inc. after just 10 months in the post.

Fri, 28 Sep 07
Radio tunes in electronic ratings (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_on_hi_te/radio_electronic_ratings
AP - Radio advertisers who for years complained about the low-tech way of tracking listeners are getting what they asked for and more: Electronic ratings are delivering more accurate counts, but are also upending basic assumptions about the industry.

Fri, 28 Sep 07
Gap job applicants' data stolen (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_on_hi_te/gap_security_breach
AP - A thief stole a laptop computer containing unencrypted personal information of 800,000 people who applied for jobs at Gap Inc., the clothing retailer announced Friday.

Fri, 28 Sep 07
30 years later, Bob Marley's "Exodus" returns (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070929/people_nm/marley_dc


An Ethiopian reggae fan looks at photographs of Bob Marley at an exhibition in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, February 4, 2005. (Antony Njuguna/Reuters)Reuters - The enduring importance of Bob Marley's music was underscored when Fifty Six Hope Road Music, the Marley family-owned company that holds the rights to his music, recently announced an impending lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG) and Verizon Wireless.

Fri, 28 Sep 07
SCO gets reprieve from Nasdaq (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070928/tc_infoworld/92203
InfoWorld - The Nasdaq stock exchange has given The SCO Group a little more time to get its financial house in order.

Fri, 28 Sep 07
McAfee: Most Consumers Overestimate PC Safety (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070928/tc_pcworld/137856
PC World - It's self-serving, but a new study by McAfee Inc. and the National Cyber Security Alliance has found that 78 percent of consumer PCs in the U.S. are not protected (defined as having up-to-date AV, spyware and a properly configured firewall).

Fri, 28 Sep 07
Google buys Zingku mobile social networking service (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070928/tc_infoworld/92197
InfoWorld - Google has acquired a mobile social networking startup called Zingku, the search company's latest move to provide more services through mobile phones.

Thu, 27 Sep 07
Microsoft revamps Windows Live search, eyes Google (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070927/wr_nm/microsoft_search_dc


Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in Bucharest February 1, 2007. Microsoft Corp unveiled a retooled Web search service that aims to deliver more relevant results and combines text, video and other information onto a single page. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)Reuters - Seeking to narrow the gap with Google, Microsoft Corp unveiled a retooled Web search service that aims to deliver more relevant results and combines text, video and other information onto a single page.

Thu, 27 Sep 07
Microsoft's 'Halo 3' breaks first-day sales records (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070927/tc_pcworld/137737
PC World - Microsoft Corp.'s alien-killer gaming thrill, "Halo 3," has broken the U.S. sales record for a new video game by garnering an estimated US$170 million in its first 24-hours on sale, the company said late Wednesday.

Thu, 27 Sep 07
Texting, Facebook used to alert students (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070927/ap_on_hi_te/campus_security_warnings


In this photo released by the New York City Police Department, an officer displays a .50 caliber, single shot rifle that was taken from a masked college student who was carrying it around St. John's University in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007. No one was injured in the incident. (AP Photo/NYPD)AP - When a masked freshman came to campus at St. John's University with what police said was a loaded rifle sticking out of a bag, the school alerted students via cell-phone text messages within 18 minutes.

Thu, 27 Sep 07
Disney ends cell phone service for kids (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070927/ap_on_hi_te/disney_mobile


The Walt Disney Co. will pull the plug on its branded cell phone service, seen here in this file photo taken during the product's introduction April 5, 2006 in Las Vegas, at the end of the year, the company said, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. Disney said customers liked the product that allowed parents to determine the location of a child carrying a phone, but that it was having problems getting the phone into large retailers. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)AP - The Walt Disney Co. will pull the plug on its branded cell phone service by the end of the year, the company said Thursday.

Thu, 27 Sep 07
Subdued virtual world for Japan (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070927/ap_on_hi_te/virtual_tokyo


Japan's advertiser Dentsu Inc.'s Ken Aihara shows the company's 'virtual Tokyo' in 'Second Life' at the company headquarters in Tokyo, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2007. Aihara who oversees the 'virtual Tokyo' believes such three-dimensional communication won't catch on for Japanese until the technology becomes usable on cell phones, which are more widespread than personal computers here, and are avidly used to pass the time and for messaging. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)AP - Orderly, pornography-free and safe for children, "meet-me," an online interactive virtual Tokyo, is Japan's answer to "Second Life." Or so its creators hope.

Thu, 27 Sep 07
Minnesota says Sprint duped customers (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070927/ap_on_hi_te/swanson_sprint_lawsuit


A cell phone is shown in this undated file photo. Sprint Nextel customers can now use cell phones to shop for everything from shoes to televisions in a new service the No. 3 wireless company has launched to boost revenue. REUTERS/WillBurgessAP - Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson sued Sprint Nextel Corp. Thursday, accusing the wireless carrier of extending customers' contracts without their informed consent.

Thu, 27 Sep 07
Gamers spend about $170M on 'Halo 3' (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_halo_sales
AP - Video game enthusiasts in the United States plunked down about $170 million on copies of "Halo 3" in the 24 hours after the Xbox 360 game went on sale, Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday.

Thu, 27 Sep 07
Tech looks good to investors (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070927/tc_infoworld/92175
InfoWorld - Amid uncertainty about the greater economy, technology companies are looking good to investors. Strong earnings from Red Hat this week and Oracle last week, continued excitement over mergers and acquisitions, and solid forecasts for global component sales have been pushing shares of tech vendors up.

Thu, 27 Sep 07
Forget the classics, try a Facebook college course (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070928/wr_nm/facebook_class_dc
Reuters - Stanford students can try to borrow a Web page from a Harvard dropout this year thanks to a course in building software for Facebook, the wildly popular social network.

Thu, 27 Sep 07
Microsoft, Others Protest Google's DoubleClick deal (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070927/tc_pcworld/137778
PC World - Google Inc.'s proposed merger with online advertising server DoubleClick Inc. would create a giant that would control a huge portion of online advertising and hurt the Internet, opponents of the deal told U.S. lawmakers Thursday.

Thu, 27 Sep 07
'Halo 3' makes record smashing 170 million dollar debut (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070928/tc_afp/lifestyleitinternetgamecompanymicrosoft


Visitors try out new games for Microsoft's video game console Xbox 360 at the Tokyo Game Show 2007 in Chiba, suburban Tokyo, 20 September 2007. Sales of exclusive Xbox 360 video game "Halo 3" rocketed to 170 million dollars on opening day, marking an historic debut that outdid the final Harry Potter novel and the film "Spiderman 3."(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AFP - Sales of exclusive Xbox 360 video game "Halo 3" rocketed to 170 million dollars on opening day, marking an historic debut that outdid the final Harry Potter novel and the film "Spiderman 3."

Wed, 26 Sep 07
Technology puts Myanmar protests in international eye (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070926/tc_afp/myanmarprotestmediatechnology


In this file photo, a Myanmar Buddhist monk takes video footage at the famous Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. Myanmar's swelling protests are in the global spotlight with the help of hi-tech gadgets in the era of YouTube -- a stark contrast to the 1988 uprising in the pre-Internet age.(AFP/File/Saeed Khan)AFP - Myanmar's swelling protests are in the global spotlight with the help of hi-tech gadgets in the era of YouTube -- a stark contrast to the 1988 uprising in the pre-Internet age.

Wed, 26 Sep 07
Microsoft offers to replace damaged "Halo 3" discs (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070926/tc_nm/microsoft_halo_replacement_dc


Fan Darnell Jefferson plays a copy of the Xbox 360 video game 'Halo 3' prior to it going on sale in New York September 24, 2007. Microsoft is offering to replace damaged discs of its just-launched 'Halo 3' game for the Xbox amid reports that special limited-edition packaging is scratching them. (Keith Bedford/Reuters)Reuters - Microsoft Corp is offering to replace damaged discs of its just-launched "Halo 3" game for the Xbox amid reports that special limited-edition packaging is scratching them.

Wed, 26 Sep 07
Virtualize This: The Pleasures of a Virtual PC (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070926/tc_pcworld/137631
PC World - Virtualization software is ideal for trying out new software--and keeping your real PC clean.

Wed, 26 Sep 07
Microsoft touts new 'media extenders' (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070927/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_tvr


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. 'Halo 3', the highly anticipated video game from Microsoft Corp (Christian Charisius/Reuters)AP - Microsoft Corp. and its hardware partners are trying to bridge the divide between home computers and TV sets this holiday season with the release of several "media extenders."

Wed, 26 Sep 07
LinkedIn to let users post photos (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070927/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_linkedin_photos
AP - Giving into user demand, the networking site LinkedIn will soon start letting its users post photos with their personal profiles.

Wed, 26 Sep 07
Vonage patent ruling partly upheld (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070926/ap_on_hi_te/vonage_verizon
AP - For the second time in two days, Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. was hit with bad legal news Wednesday when a federal appeals court upheld a jury verdict and injunction against it for patent infringement.

Wed, 26 Sep 07
Dell moves up carbon timeline (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070926/ap_on_hi_te/dell_environment
AP - Dell Inc. unveiled an environmental plan Wednesday that the computer maker said will make its operations carbon-neutral by 2008, a year earlier than it previously promised.

Wed, 26 Sep 07
Microsoft changes video ad tactic (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070926/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_microsoft_video_ads
AP - Microsoft Corp. is testing a way to present video advertising that's less annoying to Web surfers.

Wed, 26 Sep 07
New tools help hack into iPhone (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070927/tc_infoworld/92146
InfoWorld - iPhone hackers have some new tools now, thanks to HD Moore, one of the developers of the Metasploit hacking software.

Wed, 26 Sep 07
MontaVista releases new Linux-based mobile phone OS (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070927/tc_infoworld/92113
InfoWorld - MontaVista Software planned to announce on Wednesday the latest version of its Linux-based mobile phone operating system, expected to be available in November.

Wed, 26 Sep 07
Open Source Developers Shun GPLv3, Survey Says (TechWeb)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070927/tc_cmp/202101921
TechWeb - More than 40% of those surveyed by Evans Data said they won't ever publish their work under Version 3 of the General Public License.

Wed, 26 Sep 07
SWsoft sees future in multiplatform management (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070927/tc_infoworld/92112
InfoWorld - SWsoft, the company behind the Parallels Desktop virtualization software for Macintosh, expects to release a beta version of a server edition of the software in the next four to six weeks. It is also working on new management tools for the datacenter that will control other vendors' virtualization products.

Wed, 26 Sep 07
Facebook users: trading privacy for friends? (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070927/tc_afp/lifestyleusinternetitfacebookprivacy


Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on his profile page. Social networking sites like Facebook have wooed millions of users with their easy format for keeping in touch but left them navigating the pitfalls of interacting online -- is it really private?(AFP/Facebook/File/Markham Johnson)AFP - Social networking sites like Facebook have wooed millions of users with their easy format for keeping in touch but left them navigating the pitfalls of interacting online -- is it really private?

Tue, 25 Sep 07
State Department starts 'Dipnote' blog (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_diplomacy_blog


Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State speaks at a high-level event on climate change titled 'Innovating a climate-friendly world: the role of technology and dissemination' at U.N. Headquarters in New York, Monday, Sept. 24, 2007. (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - The normally hushed corridors of diplomacy are about to get a jolt.

Tue, 25 Sep 07
Infineon to develop 3G chip for Motorola (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070925/tc_nm/infineon_motorola_dc
Reuters - German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon (IFXGn.DE) said on Tuesday it signed an agreement to develop a new multi-mode, single-chip 3G radio frequency (RF) transceiver based on its own SMARTi UE chip.

Tue, 25 Sep 07
T-Mobile updates Sidekick cell phones (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070926/ap_on_hi_te/t_mobile_new_sidekicks


A flag of German T-Mobile company is seen in front of the Deutsche Telekom company's headquarters in Bonn, western Germany, in this Nov. 13, 2006, file photo. Deutsche Telekom said Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, it will buy the rest of the shares of SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. it doesn't already own in a US$ 2.4 billion (euro 1.73 billion) deal, including debt. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz, File)AP - T-Mobile USA is updating its Sidekick cell phones, adding a high-end model and the first Motorola-built entry in the line of quirky gadgets with a screen that swivels to reveal a keyboard.

Tue, 25 Sep 07
Software takes aim at altered photos (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_hi_te/demo_tech_show


Bruce Eisen, from ClipBlast! operates a computer while demonstrating the companies software at the DEMOfall 07 conference in San Diego, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007. The product makes it possible to search, navigate and watch the video web without having to launch a browser or visit a specific website. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)AP - Tracing its roots to a founder's anger at a no-show home remodeling crew, the makers of Shoot & Proof software aim to erase any doubts that digital photos are faked or manipulated.

Tue, 25 Sep 07
Amazon launches digital music store (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_hi_te/amazon_music_store
AP - Amazon.com Inc. launched its much-anticipated digital music store Tuesday, a move analysts say represents the first hint of real competition for Apple Inc.'s market-leading iTunes.

