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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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Computer Industry

"Microsoft denies BayStar connection: Redmond says it made no investment guarantee to SCO during the start of its legal battles with IBM and other Linux users" IDG News Service 9:35 AM
"Investor outlines SCO-Microsoft link" CNET News.com 11:08 AM
"The SCO-Microsoft connection grows darker" Linux-Watch 8:20 PM
"Ballmer: Windows Live Is Top Microsoft Priority" eWeek 2:56 PM
"Microsoft banks on Vista: Hoping to reverse a legacy of legal plagues and legions of bugs, the software giant is moving carefully towards a clean, well-tested release of its newest operating system, Adam Turner reports." Melbourne Age 9:39 AM
"Microsoft Sets New Patch Record, Fixes 26 Flaws" TechWeb News 4:20 PM
"Microsoft patches Windows, Office, .Net" IDG News Service 4:23 PM
"Microsoft releases 6 patches for flaws" Associated Press 4:20 PM
"Microsoft struggles with Patch Tuesday" CNET News.com 2:55 PM
"Microsoft's 'Click to Run' Software Bone" InternetNews.com 2:56 PM
"Microsoft's Explorer Regains Browser Market Share, OneStat Says" Bloomberg 8:06 AM
"Ballmer on PC's role in Web services world: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday that lines between on-premise software and Internet-delivered services are blurring, an industry shift the company is embracing." CNET News.com 2:55 PM
"HP's Dunn: Charges She Led Spying a Lie" Reuters 9:10 AM
"Carly Points Finger at Tom Perkins: Names the source of that tasty Wall Street Journal story" Enterprise Open Source News 2:56 PM
"Fiorina Says Her Next Role May Involve Politics" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:01 AM
"IBM's Power6 gets help with math, multimedia" CNET News.com 2:55 PM
"IBM Cranks Up Its Server Chip: Forthcoming Power6 chip pushes speed to 5.0GHz." IDG News Service 8:29 AM
"IBM cranks dual-core Power6 beyond 4GHz" EE Times 9:09 AM
"IBM launches global service to help data centers" Reuters 9:01 AM
"IBM cuts 100 jobs in Austin" bizjournals.com 8:59 AM
"IBM To Host Virtual Block Party" TechWeb News 5:34 PM
"Sun, Laszlo take Java into Orbit for devices" InfoWorld 8:24 AM
"Oracle Pays $98.5 Million to Settle Pricing Complaints at PeopleSoft" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:24 PM
"Oracle to pay 98.5 mln dlrs to settle US pricing probe" Agence France-Presse 5:54 PM
"Oracle to Acquire Sunopsis" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:00 AM
"Oracle: Partners key to our success: Indirect sales continue to be very important for Oracle, says VP ahead of OpenWorld conference" IDG News Service 2:54 PM
"Alienware Invasion" TheStreet.com 9:00 AM
"AMD 65nm dual-core Turion laptop CPUs due Q2 2007?" Reg Hardware 9:35 AM
"AMD gives deeper peak into quad-core Opteron" EE Times 8:21 PM
"Gartner predicts biggest change in PCs for a generation" The Register 11:08 AM
"Chip Makers to Outline Road Maps" eWeek 5:54 PM
"Chip Makers Seen Meeting Expectations" Associated Press 9:01 AM
"STMicro sees global chip mkt up 6-11 pct in 2007" Reuters 8:40 AM
"Former Novell CEO Noorda dies" IDG News Service 9:36 AM

