Archive for February, 2008
Microsoft 
said on Thursday it plans to slash prices on its Windows Vista operating system sold through retail channels. The company wants consumers to upgrade to the latest version of its flagship product.The price changes will take effect globally with the retail release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 later this year. In the U.S., Microsoft will cut the price for Windows Vista Ultimate from $399 to $319 and for an upgrade version from $259 to $219. Vista Home Premium will drop from $159 to $129.
Vista has been on the market for more than a year, with more than 100 million licenses sold in its first year. While Microsoft sees those figures as progress, the company also sees an opportunity to grow its business even more with some of the new editions, according to Brad Brooks, vice president for Windows consumer product marketing at Microsoft.
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February 29th, 2008
Swiss bank Julius Baer may soon wish it hadn’t meddled with Wikileaks.org. The bank’s steps to get a judge to remove sensitive content about its offshore activities from the whistle-blower Web site has turned into a public-relations nightmare as civil-liberties groups join to defend Wikileaks.Wikileaks.org allowed anonymous posting of documents, including those disclosing U.S. Army operations at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; human-rights abuses in China; and political corruption in Kenya. But when documents from the Swiss bank showed up, that marked the beginning of a new look at First Amendment law.
The bank filed a legal complaint and after an initial review, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White ordered Dynadot, a California Web-hosting company, to “immediately clear and remove” records from Wikileaks and “prevent the domain name from resolving to the Wikileaks.org Web site or any other Web site or server other than a blank page” until he could undertake a closer review.
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February 29th, 2008
Forget the buzz about Microsoft acquiring Yahoo. This week the search titan wants the world’s attention on Yahoo Buzz, an extension to Yahoo.com that promises to deliver the most interesting and relevant content from Web sites. The new tool is currently in beta.In true social-networking style, Yahoo Buzz measures consumer votes and search patterns to identify interesting and timely stories and videos from large news sources as well as niche blogs around the Web. Top stories are then given primary consideration for placement on Yahoo.com.
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February 27th, 2008
