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Gaming Gold Mine
Online worlds could make billions for game developers. 2009 07 03 11:21

$ The Will to Win
2009 07 03 05:43

Oracle to Cut Up to 1,000 Europe Jobs, Union Says
Oracle to Cut Up to 1,000 Europe Jobs, Union Says 2009 07 03 03:01

Warren Buffett makes gifts to charity worth $1.53B
SEATTLE (AP) - Billionaire Warren Buffett has donated $1.25 billion in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 2009 07 02 20:38

Opera Raising U.S. Profile
The Norwegian software firm wants to be the browser that links all your gadgets. 2009 07 02 18:20

The SIEM-ple Life
Why you should take another look at security information/event management technology. 2009 07 02 18:02

Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Dell Inc., Google Inc., Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft
Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. 2009 07 02 17:05

Microsoft pulls pukey IE8 ad
If you haven't seen the following Microsoft ad for Internet Explorer 8, take a minute to check it out.

Judge: Microsoft's 'frivolous' actions wasted court's time
No, Microsoft cannot miss a deadline for filing documents. No, Microsoft cannot submit more than 140,000 marketing documents, without an index, just two months before a trial. And no, Microsoft cannot object to a plaintiff's request based on what was obviously a typo.

Microsoft on Twitter: No kidding!
Jeez, Microsoft. Got enough Twitter accounts?

Yahoo hires executive to oversee rebranding
Last week, I took a look at reports that Yahoo is planning a big re-branding of the company and its Web site. What that really means, no one on the outside really knows.

The video-game war: Price cuts coming?
Over at CNBC, writer Chris Morris takes an interesting look at the likelihood of a pricing war in the video-game console industry. Despite what Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are saying, analysts suggest the companies could cut console prices for the holiday season.

Microsoft's Butterfly program is no more
Microsoft's Windows Live Butterfly program, which for years let certain people test Windows Live products before the betas went public, has been closed.

Suit: Microsoft, Real, Yahoo music streams break copyrights
Mark Farner, of the 1970s band Grand Funk Railroad, is one of numerous plaintiffs alleging the online on-demand music-streaming services of Microsoft Corp., RealNetworks Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. distributed their music without proper copyright licensing.

Harvard Business: Don't emulate Steve Jobs
People may all be in awe of Apple's products - the Macintosh, the iPod, the iPhone - but they shouldn't be in awe of its CEO, says Bill Taylor of Harvard Business School.

Cisco may join Web apps battle
As Microsoft gets closer to launching its rival to Google Apps, a Cisco Systems executive has said his company also is considering jumping into the fray.

Microsoft employee benefit assets plummet $1.4 billion
Updated 2:45 p.m. Tuesday: Microsoft got back to me. A spokesman wanted to make sure I mentioned the company's contribution to employees' 401(k)s remains at 50 cents on the dollar for up to 6 percent of pre-tax salary. See the added quotation below.

Microsoft Office Web apps: New name coming soon?
What would you call Microsoft's upcoming rival to Google Apps, the Web-based applications that do word processing, spreadsheets, presentation and Web sites?

Hotmail finally supports other e-mail accounts
Finally. That's all I really can say. Finally, Microsoft Hotmail now offers the ability to check other e-mail accounts through free POP e-mail fetching.

Microsoft to switch on two data centers in July
Microsoft's two newest data centers are set to go live in July.

Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5
Updated 2:45 p.m. Wednesday: It seems Mozilla did not break its own world record. As of now, Firefox 3.5 has been downloaded 5.9 million times.

Channels 8 and 10 consolidating into Channel 9
Microsoft's student-oriented Web site, Channel 8, and its techie-targeted Channel 10 are coming to the end of their independent lives. Soon, they and Coding4Fun will be gobbled up by Channel 9.

Opera Raising U.S. Profile
The Norwegian software firm wants to be the browser that links all your gadgets.

Taiwan's 40 Richest
The nation's top tycoons have lost $22 billion, almost a third of their total wealth.

Taiwan's 40 Richest
Fortunes have rebounded lately, but not enough to cover the $22 billion lost by the wealthiest tycoons.

Taiwan's 40 Richest
Seven newcomers are among the nation's wealthiest tycoons.

Microsoft's Bing Starts Indexing Some Tweets In Real-Time

Xbox Live To Get Rich Media, Silverlight Ads Later This Year

Madoff Gets 150 Years
Courtroom cheers at prison sentence over multi-billion dollar fraud.

Madoff Sentencing Monday
Fraudster could receive up to 150 years in prison.

Microsoft To Sell Razorfish; Publicis Groupe Possible Bidder

U.S. Fans Get Free Live Steaming Of Wimbledon Via NBC

Tibco: Innovative Enterprise Clouds
Founder Vivek Ranadive sees the next era of enterprise computing as the most innovative yet.

Expenses Made Easy
ProOnGo's smart-phone application lets you fill out expense reports on the fly.