Tue, 25 Sep 07
'Halo 3' packaging scratches disks (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_halo_scratches


Scratches are shown on a video game disk of Microsoft Corp.'s new Halo 3 video game for the Xbox 360 as shown, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007 in Seattle. The limited-edition tin packaging that the game is shipped in is being blamed by many gamers for scratches on the game's two disks. Microsoft, which owns the studio that makes 'Halo 3,' responded quickly on its Xbox Web site with details for a replacement program. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - Just hours after die-hard fans finally got their hands on a copy of "Halo 3," blogs brimmed with reports that special limited-edition packaging is scratching the video game disks.

Tue, 25 Sep 07
New Smithsonian museum appears online (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070926/ap_on_hi_te/smithsonian_black_history
AP - The Smithsonian Institution's museum dedicated to black history and culture launches this week with an interactive Web site — long before its building opens for visitors on the National Mall.

Tue, 25 Sep 07
Samsung, local food company wrangle over Internet domain name (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070926/bs_afp/internetskoreacourttrademark


File photo shows South Korean employees at the Samsung Electronics headquarters in Seoul. Samsung Electronics, South Korea's best-known company and one of the world's leading manufacturers of mobile phones, is embroiled in a court battle with a local food supply chain over an Internet domain name, news reports said here Wednesday.(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)AFP - Samsung Electronics, South Korea's best-known company and one of the world's leading manufacturers of mobile phones, is embroiled in a court battle with a local food supply chain over an Internet domain name, news reports said here Wednesday.

Tue, 25 Sep 07
Red Hat sees another delay in PC Linux software (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070926/tc_nm/redhat_linux_dc
Reuters - Software maker Red Hat Inc. , which had planned to introduce a new version of its Linux software for personal computers in August, said on Tuesday that the product won't be out until next month at the earliest.

Tue, 25 Sep 07
Next for Microsoft Xbox: winning casual gamers (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070925/tc_nm/microsoft_videogames_dc


A character from the Microsoft Xbox video-game, Halo 3, stands watch over a line of people waiting to be some of the first to purchase their copy, at a electronics store in Bellevue Washington, September 25, 2007. (Robert Sorbo/Reuters)Reuters - Microsoft Corp has cemented its reputation among hardcore gamers with the launch of alien shoot-out "Halo 3," but it is still struggling to attract the mass market audience that has flocked to Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) Wii console.

Mon, 24 Sep 07
Dell to sell PCs through China retailer (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070924/ap_on_hi_te/china_dell
AP - Dell Inc. announced a deal Monday to launch a retail presence in China by selling computers through the country's biggest chain of electronics stores as it struggles to capture a bigger share of the booming market.

Mon, 24 Sep 07
Myspace offers ad-supported mobile version (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070924/ap_on_hi_te/myspace_mobile


Internet celebrity Chris Crocker poses at a park near his home in Tennessee Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007. The teenager has captured millions of viewers on MySpace and YouTube with his passionate, campy and sometimes furious monologues about life. It was 'Leave Britney Alone' -- a profane, smeared-mascara answer to critics of Spears' performance on the MTV Video Music Awards -- that earned him instant fame and 8 million YouTube clicks.(AP Photo/Earl Carter)AP - The social networking Web site MySpace is launching a free, advertising-supported cell phone version Monday as part of a wider bid by parent News Corp. to attract advertising for mobile Web sites.

Mon, 24 Sep 07
Office 2008 for Mac set for Jan. release (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_mac_office_pricing


Staff members stock displays of Microsoft "Vista" and "Office 2007" at a computer store in Fairfax, Virginia in January 2007. US software giant Microsoft has lost its bid to have its Office software package format registered as an international standard, the body charged with regulating such matters said on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Paul J Richards)AP - Microsoft Corp. said it will release three versions of its Office 2008 for Mac suite in January, with the most expensive of the bunch aimed at creative professionals overwhelmed by the task of organizing their digital media files.

Mon, 24 Sep 07
Apple warns hacking iPhone may harm it (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_hi_te/apple_iphone


Jonathan Ive, left, Apple Computer's vice president of design, and Jon Rubinstein, Apple's senior vice president of engineering, pose behind five iMac personal computers,in this March 19, 1999 file photo at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan, file)AP - IPhone owners who have unlocked their handsets so they could use carriers other than AT&T Inc. may end up with a phone that doesn't work after the company's next software update, Apple Inc. warned Monday.

Mon, 24 Sep 07
Report: Microsoft may buy Facebook stake (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070924/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_facebook


Hip-hop artist Ludacris, center, is on hand to celebrate the launch of 'Halo 3' for Xbox 360 with the game's hero, Master Chief, and Darnell Jefferson, right, one of the first recipients to receive the game at midnight tonight in New York. Microsoft Game Studio's 'Halo 3,' the most anticipated video game in history, pre-sold more than 1.7 million copies before officially going on sale on Sept. 25. (PRNewsFoto/MICROSOFT)AP - Setting the stage for a possible bidding battle, Microsoft Corp. is mulling an investment in Facebook Inc. that would value the rapidly growing online hangout at $10 billion or more, according to a report published Monday.

Mon, 24 Sep 07
Incoming! Fans brace for latest `Halo 3' (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070924/ap_on_hi_te/games_halo3_launch


In this photo released by Xbox, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith, second from right, plays Xbox 360's 'Halo 3' at his home in Los Gatos, Calif., with teammates and a Halo gaming expert, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007. The 49ers were given an exclusive opportunity to view the new 'Halo 3' game one week prior to its worldwide release on Tuesday Sept. 25. Players from left are 49ers Adam Snyder, Tony Wragge, David Baas, Xbox's Steve Cotton, 49ers Alex Smith and Harvey Dahl. (AP Photo/George Nikitin, Xbox)AP - Can "Halo" hero Master Chief blast his way past "Spider-Man 3" too?

Mon, 24 Sep 07
NY attorney general subpoenas Facebook (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070924/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_predators
AP - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has subpoenaed Facebook after the company did not respond to "many" complaints by investigators who were solicited for sex while posing as teenagers on the social-networking site.

Mon, 24 Sep 07
"CSI" makes the crime scene with mobile debut (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070925/tc_nm/csi_dc
Reuters - The "CSI" franchise is making its debut as a cell phone game in the U.S. this week, CBS Mobile said Monday.

Mon, 24 Sep 07
Linux Startup Moves Desktop Windows to the Data Center (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070924/tc_pcworld/137547
PC World - Qumranet, the company behind one of the hottest Linux kernel features, is scheduled to announce its first product, a new desktop virtualization system, offering today at the DEMOfall conference in San Diego. Qumranet's Solid ICE product moves desktop users' Linux or Microsoft Windows installs onto virtual machines in the data center, allowing the users to run their applications and OS of choice from thin clients or from Windows or Linux PC clients. Unlike VMWare's ESX server, the Solid ICE server runs on a host with a standard Linux distribution from Red Hat, Novell, or Canonical.

Mon, 24 Sep 07
Open Text Ships Invoice Management Software For SAP (TechWeb)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070925/tc_cmp/202101152
TechWeb - Vendor Invoice Management Version 5.1 is used to optimize vendor invoice processes. The product also includes built-in reporting and analytics.

Mon, 24 Sep 07
Systems-Management Vendor Hyperic Incorporates JasperSoft Reporting Tools (TechWeb)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070925/tc_cmp/202101147
TechWeb - The new Hyperic HQ Enterprise Reports, a part of Hyperic HQ 3.1, provides a graphical report designer and a Java reporting library that enables creation of complex layouts.

Mon, 24 Sep 07
Microsoft bets on 'Halo 3' in gaming industry battle (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070925/tc_afp/usitgamesoftwarecompanymicrosoft


Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console. The gaming world is bracing for the release of "Halo 3," expected to be a blockbuster for Microsoft and its struggling XBox 360.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)AFP - Microsoft hopes the launch Tuesday of its much-anticipated "Halo 3" game will turn into another blockbuster that will fend off challenges from Nintendo's Wii and Sony's Playstation 3.

Sun, 23 Sep 07
Starbucks to give away free iTunes songs (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070924/ap_on_hi_te/starbucks_itunes


Apple CEO Steve Jobs (L) talks to Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz as introduces the new Apple iPod media players in San Francisco, California September 5, 2007. Starbucks said on Monday it will give away millions of songs via downloads starting next month as it launches a wireless music service with Apple Inc. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)AP - Starbucks Corp. plans to give away 50 million free digital songs to customers in all of its domestic coffee houses to promote a new wireless iTunes music service that's about to debut in select markets.

Sun, 23 Sep 07
New service eavesdrops on Internet calls (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070924/ap_on_hi_te/ads_that_listen
AP - A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying ads on the callers' computer screens based on what's being talked about.

Sun, 23 Sep 07
Microsoft adds 20 advertising clients (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070924/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_advertising
AP - Microsoft Corp. said Sunday it has added 20 new advertising clients since the acquisition of online ad company aQuantive closed six weeks ago.

Sun, 23 Sep 07
EarthLink Backs Off Helio (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070923/tc_pcworld/137490
PC World - Struggling EarthLink Inc. has stepped back from further funding Helio, its U.S. mobile joint venture with SK Telecom Co. Ltd., amid hints that the South Korean cellular carrier may become the majority shareholder.

Sun, 23 Sep 07
Laptop project set for 2 weeks in Nov. (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070924/ap_on_hi_te/hundred_dollar_laptop
AP - The project that hopes to supply developing-world schoolchildren with $188 laptops will sell the rugged little computers to U.S. residents and Canadians for $400 each, with the profit going toward a machine for a poor country.

Sun, 23 Sep 07
Starbucks to give away music as new service starts (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070924/tc_nm/starbucks_music_dc


Apple CEO Steve Jobs (L) talks to Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz as introduces the new Apple iPod media players in San Francisco, California September 5, 2007. Starbucks said on Monday it will give away millions of songs via downloads starting next month as it launches a wireless music service with Apple Inc. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)Reuters - Starbucks Corp said on Monday it will give away millions of songs via downloads starting next month as it launches a wireless music service with Apple Inc .

Sun, 23 Sep 07
Virtualization Products Patched (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070923/tc_pcworld/137504
PC World - A set of newly discovered flaws in components of VMware Inc.'s virtual machine software has called attention to some of the security risks associated with the practice of running virtual computers on a single system.

Sun, 23 Sep 07
PerformancePoint At Last: Q&A With Microsoft's Alex Payne and Michael Smith (TechWeb)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070924/tc_cmp/202100620
TechWeb - After four years in development and more than a year in beta testing, Microsoft PerformancePoint is finally shipping. Intelligent Enterprise discusses what the platform delivers and what critics are saying with two key executives who helped guide development, packaging and pricing.

Sun, 23 Sep 07
Microsoft "Halo 3" wins high marks from reviewers (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070923/tc_nm/microsoft_halo3_dc


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. 'Halo 3', the highly anticipated video game from Microsoft Corp (Christian Charisius/Reuters)Reuters - "Halo 3," the highly anticipated video game from Microsoft Corp , won high praise on Sunday from game reviewers who gushed over the lush settings, cinematic feel and array of multiplayer features.

Sat, 22 Sep 07
US cities' Wi-Fi dreams fading fast (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070923/tc_afp/lifestyleusinternetit


A woman uses free wireless internet access at Union Square in San Francisco, California, in 2006. Ambitious plans for big Wi-Fi networks to provide free or low-cost wireless Internet access are being abandoned or scaled back by US cities as the economics of the deals turn out to be more challenging than expected.(AFP/GettyImages/File/Justin Sullivan)AFP - Ambitious plans for big Wi-Fi networks to provide free or low-cost wireless Internet access are being abandoned or scaled back by US cities as the economics of the deals turn out to be more challenging than expected.

Sat, 22 Sep 07
Cheap Kids' Laptop: 'Ultimate Learning Tool' (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070922/tc_pcworld/137370
PC World - If the One Laptop Project keeps its promises, the small green US$100 laptop could very well revolutionize teaching in developing nations. Computerworld Denmark asked Jan Soelberg, an expert from the school of education at the University of Aarhus, to try the computer.

Sat, 22 Sep 07
Indian mobile phone subscribers pass 200 million mark (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070922/bs_afp/indiaeconomytelecom


An Indian Sikh speaks on a cellular telephone in a street of New Delhi. The number of Indian mobile phone subscribers has passed the 200 million mark after the country added another eight million customers last month, industry figures show.(AFP/File/Anil Sharma )AFP - The number of Indian mobile phone subscribers has passed the 200 million mark after the country added another eight million customers last month, industry figures show.

Sat, 22 Sep 07
Hubble and Facebook Help Save Endangered Species (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070922/tc_pcworld/137322
PC World - Hubble space technology and the global networking power of the Internet is being put to good use in wildlife conservation by giving researchers a clearer understanding of the status of the endangered whale shark.

Fri, 21 Sep 07
Thailand seeks to block YouTube videos again (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070921/wr_nm/thailand_youtube_dc
Reuters - Thailand is seeking to block clips on video-sharing Web site YouTube, accusing the chief royal adviser of being the mastermind of the bloodless coup last year, a top Justice Ministry official said on Friday.

Fri, 21 Sep 07
Mortgage data leaked over file network (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070921/ap_on_hi_te/file_sharing_leak
AP - Three spreadsheets containing more than 5,000 Social Security numbers and other personal details about customers of ABN Amro Mortgage Group were inadvertently leaked over an online file-sharing network by a former employee.

