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  Microsoft Shares Windows Live APIs

  Publié: avril 30, 2007, 11:51pm CEST

  FROM MIX 07 Microsoft on Monday launched a new version of its Windows Live developer Web site, complete with controls to build the company's services into third-party products.
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  Microsoft Offers Free Video Hosting

  Publié: avril 30, 2007, 10:54pm CEST

  FROM MIX 07 In order to spur adoption of its new Silverlight platform for developing rich Internet applications, Microsoft is offering up free video hosting that falls under the company's Windows Live services brand.
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  BBC's On-Demand Video Service Approved

  Publié: avril 30, 2007, 10:23pm CEST

  After a nearly two-year wait, the BBC has been given the go-ahead to launch its online on-demand television, however no exact launch date has been set.
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  Microsoft Details Vision for Web Future

  Publié: avril 30, 2007, 9:02pm CEST

  FROM MIX 07 Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie took the stage at the company's MIX 07 conference in Las Vegas Monday morning to discuss Microsoft's vision for the future of the Web, integrating software and services.
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  Has the PC Become Antiquated?

  Publié: avril 27, 2007, 11:38pm CEST

  In a recent interview with BetaNews, the chief researcher for IDC's Quarterly PC Tracker report -- which rates the relative market share of PC manufacturers -- raised a serious question pertaining to the market growth figure around which much of IDC's reporting is based: Has the PC become antiquated?
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  Barbie Moves from Doll to MP3 Player

  Publié: avril 27, 2007, 11:35pm CEST

  Apparently, plain dolls just aren't enough for kids these days. Mattel is introducing a new line of Barbie MP3 players that come with their own accessories and link up to the new Barbie Girls Web site - a virtual world of all-things Barbie that is currently in beta.
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  More Battery Woes for Apple MacBook

  Publié: avril 27, 2007, 11:18pm CEST

  Apple on Friday acknowledged yet another battery problem in its MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops, but this one does not pose a safety hazard. Instead of potentially overheating, Apple says its MacBook batteries may be underperforming or not charging correctly.
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  Jack Valenti (1921 - 2007)

  Publié: avril 27, 2007, 10:40pm CEST

  For five decades, he was the man at the center of the movie industry's most polarizing, subjective, and explosive arguments, yet was the absolute gentleman - gracious, amiable, polished. For Jack Valenti, who died this morning from complications from a stroke, presentation was everything.
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  TiVo Drops Price of Series3 by $300

  Publié: avril 27, 2007, 10:38pm CEST

  High-definition aficionados looking to upgrade their television setup to a Series3 TiVo but were hesitating over the high $799 price tag are in luck: TiVo has dropped the price to $499 and is including a free wireless network adapter for good measure.
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  House Bill Would Set Internet Radio Royalties Equal to Satellite

  Publié: avril 27, 2007, 7:58pm CEST

  A bill introduced yesterday before the US House of Representatives by Rep. Jay Inslee (D - Wash.) and Rep. Don Manzullo (R - Ill.) would explicitly nullify the findings of the Copyright Royalty Board, which set forth last month a royalty fee for Internet streaming performances that online providers say could put them out of business entirely.
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  AOL Tests New, Yahoo-Like Homepage

  Publié: avril 27, 2007, 7:22pm CEST

  AOL on Thursday began a limited beta test of a new AOL.com portal, which streamlines the look and utilizes AJAX to make the page more snappy. However, initial reviews of the site point out it's almost a direct copy of Yahoo's latest homepage that went live last July.
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  Hitachi Officially Shipping 1TB Drive

  Publié: avril 27, 2007, 7:08pm CEST

  Hitachi this week announced it has ramped up production on its 1 terabyte hard drive, shipping the unit to retailers across the United States. Pricing for the drive, which spins at 7,200 RPM and features a Serial ATA interface is set at $399 USD.
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  Microsoft Proves It's a Software Company as Devices Take a Hit