Microsoft Follows Google Into Home Energy Monitoring

The Art Of Visual Communication
What a global architectural firm learned during a videoconference experiment.

Google Tests New Ad Format Aimed At Product Sellers

Nasdaq On Top
Index rises 1% thanks to Apple, Dell, Microsoft; SunPower upgraded.

Modest Gains Take Sting Out Of Week's Slide
Rocky five days for Street as corporate forecasts and mixed economic reports hit pause on long rally.

Muddled Finish As Stocks Churn Into Weekend
The Dow finishes lower, but S&P and Nasdaq make modest gains to close out rocky week.

Choppy Seas On Wall Street
Expiration of options, futures results in higher volumes; Nasdaq still leads, but Dow turns negative.

Apple, Microsoft lead tech
Consumers line up for the new iPhone; bank stocks move higher.

Microsoft's MSN Will Overhaul Home Page; Getting Rid Of Link Clutter

Microsoft Stands Behind Bing
Goldman adds software firm to "buy" list; IMF ready to lift forecast.

Ballmer: Microsoft May Spend Up To 10% Of Operating Income On Search

Caterpillar's Sales Tumble
US Sales fall 57%; Philly Fed Index defies expectations.

NBC To Use MSFT's Tech For Selling Some TV Ads; Staying Away From Auction Format

Could Cisco take on Microsoft with office app service?
There is only one obvious question in Cisco's overture Tuesday that it might take on Microsoft and Google in the online productivity application arena -- what took so long?

Microsoft unleashes five service packs for its enterprise security wares
In the past week, Microsoft has launched five service packs for its enterprise security wares including Geneva, Forefront, Antigen.

Idera adds backup, recovery wares to SharePoint
Management vendor Idera has released version 2.0 of its SharePoint backup platform, which now includes fault tolerance features and self-service recovery.

Win7 upgrade option could mean extra cost for corporate users
Microsoft’s new Windows 7 Option Upgrade Program isn’t much of an option for corporate users and could end up adding thousands of dollars to the cost of migrating to the new operating system for those who blindly jump at Thursday's offer of a free upgrade for new PC buyers.

Nortel lays off execs connected to Microsoft ICA partnership
Nortel has laid off senior staff in the UK who were responsible for the company’s unified communications partnership with Microsoft, according to sources.

Nortel's liquidation could cripple UC relationship with Microsoft
Nortel's liquidation of its assets could possibly gut the 3-year-old unified communications partnership the company has with Microsoft.

Juniper taps Microsoft sales exec for partnerships
Juniper this week named former Microsoft sales executive Gerri Elliott to spearhead its alliance strategy.

Many companies say they will adopt cloud computing within two years
Microsoft-sponsored study on IT spending shows green is out, cloud computing is in and security is still painful.

SharePoint search bolstered with MetaVis tools
MetaVis Technologies Monday released a set of tools to classify and organize data to help users improve the search capabilities in Microsoft’s SharePoint Server. 

How headline writers create news
You have to hand it to the tabloid headline writers at the New York Post: They know nothing if not how to turn the tiniest spark into a five-alarm conflagration.

Imagine Cup 2009 Kicks Off in Cairo (PR Newswire)
Competition begins today in Cairo for 444 students from 124 countries and regions at the Imagine Cup 2009 Worldwide Finals. Now in its seventh year, Imagine Cup is an annual Microsoft Corp. competition that challenges students around the globe to use their creative genius to build technology solutions that can help address some of the world's toughest challenges.

A Rocky Week For Abbott Labs (at Investopedia)

UPDATE - Oracle, Sun deal to be filed to EU in July - source (at Reuters)

[$$] The Will to Win (at Barron's Online)
The Will to Win Principal Capital Appreciation Fund looks for highly profitable companies that can swamp the competition, such as Nike and Microsoft.

Warren Buffett makes gifts to charity worth $1.53B (AP)
Billionaire Warren Buffett has donated $1.25 billion in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

DOJ confirms antitrust review of Google book deal (at MarketWatch)
The Justice Department confirmed Thursday that it's investigating a controversial digital books settlement reached between Google Inc. and publishers.

Opera Raising U.S. Profile (at Forbes.com)

In China, Games Get Serious (Investor's Business Daily)
When Sohu.com, a leading Web portal in China, announced plans last year to spin off its fast-growing online games business, investors balked.

The SIEM-ple Life (at Forbes.com)
Why you should take another look at security information/event management technology.

Notebooks Erasing Desktops' Lead (Investor's Business Daily)
Pity the poor desktop PC. Once the most popular form of personal computer, the desktop PC, has faded as more users choose notebook PCs instead.

Ethernet Co-Inventor's New Focus Is The 'Enernet' (Investor's Business Daily)
The Enernet is now the focus of ethernet co-inventor Bob Metcalfe.