Fri, 21 Sep 07
Microsoft CEO's pay valued at $1.3M (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070921/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_executive_compensation
AP - Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer received a pay package valued about $1.3 million for fiscal 2007, a year in which profit at the world's largest software maker topped $14 billion, according to documents filed Friday.

Fri, 21 Sep 07
Google asks EU's OK of DoubleClick buy (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070921/ap_on_hi_te/eu_google_doubleclick
AP - Google Inc. said Friday it had filed for European Union permission to take over online ad tracker DoubleClick, a $3.1 billion deal that already has stirred concern about the control it will give Google over Internet advertising.

Fri, 21 Sep 07
Fox to offer season premieres on iTunes (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070921/ap_on_hi_te/fox_itunes
AP - The season premieres of seven Fox Broadcasting shows will be offered on Apple Inc.'s iTunes store for free in the latest example of TV networks using the Web to create interest in their shows.

Fri, 21 Sep 07
Google's stock price soars to new high (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070921/ap_on_hi_te/google_stock


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 stock reached a new high Friday, Sept. 21, 2007, reflecting Wall Street's renewed faith in the Internet search leader as it introduces new ways for advertisers to reach its steadily expanding online audience. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)AP - Google Inc.'s stock reached a new high Friday, reflecting Wall Street's renewed faith in the Internet search leader as it introduces new ways for advertisers to reach its steadily expanding online audience.

Fri, 21 Sep 07
Curacao/MusicNet deal aims to boost digital sales (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070921/media_nm/latin_dc
Reuters - It's no secret that U.S. Latins use the Internet less than other segments of the population. And it's no secret that digital sales of Latin music lag way behind the physical.

Fri, 21 Sep 07
Apple Goes Orange for French iPhone (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070921/tc_nf/55494
NewsFactor - Apple is partnering with Orange. That exclusive, and potentially flavorful, partnership for the iPhone launch in France was announced Thursday by Orange Chief Executive Didier Lombard, according to a Reuters news report.

Fri, 21 Sep 07
Mobile Security, Virtualization on tap at MS Hacking Meet (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070922/tc_pcworld/137478
PC World - Microsoft Corp. is inviting hackers onto its Redmond, Washington, campus again next week and this time software virtualization and mobile security will be the hot topics.

Fri, 21 Sep 07
Firefox 3 Alpha Blocks Malware, Secures Plug-in Updates (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070921/tc_pcworld/137489
PC World - Mozilla Corp. updated the preview of Firefox 3.0 to alpha 8 Thursday, unveiling for the first time to users several security features it's talked up for months.

Fri, 21 Sep 07
Oracle churns out another strong quarter (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070922/ap_on_hi_te/earns_oracle


An exterior view of Oracle headquarters is seen in Redwood City, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007. Oracle Corp. is expected to release quarterly earnings on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Melding a hodgepodge of different software makers into a cohesive business is supposed to be difficult. But Oracle Corp. is making the task look easy as the Redwood Shores-based company churns out one impressive quarter after another, nearly three years into a $25-billion shopping spree that is yielding bigger dividends than many skeptical software analysts and executives anticipated.

Fri, 21 Sep 07
Though MySpace, Facebook Dominate, Others Seek Social Networking Niches (Investor's Business Daily)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20070921/bs_ibd_ibd/2007921tech01
Investor's Business Daily - Recent data suggest the game is over in the Web-based social networking field, but that isn't stopping new new players from joining in.

Fri, 21 Sep 07
Microsoft Hoping 'Halo' Is Goodbye To Sony (Investor's Business Daily)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20070921/bs_ibd_ibd/2007921tech
Investor's Business Daily - Microsoft's marketing mavens are using the slogan "Finish the Fight" to promote the company's "Halo 3" video game, the final chapter in a popular science-fiction combat game trilogy.

Fri, 21 Sep 07
SAP: Big Businesses Won't Be Interested In On Demand ERP (TechWeb)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070923/tc_cmp/202100156
TechWeb - Despite soaring interest in software-as-a-service, SAP's new product is aimed at companies with less than 500 employees.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
Sony delays 'Home' virtual world for PS3 (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070920/ap_on_hi_te/japan_sony


Kazuo Hirai, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., speaks at a special session of the Tokyo Game Show 2007 at Makuhari, near Tokyo, on Thursday, September 20, 2007. The game show, billed as the world's largest of it kind, kicked off Thursday for a four-day run, with major game developers unveiling brand new titles. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - In yet another embarrassing delay for Sony, the company is delaying the launch of its "Home" virtual world for the PlayStation 3, initially planned for later this year, until next spring.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
Glitch renders 'virtual fence' unusable (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070920/ap_on_hi_te/virtual_fence
AP - Because of a software glitch, the first high-tech "virtual fence" on the nation's borders remains inoperable, three months after its scheduled debut.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
MTV to launch activism social network (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070920/wr_nm/mtv_socialnetwork_dc


A screenshot of Think.MTV.com, taken on September 20, 2007. Viacom Inc's MTV will launch a new Internet social network sponsored by foundations operated by the founders of Microsoft and AOL to encourage youth activism. (Think.MTV.com/Reuters)Reuters - Viacom Inc's MTV will launch a new Internet social network sponsored by foundations operated by the founders of Microsoft and AOL to encourage youth activism.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
Game consoles help keep students in the classroom (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070920/tc_afp/entertainmentjapangameconsole


Girls use Nintendo DS Lite to study math during the 90-minute catch-up class at Wada Junior High School in Tokyo, in August. Game consoles, long seen as a tough enemy for parents, are now helping children in classrooms in Japan as teachers explore ways to attract pupils born into the fast-moving digital age.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)AFP - Video-game machines, long seen by parents as a formidable enemy in the battle to get their children to study, are advancing into the Japanese classroom.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
Nokia unveils new unlicensed mobile access phone (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070920/bs_nm/nokia6301_dc


Nokia's new 6301 handset in an undated handout photo. Nokia, the world's top mobile phone maker, unveiled on Thursday its new phone model 6301, which features unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology. (Nokia/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's top cellphone maker, unveiled on Thursday its new phone model 6301, which features unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
Sony delays PS3 "Home," but no talk of price cuts (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070920/wr_nm/sony_game_ps3_dc


Sony's Playstation 3 game console is displayed at a news conference with movie and music providers supporting the Blu-ray high-definition optical disc standard in Tokyo, August 29, 2006. Sony Corp said on Thursday it would postpone the launch of its 'Home' virtual community service for its PlayStation 3 game console to early next year, the latest setback in its video game battle with Microsoft Corp and Nintendo Co Ltd. (Toshiyuki Aizawa/Reuters)Reuters - Sony Corp said on Thursday it would postpone the launch of the "Home" virtual community service for its PlayStation 3 game console to early next year, the latest setback in its videogame battle with Microsoft Corp and Nintendo Co Ltd.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
Palm struggles to shine again (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070920/ap_on_hi_te/palm_future


Jonathan Ive, left, Apple Computer's vice president of design, and Jon Rubinstein, Apple's senior vice president of engineering, pose behind five iMac personal computers,in this March 19, 1999 file photo at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan, file)AP - Palm Inc.'s death knell has been rung over and over — on Wall Street, in headlines, and by a growing number of discontented fans.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
SEC subpoenas Jobs in stock options case (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070920/ap_on_hi_te/apple_jobs_subpoena
AP - Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs has been subpoenaed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to give a deposition in a stock-options backdating case against Apple's former general counsel, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press Thursday.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
Suit seeks "a la carte" channel choices (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070920/ap_on_hi_te/cable_tv_lawsuit
AP - The U.S. pay-TV industry amounts to a cartel because it maintains profits by offering channels in prepackaged tiers rather than "a la carte," according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
Review: Archos 605 WiFi doesn't impress (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070920/ap_on_hi_te/tech_test_archos605_wifi


The Archos 605 is seen in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Sporting a brushed metal case, a crisp, wide touch screen and wireless Internet capabilities, the latest portable media gadget from Archos sounds like a match for the newest iPods.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
Oracle's first quarter profit up 25 pct. (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070921/ap_on_hi_te/earns_oracle
AP - Melding a hodgepodge of different software makers into a cohesive business is supposed to be difficult. But Oracle Corp. is making the task look easy as the Redwood Shores-based company churns out one impressive quarter after another, nearly three years into a $25 billion shopping spree that is yielding bigger dividends than many skeptical software analysts and executives anticipated.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
RIM's Touts Wi-Fi BlackBerry As An iPhone-Killer For Enterprise (TechWeb)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070921/tc_cmp/201807957
TechWeb - Though it's not the first Wi-Fi/cellular device to arrive on American shores, it is the first of the popular BlackBerry smartphones to offer both forms of connectivity.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
In-flight Internet Takes to U.S, Skies (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070920/tc_pcworld/137377
PC World - Alaska Airlines has announced that it will test a high-speed satellite wireless Internet service on its aircraft next year. The airline will be the first carrier in the US to offer such a service, and if the test is successful, will implement it onto the entire 114-aircraft strong fleet.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
Lawsuit charges open-source license violation (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070921/tc_infoworld/91997
InfoWorld - In what may be the first action of its kind in the U.S., the Software Freedom Law Center has filed a lawsuit to enforce an open-source license.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
PluggedIn: Hackers control PCs while users unaware (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070921/wr_nm/column_pluggedin_dc


A woman on her computer in an undated photo. Computer security experts estimate that tens of millions of personal computers are infected with malicious software like the one that attacked Locklear's machine. Such programs, generally classified as malware, attack companies along with consumers. (File/Reuters)Reuters - A few weeks ago Candace Locklear's office computer quietly started sending out dozens of instant messages with photos attached that were infected with malicious software.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
AT&T: Network perimeter security should be virtual (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070921/tc_infoworld/91950
InfoWorld - Enterprise companies will soon begin offloading many of their network security responsibilities to telecommunications and Internet service providers and save vast amounts of time and money doing so, if AT&T has its way.

Thu, 20 Sep 07
Sony Delays PS3's Virtual World (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070920/bs_nf/55460
NewsFactor - It's another black eye for Sony. After closing its online music store in August, news comes that the entertainment giant is delaying the opening of its online community for the PlayStation 3.

Wed, 19 Sep 07
Google offers unified approach to interactive ads (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070919/wr_nm/google_ads_interactive_dc


A Google search page is seen through the spectacles of a computer user, July 20, 2007. The company said on Tuesday it is testing a new interactive service that lets advertisers measure users' responses in advanced ways using video or images on Google's vast base of affiliated Web sites. (Darren Staples/Reuters)Reuters - Google Inc said on Tuesday it is testing a new interactive service that lets advertisers measure users' responses in advanced ways using video or images on Google's vast base of affiliated Web sites.

Wed, 19 Sep 07
Gadgetry to lure 'iPod' generation to California's Death Valley (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070919/tc_afp/lifestyleenvironmenttechnologytravel


Lee Little, CEO of the Bar-Z Company, shows the new interactive "GPS Ranger," on 11 Sep, in Death Valley, California. The handheld GPS Ranger operates as a tour guide, even in the dreamlike landscape of Death Valley, the lowest point of the United States at 86 metres below sea level.(AFP/File/Gabriel Bouys)AFP - Death Valley park rangers are turning to electronic gadgetry as they bid to lure a new generation of Americans into the great outdoors.

Wed, 19 Sep 07
NBA hires local Microsoft boss to lead China push (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070919/bs_nm/microsoft_china_nba_dc
Reuters - The National Basketball Association has hired the head of Microsoft's China operations to lead a new push into a country that is already its largest market outside the United States, the league said on Wednesday.

Wed, 19 Sep 07
SAP aims to ride smaller-business wave (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070919/ap_on_hi_te/big_tech_small_business


SAP AG's new SAP Business ByDesign program is demonstrated at an event, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)AP - Although technology companies like to say they can revolutionize any business, many blue-chip vendors have concentrated on selling only to certain businesses: the biggest ones.

Wed, 19 Sep 07
NBC to offer free episode downloads (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070920/ap_on_hi_te/nbc_free_downloads
AP - NBC will start offering limited free downloads of shows such as "Heroes" and "The Office" as part of its bid to expand the digital distribution of its programs and compete with Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store, the network announced Wednesday.

Wed, 19 Sep 07
Execs differ on value of Spielberg (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070919/ap_on_hi_te/viacom_spielberg
AP - DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. head Jeffrey Katzenberg said Wednesday that Viacom Inc. shouldn't be nonchalant about the possibility of losing Steven Spielberg.

Wed, 19 Sep 07
With bankruptcy, SCO now facing Nasdaq delisting (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070919/tc_infoworld/91943
InfoWorld - Following its bankruptcy filing, The SCO Group may be booted off of the Nasdaq stock exchange as early as next week, the Unix vendor said Wednesday.

Wed, 19 Sep 07
IBM Targets MS Office Users with Free Lotus Symphony (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070919/tc_nf/55425
NewsFactor - Enterprise software for free? Apparently so. IBM has just releated a new enterprise-grade suite of office productivity applications, called Lotus Symphony. The free software that comprises Lotus Symphony includes a word processor, spreadsheet program, and business presentation applications that are clearly targeted at the capabilities of the popular Microsoft Office suite.

