Microsoft to patch four bugs on Tuesday
[May 9, 2008, 14:32]
Microsoft today said it plan to post four security updates next week, three of them "critical," to patch Windows, Word, Publisher and all of the company's anti-malware applications.
Among the critical fixes will be one that quashes bugs in Microsoft's Jet Database Engine that go back as far as 2005. The other critical patches will close holes in Microsoft's word processor and desktop publishing programs.
News Corp. not in talks with Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL
[May 9, 2008, 11:09]
News Corp. has no plans to jump in and rescue Yahoo Inc. now that Microsoft Corp. has walked away from its $47.5 billion takeover bid of the Internet company, News Corp.'s chief operating officer said during yesterday's earnings conference call.
In the days leading up to Microsoft's bid withdrawal, reports surfaced indicating that Yahoo was in talks with Time Warner Inc. to combine its Internet operations with AOL LLC in an effort to thwart Microsoft's bid. At the same time, News Corp., owned by Rupert Murdoch, was said to be in talks with Microsoft to jointly bid for Yahoo.
MySpace embraces data portability
[May 9, 2008, 10:41]
MySpace Inc. today unveiled its response to one of the most contentious issues surrounding social networking -- information portability -- with a new project that allows its users to share content from their profiles with any Web site.
The new MySpace Data Availability project is the first in a series of initiatives by the company to support data portability, allowing users to take the content they create in one network and easily add it to other sites, MySpace said.
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