AP - A Chinese investment fund manager's bid for the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett was the largest ever in a charity auction on eBay and surprised even Buffett.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Saxon Innovations, an intellectual property licensing company based in Tyler, Texas, says the tech vendors violated several of its patents. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:50:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft will no longer make Windows XP available to large computer makers, such as Dell, Lenovo, or Hewlett-Packard, or to software retailers. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:28:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Emerging SaaS and in-memory options will let power users and analysts gain insight without IT bottlenecks. Research firm urges adoption. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:47:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Google has struck a deal to help finance and distribute on the Internet an animated series from Seth MacFarlane, creator of "The Family Guy" television series. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:40:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - A French court ordered eBay Inc. to pay more than $61 million to a high-end fashion company Monday because counterfeit goods were sold on the auction site.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The follow-up to 2001's Diablo II features a 3-D graphics engine that renders environments that are interactive and destructible, allowing players to create traps and obstacles. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:08:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Yahoo Inc on Monday
sought to rally shareholder support in the face of a proxy
battle with billionaire Carl Icahn, saying the activist
investor had an "ill-defined plan" for the future of the
Internet company.
AP - Yahoo Inc. began pressing a case to major shareholders Monday that its board and management deserve a chance to prove they made the right move when they rejected a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft Corp.
NewsFactor - In a move that should send "cold chills down the necks of broadcast network executives," Google will unveil this fall an Internet-only animation show from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:54:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The flaw focuses on IE's inline frames, often used for serving ads, which typically come from a different domain than content that appears on the same Web page. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Nine of the 25 vulnerabilities addressed affect the Tomcat 4.1.36, which comes bundled with Mac OS X v10.4.11 systems. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Cisco, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Sun Microsystems, Ericsson, and Verizon Communications are among those hoping to reduce their exposure to lawsuits. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:17:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