  Publié: avril 27, 2007, 6:03pm CEST

  The company that three quarters ago was praising Xbox 360 for stellar sales numbers that more than compensated for R&D expenses, easily dispensed with the bad news - truthfully, though quickly. The division that produces the game console had declining revenue of 21%, while the rest of the company grew at more like 32%.
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  Decline in Xbox 360 Sales Dampens Good Microsoft Quarter

  Publié: avril 26, 2007, 11:59pm CEST

  Just after the closing bell on the New York exchanges, Microsoft released a preliminary note on its performance for the first calendar quarter: It reported $14.3 billion in revenue, a gain of 32% over the same quarter a year ago, and net profit of $4.93 billion. That's a 65.5% annual gain, which sounds pretty astonishing, and trumpets will certainly blare today and tomorrow.
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  Secunia Warns of Photoshop Exploit

  Publié: avril 26, 2007, 11:19pm CEST

  Exploit code is available that could take advantage of a security flaw within both Adobe Photoshop Creative Suites 2 and 3, resulting in a hacker taking complete control of a user's machine.
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  Sony's Kutaragi Steps Down

  Publié: avril 26, 2007, 10:01pm CEST

  PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi will leave Sony at the end of June, the company revealed Thursday. This is only the latest in a string of developments which show the company is serious about turning around its business.
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  The Mac Comeback Continues as Board Responds to Jobs Charges

  Publié: avril 26, 2007, 9:53pm CEST

  UPDATED - Just prior to its quarterly earnings report to analysts on Wednesday, Apple Inc. released some typically astounding figures, and one atypical surprise: Net quarterly profit growth at the end of fiscal second quarter 2007 is now nearly 88% annually, at $770 million on revenue of $5.26 billion. As it turns out, the Mac was a key contributor.
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  Sony Readying eyeVio for Friday Launch

  Publié: avril 26, 2007, 8:27pm CEST

  Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer told a press conference this morning his company may be ready as soon as tomorrow to unveil its answer to YouTube: a video sharing service to be known as 'eyeVio.'
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  Sony Reports Successes with PS3 Folding@home

  Publié: avril 26, 2007, 7:08pm CEST

  Sony said Thursday that over 250,000 console owners have registered to participate, and at any given moment provide over 400 teraflops of additional computing power, which is more than half of the total available to the project.
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  HD DVD: 'Still Very Much in the Game'

  Publié: avril 26, 2007, 3:07am CEST

  The public relations melee between HD DVD and Blu-ray continued Wednesday as supporters of HD DVD were quick to point out their own successes.
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  The Mac Comeback Continues as Apple Posts Continued Growth

  Publié: avril 25, 2007, 11:16pm CEST

  Just prior to its quarterly earnings report to analysts, Apple Inc. released some typically astounding figures, and one atypical surprise: Net quarterly profit growth at the end of fiscal second quarter 2007 is now nearly 88% annually, at $770 million on revenue of $5.26 billion. As it turns out, the Mac was a key contributor.
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  Bill Introduced to Repeal Online Gambling Ban

  Publié: avril 25, 2007, 10:26pm CEST

  In comments to reporters this morning, Rep. Barney Frank (D - Mass.) confirmed he intends to introduce legislation before the US House of Representatives tomorrow that would effectively repeal a portion of a shipping ports protection bill that, just incidentally, prohibits US banks from transferring funds to and from regions of the world where gambling is not expressly permitted.
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  Vonage Asks: 'Can You Patent an Orange?'

  Publié: avril 25, 2007, 9:37pm CEST

  Fresh off its victory in gaining a permanent injunction, Vonage is now taking its battle to the people, launching Free to Compete, a Web site aimed at putting pressure on Verizon to lay off the VoIP company.
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  New Internet Data Speeds Set

  Publié: avril 25, 2007, 8:58pm CEST

  A group of researchers testing out the so-called Internet2 network said it had broken speed records by first sending data at 7.67 gigabits per second, and breaking it the next day with a data transfer rate of 9.08Gbps.
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  Google Offers Updates to MySQL

