Reuters - Annie Mole’s blog about the London
Underground rail system began as a New Year’s resolution to
teach herself how to make an Internet Web site and has
blossomed into a popular slice of commuter life.
NewsFactor - Fans of the Windows XP operating system will have to wait for the latest — and possibly last — service pack update. Microsoft said Tuesday that further release of Service Pack 3, which had been made available through Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center the same day, was being delayed because of a recently revealed problem.
NewsFactor - When you release a game that celebrates beatings, shootings, carjackings and other forms of social mayhem, it had better work properly. If the official forums for Grand Theft Auto IV are any indication, the programmers at Take-Two and Rockstar North should avoid lingering in dark alleys for the foreseeable future.
Macworld.com - Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit (BU) has announced the release of Messenger for Mac 7, its instant messaging client. Version 7 is a free download, available from the Mac BU’s website.
AP - Time Warner Inc. reported a 36 percent decline in first-quarter profits Wednesday following an asset sale a year ago and said it would spin off the rest of its cable business.
AP - Telecommunication equipment titan Alcatel-Lucent on Wednesday reported a fifth straight quarterly loss and said it expected annual revenues to fall while scaling back its market forecast for 2008.
PC World - SpringSource, maker of the Spring Framework for Java development, will announce a new application server on Wednesday that it…
PC World - Sony Ericsson is hoping to promote “wow” mobile-phone applications by enabling developers to combine the best of Java and…
AP - Edgar Masri was removed as chief executive of data network equipment maker 3Com Inc. on Tuesday and immediately replaced by Robert Mao, a fluent Mandarin speaker who will be based in China, which the Massachusetts-based company sees as its biggest market.
AP - Several electronics manufacturers said Tuesday they are working to create a worldwide standard for how their devices will talk with each other in people’s homes.