Wed, 19 Sep 07
Sprint sees enterprise IT role in WiMax (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070920/tc_infoworld/91946
InfoWorld - Sprint Nextel plans to cooperate with enterprises on the rollout of its WiMax mobile broadband network, letting the customers install and own short-range base stations in their buildings with automatic roaming onto the carrier's WiMax network outside.

Tue, 18 Sep 07
Google expands online software suite (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_hi_te/google_software


Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Iran has blocked access to the Google search engine and its Gmail email service as part of a clampdown on material deemed to be offensive, the Mehr news agency has reported.(AFP/GettyImages/File/David Paul Morris)AP - Google Inc. has expanded its online suite of office software to include a business presentation tool similar to Microsoft Corp.'s popular PowerPoint, adding the latest twist in a high-stakes rivalry.

Tue, 18 Sep 07
Digital 'smiley face' turns 25 (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_hi_te/emoticon_anniversary


Carnegie Mellon professor Scott E. Fahlman is shown in his home office on Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, in Pittsburgh. Twenty-five years ago, three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — were first used as a horizontal 'smiley face' in a computer message by Fahlman, the university said. Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1982. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)AP - It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon.

Tue, 18 Sep 07
Warner Music to sell Blunt album on MySpace (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070918/wr_nm/warnermusic_myspace_dc


James Blunt performs at at the Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium, London July 7, 2007. Warner Music Group Corp will sell a new album by Blunt through News Corp's Internet social network MySpace, the Financial Times reported in its online edition. (Stephen Hird/Reuters)Reuters - Warner Music Group Corp will sell a new album by the artist James Blunt through News Corp's Internet social network MySpace, the Financial Times reported in its online edition.

Tue, 18 Sep 07
Nokia says ITC starts Qualcomm investigation (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070918/bs_nm/nokia_qualcomm_itc_dc


A man speaks on a mobile phone in front of a billboard in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh August 24, 2007. Nokia said on Tuesday the U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to start investigating Qualcomm Inc's trade practices and alleged patent infringement. (Ajay Verma/Reuters)Reuters - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) said on Tuesday the U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to start investigating Qualcomm Inc's trade practices and alleged patent infringement.

Tue, 18 Sep 07
Adobe vows to sustain torrid growth rate (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_hi_te/earns_adobe_systems


A passenger jet flies over Adobe Systems, Inc., world headquarters Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, in San Jose, Calif. Adobe Systems Inc. reports fiscal third-quarter earnings on Monday, Sept. 17, 2007 after the market closes. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - After a revenue surge that executives called "extraordinary," software maker Adobe Systems Inc. is promising to maintain scorching growth rates even as it winds down its biggest-ever product launch.

Tue, 18 Sep 07
Google cashing in on widget craze (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070919/ap_on_hi_te/google_widget_ads


A Google search page is seen through the spectacles of a computer user, July 20, 2007. The company said on Tuesday it is testing a new interactive service that lets advertisers measure users' responses in advanced ways using video or images on Google's vast base of affiliated Web sites. REUTERS/Darren StaplesAP - Google Inc. will try to cash in on the Internet's latest craze by distributing ads within "widgets" — the interactive capsules designed to bring more pizzaz to Web pages.

Tue, 18 Sep 07
As prices drop, thefts of GPS units soar (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_hi_te/business_of_life


Austin Sweazy poses with his new GPS navigation device in his vehicle, Friday, Sept. 14, 2007, at his home in Salem, Mass. A thief had previously smashed his windshield and stole his first navigation unit. Police in cities throughout the country, and in Australia and Great Britain, say there has been a rise in thefts of GPS units. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)AP - When Austin Sweazy pulled into the parking lot of an auto-repair shop, his fiancee reminded him that even though their errand inside would last just a few minutes, it would be smart to lock the car doors.

Tue, 18 Sep 07
MySpace launches targeted ad program (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_hi_te/myspace_advertising


A screenshot of MySpace.com, taken on June 4, 2007. MySpace has developed technology to tailor advertisements to its members based on information on their personal profile pages, owner Fox Interactive Media said on Tuesday. (www.myspace.com/Reuters)AP - News Corp.'s MySpace social networking site is using personal details contained on users' profile pages and blogs to sell highly targeted advertising, the company said Tuesday.

Tue, 18 Sep 07
Intel to ship new chips in November (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_hi_te/intel_developers


Intel Corp. Chief Executive Paul Otellini shows off a wafer of new chips with super-small 32-nanometer circuitry at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007, a first for the microprocessor industry and Intel's latest salvo against smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. as both companies race to shrink the size of transistors. The chip houses 1.9 billion transistors and incorporates logic functions and a type of memory known as static random access memory, or SRAM. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Intel Corp. fired a pair of technical salvos at smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Tuesday, announcing a November launch date for its next generation of chips and showing off its momentum in manufacturing technology.

Tue, 18 Sep 07
Airline to test Wi-Fi for passengers (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_hi_te/alaska_airlines_wireless_internet
AP - Alaska Airlines said Tuesday it will be the first U.S. carrier to test a satellite-based in-flight wireless Internet service next year and may equip its entire fleet.

Tue, 18 Sep 07
Hacker Finally Publishes Notorious Apple Wi-Fi Attack (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070919/tc_pcworld/137329
PC World - More than a year after claiming to have found a way to take over a Macintosh computer using a flaw in the system's wireless card, David Maynor has published details of his exploit.

Tue, 18 Sep 07
Mozilla fixes QuickTime flaw in Firefox (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070919/tc_infoworld/91909
InfoWorld - Mozilla has fixed a critical bug in the way the Firefox browser works with QuickTime media files.

Tue, 18 Sep 07
Highlights from the Intel Developer Forum: Day 1 (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070919/tc_pcworld/137332
PC World - Intel demonstrated new "Penryn" server and enthusiast CPUs that will launch in November, as well as its next-generation CPU architecture and manufacturing process at the first day of its Intel Developer Forum.

Tue, 18 Sep 07
Best Buy Crushes Q2 Forecasts On Strong International Sales (Investor's Business Daily)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20070918/bs_ibd_ibd/2007918tech
Investor's Business Daily - Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy bested Wall Street's expectations for its fiscal second quarter, thanks to strong international sales and demand for flat-panel TVs, video games and notebook PCs.

Mon, 17 Sep 07
SpiralFrog to offer free music downloads (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070917/ap_on_hi_te/free_music_downloads
AP - SpiralFrog.com, an ad-supported Web site that allows visitors to download music and videos free of charge, was scheduled to launch Monday in the U.S. and Canada after months of "beta" testing.

Mon, 17 Sep 07
Online crooks getting more professional (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070917/ap_on_hi_te/internet_security_threats
AP - Online crooks are quickly enlarging an already vast sales and distribution network to propagate spam and send malicious software in hopes of infecting millions of computers worldwide, according to a new report.

Mon, 17 Sep 07
China man dies after three-day Internet session (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070917/wr_nm/china_internet_death_dc


People use computers at an Internet cafe in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan province March 13, 2007. A Chinese man dropped dead after playing Internet games for three consecutive days, state media said on Monday as China seeks to wean Internet addicts offline. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - A Chinese man dropped dead after playing Internet games for three consecutive days, state media said on Monday as China seeks to wean Internet addicts offline.

Mon, 17 Sep 07
D.Telekom to buy SunCom Wireless (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070917/bs_nm/deutschetelekom_suncom_dc
Reuters - Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) mobile phone division T-Mobile USA has agreed to buy SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc for about $1.6 billion, the companies said on Monday.

Mon, 17 Sep 07
EU court crushes Microsoft's antitrust appeal (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070917/bs_nm/microsoft_eu_decision_dc
Reuters - A European Union court upheld a landmark 2004 European Commission antitrust decision against Microsoft on Monday in a crucial victory for the European competition regulator over the U.S. software giant.

Mon, 17 Sep 07
EU victory leaves questions for Vista (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_hi_te/eu_microsoft_vista
AP - European antitrust regulators' victory over Microsoft was a resounding smack at the software maker's old business practices, but it left analysts divided as to how the company's new businesses, including Windows Vista, might be affected.

Mon, 17 Sep 07
EU court dismisses Microsoft appeal (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070917/ap_on_hi_te/eu_microsoft


European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes speaks during a media conference regarding Microsoft at EU headquarters in Brussels, Monday Sept. 17, 2007. A European Union court on Monday squashed Microsoft Corp.'s legal challenge to a landmark antitrust ruling and record fine, a resounding victory for the EU that confirms its role as a major global regulator. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)AP - The European Union's second-highest court affirmed the EU's nine-year pursuit of Microsoft Corp., rejecting the software maker's appeal and strengthening the bloc's hand as it pushes ahead with cases against other major technology companies.

Mon, 17 Sep 07
EU dominates in antitrust, experts say (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070917/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_antitrust


A view of an IBM facility outside Boulder, Colorado, October 18, 2006. IBM on Monday said it would start offering free word processing and other office software, joining a growing group of companies with free applications challenging a core Microsoft Corp product. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)AP - A European Union appeals court's decision to uphold a 2004 antitrust order against Microsoft Corp. means that U.S.-based multinationals will continue to face tougher competition rules in Europe than at home, legal experts said.

Mon, 17 Sep 07
iPod software update tackles performance (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20070917/tc_macworld/ipodupdate10120070917
Macworld.com - An iPod software update released by Apple over the weekend tackles many of the performance issues noted in initial reviews of the new iPod nano and iPod classic.

Mon, 17 Sep 07
EU antitrust ruling renews hope for developers (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070918/tc_infoworld/91870
InfoWorld - Microsoft's defeat in a European appeals court Monday has left open-source developers hopeful about the future although still dissatisfied with the company's compliance with a 3-year-old antitrust ruling.

Mon, 17 Sep 07
IBM to offer free word processing, office software (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070918/tc_nm/ibm_office_dc


A view of an IBM facility outside Boulder, Colorado, October 18, 2006. IBM on Monday said it would start offering free word processing and other office software, joining a growing group of companies with free applications challenging a core Microsoft Corp product. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)Reuters - IBM on Monday said it would start offering free word processing and other office software, joining a growing group of companies with free applications challenging a core Microsoft Corp product.

Sun, 16 Sep 07
EU court to deliver Microsoft ruling (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070916/ap_on_hi_te/eu_microsoft


Takashi Sensui, general manager of the Xbox Division of Microsoft Co., Ltd, speaks after demonstrating new game software at a media presentation in Tokyo Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007, ahead of the annual Tokyo Game Show starting Sept. 20. The head of Microsoft's gaming business in Japan promised more role-playing game software to attract fans in a market where its Xbox 360 console has struggled against offerings from Nintendo and Sony. (AP Photo/Toru Takahashi)AP - When Europe's second-highest court rules Monday on Microsoft Corp.'s appeal of its landmark antitrust conviction, more will be at stake for regulators than just the behavior of the world's largest software company.

Sun, 16 Sep 07
Sprint Nextel to introduce the Airave (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070917/ap_on_hi_te/sprint_nextel_airave
AP - One of the big complaints lodged against wireless phone companies is poor signal quality inside buildings, especially homes.

Sun, 16 Sep 07
Digital cameras record baby's every move (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070916/ap_on_hi_te/digital_memories
AP - For her 30th birthday, while she was still pregnant, Lindsay Nie received from Mom an album filled with her baby and childhood photos.

Sun, 16 Sep 07
Ads Target Your Cell Phone (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070916/tc_pcworld/137093
PC World - Spending on mobile search and display advertising will skyrocket in the coming years in the U.S., finally making cell phones a viable vehicle for this type of online marketing, according to research firm The Kelsey Group Inc.

Sun, 16 Sep 07
GlassFish app server goes enterprise (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070917/tc_infoworld/91837
InfoWorld - Sun is announcing Monday the release of the GlassFish version 2 open-source application server, which features enterprise-level capabilities for running large-scale applications.

Sun, 16 Sep 07
EU antitrust power in balance on Microsoft decision (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070916/tc_nm/microsoft_eu_dc


Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer during his keynote speech at the Software 2007 conference in Santa Clara, May 9, 2007. A European Union court will decide on Monday whether Microsoft abused its near-monopoly position on the world's 1 billion computers and servers to push smaller competitors out of the marketplace. (Lou Dematteis/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - A European Union court will decide on Monday whether Microsoft abused its near-monopoly position on the world's 1 billion computers and servers to push smaller competitors out of the marketplace.

Sat, 15 Sep 07
Review: 'Lair' and 'Warhawk' exclusive (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070915/ap_on_hi_te/games_playstation3_exclusives


This image from the game 'Warhawk,' provided by publisher Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., shows an aerial combat scene in the new PlayStation 3 game. (AP Photo/Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc)AP - It's been a long year for PlayStation 3 owners with very little in the way of new, exclusive content. As good as they are, "MotorStorm" and "Resistance: Fall of Man" are wearing thin for me.

Sat, 15 Sep 07
Marley estate disputes ringtone deal (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070915/ap_on_hi_te/marley_ringtones_dispute


This undated file photo, originally supplied by Island Records, shows singer Bob Marley. Verizon Wireless resumed selling mobile phone ringtones Friday Sept. 14, 2007, based on Bob Marley songs, despite objections from the estate of the late reggae music star to a licensing deal struck between the wireless carrier and recording company Universal Music Group. (AP Photo/Island Records, File)AP - Verizon Wireless resumed selling mobile phone ringtones Friday based on Bob Marley songs, despite objections from the estate of the late reggae music star to a licensing deal struck between the wireless carrier and recording company Universal Music Group.

