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Fri, 9 May 2008 09:47:00 GMT

Inside Microsoft's War Against Google

It's April, and Microsoft's (MSFT) top U. S. salesman for online advertising, Keith Lorizio, is visiting clients in New York City. In a midtown office tower, he sits down with Nicholas Utton, the gregarious chief marketing officer at online broker
Fri, 9 May 2008 09:47:00 GMT

Microsoft orders 65nm Xbox 360 graphics chip

Claims the next incarnation of the Xbox 360's internal workings is due to begin being built into the console in August appear to be on track. Microsoft was this week said to have placed orders with chip and motherboard makers. According to a Taiwanese
Fri, 9 May 2008 08:50:00 GMT

Inside Microsoft's War Against Google

It's April, and Microsoft's (MSFT) top U. S. salesman for online advertising, Keith Lorizio, is visiting clients in New York City. In a midtown office tower, he sits down with Nicholas Utton, the gregarious chief marketing officer at online broker
Fri, 9 May 2008 06:18:00 GMT

LIVEBLOGGING: Schmidt, Page, and Brin Happy About Failed Microsoft-Yahoo Deal

Im sort of liveblogging a talk that Google honchos Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page is having with reporters before the companys annual meeting. Ill post their comments in chunks as it goes along& and clean it up later. As you can probably see
Fri, 9 May 2008 03:57:00 GMT

Facebook Agrees to Devise Tools to Protect Young Users

The social network Facebook has reached an agreement with 49 state attorneys general to institute a broad set of principles intended to protect young users from online predators and inappropriate material. The company will require users under 18 to
Fri, 9 May 2008 02:13:00 GMT

Court issues split decision in Lucent-Microsoft patent row

NEW YORK A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated one of two patent cases tossed out last year in the ongoing user-interface technology dispute pitting Alcatel-Lucent against Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc. The appeals court said the San Diego
Fri, 9 May 2008 01:56:00 GMT

Plus: How Will Microsoft Snare Digital Ads?

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Fri, 9 May 2008 01:09:00 GMT

MySpace lets users share data

Maggie ShielsBBC technology reporter Silicon ValleyTwitter meets MySpaceThe world's most popular social networking site MySpace is to allow users to make their information available to other websites. Its 'data availability' project will let members
Fri, 9 May 2008 00:41:00 GMT

MySpace Turns Social Network Sharing the Right Direction

Amid all the initiatives in which Internet companies are supposed to make friends with each other-such as Facebooks Platform and Googles rival OpenSocial initiative-the announcement today by MySpace may well be the most useful to ordinary people and thus
Thu, 8 May 2008 23:50:00 GMT

Why can't Unix and Linux just get along?

Can the Linux community get over its not invented here ideology which has often hindered its ability to adopt technological improvements from outside sources? I keep saying myself, I hope so. But recent events have shown me that we have a long way to go
Thu, 8 May 2008 23:37:00 GMT

Movers: Sprint Nextel, Clearwire, Disney, Cisco Systems, ON Semiconductor

From Sprint Nextel (S) and Clearwire (CLWR) agree to combine their next-generation wireless broadband businesses to form a new wireless communications company. Intel (INTC), Google (GOOG), Comcast (CMCSA), Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Bright House
Thu, 8 May 2008 20:39:00 GMT

Facebook Agrees to Protect Young Customers

Following MySpace out of the penalty box of 50 state attorneys general, the social network Facebook is agreeing to a broad set of principles to protect young users from predators and inappropriate material. The company will now require users under 18 to
Thu, 8 May 2008 16:56:00 GMT

Paul Murphy: Why many MCSEs won't learn Linux

Heres the entirety of responding to : Paul, I think that the vast majority of techs/geeks out there can relate to MCSE Mikes question at the top of this article. His question and your attempted response reveal three potential roadblocks to the wider
Thu, 8 May 2008 16:22:00 GMT

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: My OS is the best OS because...

