July, 2007 Issue

Microsoft will offer a Windows Live installer that will download and install software that will allow access to multiple online services, according to the president of the software company's platform and services division.

Fans of the TV show get a hint of computer games, mobisodes, and books in the works.

The enterprise hasn't been quick to adopt the latest draft of the 802.11n wireless LAN standard.

The British not only have superior television (in general) but now they can watch it online too.

Friday morning, at the O'Reilly Open Source conference in Portland, Ore., Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Wikia, announced the release of an open-source Web crawling site called Grub.

Sophisticated phishing attacks aimed at business executives have hooked thousands of users.

Long-awaited and much-promised technology to combat piracy in Google's YouTube video sharing site should be ready by September.

An huge expansion in the number of city-wide wireless networks is being predicted as local government and ISPs get switched on to the opportunities ubiquitous Wi-Fi can offer — economic and otherwise.

Skype is shaking off its consumer shackles and finding favour with enterprises, with almost one-third of its customers using its telephony software for business.

Hefty investments in online services and consumer electronics will let Microsoft maintain its historically rapid growth rate, chief executive Steve Ballmer told financial analysts on Thursday.

It's a good time to be a malicious hacker. Business is excellent.

Staffordshire County Council has developed software that detects and turns off idle PCs and could cut £40,000 per year off the authority's energy bill.

Hacker posts details of a flaw that could let criminals run unauthorized software on a victim's machine.

The number of infected Web pages has soared nearly six-fold since the first of the year, according to security company Sophos.

Yahoo says it will make user search data anonymous after 13 months.

Microsoft will be the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising on the popular Digg news site.

McAfee's new Rootkit Detective is designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks.

Commtouch Software, Image Analyzer, and the Internet Watch Foundation are banding together to develop new ways to keep porn off corporate networks.

Certification has been awarded to consumer wireless USB products for the first time, with Dell and Lenovo both announcing notebook computers using the technology.

A three-year study into the possible short-term health effects of mobile base stations has found that base stations are not associated with ill health.

MySpace hosted Web pages for at least 29,000 known sex offenders as of July 2007.

One of the most useful things the iPhone does is find Wi-Fi networks in the area. This is something any device with Wi-Fi connectivity can do, but finding a Web connection with an iPhone in hand is a bit easier than driving around a neighborhood with a laptop in search of a strong signal.

Not too long ago, nearly every move that Microsoft made seemed to draw complaints that the company was abusing its market dominance.

Google has invested an undisclosed amount in the British femtocell maker Ubiquisys.

Microsoft is planning to ship its next major version of Windows — known internally as version "7" — within roughly three years.

Google has invested in a maker of femtocells, cellular base stations for homes and offices.

First person: What's a telecommuter to do when the Web telephony service vanishes?

The IEEE 802.20 mobile broadband wireless group seeks to prevent domination by a single company.

Further distancing itself from GPLv3, Microsoft struck the GNU license from its patent agreement with Lindows.

Notes 8 will sport a revamped interface and support RSS, blogs, and wikis, says exec.

Business customers can expect better broadband wireless after the FCC auctions off prime radio-frequency spectrum next year.

David Drummond agrees to pay nearly $700,000 in fines for overstating the revenue of an e-learning company while he was its CEO.

Microsoft said that it expects Windows XP to make up a significantly larger part of sales in the coming year.

Microsoft quest to have Open XML approved by the ISO as a global technology standard seems to have recovered from a setback it suffered last week.

A nonprofit group charges that Google hosts potentially copyrighted videos on Google Video.

Microsoft on Thursday reported a 13 percent increase in fourth-quarter revenue and a 7.3 percent jump in net income.

The head of an influential group of European Union privacy experts has said that the time Google's cookies reside on computers is "still too long", despite the search specialist cutting the lifespan of the software from over 30 years down to two.

Oracle is integrating one of its applications with Google's mapping service to help service providers locate customers more quickly.

With the release of its latest Firefox 2.0.0.5 browser, the chief security officer at Mozilla says they have fixed a number of potentially serious vulnerabilities.

The executive who headed the Microsoft's video game business resigns.