Sat, 15 Sep 07
Holocaust song has cellular firm squirming (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070915/tc_nm/phones_dc


A Bell retail store is seen in downtown Montreal, June 21, 2007. Bell Canada has apologized after a punk-rock reference to the Holocaust appeared on billboard advertisements for its cellphones. (Shaun Best/Reuters)Reuters - Canada's biggest phone company has apologized after a punk-rock reference to the Holocaust appeared on billboard advertisements for its cell phones.

Sat, 15 Sep 07
TD Ameritrade says contact info stolen (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070915/ap_on_bi_ge/broker_data_theft
AP - Online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. said Friday one of its databases was hacked and contact information for its more than 6.3 million customers was stolen. A spokeswoman for the Omaha-based company said more sensitive information in the same database, including Social Security numbers and account numbers, does not appear to have been taken.

Sat, 15 Sep 07
South Asia slow to hop on broadband bandwagon (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070916/tc_afp/srilankaittelecombroadband


In this file photo, Indian online tutors work on their computers, using broadband connection to internet, in New Delhi. Home to some 1.5 billion people, South Asia is paying a high price to access the Internet as service providers have been slow to deliver cheaper broadband connections, analysts say.(AFP/File/Manan Vatsyayana)AFP - Home to some 1.5 billion people, South Asia is paying a high price to access the Internet as service providers have been slow to deliver cheaper broadband connections, analysts say.

Sat, 15 Sep 07
First Look: 16GB iPod Touch (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070916/tc_pcworld/137239
PC World - This beautifully designed media player is like a slim iPhone sans phone--but it's marred by some early hardware and software issues.

Sat, 15 Sep 07
SCO Declares Bankruptcy (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070915/tc_pcworld/137234
PC World - With its cash reserves running out, the SCO Group Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection.

Sat, 15 Sep 07
Microsoft faces crucial EU judgement in cliffhanger court case (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070916/tc_afp/euussoftwarecompanycompetitionmicrosoft


A man walks past a Microsoft stand at a telecommunications fair in Hanover, central Germany. Microsoft faces on Monday a decisive chapter in its epic battles with antitrust regulators when Europe's second-highest court rules whether the software giant is guilty of abusing its crushing market share.(AFP/File/John MacDougall)AFP - Microsoft faces on Monday a decisive chapter in its epic battles with antitrust regulators when Europe's second-highest court rules whether the software giant is guilty of abusing its crushing market share.

Sat, 15 Sep 07
Intel Buys Havok, Maker of Game Development Tools (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070915/tc_pcworld/137232
PC World - Intel Corp. will buy Havok Inc., a provider of software and services used by videogame creators and movie special-effects teams, the company said Friday.

Fri, 14 Sep 07
Google to finance moon challenge contest (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070914/ap_on_hi_te/google_moon_prize


Tomotaka Takahashi of Japan, a robot creator, watches as Chroino goes through his motions at WIRED NextFest Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007, in the Los Angeles Convention Center. WIRED NextFest is a gathering of advanced and future-focused technology. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)AP - Google Inc. is bankrolling a $30 million contest that could significantly boost the commercial space industry and spur the first non-governmental flight to the moon.

Fri, 14 Sep 07
Google, at age 10, is the official heart of the Internet (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070914/tc_afp/uscompanygoogleinternet


A Google logo. Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic center of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, books and videos.(AFP/File/John D McHugh)AFP - Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic center of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, books and videos.

Fri, 14 Sep 07
Icahn calls for sale of BEA Systems (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070915/ap_on_hi_te/bea_systems_icahn
AP - Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn on Friday called for the sale of BEA Systems Inc., a business software maker whose stock price has sagged with the growth in open-source software and under pressure from larger competitors such as IBM Corp. and Oracle Corp.

Fri, 14 Sep 07
Chip makers seek new technology (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070914/ap_on_hi_te/future_of_chips
AP - We're used to computers becoming obsolete almost as soon as they leave the store because of rapid advances in chip technology, but the whole science of silicon chips is starting to show its age.

Fri, 14 Sep 07
Apple posts iPhone credit instructions (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070914/ap_on_hi_te/apple_iphone_credits
AP - Apple Inc. has begun allowing people who bought iPhones before the higher-end model's price was abruptly slashed to apply for a $100 store credit.

Fri, 14 Sep 07
Teen rapper Soulja Boy ready for duty (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070915/en_nm/soulja_dc
Reuters - The out-of-nowhere success of Soulja Boy's debut single, "Crank Dat (Soulja Boy)," has become the latest Internet phenomenon to catch radio and record labels off guard.

Fri, 14 Sep 07
Verizon Sues FCC Over Open-Access Auction (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070915/tc_pcworld/137213
PC World - Verizon Wireless Inc. has encountered strong opposition for its request that an appeals court overturn U.S. Federal Communications Commission auction rules on a portion of wireless spectrum.

Fri, 14 Sep 07
SCO Group files for bankruptcy (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070915/ap_on_hi_te/sco_group_bankruptcy
AP - The SCO Group Inc., licenser of the Unix operating system, filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, drained by unsuccessfully filing lawsuits claiming its software code was misappropriated by developers of the open-source Linux operating system.

Fri, 14 Sep 07
Intel to buy Irish game software tools firm (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070915/tc_nm/intel_havok_dc
Reuters - Intel Corp said on Friday it would buy Havok Inc, a provider of software and services to the games and movie industries, as the world's top chipmaker seeks to beef up its visual computing and graphics efforts.

Fri, 14 Sep 07
Appro To Launch Quad-Core Server For Small Businesses (TechWeb)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070915/tc_cmp/201806705
TechWeb - The new server expected on Monday is built for companies who need an entry-level single processor server as a building block for high-performance computing clusters and applications.

Fri, 14 Sep 07
Sony may sell game chip facility to Toshiba: sources (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070915/tc_nm/sony_toshiba_microchip_dc
Reuters - Japan's Sony Corp (6758.T) is in talks to sell its production facilities for advanced microchips used in its PlayStation 3 game console to Toshiba Corp (6502.T), sources close to the matter said.

Thu, 13 Sep 07
TV veterans produce Web-only show (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070913/ap_on_hi_te/online_video


This photo provided by Quarterlife.com shows actors Scott Michael Foster, left, as Jed Berland and Michelle Lombardo, center, as Debra Locatelli and director/writer and 'Quarterlife' co-creator Marshall Herskovitz in a scene from the internet series'Quarterlife,' during the shooting of the pilot in Los Angeles. The creative team behind such TV shows as 'Thirtysomething' and 'My So-Called Life' are launching a Web-based show centering on the lives of a group of twentysomething friends. The show, called 'Quarterlife,' will debut on MySpace Nov. 11, 2007, and will also be paired with its own social networking site. (AP Photo/Quarterlife.com)AP - The creative minds behind such TV shows as "Thirtysomething" and "My So-Called Life" are launching a Web-based show, hoping to find the artistic freedom online that they say is lacking on broadcast networks.

Thu, 13 Sep 07
Sprint Nextel rolls out shopping service (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070913/ap_on_hi_te/sprint_nextel_mobile_shopping
AP - Sprint Nextel Corp. unveiled on Thursday a new service that allows mobile handset customers to buy and compare a wide range of products over their phone.

Thu, 13 Sep 07
Company presents a boyish robot (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070913/ap_on_hi_te/robot_boy


Zeno, a robot boy creation by David Hanson makes one of his many expressive faces at Hanson's office in Richardson, Texas, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007. At 17 inches tall and weighing 6 lbs, the artificial Zeno is the culmination of five years of work by Hanson and a small group of engineers, designers and programmers at Hanson Robotics. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - David Hanson has two little Zenos to care for these days. There's his 18-month-old son Zeno, who prattles and smiles as he bounds through his father's cramped office.

Thu, 13 Sep 07
Sprint to offer online shopping on cell phones (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070913/wr_nm/sprint_mobilecommerce_dc


A Sprint-branded mobile phone in an unated file photo. Sprint Nextel Corp customers can now use mobile phones to shop for everything from shoes to televisions in a new service the No. 3 U.S. wireless company has launched to boost revenue. (Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Sprint Nextel Corp customers can now use mobile phones to shop for everything from shoes to televisions in a new service the No. 3 U.S. wireless company has launched to boost revenue.

Thu, 13 Sep 07
SEC charges 4 more former Nortel execs (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070913/ap_on_bi_ge/canada_nortel_sec
AP - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged four more former Nortel Networks Corp. executives with accounting fraud, alleging they manipulated reserves to change Nortel's earnings statements on the orders of more senior officers of the Canadian networking equipment maker.

Thu, 13 Sep 07
Google launches global privacy crusade (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070914/ap_on_hi_te/google_privacy


Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic center of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, books and videos.(AFP/File/John MacDougall)AP - Drawing upon its clout as the Internet's most powerful company, Google Inc. is calling on businesses and regulators throughout the world to adopt international standards for protecting consumer privacy online and offline.

Thu, 13 Sep 07
Google founders pay NASA for jet access (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070913/ap_on_hi_te/google_founders_jet
AP - Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin try to foster an egalitarian spirit at their company, but the duo apparently don't frown upon special treatment for their private airplane — a Boeing 767 that is three times larger than most executive jets.

Thu, 13 Sep 07
Nokia to cooperate on flash memory cards (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070913/ap_on_hi_te/finland_nokia_flash_memory
AP - Nokia Corp. said Thursday it's teaming up with competitors — including Samsung and Sony Ericsson — on a flash memory card that works with a variety of cell phones and other gadgets, regardless of maker.

Thu, 13 Sep 07
ER patients check in at computer kiosks (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070913/ap_on_hi_te/er_kiosks
AP - An emergency room might be the last place you'd think would have do-it-yourself check-in.

Thu, 13 Sep 07
Sales of video games, hardware up 46 percent (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070914/tc_nm/videogames_usa_dc
Reuters - U.S. sales of video games and hardware jumped 46 percent in August from a year earlier, with Microsoft Corp seeing sales of its Xbox 360 console shoot up after a price cut.

Thu, 13 Sep 07
Court stays import ban while Qualcomm appeals (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070913/tc_infoworld/91804
InfoWorld - U.S. mobile users waiting for the next crop of phones could breathe a sigh of relief Wednesday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted a stay on an import ban against handsets that use some Qualcomm chips.

Thu, 13 Sep 07
Salesforce.com unveils user interface as a service (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070914/tc_infoworld/91826
InfoWorld - Next Monday, Salesforce.com will, in the words of one industry analyst, "extend the value proposition of software as a service" when it introduces Visualforce at its Dreamforce Conference in San Francisco.

Thu, 13 Sep 07
Yahoo mistakenly blows the lid off new service (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070914/tc_infoworld/91817
InfoWorld - As if Yahoo didn't have enough trouble already in social networking, a company employee tipped a New York Times reporter by mistake about a new, unannounced service called Yahoo Mash.

Wed, 12 Sep 07
Hard drives can survive fire, floods (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_hi_te/waterlogged_data
AP - As flood waters filled their basement, Larry and Nancy MacLennan hastily moved their computer to the first floor before evacuating. But the water continued to rise, eventually filling most of the two-story house and submerging the computer for hours.

Wed, 12 Sep 07
Yahoo to sell ads for social network (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_bebo


This handout photo shows Yahoo! corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Google and Yahoo are the top online brand names for US consumers, with MySpace a strong contender among young Internet users, a survey showed Monday.(AFP/HO/File)AP - In its latest move to beef up its marketing muscle, Yahoo Inc. will sell most of the display advertising for England's leading online social network, Bebo.

Wed, 12 Sep 07
Yahoo wins exclusive ad deal for Bebo UK, Ireland (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070912/wr_nm/yahoo_bebo_dc


A screenshot of Bebo.com, taken on September 12, 2007. Yahoo Inc announced on Wednesday an exclusive partnership with Bebo to manage display advertising on the social networking Web site in Britain and Ireland, giving it access to more than 11 million sought-after users. (www.bebo.com/Reuters)Reuters - Yahoo Inc announced on Wednesday an exclusive partnership with Bebo to manage display advertising on the social networking Web site in Britain and Ireland, giving it access to more than 11 million sought-after users.

Wed, 12 Sep 07
Sony unveils new Blu-ray recorders to fight HD DVD (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070912/tc_nm/sony_blu_ray_dc


A model poses with Sony Corp's new Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorder during an unveiling in Tokyo September 12, 2007. Sony said it will launch four models of new Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders in November in Japan, as its format battle with the HD DVD camp heats up. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)Reuters - Sony Corp (6758.T) said it will launch four models of new Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders in November in Japan, as its format battle with the HD DVD camp heats up.

Wed, 12 Sep 07
TI raises third-quarter profit outlook (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_bi_ge/texas_instruments_outlook


President and Chief Executive Officer Texas Instruments, Richard K. Templeton looks on during a press conference in Bangalore, India, in this April 2, 2007 file photo. Chip-maker Texas Instruments Inc. is expected to update its third-quarter earnings forecast. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, file)AP - Texas Instruments Inc., the world's largest maker of chips used in cellular phones, expects third-quarter earnings to come in on the higher end of a range it had previously forecast.