General Interest

"eBay Best Match Search Worrying Sellers" TechWeb News 8:20 PM
"Nortel claims a fatter WiMax pipe" InfoWorld 7:32 PM
"PlayStation 3 preorders come and go in minutes" Ars Technica 5:32 PM
"New York's Guardian Angels Take On Cyber Crime" TechWeb News 3:08 PM
"YouTube video to fly free under Google's wing" Reuters 3:08 PM
"Google's official blog hacked: Hacker exploited a bug in Blogger, the Google Web log publishing service on which Google Blog is hosted" IDG News Service 2:54 PM
"Tomorrow's IT Work Force: Tech-Savvy, Business-Focused" eWeek 2:02 PM
"Yahoo Builds Electronic Time Capsule" BetaNews 11:41 AM
"Is a PS3 shortage in the offing?" CNET News.com 11:08 AM
"Monster boss quits cos SEC investigation too tiring" The Register 9:37 AM
"LG.Philips LCD Posts Loss As Prices Fall, Costs Surge" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:35 AM
"Teleworkers Know (And Ignore) Security Risks, Study Says: More than 20% of the employees surveyed allow friends, family members, or other non-employees to use their work computer to access the Internet." InformationWeek 9:10 AM
"Icahn Foes Leave ImClone" Forbes.com 2:54 PM
"ImClone chairman resigns: Also resigning, board member William Crouse. Carl Icahn has been calling for their ouster in addition to four others." CNNMoney 9:04 AM
"Sprint Nextel Chairman Donahue To Retire, No Replacement Named" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:39 AM
"Sprint Nextel Chairman Donahue to Retire" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 9:39 AM
"Sprint Nextel chairman to step down: Tim Donahue says he'll retire at the end of 2006, but the wireless firm says it has yet to name a successor." CNNMoney 9:04 AM
"Sony chairman Idei expects next CEO to be Japanese" Reuters 8:40 AM
"Sunlight scuppers Nintendo Wii sensor?" Reg Hardware 8:34 AM
"Group warns of more junk e-mail" Associated Press 8:24 AM
"Samsung starts marketing world's first 10 megapixel camera phone" Agence France-Presse 8:24 AM
"YouTube deal gives Google video appeal" Detroit Free Press 8:14 AM
"Time capsule to be beamed from Mexican pyramid" Reuters 9:11 AM

Press Releases

"Cisco Systems Completes Purchase of Selected Assets of Ashley Laurent" Business Wire 9:00 AM
"Small and Medium Businesses Benefit from Enhanced Cisco Unified Communications System" Business Wire 9:00 AM
"Emulex Teams With AMD to Deliver Breakthrough Performance in High-Transaction Workload Environments" PrimeZone 9:00 AM
"Nexxar Group Selects IBM Mainframe & Linux to Propel Business Growth" Market Wire 8:59 AM
"New IBM Service Products Tackle Data Center Power and Cooling Challenges" Market Wire 8:59 AM
"Global Forest and Paper Company UPM Selects IBM as Information Technology Delivery Partner" Market Wire 8:59 AM
"NEC Corporation of America Storage Division Qualifies as McDATA OPENready Interoperability Partner" Business Wire 8:58 AM
"Pillar Data Systems and Oracle Unleash the Power of High Performing Storage" Business Wire 8:57 AM
"LG Electronics Selects Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware to Integrate Global IT Infrastructure and Maximize Business Efficiency" PRNewswire-FirstCall 8:57 AM
"Sun and Laszlo Bring OpenLaszlo Applications to Java(TM) Platform, Micro Edition Technology" PRNewswire-FirstCall 8:57 AM
"Major Educational Institutions Choose Sun to Help Tackle Key IT Challenges" PRNewswire-FirstCall 8:57 AM
"Sun Microsystems Champions Student Developers in Higher Education Sun's Campus Ambassadors Evangelize Solaris Operating System, Java and Developer Tools" PRNewswire-FirstCall 8:57 AM

Microsoft

"Probing the Vista timeline: what's the rush? It's certainly not support" Ars Technica 8:20 PM
"Microsoft Readies Office 2007 Beta Shut-down" TechWeb News 3:08 PM
"Blink And You Missed It: Vista RC2 Download Closed" TechWeb News 3:08 PM
"Dutch Metrics Claim IE Rising, Firefox Falling" TechWeb News 3:08 PM
"Microsoft Tests OneCare Beta for Vista" BetaNews 3:02 PM
"A peek at Windows Mobile 6.0" Ars Technica 9:42 AM
"IE7 to debut in October" The Register 9:35 AM
"Zune - the new portable music player with a few extras" Birmingham Post 8:36 AM
"What if Microsoft bought YouTube?" Scobleizer 8:25 AM
"Next-Generation Set-Top Platforms Supporting Microsoft TV IPTV Edition Enable Advanced New Functionalities" PRNewswire-FirstCall 8:58 AM