Greater use of femtocells and picocells, better enterprise tariffs and expanded mobile email are just some of the ways mobile phone operators could try to lure corporates as they look to increase their revenues from business customers.

The future of email might be found on the pages of MySpace and Facebook.

Security researchers have disclosed critical vulnerabilities in two popular Windows instant messaging clients, Yahoo Messenger and Trillian.

Microsoft is working on a variety of innovative photo projects, ranging from experiments with its 3D maps offering to massive panoramic photos.

A European court confirmed on Tuesday that it will rule on 17 September on whether software giant Microsoft broke EU antitrust regulations.

Britain and Ireland have agreed to share more intelligence to counter terrorist plots, such as this summer's car bomb attempts in London.

At Yahoo, there is plenty of talk but no real plan.

Hackers stole information from the US Department of Transportation and several US corporations by seducing employees with fake job listings on ads and email, a computer security firm said on Monday.

Mozilla's web browser, Firefox, is becoming increasingly popular, gaining on average an extra 3.1 percent of the market in 32 European countries in the past four months, according to French web-monitoring company XiTi Monitor.

The US and the European Union are close to signing an agreement that would allow their satellite navigation systems to work together to provide more accurate images and information.

Verizon's Business unit launches a dedicated optical network business service.

Ion Audio introduces two new vinyl record turntables that feature direct USB output.

Microsoft researchers talk about a variety of location-based tools they are developing.

Microsoft's chief operating officer says that Windows Server 2008--formerly code-named Longhorn Server--will be launched next February along with upgrades of SQL Server and Visual Studio.

Sun says a Java security threat, which was called "as bad as it gets", has now been patched.

Samsung Electronics, the world's top memory chipmaker, reported its smallest quarterly profit in four years after steep declines in computer memory chip prices overshadowed improvements in flat screens.

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--A few years ago, it would have been unheard-of for the executives at a video game conference to speak so optimistically about the soccer mom demographic.

Microsoft is pushing ahead with its security business, with a raft of new funding for its Forefront business security products and an updated version of its controversial OneCare suite.

This week CNET's Robert Vamosi talks with Bryan Sullivan, senior research engineer for SPI Labs, and Billy Hoffman, the company's lead researcher. They're putting together a presentation on Ajax security at this year's Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas later this month. In particular, the pair built an Ajax-enabled travel Web site using all the current site recommendations. During the presentation, they plan to poke holes in it, demonstrating how vulnerable some current implementations of Ajax are in this Web 2.0 world.

An appeals court in Pennsylvania has affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit against Google. The lawsuit was filed by Gordon Roy Parker, a writer who claimed the search giant infringed on his copyright by archiving a Usenet posting of his and providing excerpts from his Web site in search results.

A Chinese company is suing Google's China subsidiary for copying its name, saying the US search engine's registered Chinese name is too similar to its own and has harmed its operations.

A free metropolitan Wi-Fi network has been launched in London, continuing the gradual trend towards free public wireless access in Europe and the US.

There's a great variety of attacks and hacks that black hats can perpetrate on your network. Fortunately, you can prevent most of them using an assortment of security measures.

Microsoft is in the early stages of a plan that will see virtually its entire lineup of underlying internet services opened up to developers, the software maker made clear this week.

Adobe Systems this week issued three critical security updates designed to address vulnerabilities in its Flash Player, according to a security advisory issued by the company.

We admit heading into our preview of Gearbox's Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway with some trepidation yesterday. Shooters set in World War II feel so played out that even calling them a cliche has become a cliche. It seems that the team is trying some innovative things with its new title, though, including an attempts at making the "feel" of combat more authentic. Some new tactical features, like requiring you to lay down suppressing fire, as well as a mechanic for simulating the overall heat of of combat, gave the preview we saw a unique flavor.

As someone who owns an NES, SNES, Genesis, 3D0, every version of the Gameboy, PSP, DS, PlayStation, Dreamcast, Saturn, Xbox, GameCube, Nintendo 64, PlayStation 2 and 3, Xbox 360 and Wii (phew!), I was always a big fan of games and the news that used to come in May at E3. And while my love of video games has cooled over the past few years, the recent E3 coverage has me thinking: what will the next year of gaming actually bring?