Wed, 12 Sep 07
Google health exec Adam Bosworth to leave company (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070912/bs_nm/google_health_dc


Google Vice President Adam Bosworth in an undated file photo. Bosworth, a pioneering software developer and the executive in charge of Google's slow-to-materialize health-information push, has left the company to pursue other interests, Google said on Tuesday. (Google/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Adam Bosworth, a pioneering software developer and the executive in charge of Google's slow-to-materialize health-information push, has left the company to pursue other interests, Google said on Tuesday.

Wed, 12 Sep 07
Court puts hold on Qualcomm import ban (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070913/ap_on_hi_te/qualcomm_import_ban
AP - A federal judge Wednesday halted an import ban on mobile phones by Qualcomm Inc., a rare legal victory in a long-standing patent dispute with rival Broadcom Corp.

Wed, 12 Sep 07
Review: Moto Razr2, Q9m fail to excite (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_hi_te/tech_test_motorola_phones


Motorola's new line of MOTORAZR2's are offered by, left to right: Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon. Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007 in New York. The Motorola Q9m is on the far right. With Motorola's position as the world's No. 2 cell phone maker in jeopardy, it has brought out a thoroughly reworked Razr, and jazzed up its Q with more music-oriented features. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Motorola rode high for a while on sales of its slim, stylish Razr phone. When its competitive edge started to dull, the company set its hopes on the Q, a BlackBerry-like e-mail phone, which it initially thought would sell as well as the Razr.

Wed, 12 Sep 07
FM Transmitter has Bluetooth, fits in cup holder (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070913/tc_pcworld/137130
PC World - Macally on Wednesday announced the release of the BTCUP, a new Bluetooth-equipped FM transmitter for the iPod designed to fit snugly in an automobile car holder. It costs US$119.95.

Wed, 12 Sep 07
MS Project Server 2007 pleases (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070913/tc_infoworld/91763
InfoWorld - Welcome back to the great Office Server smorgasbord. There’ll be a related review soon covering a couple of open source answers to SharePoint, including Liferay and Plone. And come October, you’ll be seeing a fully graded review of the release versions of Office Communications Server and Exchange Server 2007.

Wed, 12 Sep 07
Sun expands alliance with Microsoft (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_hi_te/sun_microsoft
AP - Sun Microsystems Inc. will begin building servers with one-time foe Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system installed directly inside of them, instead of forcing customers to install the ubiquitous software on their own or defect to a competitor for one-stop shopping.

Wed, 12 Sep 07
Halo 3's Master Chief Invades Tussauds' Vegas Museum (TechWeb)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070913/tc_cmp/201805918
TechWeb - The installation of the "life-sized" wax figure in the famed Las Vegas Strip museum is the latest indication that the Xbox 360 game will smash game disc sales records.

Tue, 11 Sep 07
FCC chair promotes post-digital TV rule (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070911/ap_on_hi_te/digital_cable


Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin speaks during a question and answer session during the Telecommunications Industry Association's Globalcomm conference in Chicago in this June 5, 2006 file photo. Martin is seeking to force the cable industry to continue servicing analog TVs even after the 2009 digital switchover. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - Here's the pitch from the cable TV industry: One way or another, all subscribers will still be able to tune in their favorite shows when broadcasters shift to digital-only transmission in 2009.

Tue, 11 Sep 07
New Bin Laden video appears on 9/11 anniversary: CNN (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070911/pl_afp/usattacks6yearsqaedabinladen


Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden speaks in a video released on a web site September 7, 2007. With Osama bin Laden's ability to grab attention undiminished six years after the September 11 attacks, al Qaeda is bleeding the U.S. military in Iraq while regrouping with aims of another strike on the United States. REUTERS (Reuters)AFP - A new video purportedly featuring Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden appeared on the Internet Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States, CNN reported.

Tue, 11 Sep 07
Satyam Computer to make Malaysia largest software hub outside India (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070911/tc_afp/malaysiaindiatechnologycompanysatyam


File photo shows employees of The Satyam Group outside the firm's headquarters in Hyderabad. Satyam Computer, a top global consulting and IT services provider, will make Malaysia its largest software hub outside India with at least 2,000 employees by 2010, a report said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Noah Seelam)AFP - Satyam Computer, a top global consulting and IT services provider, will make Malaysia its largest software hub outside India with at least 2,000 employees by 2010, a report said Tuesday.

Tue, 11 Sep 07
Despite demand, libraries won't add PCs (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_hi_te/libraries_internet


Jorge Cuevas, left, and Shavonna Jefferson, right, use the Internet at the Urban League employment center in Los Angeles to find jobs r Friday, Sept. 7, 2007. Employers sliced payrolls by 4,000 in August, the first drop in four years, a stark sign that a painful credit crunch that has unnerved Wall Street is putting a strain on the national economy. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - YouTube, online job applications and homework help sites have boosted demand and contributed to lines for Internet access at the nation's public libraries, yet a new survey finds the majority have no immediate plans to add computers.

Tue, 11 Sep 07
VMware seeks to build on IPO buzz (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070911/ap_on_hi_te/vmware_fever


Diane Greene, CEO of VMware Inc. waits to be introduced before delivering her keynote address at the VMWorld 2007 conference in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - Fresh off this year's hottest debut on Wall Street, trendsetting software maker VMware Inc. is hosting nearly 11,000 people clamoring to learn more about a computing twist that is turning into high-tech's next big jackpot.

Tue, 11 Sep 07
Microsoft releases 4 security fixes (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070911/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_security


Microsoft Corporation CEO Steve Ballmer is seen in New York August 20, 2007. Microsoft Corp., seeking to preserve the dominance of its Windows franchise, launched a new software application that takes aim at VMware Inc, the leader in 'virtualization' technology that allows a single computer server to operate like many machines. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)AP - Microsoft Corp. released four software patches Tuesday to fix security flaws, including one flaw that could allow hackers to take over computers running the company's instant-messaging programs.

Tue, 11 Sep 07
BEA's Genesis to back open source, scripting languages (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070912/tc_infoworld/91762
InfoWorld - BEA Systems' planned next-generation application platform, called Project Genesis, will feature an open source component and accommodate scripting languages such as Ruby and Perl, BEA officials said at the BEAWorld San Francisco conference on Tuesday.

Tue, 11 Sep 07
VMware Introduces Hypervisor For Server Hardware (TechWeb)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070912/tc_cmp/201805616
TechWeb - A host of server vendors plan to ship products with the new hypervisor starting at the end of this year and through 2008.

Tue, 11 Sep 07
Nintendo Math: Wiimote + Nunchuk = Wii Zapper (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070911/bs_nf/55238
NewsFactor - The remote control for Nintendo's Wii game console, and the add-on attachment known as the Nunchuk, are having their first offspring. It is named the Wii Zapper. On Monday, the games company announced that the Zapper will launch on November 19, bundled with Link's Crossbow Adventure for $19.99.

Mon, 10 Sep 07
Capgemini to support Google software (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070910/ap_on_hi_te/google_capgemini
AP - Technology consultancy Capgemini will begin recommending Google Inc.'s online suite of office software to its corporate customers, bolstering the Internet search leader's effort to drum up more sales to big businesses.

Mon, 10 Sep 07
US sex suspect agrees to extradition (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070910/pl_afp/hongkonguscrimejustice


An undated handout photo by the US Marshals Service shows Kenneth John Freeman, accused of raping his daughter and posting the film on the Internet. One of the United States' most wanted sex suspects, who is accused of raping his daughter and posting the film on the Internet, Freeman agreed Monday to be extradited from Hong Kong, a court heard.(AFP/HO/US Marshals/File)AFP - One of the United States' most wanted sex suspects, who is accused of raping his daughter and posting the film on the Internet, agreed Monday to be extradited from Hong Kong, a court here heard.

Mon, 10 Sep 07
Capgemini partners Google Apps software (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070910/bs_nm/capgemini_google_partnership_dc


A SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics) attendee talks on a cell phone as he views a display of Google Maps at SIGGRAPH 2007 in San Diego, August 9, 2007. Capgemini, Europe's largest computer consultancy, said on Monday it would partner U.S. software group Google Inc in supporting the Google Apps software package. (Mike Blake/Reuters)Reuters - Capgemini , Europe's largest computer consultancy, said on Monday it would partner U.S. software group Google Inc in supporting the Google Apps software package.

Mon, 10 Sep 07
Apple sells 1 million iPhones in 74 days (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070910/ap_on_hi_te/apple_iphone


Apple iPhone on display at the opening of an Apple Store in Los Gatos, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007. Apple announced on Monday, Sept. 10, 2007 announced they sold its millionth iPhone. The sales milestone on Sunday came 74 days after the combination cell phone-iPod went on sale and five days after Apple cut the price. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Apple Inc. sold its millionth iPhone over the weekend, days after it slashed the price by a third to spur sales.

Mon, 10 Sep 07
Intel boosts 3Q forecast (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070910/ap_on_hi_te/intel_outlook
AP - It was supposed to be Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s day Monday with the launch of its highly touted new server chip, but Intel Corp. swooped in and stole some of the headlines from its smaller rival with a boosted financial forecast.

Mon, 10 Sep 07
Deals could be close on Internet radio (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070910/ap_on_hi_te/internet_radio
AP - Listening to radio over the Internet is easier than ever, as high-speed connections have proliferated and online offerings become more sophisticated. Now the legal aspects may be falling into place too.

Mon, 10 Sep 07
IBM claims ultra-tiny art project (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070911/ap_on_hi_te/ibm_nanoprinting
AP - IBM Corp. researchers are touting one of the tiniest pieces of art ever made — an image of the sun made from 20,000 microscopic particles of gold. The precision required is a breakthrough that heralds ultra-miniature sensors, lenses and wires inside nanoscale circuits of the future.

Mon, 10 Sep 07
Apple mulling bid on airwaves auction (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070911/ap_on_hi_te/apple_airwaves_auction
AP - Apple Inc. may bid for the rights to a wireless spectrum auctioned by the Federal Communications Commission, a risky but intriguing move that would help carry the consumer electronics company into the telecommunications realm.

Mon, 10 Sep 07
Vodafone reveals its answer to iPhone (FT.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20070911/bs_ft/fto091020072129262632
FT.com - Vodafone on Monday geared itself up for the launch of Apple's iPhone in the UK by unveiling its range of mobile phones for the all-important Christmas market and an "all you can eat" music download service.

Mon, 10 Sep 07
Sun accommodating Linux in Solaris (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070911/tc_infoworld/91677
InfoWorld - With an incremental update to its Solaris 10 OS, Sun is extending the platform's virtualization capabilities to accommodate Linux and Solaris on the same computer.

Mon, 10 Sep 07
Microsoft touts RFID, EDI in BizTalk Server upgrade (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070911/tc_infoworld/91725
InfoWorld - Microsoft is adding capabilities for RFID and EDI to its BizTalk Server business process management platform as well as making BizTalk friendlier for application developers.

Mon, 10 Sep 07
Take-Two loss is smaller than expected (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070910/bs_nm/taketwo_results_dc
Reuters - Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc on Monday posted a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss, helped by sales of games such as "The Darkness" and one based on the latest "Fantastic Four" movie.

Sun, 9 Sep 07
Laws target teen drivers' cell phone use (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070909/ap_on_hi_te/driver_distraction_teenagers
AP - Narin Leininger knows about the risks of talking on a cell phone or sending text messages while driving. The 16-year-old high school junior says he'd only use his phone behind the wheel in an emergency — a flat tire, traffic jam or crash.

Sun, 9 Sep 07
Chip implants linked to animal tumors (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070909/ap_on_re_us/chipping_america_ii


A VeriChip microchip held in pair of tweezers is displayed in Boca Raton, Fla., in this May 10, 2002, file photo. Proponents say the chips, when implanted in people, offer security and medical identification benefits. Detractors worry that abuse of the chips will eliminate personal privacy in the digital age. (AP Photo/Steve Mitchell)AP - When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved implanting microchips in humans, the manufacturer said it would save lives, letting doctors scan the tiny transponders to access patients' medical records almost instantly. The FDA found "reasonable assurance" the device was safe, and a sub-agency even called it one of 2005's top "innovative technologies."

Sun, 9 Sep 07
Spread of Wi-Fi could boost Atheros, Barron's says (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070909/bs_nm/atheros_barrons_dc
Reuters - Wireless chip maker Atheros Communications Inc could see increased demand for its products with the spread of Wi-Fi technology in popular products like Apple Inc's new touch-screen iPods, the financial newspaper Barron's reported in its September 10 edition.

Sun, 9 Sep 07
AMD's server chip critical to success (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070909/ap_on_hi_te/amd_chip_launch
AP - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is set to launch its highly publicized new server chip Monday, delivering the biggest jolt to its product lineup in four years.

Sat, 8 Sep 07
Heavy Internet users unplugged by US cable company (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070908/tc_afp/ustechnologyinternet


A computer user in Chicago. Several Internet users in the United States have been unplugged by their service provider because they download too much, a press report said here Friday(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)AFP - Several Internet users in the United States have been unplugged by their service provider because they download too much, a press report said here Friday.

