Microsoft Launches MIX08 With Plea To Developers
Ray Ozzie asks Web gurus to bet on the company, which launched test versions of its Internet Explorer 8.

Yahoo Unveils Online Video Ad Formats
The two new formats include one in which an ad that appears either before or after a video contains a cue for the viewer to mouse-over the video window.

AT&T To Spend $1 Billion To Increase Network Capacity
The planned investment is 33% more than last year and more than double AT&T's investment in 2006.

Microsoft Releases Silverlight 2.0 Beta, Developer Tools
Silverlight 2.0, Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-operating system Web browser plug-in, lets developers create a much wider range of applications.

Nine Inch Nails Sells Out Of $300 Album While Offering Free Music Online
As fans crashed the band's servers trying to download free music, others laid down serious cash for the limited-edition version of Ghosts I-IV.

Google Hacking Database Tool Updated
The Google Hacking Database Tool is an online application that automates Google searches for files and other data associated with Web site vulnerabilities.

Yahoo Delays Board Vote To Thwart Microsoft
The company's management wants time to pursue alternatives to Microsoft's $41 billion takeover offer.

Microsoft Extends SQL Server To The Web With Data Services
SQL Server Data Services aims to help businesses avoid much of the costs and complexity of developing and provisioning data-heavy apps and mashups.

Oprah Apologizes For Webcast Crash
More than 500,000 viewers attempted to watch the event, but most could only see the first few minutes because many of the servers powering the Webcast crashed.

MySpace Founder Acquires Video Site Revver.com
Revver.com has tried to build a business around amateur and professionally created videos free of copyright infringement.

Amtel Breaks Out Biz, Personal Calls
SaaS app is intended to automate segregation and chargeback of wireless calls and spare companies compliance and audit pain.

Yahoo Unveils Mobile Organizer For Web Content
Yahoo's onePlace creates bookmarks to Web pages and then lets users organize those bookmarks into categories.

Facebook Hires Google Exec, Hitting Google Shares
Facebook said Tuesday it had named Google's global sales head, Sheryl Sandberg, as the company's new chief operations officer, accelerating a decline in Google's stock to 52-week lows.

Google Gears Goes Mobile
Google is making available an application programming interface for storing Web application data on mobile devices.

Google Groups Grapples With Porn Spam
Pornographic images and videos began appearing on Google Groups pages over the weekend, along with infectious malware.

Microsoft Says IE 8's Default Settings Will Comply With Web Standards
Internet Explorer 8 will ship with three configuration modes; the default one renders content using methods that give a top priority to Web standards interoperability.

Futures Fall After Weak Intel Forecast
Intel, whose shares fell nearly 3 percent to $19.48 after Monday's close and fell 3 percent again on Tuesday, cited weaker pricing on certain memory chips.

Google Health Gets Personalized Advice From SafeMed
The U.S. Institute of Medicine estimates that there are 1.5 million health-care related, preventable adverse drug events in the U.S. annually.

Microsoft, Nokia Put Silverlight On Mobile Devices
The strategy to get its rich Internet app on cell phones is part of Microsoft's effort to make the browser plug-in a cross-platform, cross-browser product.

PHP Optimized For Windows Server 2008
The Web site language, which runs smoothly over Linux and Unix, adds Microsoft's FastCGI component for its Web server, IIS, to make setup and PHP apps run efficiently.

Apple Misses Mark On Movie Rentals
The movie studios have been slow to embrace the Web for movie distribution out of fear of piracy and cannibalizing the DVD business.

Microsoft SharePoint Sales To Hit $1 Billion In 2008
SharePoint is a collection of server-side tools and applications that lets businesses make documents and other key data available through a single online portal.

Microsoft CEO Says Yahoo Bid Makes Sense As Is
Microsoft still considers its takeover offer for Yahoo, currently valued at about $40.9 billion, to be reasonable despite Yahoo's rejection of the bid, Microsoft's chief executive said.

Civil Rights Groups Side With Comcast's Net Neutrality Stance
Comcast has been accused of violating federal regulations regarding "reasonable network management" by jamming users attempting to share files.

Nine Inch Nails Gives Music Away On Web
Music from the band's latest album, "Ghosts I-IV," is available through their Web site in packages ranging from free to $300.

Virginia Supreme Court: No First Amendment Right To Spam
Spamming itself is not illegal, but an appeal to protect false message routing information may take Jeremy Jaynes' case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

T-Mobile Gets Exclusive Rights To Nokia 6650
New smartphones are expected to be offered at nominal cost for customers who sign up for a multimedia services package.

Siemens Debuts OpenScape Unified Communications Server
The company hopes its common, open standards-based UC software will trump competing offerings from vendors like Cisco and IBM.

Nokia Wins Another Patent Case Against Qualcomm
Qualcomm has not yet prevailed in any of the 11 patent lawsuits it has brought against Nokia.

Microsoft Offers Online Services To Smaller Businesses
Microsoft is opening a beta test version of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Office Communications Server Online to companies of all sizes.

Microsoft To Expand Web Services For Businesses
Microsoft plans to broaden the availability of its online services for e-mail and collaboration software.

You Work Harder Than Your Boss: Survey
The vast majority of U.S. workers say they work much harder than the president of their firm, according to a new poll from Monster.com.

EBay Sees Growing Risks In Coming Year
EBay acknowledged that its main auction business faces slowing growth in each of its top three markets.

WikiLeaks Wins Back Its Domain
A federal judge dissolves an injunction but a Swiss bank's litigation against the community-driven document sharing site will proceed.

eBay Settles Patent Dispute With MercExchange
The online auction site said it will pay for three patents MercExchange claimed.

How eBay Manages Its Data Centers
The company is a third of the way through a major three-year grid computing initiative and is hoping to move toward automatic service level management.

Google's Ad Drop Clarified As Housecleaning
Web researcher comScore spooked the market earlier this week with its report showing a 7% drop in advertisements viewed on Google during January.

Cebit Conference Gears Up For Hanover, Germany
Cebit's organizers expect about the same number of exhibitors this year as last, when 6,150 companies including Microsoft, IBM and Vodafone made the trip to Hanover.

World Of Warcraft Helps Vivendi Shine
The owner of record company Universal Music Group has replenished its coffers and embarked on a multibillion-dollar buying spree over the past 18 months.

VCs Invested $3 Billion In Clean Tech In 2007
High oil prices and growing public concern over carbon emissions helped push venture capital investment in clean technologies to a record $3 billion in 2007, a 43% rise on the year before, according to a report released Friday.

United Business Media Transforms CMP into Four Independent Media and Information Services Businesses
New market-focused agile businesses to leverage UBM global resources and infrastructure.