Government/Law/Politics

"Cingular Wireless sues telemarketers for unsolicited calls" Reuters 2:58 PM
"French gov't aims for 4 million on fiber by 2012" IDG News Service 2:55 PM
"ITC judge finds Qualcomm infringes Broadcom patent" EE Times 4:20 PM
"ITC Judge Rules Qualcomm Infringed on Broadcom Patent" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2:02 PM
"Judge does not ban phones with Qualcomm chips" Reuters 2:02 PM
"Qualcomm infringed some Broadcom patents: ITC judge" Reuters 11:09 AM
"Spamhaus fights US court domain threat" The Register 9:45 AM
"Spamhaus domain name may be suspended" ZDNet UK 9:36 AM
"Chaos Computer Club condemns e-voting machine" The Register 9:35 AM
"Third trial for ex-Cendant head set to start: Walter Forbes is charged in a $3 billion fraud scheme. Two previous juries have deadlocked." Associated Press 9:35 AM
"Civil lawsuits bigger woe in options scandal" CNNMoney 8:41 AM
"Malaysia to issue four WiMAX licences: minister" Agence France-Presse 8:24 AM
"More gaming firms prepare to flee U.S. ahead of ban" Reuters 9:10 AM
"Sportingbet downsizing unlikely after U.S. ban: paper" Reuters 8:24 AM

Analysis/Editorial/Help/Opinion

"YouTube: More than exploding Mentos" MarketWatch 3:11 PM
"After YouTube: The beginning of the end? Now that Google has snatched up the leading online video site, will rivals shell out big bucks, or will the competition dry up for smaller sites?" CNNMoney 2:55 PM
"He Ought To Know: Forbes 400 member Mark Cuban's recent speech that 'only a moron' would pay up to buy online video darling YouTube came just days before Google agreed to a $1.65 billion purchase. But the billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner wasn't pleased when Forbes suggested he was hardly the one to disparage video site values." Forbes.com 2:54 PM
"Mission Control For Your Music" Wired Blogs: Gear Factor 2:53 PM
"Is Yahoo! now under the gun after losing YouTube?" Blogging Stocks 11:10 AM
"'Moronic' video deal buys Google legal woes?" The Register 11:08 AM
"Bloggers mourn Ray Noorda" CNET News.com 11:08 AM
"Google's big purchase recalls dot-com era" International Herald Tribune 10:14 AM
"How much censorship can YouTube tolerate?" International Herald Tribune 9:37 AM
"Google at crossroads: Simplicity or 'sprawl'?" New York Times 9:37 AM
"Crave Talk: The growing pains of high-definition TV" Crave @ CNET 9:37 AM
"Google's smart to buy the best: another angle on the YouTube deal" Business 2.0 Blog: The Utility Belt 9:23 AM
"Adding On to the House of Google" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 9:11 AM
"For Opera, smaller is better" CNET News.com 9:10 AM
"Investors Are Wary Of Buyout Offer For Cablevision: Some Say Timing Leaves The Upside for the Dolans Following Lean Years" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:01 AM
"Google Competitors Beware: The search titan's deal to acquire YouTube will be watched carefully by other online video players. Here's what each should be worried about" BusinessWeek 8:59 AM
"Confessions of DRM 'Criminals'" MacNewsWorld 8:29 AM
"Google + YouTube = Natural Monopoly" Seeking Alpha 8:25 AM
"Psychoanalyzing Goobe" GigaOM 8:25 AM

Acquisitions/Deals/Investments/Mergers

"Texas Pacific to Buy Majority Stake In French Broadcasting Business TDF" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2:02 PM
"MIT, Singapore set up game lab" CNET News.com 2:02 PM
"XChange International announce availability of new Pro-iLugger Bag for 24" iMac portability" XChange International [PDF Download] 12:48 PM
"Major League Gaming buys GameBattles.com" Reuters 11:09 AM
"Linksys Acquires DSL Software Vendor" IDG News Service 9:42 AM
"Vodafone's Kiwi buy points to change in strategy" The Register 9:35 AM
"Wall St. Likes Family's Simplified Cablevision Bid" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 9:11 AM
"MusicNet, Napster agree to royalties deal" Reuters 9:09 AM
"Prime time for YouTube: $1.65 billion: Video site is biggest buy for Internet giant" San Francisco Chronicle 9:34 AM
"Dot-Com Boom Echoed in Deal to Buy YouTube" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 9:11 AM
"Venture firm shares YouTube's jackpot" New York Times 9:09 AM
"Google Looks To Boost Ads With YouTube" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:59 AM
"Google to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock" MarketWatch 8:59 AM
"Google to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion" Reuters 8:28 AM
"Google snatches up YouTube for $1.65B" Associated Press 8:24 AM