Sat, 8 Sep 07
Techies ponder computers smarter than us (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070909/ap_on_hi_te/superintelligent_machines
AP - At the center of a black hole there lies a point called a singularity where the laws of physics no longer make sense. In a similar way, according to futurists gathered Saturday for a weekend conference, information technology is hurtling toward a point where machines will become smarter than their makers. If that happens, it will alter what it means to be human in ways almost impossible to conceive, they say.

Sat, 8 Sep 07
ProTrade gives fans a say in rankings (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070908/ap_on_hi_te/fbc_protrade_poll
AP - From the weekly media and coaches polls to the preseason rankings in a bevy of magazines to the annual end-of-season debate about the Bowl Championship Series, no sport is tied to polling as much as college football. Now there's a Web site that is giving fans a chance to have their say in a virtual futures market for college football teams.

Sat, 8 Sep 07
Seattle Man Gets Two Years for eBay Fraud (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070909/tc_pcworld/136983
PC World - A Seattle man has been sentenced to two years in prison for selling computers and cameras on eBay but never actually delivering the goods.

Sat, 8 Sep 07
Apple attempts to block free ringtones with iTunes update (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20070908/tc_macworld/itunesupdate20070908
Macworld.com - Apple has released an update to iTunes that blocks users from creating free custom ringtones and then syncing them to an iPhone. Despite Apple’s best efforts to thwart users, a workaround has already been found and posted to the Internet.

Sat, 8 Sep 07
Egypt's Luxor offers WiMax access to visitors (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070908/wr_nm/egypt_wimax_luxor_dc
Reuters - Egypt's ancient city of Luxor has become the latest spot to offer super high-speed WiMax wireless Internet technology, encouraging visitors to stay connected while they tour the city's Pharaonic temples.

Sat, 8 Sep 07
Microsoft Streamlines Volume Licensing Programs (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070908/tc_pcworld/136975
PC World - Microsoft Corp. continues to tweak its volume licensing programs to make it easier for business customers to purchase the company's software in bulk.

Sat, 8 Sep 07
AMD Seeks Server Rebound With Barcelona (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070908/tc_pcworld/136960
PC World - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. hopes to seize a larger share of the server chip market from its rival Intel Corp. on Monday when it launches the Barcelona quad-core processor.

Fri, 7 Sep 07
Many iPhone owners relish being first (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_hi_te/apple_early_adopters


Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007 that the 8GB iPhone will now sell for $399. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - They're the guinea pigs willing to pay top dollar for cutting-edge gizmos, whether the gadgets are half-baked, potentially doomed or harbingers of a revolution.

Fri, 7 Sep 07
"Daily Show," "Silverman" getting new Web sites (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070907/wr_nm/mtvnetworks_dc


Jon Stewart poses backstage after his show, 'The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,' won an Emmy for both best variety, music or comedy series and best writing for a variety, music or comedy series at the 58th annual Primetime Emmy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in this August 27, 2006 file photo. MTV Networks, owner of the MTV and Comendy Central channels, is planning to build thousands more websites to win back young viewers. (Mario Anzuoni/Files/Reuters)Reuters - A new hub for Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" headlines a slate of two-dozen targeted Web sites that Viacom's MTV Networks will launch by the first quarter.

Fri, 7 Sep 07
Sony needs consistent PS3 strategy: videogame publisher (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070907/tc_nm/sony_ps3_square_enix_dc


Visitors use microphones to play a Playstation 3 Singstar at an exhibition stand of Japanese Sony company at the Games Convention 2007 fair in the eastern German city of Leipzig August 22, 2007. Sony Corp needs to establish an unwavering marketing strategy for its PlayStation 3 game machine to drive growth of its console business, the head of Japanese videogame publisher Square Enix Co Ltd said. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)Reuters - Sony Corp (6758.T) needs to establish an unwavering marketing strategy for its PlayStation 3 game machine to drive growth of its console business, the head of Japanese videogame publisher Square Enix Co Ltd (9684.T) said.

Fri, 7 Sep 07
E-mail outage hits some BlackBerry users (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070908/ap_on_hi_te/blackberry_outage
AP - A software glitch shut down e-mail service for some BlackBerry users Friday, and delays were still being felt hours after the problem was fixed.

Fri, 7 Sep 07
Tech giants, banks win on patent reform (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_hi_te/patent_reform_house
AP - Technology and financial services firms won a key patent reform victory Friday when the House approved legislation the industries have pushed for years by a vote of 220-175.

Fri, 7 Sep 07
Motorola pledges to break out of slump (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_hi_te/motorola_analysts
AP - Motorola Inc. executives pledged Friday to break the company out of its deep slump by rolling out a series of innovative new cell phones rather than a "one-hit wonder" like the Razr.

Fri, 7 Sep 07
Vizio emerges from flat-panel TV shadows (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_hi_te/tv_underdog
AP - Upstart American TV maker Vizio Inc. has been nipping for three years at the heels of household names such as Sony and Samsung.

Fri, 7 Sep 07
AOL to drop Digg-like news from Netscape (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_hi_te/aol_social_news
AP - AOL is once again revamping its Netscape.com Web portal, dropping a year-old "social news" component in which visitors submitted and voted on news stories and blog entries to determine how they're ranked on the site.

Fri, 7 Sep 07
Apple Stock Tumbles After iPhone Fiasco (TechWeb)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070908/tc_cmp/201804925
TechWeb - Investors showed their displeasure with the $200 price cut and subsequent rebate by shaving $11 billion off Apple's market cap.

Fri, 7 Sep 07
InterDigital inks license deal with Apple (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070907/tc_nm/interdigital_outlook_tech_dc
Reuters - Wireless technology firm InterDigital Inc said it signed a seven-year licensing agreement to provide technology for Apple Inc's first cell phone, the iPhone.

Fri, 7 Sep 07
Ads Funding Software Applications Available Via The Web (Investor's Business Daily)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20070907/bs_ibd_ibd/200797tech01
Investor's Business Daily - Some free open-source software aside, business software has been sold through licensing agreements for packaged products or via Web-based subscriptions -- until now.

Fri, 7 Sep 07
Microsoft drops SharePoint fix (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070908/tc_infoworld/91691
InfoWorld - September's batch of Microsoft security patches was trimmed Friday as Microsoft announced that a planned update to its SharePoint collaboration software would not be released this month.

Fri, 7 Sep 07
Quad-Core Barcelona Is Only A Start For AMD (TechWeb)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070908/tc_cmp/201804900
TechWeb - The processor's sweet spot will be in four-way servers, and midrange two-way servers, but AMD will need to show increased performance for the price if it wants to add customers, analysts suggest.

Fri, 7 Sep 07
Trends & Innovations - Friday (Investor's Business Daily)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20070907/bs_ibd_ibd/200797trends
Investor's Business Daily - Game makers are looking toward the simplicity of Pac-Man to gobble up big bucks. And now with the success of the Nintendo Wii, which can run many simple games, the casual game market is being taken more seriously. Casual games -- those that don't rely on top-of-the-line graphics and intense game-play to master -- have typically targeted middle-aged females. The perk for game makers is that simple games take less time and money to make, so far less is lost if the game flops. They're also easy to get to people via downloads.

Thu, 6 Sep 07
U.S. ITC starts investigation into Nokia 3G phones (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070906/tc_nm/nokia_usa_dc
Reuters - The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) said it has decided to start an investigation of certain Nokia (NOK1V.HE) 3G cellphones based on a complaint filed by InterDigital last month.

Thu, 6 Sep 07
ArcelorMittal gets U.S. OK for Sparrows Point sale (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070906/bs_nm/arcelormittal_us_dc
Reuters - ArcelorMittal , the world's largest steelmaker, said on Thursday it had received clearance from U.S. competition authorities to sell its Sparrows Point plant for an enterprise value of $1.35 billion.

Thu, 6 Sep 07
Google helps in search for aviator (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070906/ap_on_hi_te/steve_fossett_google


American adventurer Steve Fossett arrives at Kent International Airport, Manston, Kent, England. in this Feb. 11, 2006, photo.A small plane carrying aviation adventurer Steve Fossett has been missing since Monday night, federal officials said Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2007. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file)AP - Google Inc. is best known for finding information online, but sometimes the Internet search leader also works behind the scenes to look for missing people like renowned aviator Steve Fossett.

Thu, 6 Sep 07
Comic books now available on cell phones (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070906/ap_on_hi_te/mobile_comic_books


Artist Steven Sanders holds a cell phone next to his computer screen at his office in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007. Sanders' is working to format comics for cell phones. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - Sean Demory realized a long-held dream of becoming a published comic book writer when "Thunder Road," a post-apocalyptic adventure he developed with artist Steven Sanders, was released.

Thu, 6 Sep 07
Accusation of ID theft by file-sharing (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_hi_te/id_theft
AP - A Seattle man has been arrested in what the Justice Department described as its first case against someone accused of using file-sharing digital data to commit identity theft.

Thu, 6 Sep 07
Music videos go lo-fi as cash dries up (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070906/ap_on_hi_te/music_cheaper_videos


Beck is photographed during the filming of his music video for 'Nausea,' a single from his new fusion album, 'The Information,' in downtown Los Angeles, in this Oct. 2, 2006, file photo. As labels thin their music video budgets, artists are increasingly embracing the YouTube aesthetic with cheap, stripped-down, low-production videos. For his album Beck personally created a video for every track. The silly, lo-fi videos — which ranged from showing puppet versions of the band to someone dancing in a bear mask and poncho — were posted on YouTube and many copies of the album included a bonus DVD. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes/FILE)AP - The music video is shrinking.

Thu, 6 Sep 07
Asian airlines warm to mobiles in cabins (FT.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20070907/bs_ft/fto090620072327082090
FT.com - The small band of companies looking to bring mobile telephony to aircraft cabins received a boost this week when the first airlines from two of the world's fastest growing air travel markets signalled their intent to test the technology.

Thu, 6 Sep 07
Microsoft aims at VMware's virtualization lead (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070907/tc_nm/microsoft_virtualization_dc
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. , seeking to preserve the dominance of its Windows franchise, launched a new software application that takes aim at VMware Inc. , the leader in "virtualization" technology that allows a single computer server to operate like many machines.

Thu, 6 Sep 07
IBM syndicating technical content via 'gizmos' (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070907/tc_infoworld/91652
InfoWorld - IBM is launching a free syndicated content service Friday enabling access to technical resources and emerging technologies via systems ranging from computers to devices like the popular iPhone.

Wed, 5 Sep 07
Smile! Big Brother software is watching you (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070905/tc_nm/japan_smile_tech_dc
Reuters - A Japanese company has developed "smile checker" software that can tell whether someone looks happy, sad or somewhere in between.

Wed, 5 Sep 07
Apple cuts iPhone price, updates iPods (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070906/ap_on_hi_te/apple_ipods


Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007 that the 8GB iPhone will now sell for $399. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Apple Inc.'s price cut of its iPhone and new lineup of iPod players are expected to ring in healthy holiday sales, but Wall Street investors accustomed to Apple's meaty profit margins appear a bit disappointed.

Wed, 5 Sep 07
HP deepens push into cell phone market (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070906/ap_on_hi_te/hp_cell_phones
AP - Hewlett-Packard Co. unveiled two new cell phones Wednesday, pushing deeper into the lucrative mobile phone market and broadening the array of equipment it can sell to large companies.

Wed, 5 Sep 07
Newest spy gadget: social networking (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_for_spies


Mike Wertheimer, assistant deputy director of national intelligence for analytic transformation and technology, speaks about 'A-Space' in Chicago, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007. The classified 'A-Space, ' an internal Web project set to launch in December, ultimately will grow to include blogs, searchable databases, report libraries, collaborative word processing and social networking that lets analysts quickly trade, update and edit information. (AP Photo/ Stacie Freudenberg)AP - As spy gear goes, a social-networking Web site doesn't quite have the same cachet as some of James Bond's high-tech gadgets.

Wed, 5 Sep 07
Microsoft cuts $50 from Zune price (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_zune


A screenshot of Sliverlight.net, taken on September 5, 2007. Microsoft Corp's Silverlight Web video players will be rolled out on a number of Web sites on Wednesday, including celebrity news destination 'Entertainment Tonight,' in a sign of the growing rivalry between the software giant and Adobe Systems Inc. (silverlight.net/Reuters)AP - Microsoft Corp. slashed $50 from the price of its Zune digital media player Wednesday, just before Apple Inc. announced an iPhone price cut and additions to its market-leading iPod line.

Wed, 5 Sep 07
USA Today distributes news by 'widget' (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_hi_te/usa_today_widgets
AP - USA Today is plunging into a hot new Internet technology, offering its online users the ability to install "widgets" on their blogs and personal Web pages that contain news updates and other information from the newspaper.

Wed, 5 Sep 07
Microsoft rolls out suite of Windows Live services (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070906/wr_nm/microsoft_windowslive_dc
Reuters - Microsoft Corp introduced on Wednesday a suite of Windows Live online services bundled into a single download in its latest effort to compete with Google Inc's growing array of applications delivered over the Web.

