Microsoft profit jumps 24 percent
Software giant Microsoft on Thursday reported a 24 percent hike in profit on strong sales of server software to businesses and despite sluggish results in its Internet business But it disappointed analysts by predicting that growth will be slower than Wall Street estimates
The Redmond Wash company said net income was 314 billion or 29 cents a share compared with 253 billion or 29 cents a share for the same period a year earlier The most recent profit included a 2centashare charge for its recent legal settlement with digital technology company RealNetworks...
Microsoft to Join Book-search Allia...
Microsoft to Join Booksearch Alliance
International Herald Tribune
By Katie Hafner The New York Times
Thursday October 27
Microsoft has announced that it plans to join the online book
search movement with a new service called Book Search
And in a nod to the growing influence of a recently formed group
called the Open Content Alliance Microsoft also announced on
Tuesday its plans to join the alliance The group is working to
digitize the contents of millions of books and put them on the
Internet with full text accessible to anyone while respecting the
rights of copyright holders...
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Washington The Hosting News October 20 Search engine giant Google is being sued by
The Association of American Publishers to prevent Google from digitally coping and distributing copyrighted works without permission of the copyright owners
The lawsuit was filed after discussions broke down between and Googles top management regarding the copyright infringement implications of the Google Print Library Project...
Microsoft's MSN: Searching for growth
encompasses a subscriptionbased internet access business an online content portal and a search engine It faces stiff competition from for access and content as well as Google and Yahoo for search and advertising dollars like 47Money is owned by Time Warner
Engine for growth
While its still a small fraction of the companys overall business the future of is important because if it becomes a successful competitor to Google and Yahoo the acknowledged leaders in the search category could deliver some muchneeded growth to Microsoft...
Technology - The Detroit News Online - 10/29/05
Web banking to get significant security upgrade
If you do banking over the Internet generally the drill is pretty simple You enter your user name and password and away you go
Device detects gunfire at the speed of light
A sniper fires on American troops in Iraq In the milliseconds before the bullet hits in fact before the shot is even heard a computer screen reveals the guns model and exact location...