Internet Software News

PC World - Nokia video shows possible multimedia applications for nanotechnology research. Read more…

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. ramped up its fight to have its Office Open XML document format made into an international standard on Monday as delegates from 37 countries met to reconsider the proposal. Read more…

Veteran designer Peter Molyneux on his digital dreams Read more…

InfoWorld - For IT, perhaps the biggest advantage to deploying Windows Vista is its capability to create a unified installation image that selectively loads the needed drivers and applications onto users' computers ??? saving IT from having to manage lots of install images as with Windows XP or to rely on the PC-model-specific OEM installations whose "bloatware" then needs to be removed from each system. Read more…

InfoWorld - Windows Vista is known for its much higher resource requirements than Windows XP, such as needing a minimum of 2GB of RAM, a fast processor, and a recent video card. That???s why most analysts suggest that a Vista deployment be paired with a hardware refresh. "We encourage customers to integrate these two cycles," says Jeff Dimock, vice president of Microsoft solutions at the IT consultancy Dimension Data Americas. Read more…

InfoWorld - When Microsoft announced on Thursday that it was changing its business practices to be more open ??? specifically to release documentation on its APIs and protocols ??? many people reacted with disbelief. The European Commission, which has battled Microsoft for a decade over anticompetitiveness, said in very blunt terms that it didn???t believe Microsoft was sincere. After all, Microsoft has made the ???open??? promise before but never delivered. Read more…

InfoWorld - Windows Server 2008, popularly known by its code name Longhorn, is a significant release for Microsoft and represents the result of a very long development cycle. Read more…

InfoWorld - Jeff Dimock, vice president of Microsoft solutions at the IT consultancy Dimension Data Americas, expects IT organizations will like Windows Vista???s tighter security. Read more…

InfoWorld - Although many organizations have not yet been ready to adopt Windows Vista, at some point nearly everyone will need to migrate to the new Windows OS, as the tide turns from today???s compatibility deficits in Vista to a state in which XP-based PCs will lack the drivers and application support that IT will need to have deployed. Read more…

Reuters - Japan's Sony Corp said on Monday Phil Harrison, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, the game software development arm of Sony's videogame division, will resign on February 29. Read more…

Eve Online's lead economist Dr Eyjo Gudmundsson explains his role inside the virtual world. Read more…

Microsoft is to stop making HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 after Toshiba abandoned the format. Read more…

AP - Stocks headed for a higher opening Monday, with sentiment bolstered by news of a renewed $2 billion offer from videogame maker Electronic Arts for rival Take-Two. Read more…

USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - The biggest boycott by eBay sellers concludes today, capping a week of acrimony after the online-auction site raised fees and changed its feedback policy. Read more…

InfoWorld - Many users around the world could not access the YouTube site for about two hours on Sunday. The company blamed the outage on erroneous routing information introduced by a Pakistani Internet service provider. Pakistani authorities ordered ISPs there to block the site on Friday. Read more…

InfoWorld - Microsoft will stop making external HD DVD drives for its Xbox 360 game console, but? won't say whether it will offer a Blu-ray Disc drive? instead. Read more…

InfoWorld - Microsoft and SAP said they will target the health care industry with? Duet, software that integrates their desktop and back-end business applications. Read more…

Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on Monday it would test a new way to measure the effectiveness of Internet advertising in a beta program that is due to begin on March 1. Read more…

AP - Each week, about 100,000 sexually explicit images of children arrive on CDs or portable disk drives at Michelle Collins' office. Read more…

InfoWorld - Startup company Metaram on Monday is expected to announce technology that overcomes traditional server memory limitations and allows users to quadruple memory without adding new hardware. Read more…

InfoWorld - Imagine tapping out text messages on a device the size of an index card and as flat as a piece of paper, then folding it in thirds to hold it to your ear and make a phone call. Refold it in a slightly different shape and wrap it around your wrist, where it becomes a watch and also communicates with an ear bud that lets you talk hands free. Read more…

InfoWorld - Laptop computer storage is racing fast towards the 500GB level with Fujitsu becoming the third hard-disk drive maker to announce a drive at that capacity. Read more…

PC World - Still, the company hasn't confirmed support for Blu-ray in its game console, noting growth of downloads. Read more…

Reuters - Microsoft Corp will stop making video players based on the HD DVD standard for its Xbox 360 game system, a move that comes days after Toshiba Corp (6502.T) pulled the plug on the high definition movie technology. Read more…

Reuters - A court detained the head of a banned conservative-run Web site which had accused a grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of betraying the legacy of the founder of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. Read more…