Confirming what many had expected, Microsoft announced on Tuesday that the next version of its server operating system, Windows Server 2008, won't formally launch until next year.

Analysis: The search giant seems insatiable when it comes to deals, acquisitions and new ventures.

Partner conference keynote lays out roadmap for transition from a traditional software company.

An image from Microsoft's E3 event rehearsal hints of a new model in the gaming console line.

When it comes to class action shareholder lawsuits, the name Milberg Weiss & Bershad could strike fear and contempt among many Silicon Valley companies and a number of Fortune 500 players.

Reverse engineers are now able to activate an iPhone without an AT&T account and can gain shell access via a serial connection.

The new version 3 of the General Public License got a major endorsement on Monday from the project leaders of Samba, widely used open-source software for networked file sharing and printing.

Google said on Monday it has agreed to acquire email security company Postini for $625m (£310m), expanding its package of online applications to compete with Microsoft's Office software.

The social networking phenomenon continues to take hold of Internet users as one in five adults worldwide say they have visited such sites, according to a study released last week.

Analysts, report suggest that Microsoft could announce a price drop this week in response to Sony's Playstation 3 price reduction.

Sale would strengthen Intel's commitment to virtualization and its agreement to run VMware's virtualization software on Intel processors.

2004 started a new era in Mars exploration. Two rovers Spirit and Opportunity landed successfully on the surface of Mars and a short while later started to send lots of images and other data. The rovers were designed to work properly for only 90 days on the Martian surface but, believe it or not, they are still in a good health and do not seem to stop working. During over 3-year period NASA has received a huge amount of data that are hard to present for the wider public. The solution of this problem has been provided by Sciterian Technologies. Its VRPresents technology, especially designed for this purpose, gives astronomy lovers a new interesting way to introduce the planet. Now you can just take a virtual tour of Mars.

A new Trojan horse that sends spam through Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts has antivirus companies worried that the commonly used "captcha" system, used to prove new members are real people, may have been compromised.

Nearly one-third of British business PCs still have sensitive data on them when they are discarded, according to research commissioned by Lenovo.

British businesses setting up online are choosing .uk domains in preference to anonymous .com addresses, according to domain registry Nominet, which sold the six-millionth .uk domain this week to a Merseyside builder.

Microsoft has issued a statement saying it is "not a party to" the new open-source licence, GPL version 3, apparently in a bid to escape liabilities that could arise when Novell adopts it.

Mozilla and eBay have launched the final version of their Firefox Companion for eBay.

Digital music sales have doubled in the last year, but overall music industry sales are falling.

Microsoft Corp. will release six groups of security patches next week including three critical updates for Windows and Excel users.

The last planned alpha update to Firefox 3.0 is released.

Chuchusoft.com releases Remote Display, desktop extension and mirroring software for networked Macs and Windows PCs.

Four former executives with computer networking and security vendor Enterasys Networks sentenced to prison terms.

Instead of kicking back for the July 4th holiday, Steve Ballmer should be going batshit crazy right now.

When e-mail was first developed, the network was a friendly place.

Google and Belgian newspaper group Copiepresse are attempting to resolve the conflict out of court.

The European Commission has launched its very own channel on YouTube to make its audiovisual content more widely available to the public.

Affordable rent, low-cost labour and population literacy are the main reasons why companies still prefer to set up their delivery centres in Indian cities uch as Mumbai and Bangalore. But this offshoring trend is likely to change in the near future, according to a study by IDC.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which manages the internet's domain-name address system, said on Friday it was on track to allow an expanded number of domain names next year.

Enterprises will not adopt mobile Linux because it is too fragmented, according to Symbian's head of enterprise business market development.

Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ: ERTS), the world’s leading interactive entertainment company, today announced that more than 200,000 players have signed up for the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) closed beta test.

Throughput improvements to 200 kilobits per second (up from between 70 kbps and 135 kbps) noted by multiple users.

Memory standards association confirms a spec that it says will boost performance and reduce power.