  Publié: avril 25, 2007, 8:58pm CEST

  Google this week offered up changes to the open source MySQL database, which are designed to improve the free software's ability to perform under heavy load. The improvements were released under a GPL license and may be freely implemented by the MySQL community, the company said.
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  Google Bests Microsoft in ComScore Site Visitor Rankings

  Publié: avril 25, 2007, 6:49pm CEST

  While Google has had the lead for quite some time as a search provider, Microsoft has almost traditionally led the field in terms of total number of visitors to sites hosted by a single company. That changed sometime during the last three months, according to comScore.
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  Live Search Manager Leaving Microsoft

  Publié: avril 25, 2007, 6:46pm CEST

  Microsoft's search division has lost another executive as the company announced internally Tuesday that its general manager for Live Search was leaving to "pursue non-profit interests" and spend time with his family.
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  Microsoft Updates Vista Media Center

  Publié: avril 25, 2007, 6:14pm CEST

  Microsoft has release an April 2007 Cumulative Update for Windows Vista's built-in Media Center application, which aims to resolve a number of issues reported by users. On the list of fixes are DVD freezes, errors when deleting a picture, Media Center rotating the wrong picture, among others.
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  Nokia: 100 Million S60-based Phones Shipped

  Publié: avril 25, 2007, 5:58pm CEST

  Nokia boasted Wednesday that it had shipped over 100 million phones using its Series 60 platform. The operating system has been deployed across Nokia's high-end phones, and has also been used in smart phones by Samsung and LG.
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  Mozilla Extends Firefox 1.5 Support, Perhaps by Three Weeks

  Publié: avril 25, 2007, 5:31pm CEST

  While yesterday had been slated to be the final official day of Mozilla's support for the older Firefox version 1.5, a blog posting on the organization's Web site yesterday indicated that it will continue to provide security upgrades for the browser for another few weeks.
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  Verizon, BlackBerry Introduce Dual-Mode Phone

  Publié: avril 25, 2007, 5:29pm CEST

  RIM on Wednesday introduced a new phone for the Verizon Wireless network that would allow the carrier's customers to use the phone overseas. Included in the phone is a dual-mode chip compatible with both CDMA and GSM.
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  Yahoo Launches First Legal Lyrics Site

  Publié: avril 24, 2007, 11:19pm CEST

  Yahoo! Music on Tuesday is launching the first legitimate repository for song lyrics thanks to a licensing deal with Gracenote, the company behind CDDB. Lyrics for 400,000 songs from the five major record labels and more will initially be available.
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  Intel: Backup Tapes for AMD Trial Were Destroyed in EC Investigation

  Publié: avril 24, 2007, 10:57pm CEST

  In its final report on how it may have lost material vital to its antitrust case brought by AMD, Intel admitted its IT department in Munich had lost track of, and inadvertently wrote over, backup tapes whose contents may have been vital to the case. The reason why, Intel said, relates to a separate antitrust investigation of Intel by the European Commission.
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  Vonage Wins Permanent Stay of Injunction

  Publié: avril 24, 2007, 10:23pm CEST

  Vonage is safe, for now. Following 90 minutes of testimony before an appeals court, the VoIP provider has won a permanent stay of an injunction against it that would have prevented the company from signing up new customers.
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  Google Wants Your Web History

  Publié: avril 20, 2007, 11:02pm CEST

  A new effort from Google could raise the ire of those concerned about Google's growing reach: the company wants to track and store every Web page you visit. The feature, called Web History, is an expanded version of the company's previous Search History offering.
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  PS3 US Sales Stabilize, Wii Sales Drop in March

  Publié: avril 20, 2007, 9:33pm CEST

  Data for the month of March from NPD Group indicates that the PlayStation 3's rapid decline in sales in the US has stabilized, while sales of the Wii are falling back to earth.
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  Anatomy of a Resurgence: IDC's Daoud on HP's Leap-frog Over Dell

  Publié: avril 20, 2007, 9:31pm CEST

  In IDC's latest Quarterly PC Tracker report issued earlier this week, HP's worldwide market share lead grew to 19.1%, while Dell's slipped to 15.2%. HP now leads Dell by more than the Dell lead over HP at this time last year, and the tick still favors HP. BetaNews asked the report's chief researcher, David Daoud, to explain the underlying dynamics behind this seismic shift in the market.
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  Google to Offer Video Conferencing