Tech Stocks

"Tuesday's Tech Winners & Losers" TheStreet.com 4:26 PM
"Dow Reaches Another Record: The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached record highs again Tuesday as stocks posted moderate gains ahead of the start of earnings season." TheStreet.com 4:26 PM
"Dow claws to new all-time high: Blue chip gauge manages slim gains, but sets new record, as investors brace for third-quarter earnings; oil sinks." CNNMoney 4:26 PM
"LG.Philips Falls As Losses Continue" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 10:58 AM
"Silicon Stocks: Tech stocks ease overall/Shares of design-software firm Parametric Tech jump to new yearly high" MarketWatch 4:26 PM
"Net Stocks: Shares close down, Google lurches on YouTube/Shares of large Internet companies traded mostly on the downside Tuesday, led by Google Inc., with investors retreating after Google announced Monday it plans to buy the video Web site YouTube for $1.65 billion." MarketWatch 4:26 PM
"Telecom Stocks: Telecoms mixed; Sprint chair leaving" MarketWatch 4:27 PM
"Asia Markets: Asian shares look beyond North Korean test/Asian stocks finished broadly higher Tuesday, with Japan's Nikkei nudging higher as investors looked beyond North Korea's claimed nuclear-weapons test to pursue blue chips Canon Inc., Toyota Motor Corp. and resource giant BHP Billiton." MarketWatch 9:04 AM
"Europe Markets: European shares edge higher at midday/EADS gains after management change; Vodafone also higher" MarketWatch 9:04 AM

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Associated Press (Updated 8:30 PM CDT)

"Microsoft Releases 6 Patches for Flaws"
"FDA Gets Mixed Advice on Nanotechnology"

CNET News.com (Updated 8:30 PM CDT)

"Sun, Fujitsu promise Sparc speed surge"
"Colin Powell urges philanthropy, inspiring leadership" ...
"Microsoft struggles with Patch Tuesday"
"Thousands of Brits fall victim to data theft" ...
"Sprint Nextel chairman to retire"
"Is a PS3 shortage in the offing?"
"With YouTube, Google puts its competitors in a jam"
"Commentary: Google-YouTube and the value of social computing" ...
"Solar start-up SolFocus pens Indian deal"
"Inside Toyota's hybrid factory" ...

New York Times (Checked 8:30 PM; no changes since 9:05 AM CDT)

"Dot-Com Boom Echoed in Deal to Buy YouTube"
"Venture Firm Shares a Jackpot"
"Adding On to the House of Google"
"Engineering Food at Level of Molecules"
"Electronic Network to Pool Information About H.I.V."
"Wall St. Likes Family's Simplified Cablevision Bid"
"Chief Resigns at Monster.com"

Reuters (Checked 8:30 PM; no changes since 3:05 PM CDT)

"GameStop, EB Games take PlayStation 3 pre-orders"
"Google to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion"
"Alcatel sees 100 mln TV Internet clients by 2010"
"Judge does not ban phones with Qualcomm chips"
"Major League Gaming buys GameBattles.com"
"Cingular Wireless sues telemarketers for unsolicited calls"
"Sportingbet downsizing unlikely after U.S. ban: paper"
"More firms flee U.S. online gaming ban"
"YouTube video to fly free under Google's wing "
"Qualcomm says exploring replacement designs"

TechWeb (Updated 8:30 PM CDT)

"Microsoft Sets New Patch Record, Fixes 26 Flaws"
"eBay Best Match Search Worrying Sellers"
"Google Launches Mac Blog"
"IBM, Geisinger Health Deal Aims To Provide More Personalized Patient Care"
"CRN Interview: Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian, The First 100 Days"
"Online Video War Pits Microsoft Tenacity Vs. Google/YouTube"
"ITC Rules Qualcomm Infringed on Broadcom"
"IBM To Host Virtual Block Party"
"Reuters Adopts CollabNet's Development Platform To Avoid Silos" Mergere Looks To Capitalize On Apache Maven " ...

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