Ive come back from a long weekend (a long weekend of moving several PCs from mid towers to full towers and fitting 5-in-3 hard drive enclosures) to find my inbox crammed with OS related emails. It seems that something I said last week (Im guessing this
Thu, 8 May 2008 16:22:00 GMT

Grand Theft Auto IV steals sales records

(GameTap.com) The dual figure of unit sales and revenues makes the launch the biggest ever for video games, and one of the biggest opening weeks in all of entertainment. Sales of the game generated more than half a billion dollars, the publisher,
Thu, 8 May 2008 15:23:00 GMT

Nasa set to join petaflop elite

Nasa has used its supercomputers to study colliding black holesNasa is making a bid to join the elite group using supercomputers whose power is measured in petaflops. By 2009 the US space agency aims to be running a petaflop supercomputer that will be
Thu, 8 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Best Buy invests $2.1 billion in Carphone Warehouse

Best Buy, the largest consumer electronics retailer in the U.S., is getting into the European cell phone market by taking a stake in retailer Carphone Warehouse. Best Buy, which operates 900 stores across the U.S., will pay $2.1 billion for half interest
Thu, 8 May 2008 14:52:00 GMT

The New Hacker Economics

To make money, you have to move up the economic food chain into higher-value, more profitable work and markets. That economic fact of life applies to nations, companies and individuals. A study released this week shows how this natural law is being
Thu, 8 May 2008 13:10:00 GMT

AMD: Can it execute?

AMD has revamped its server processor roadmap with plans to jump to six and then 12 cores in the first half of 2010, but the larger question is whether the company can actually deliver. Given that AMD has had a hard time delivering its quad-core chips
Thu, 8 May 2008 13:02:00 GMT

TorrentSpy ordered to pay $110m

TorrentSpy closed its doors last monthFile-sharing site TorrentSpy has been ordered to pay $110m (56m) in damages to the Motion Picture Association of America for copyright infringement. The ruling from a court in the United States comes just weeks after
Thu, 8 May 2008 11:05:00 GMT

Fake media file snares PC users

The fake file claims to be an mp3 of Girls Aloud Almost 500,000 people have been caught out by a booby-trapped media file, says security firm McAfee. The fake file poses as a music track, short video or movie and has been widely seeded on file-sharing
Thu, 8 May 2008 11:05:00 GMT

Walt Disney, Cisco Systems among big market movers

NEW YORK Stocks that are moving substantially or trading heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Walt Disney Co., up 97 cents at $34.70 Profit rose 22 percent for the entertainment conglomerate on greater theme
Thu, 8 May 2008 06:41:00 GMT

Your Chance to Finish a Movie Microsoft Started

CALLING all would-be Judd Apatows, Martin Scorseses and Coen brothers. Your cinematic ambitions may be supported by an unlikely patron, based not in Hollywood but several hundred miles to the north in Redmond, Wash. That geographic clue gives away the
Thu, 8 May 2008 02:23:00 GMT

Yahoo, Microsoft: Off again ... on again?

Reports of the death of the Microsoft-Yahoo deal could be greatly exaggerated as there is still a possibility that both sides will return to the bargaining table Talkback E-mail Printer Friendly Reprints Just when it seemed that their stormy
Thu, 8 May 2008 00:37:00 GMT

On the Watch: Cisco and Disney report quarterly results

Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. may see heavy trading Wednesday after the networking equipment maker posted a larger-than-expected profit in its fiscal third quarter. Cisco's profit fell 5 percent for the quarter, but its adjusted profit topped analyst
Wed, 7 May 2008 17:24:00 GMT

Fixing Windows Vista: Top troubleshooting tools

Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd. Over the past year, reviews of Windows Vista by mainstream media outlets, the technical press, bloggers, and ordinary users have been, for the most part, scathing. And many
Wed, 7 May 2008 16:46:00 GMT

Unlocked and pricey, iPhone is coveted in Israel

TEL AVIV, Israel (CNN) -- In Tel Aviv's wholesale fashion headquarters, where textile merchants follow in the legacy of fathers and grandfathers, many Israelis are looking for the latest in tech fashion: the iPhone. It's here at Z-Tov Ltd. that consumers
Wed, 7 May 2008 13:23:00 GMT

Unicaresoft loses MSNLock case against Microsoft

Microsoft has won its case against Dutch 46-year-old mother of three Carola Eppink, who wanted to restrict her children's use of the internet by using a self-made program she'd dubbed MSNLock. Microsoft sued her company Unicaresoft to prevent the letters
Wed, 7 May 2008 12:59:00 GMT

Gates: Microsoft going 'independent' way

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday the company isn't pursuing other deals following the withdrawal of its US$47.5 billion (euro30.7 billion) takeover bid for Yahoo. He said in Tokyo that the company put 'a lot of effort' in the talks with Yahoo
Wed, 7 May 2008 12:04:00 GMT

GTA makes record first week sales

Publicity for GTA IV has been hard to escapeIn its first week Grand Theft Auto IV has continued the record breaking run begun on its first few days on sale. Figures from Chart Track show the acclaimed title sold 926,000 copies in its first week - earning
Wed, 7 May 2008 11:53:00 GMT