  Publié: avril 20, 2007, 8:39pm CEST

  Amidst announcing its first quarter earnings that surpassed analyst expectations with $1 billion in profit on revenues of $3.7 billion, Google quietly noted on its blog that it had acquired video conferencing software maker Marratech - placing Cisco's WebEx right in its sights.
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  FTC Asked to Block Google-DoubleClick Merger

  Publié: avril 20, 2007, 8:18pm CEST

  The chorus of opposition to the proposed Google-DoubleClick deal grew louder Friday as three interest groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over privacy concerns.
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  Payoff Time for Google as Juggernaut Business Model Rolls Ahead

  Publié: avril 20, 2007, 5:57pm CEST

  Rarely in the history of American industry has such a young company been able to amass the company to potentially acquire two multi-billion dollar businesses in as many years' time. But the unparalleled Google business model showed every sign yesterday, in its quarterly earnings report, of being able to support what for others would be an impossible dream.
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  RIM: 'Series' of Errors Caused Outage

  Publié: avril 20, 2007, 5:53pm CEST

  Research In Motion said late Thursday that a malfunctioning new feature caused the outage which affected millions of its subscribers Tuesday night into early Wednesday.
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  Napster, Circuit City Launch Co-Branded Store

  Publié: avril 20, 2007, 5:37pm CEST

  Napster has partnered with Circuit City to offer its music service to the retailer's customers in a co-branded environment starting next week.
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  Microsoft Turns On Social Networking in Spaces

  Publié: avril 20, 2007, 5:14pm CEST

  Windows Live Spaces received a refresh as the planned upgrades to the service began appearing on the site on Friday. The changes are meant to refocus the site more as a social networking platform than blogging service.
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  AMD to Restructure, May Outsource More to IBM, Chartered

  Publié: avril 20, 2007, 4:23am CEST

  Exploring the possibility of adopting an "asset-light" business model, AMD may go so far as to license manufacturing rights for its microprocessor designs to long-time partners IBM and Chartered Semiconductor, as well as expand its licensing relationship -- one many didn't know AMD actually had -- with Intel.
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  Apple Plugs 25 Mac OS Security Holes

  Publié: avril 19, 2007, 11:55pm CEST

  Apple on Thursday released its fourth security update of the year, patching 25 security holes in its operating system, 24 specifically affecting the latest version of Mac OS X version 10.4. Among the extensive list of fixes is a wireless network patch for older systems.
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  AMD Suffers 'Major Setback,' Losses of Another Half-Billion Dollars

  Publié: avril 19, 2007, 11:21pm CEST

  In what AMD President and COO Dirk Meyer called a "major setback in the strategic transformation of our company," AMD posted an historic loss for a microprocessor company, admitting an "unacceptable" hemorrhage of $504 million for the first quarter of this year, on revenue of $1.23 billion - a 7% drop annually, and a 30% drop over the previous quarter.
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  Google Launches StumbleUpon Competitor

  Publié: avril 19, 2007, 10:13pm CEST

  With services like StumbleUpon becoming ever more popular, Google has decided to throw its hat into the ring. On Wednesday, the company added a feature to its toolbar that recommends Web sites based on past search history.
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  Visual Studio 'Orcas' Enters Beta 1; .NET Framework 3.5 Released

  Publié: avril 19, 2007, 9:48pm CEST

  After two community technology previews whose purpose was to warm up developers to the new foundation-based programming models intended for use with Windows Vista, the next edition of Microsoft Visual Studio, code-named "Orcas," officially entered Beta 1 today.
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  Dell Brings Back Windows XP as Option

  Publié: avril 19, 2007, 8:59pm CEST

  In response to huge customer demand, Dell has brought back Windows XP Home and Professional as operating system options on a handful of consumer PCs. The computer maker, like most others, had largely switched its product lines entirely to Windows Vista.