Web promotion - Microsoft overhaul to avoid Windows delays MSN Money - 6 hours

Web promotion - Microsoft overhaul to avoid Windows delays MSN Money - 6 hours

Microsoft overhaul to avoid Windows delays
MSN Money - 6 hours ago Microsoft has overhauled its core software development practices to avoid any repetition of the delays that have bedevilled the next planned version of Windows, according to Steve Ballmer, the company's chief executive.

Efforts to pursue Iran sanctions stall
Financial Times - 52 minutes ago By Guy Dinmore at the United Nations, Daniel Dombey in Brussels,and Gareth Smyth in Tehran. President George W. Bush and his allies yesterday appeared stalled in their efforts to start the diplomatic process

People: Oh, boy -- Britney's a mom
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 3 hours ago It's, as predicted, a boy! But no word yet on the name of the son born to Britney Spears and Kevin Federline Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles. And, as predicted, Britney, who's afraid of the pain of child birth, did have a C-section.

House of Reps passes Telstra sale bill
Brisbane Courier Mail - 54 minutes ago THE Federal Government has received the all clear to sell its majority stake in Telstra after all five sale bills were passed by both houses of federal parliament. The House of Representatives today passed

Fox's Tedious 'Head Cases': Criminally Inane
Washington Post - 17 hours ago By Tom Shales. "Sometimes bad things just happen, and it's nobody's fault," says one of the characters in "Head Cases," a new Fox courtroom drama. Unfortunately that sounds an awful lot like the producer of the show attempting to let himself off the hook.

Michael Jackson announces Katrina benefit song lineup
San Jose Mercury News - 3 hours ago LOS ANGELES - A stellar lineup of performers will join Michael Jackson on a song to benefit Hurricane Katrina victims, his publicist said Wednesday. Raymone K. Bain said the list includes Mary J. Blige, Missy

ESPN Increases Budget in a Deal With Baseball
New York Times - 1 hour ago ESPN announced yesterday that it would televise Major League Baseball games through 2013 and expand its rights to carry games on new technologies, including a cellphone that it is expected to start marketing next year.

Google Lets Surfers Sift Through Blogs
Washington Post - 30 minutes ago By Yuki Noguchi. It remains one of the Internet's wide-open frontiers: the blogosphere, a virtual place where millions of people post personal journals on everything from politics to sports to music. But that

US meets opposition in call for NATO help
International Herald Tribune - 5 hours ago BERLIN France, Germany and Spain on Wednesday rejected a US call for NATO to help American-led forces fight the insurgency in Afghanistan, insisting instead that the alliance stick to peacekeeping tasks there.

How travelers with tickets might be affected
USA Today - 51 minutes ago By Gary Stoller, USA TODAY. Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings by Delta and Northwest should have no immediate impact on travelers. But they raise some issues down the road. Here are some questions that fliers might have, and travel experts' answers.