[$$] Oracle to Cut Up to 1,000 European Jobs, Union Says (at The Wall Street Journal Online)
Oracle to Cut Up to 1,000 Europe Jobs, Union Says Oracle is planning to cut up to 1,000 jobs in Europe, according to a French labor union.

Yahoo Product Head and CTO Ari Balogh Speaks! (at AllThingsD)
In BoomTown's bold quest to annoyingly stick a Flip digital video camera in the face of every Yahoo senior exec, this week I worked the last nerve of its CTO and EVP of Products Aristotle "Ari" Balogh.

Buffet Gives Gates Foundation $1.25 Billion (at TheStreet.com)
Warren Buffett donates $1.25 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Buffett Gives Gates Foundation $1.25 Billion (at TheStreet.com)
Warren Buffett donates $1.25 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Tech Stocks: Techs sink as broader market falls on jobs news (at MarketWatch)
The tech sector tumbles amid a broad market slide following grim news about rising unemployment in the United States.

Warren Buffett donates $1.5 billion Berkshire shares (Reuters)
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has donated about $1.5 billion of Berkshire Hathaway Inc stock, in connection with his 2006 pledge of his holdings to charitable causes.

UPDATE - Warren Buffett donates $1.5 bln Berkshire shares (at Reuters)

Prep for the Pullback Now (at Motley Fool)

What friends are for (at FT.com)
Mark Zuckerberg has given his young company a sweeping mission. Facebook's raison d'être, says its baby-faced chief executive, is "to give people the power to share, in order to make the world more open and connected".

Imagine Cup 2009 Kicks Off in Cairo
Global finals of the world’s largest technology competition begin today in Egypt.

Microsoft Introduces New Ways to Help Teachers Personalize Learning at the National Educational Computing Conference 2009
From Windows 7 to free teacher resources, and a collaboration between Microsoft’s Innovative Teachers Network and the Smithsonian Institution, Microsoft helps educators effectively engage students.

Microsoft Security Expert Knows Who Can Steal Your Identity
Martin Biegelman, director of Financial Integrity, has spent 30 years fighting identity theft and recently published a book detailing his experience and expertise.

Students Make a Difference Through Innovation and IT Skills Development
Microsoft IT Academy empowers students to face the challenge of the 2009 Imagine Cup and realize their potential through technology.

Link@Sheraton Uses Windows 7 to Enrich Guest Experience
Microsoft Works With Sheraton Hotels to Create Customer Loyalty Through Distinctive Brand Voice

Imagine Cup Teams Face Off in Contest of Creativity and Technological Prowess
Award sponsored by Microsoft Unlimited Potential encourages students to improve primary education in rural India and agricultural practices in Uganda.

Internet Companies and Ad Agencies Go From Old Enemies to New Friends
The slowing growth in online advertising is pushing traditional ad agencies and Internet companies to work together.

Tip of the Week: Turning Off Microsoft Tips
Although they’re meant to be helpful, Microsoft Word 2007’s ScreenTips can also get in the way.

Foes No More, Ad Agencies Unite With Internet Firms
Analysts say Internet companies and ad agencies have no choice but to work together to develop ways to make money from digital media.

Places to See as You Navigate
How do I add points of interest files to my Nuvi GPS?

Microsoft Sues Three in Click-Fraud Scheme
About one in every seven clicks on an advertisement is estimated to be fraudulent, and Microsoft is trying to make that kind of deception more expensive for perpetrators.

Data Center Overload
In our hyperconnected, superfast age, how can the Internet data centers we’ve built keep up?

Microsoft Browser Offer Fails to Impress Europe
European regulators signaled that Microsoft’s offer to sell a browser-less Windows system on the Continent did not go far enough to enable competition.

Electronic Fair Returns, Trying to Regain Its Luster
Here are eight of the most interesting and exciting games announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles last week.

Putting Words to Pictures
I have a long spoken-word audio clip that’d I’d like to put online, with a series of images to go along with it. What’s the best way to do this?

Microsoft Reveals New Strategy for Xbox
The company wants the Xbox 360 game console to become a gateway for movies, television and social networking.

Bloodied by Google, Microsoft Tries Again on Search
Microsoft is releasing Bing, a new version of its search engine, to replace the confusing Live Search.

Bringing Order to the Chaos of Notes
It is becoming easier to break free of paper and pen and instead rely on computers to take notes that can be archived, cataloged and searched.

Microsoft Antitrust Hearing in Europe Canceled
Microsoft and the European Commission canceled the only hearing planned in an inquiry into the company's Internet browser after a dispute over the attendance of regulators.

Meetings, Version 2.0, at Microsoft
The “long and winding road” approach no longer works at the meetings led by Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief.

Google’s Strength May Be Part of Microsoft Defense Strategy
Microsoft will outline what it sees as the damaging effects to the search-advertising industry of incorporating competing browsers into Windows.

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