Wed, 5 Sep 07
IFA visitors and exhibitors top expectations (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070906/tc_nm/electronics_fair_dc


Visitors walk past flat screen televisions at an exhibition stand of the IFA 2007 consumer electronics fair in Berlin August 31, 2007. The IFA consumer electronics trade fair drew more visitors and exhibitors than expected this year, organizers said as the fair drew to a close on Wednesday. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)Reuters - The IFA consumer electronics trade fair drew more visitors and exhibitors than expected this year, organizers said as the fair drew to a close on Wednesday.

Wed, 5 Sep 07
Network Appliance Sues Sun, But Says It's No SCO (TechWeb)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070906/tc_cmp/201804233
TechWeb - NetApp, which blames Sun for starting the intellectual property dispute, tries to distance itself from SCO's long-running, controversial lawsuit.

Wed, 5 Sep 07
Startup software maker Netbooks takes on Intuit (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070905/tc_nm/netbooks_startup_dc
Reuters - Privately held NetBooks Inc started selling a line of computer programs designed to help run small businesses on Wednesday, taking on QuickBooks provider Intuit Inc and NetSuite Inc, which has filed to go public.

Wed, 5 Sep 07
Online features boost video game revenue: report (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070906/wr_nm/videogames_online_dc
Reuters - Video games with online components bring in more than twice the revenue as those played offline, a research firm said in a report to be published on Thursday.

Tue, 4 Sep 07
AT&T offers parental control service (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070904/ap_on_hi_te/at_t_parental_controls


The AT&T Communications Inc. corporate headquarters building is seen in San Antonio, Texas. Attorneys for the George W. Bush administration urged an appeals court to toss out a domestic spying lawsuit against telecom giant ATT, arguing that the litigation could disclose vital anti-terrorism secrets.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Toby Jorrin)AP - It may be something of a teenage nightmare: limits on when a wireless phone can make and receive calls and to whom, restrictions on text messages and talk time, and set allowances for ring tones and other downloads — all at a parent's fingertips.

Tue, 4 Sep 07
Trademark plaintiff drops suit vs Google over ads (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070904/wr_nm/google_trademark_dc


A Google search page is seen through the spectacles of a computer user in Leicester, central England July 20, 2007. The plaintiff in a long-running trademark infringement lawsuit against Google Inc agreed on Friday to drop its case targeting the Web search advertising leader's core business, according to court filings. (Darren Staples/Reuters)Reuters - The plaintiff in a long-running trademark infringement lawsuit against Google Inc agreed on Friday to drop its case targeting the Web search advertising leader's core business, according to court filings.

Tue, 4 Sep 07
NBC to sell new TV shows on Amazon Unbox (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_hi_te/amazon_nbc


Dania Ramirez, cast member of the “Heroes” television show, pauses as she and other cast members sign memorabilia for fans at the NBC Experience store, Tuesday, August 28, 2007 in New York. She plays Maya a new character in the show's second season. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh)AP - NBC Universal said Tuesday it will sell episodes of its new fall television shows using Amazon's Unbox digital download service, after the network failed to reach an agreement with Apple Inc. last week to offer the shows on iTunes.

Tue, 4 Sep 07
ATM makers see ties to cell phones, PDAs (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_hi_te/atm_cell_phones


This photo illustration provided by Diebold Inc. shows how a new technology would integrate a customer's cell phone with an ATM machine. Diebold and NCR Corp., long the key players and competitors in the automated teller machines market, are firming up strategies to be ready when bank customers want to communicate with ATMs through their cell phones or personal digital assistants. (AP Photo/ho, Diebold Co.)AP - Diebold Inc. and NCR Corp., long key players and staunch competitors in the automated teller machines market, are both firming up strategies for communicating with an ATM by cell phone or personal digital assistant.

Tue, 4 Sep 07
Virtual Bernanke guides 'Second Life' (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_hi_te/business_of_life


This photo provided by Arden shows Shylock, the Merchant of Venice, dealing with a customer in the online game “Arden: The World of William Shakespeare.” The game is designed to be a “virtual sandbox” for economic and social experiments. (AP Photo/Arden)AP - Just before U.S. financial markets were roiled by a global credit squeeze this summer, an equally dramatic financial crisis threatened "Second Life," the much-hyped online world.

Tue, 4 Sep 07
FCC's methods leaves public in the dark (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_bi_ge/fcc_secrecy


Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin, left, accompanied by commissioners Michael Copps, center, and Jonathan Adelstein, right, reviews documents as they testified on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Feb. 1, 2007 file photo. It's odd for an agency that has the word 'communications' as its middle name, but the Federal Communications Commission routinely leaves the public in the dark about how it makes critical policy decisions. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - It's odd for an agency that has the word "communications" as its middle name, but the Federal Communications Commission routinely leaves the public in the dark about how it makes critical policy decisions.

Tue, 4 Sep 07
Yahoo buying ad network for $300 million (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_acquisition


This handout photo shows Yahoo! corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Google and Yahoo are the top online brand names for US consumers, with MySpace a strong contender among young Internet users, a survey showed Monday.(AFP/HO/File)AP - Yahoo Inc. is buying online advertising network BlueLithium for $300 million in cash, building upon an expansion aimed at ending a financial malaise that has ravaged the Internet pioneer's stock price.

Tue, 4 Sep 07
Yahoo buys behavioral ad firm for $300 million (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070905/wr_nm/yahoo_advertising_dc


Bloggers upload stories about CES to the Yahoo! Tech page during the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 9, 2007. Yahoo Inc has struck a definitive deal to acquire BlueLithium, the fifth-largest U.S. advertising network, for $300 million, in the latest move to consolidate the behavioral ad targeting market. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)Reuters - Yahoo Inc has struck a deal to buy BlueLithium, the fifth-largest U.S. online ad network, for $300 million in cash, in the latest move to consolidate the fast-growing behavioral ad targeting market.

Tue, 4 Sep 07
UN: World now has 4 billion phone lines (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_hi_te/un_booming_phones


Sam Hill, 13, an eighth grader, speaks on a cell phone as his mother Carlton Hill, looks on, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007 in their Atlanta home. The Hill's have been using parental controls for the past four months on their cell phones. AT&T Inc., the United States' largest wireless carrier, will launch a service Tuesday giving parents wide-ranging control on almost all of its 63.7 million subscriber lines. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith)AP - Largely because of the mobile phone boom in developing countries, telephone service has quadrupled in the past decade to 4 billion lines worldwide, according to a report Tuesday from the U.N. telecommunications agency.

Tue, 4 Sep 07
MetroPCS offers $5.12B for Leap (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_bi_ge/metropcs_leap
AP - Wireless phone provider MetroPCS Communications Inc. publicly offered Tuesday to buy a regional rival for more than $5 billion in stock, a long-anticipated move that would create a nationwide wireless carrier dedicated to the discount market.

Tue, 4 Sep 07
Microsoft releases Silverlight 1.0 video technology (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070905/tc_infoworld/91541
InfoWorld - Microsoft is releasing its Silverlight 1.0 plug-in for video on the Web Wednesday and also will participate in Novell's porting of Silverlight to Linux via the Moonlight project.

Tue, 4 Sep 07
Star student Cisco set to meet analysts (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070905/tc_infoworld/91543
InfoWorld - When Cisco meets analysts Wednesday at an annual conference about its business outlook, the dominant networking player will bring a good financial record and an even more impressive forecast.

Tue, 4 Sep 07
Wii Outsells Sony PS3 Three to One (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070904/bs_nf/55066
NewsFactor - Nintendo's Wii is still holding the top spot in its home country, but Sony's PlayStation 3 is gaining ground on the low-cost console. According to Japanese game magazine publisher Enterbrain, Nintendo sold 245,653 Wii consoles during the four weeks ending August 26. Sony sold 81,541 units of the PS3 during that same period.

Mon, 3 Sep 07
Nintendo Wii outsells PS3 3 to 1 in Japan in Aug (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070903/wr_nm/nintendo_sony_game_dc


A resident at the Greenspring Village Community in Springfield, Virginia holds a 'Wiimote' as he plays with the community's new Wii videogame console March 22, 2007. Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii game console outsold Sony Corp's PS3 by the ratio of 3 to 1 in Japan in August, but Nintendo's lead has become smaller over recent months, industry data showed on Monday. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii game console outsold Sony Corp's PS3 by the ratio of 3 to 1 in Japan in August, but Nintendo's lead has become smaller over recent months, industry data showed on Monday.

Mon, 3 Sep 07
DRAM Finds Home in Cell Phones (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070903/tc_pcworld/136700
PC World - The rapid uptake of smartphones around the world has ensured the future of DRAM (dynamic RAM) in mobile handsets, where the chips are used in every unit shipped.

Mon, 3 Sep 07
Vodafone eyes control of Vodacom (FT.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20070903/bs_ft/fto090320072131151527
FT.com - Vodafone could pay up to $10bn (£4.9bn) to take full control of Vodacom, South Africa's largest mobile group.

Mon, 3 Sep 07
Sun Courts Developers (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070903/tc_pcworld/136683
PC World - Sun Microsystems Inc. has ambitious plans for the commercial and open-source versions of its Solaris operating system, hoping to achieve for Solaris the kind of ubiquity already enjoyed by Java. To come close to reaching that goal, Sun needs to reach out more to developers and endeavor to overcome some long-held prejudices against the OS.

Mon, 3 Sep 07
Oracle to buy Netsure Telecom (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070903/tc_nm/netsure_oracle_dc
Reuters - Business software company Oracle Corp said it agreed to buy Netsure Telecom Ltd, a maker of network related software, for an undisclosed sum.

Mon, 3 Sep 07
Freebies Lure Users into Disclosing Information (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070903/tc_pcworld/136698
PC World - The personal details of thousands of mostly U.S.-based PC users have been discovered stashed on a server located in France, another indication of use of the Internet to collect personal data on a vast scale.

Mon, 3 Sep 07
In-game advertising company adopts TV ad model (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070903/tc_nm/games_doublefusion_dc


Visitors play at an exhibition stand at the Games Convention 2007 fair in the eastern German city of Leipzig August 23, 2007. Double Fusion, a private company that connects advertisers and video game publishers, rolls out new technology on Tuesday to allow advertisers to mount last-minute ad campaigns in games the same way they use spot TV ads. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)Reuters - Double Fusion, a private company that connects advertisers and video game publishers, rolls out new technology on Tuesday to allow advertisers to mount last-minute ad campaigns in games the same way they use spot TV ads.

Sun, 2 Sep 07
Faster Wi-Fi in works to transfer data (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070902/ap_on_hi_te/untangling_the_tangle
AP - With a wave of his hand over a homemade receiver, Georgia Tech professor Joy Laskar shows how easily — and quickly — large data files could someday be transferred from a portable media player to a TV.

Sun, 2 Sep 07
Australian PM in YouTube call for calm at APEC (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070903/wr_nm/apec_dc


Australia's Prime Minister John Howard speaks at a press conference in Sydney, ahead of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit September 3, 2007. (Mick Tsikas/Reuters)Reuters - Australian Prime Minister John Howard used the internet site You-Tube on Monday to sell an Asia-Pacific leaders summit in Sydney this week, ahead of expected protests against global warming and the Iraq war.

Sun, 2 Sep 07
Online shrines for "death networking" (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070903/wr_nm/death_networking_dc


A woman puts flowers on a tombstone in the San Salvador cemetery in Oviedo in this October 31, 2006 file photo. With online sperm and egg trade and social networking sites like Bebo, Facebook and MySpace, we already create and date on the Internet -- so why not 'cremate' online too? (Eloy Alonso/Files/Reuters)Reuters - With online sperm and egg trade and social networking sites like Bebo, Facebook and MySpace, we already create and date on the Internet -- so why not "cremate" online too?

Sat, 1 Sep 07
Prank starts 25 years of security woes (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_hi_te/computer_virus_anniversary
AP - What began as a ninth-grade prank, a way to trick already-suspicious friends who had fallen for his earlier practical jokes, has earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person ever to let loose a personal computer virus.

Sat, 1 Sep 07
Thailand lifts 5-month YouTube ban (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070901/wr_nm/thailand_youtube_dc


In this file photo Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej reviews a parade to mark his 79th birthday in Bangkok December 2, 2006. Thailand has lifted a five-month ban on the video-sharing Web site YouTube after it agreed to block any video clips deemed offensive to the nation's revered King . (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)Reuters - Thailand has lifted a five-month ban on the video-sharing Web site YouTube after it agreed to block any video clips deemed offensive to the nation's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Sat, 1 Sep 07
Apple expected to polish iPod line (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070902/tc_afp/technologyusitinternetmusiccompanyapple


An Apple iPod music and video player. Apple is expected to unveil revamped iPods at a special event on Wednesday in San Francisco.(AFP/File/Robert Sullivan)AFP - Apple is expected to unveil revamped iPods at a special event on Wednesday in San Francisco.

Sat, 1 Sep 07
Wi-fi Boosts Security Budgets (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070901/tc_pcworld/136694
PC World - Wireless technology is now a major worry for most companies, so much so that many predict security spending rising by up to 20 percent to patch up its weaknesses.

Sat, 1 Sep 07
HP Ships Red Hat PC in Australia (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070901/tc_pcworld/136692
PC World - HP and Red Hat have announced a new low-cost Linux desktop bundle for small and medium businesses in Australia.

 

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