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  VTL to support for Microsoft.NET mobile application
 
  VisualSoft Technologies, a software solutions and product development company, 
  today announced support for Microsoft.NET mobile application development. 
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  AOL takes on Microsoft in a battle for your PC
 
  It's the battle of the eights -- as in Version 8. Even if you're a casual Internet 
  user, there's no way you're going to miss this digital firefight. The participants 
  are the Web's superpowers, America Online and Microsoft, and the theater of operations 
  is the Internet, with both companies unleashing multimillion-dollar advertising 
  campaigns to win you over to the latest version of their Web software, both dubbed 
  Version 8.0. features contained in their upgrades. About 44 million people access 
  the Internet through one of the two services. 
  - Microsoft 
  wants better Best Buy deal
 
  With an eye on the bottom line of its MSN unit, Microsoft says it wants a new 
  agreement with Best Buy. The companies' advertising and profit-sharing deal, which 
  includes the promotion of the MSN Internet service in Best Buy stores, expires 
  in March, the companies said. The companies are in negotiations to continue the 
  agreement, but Microsoft wants better terms than it has under the current pact, 
  MSN spokeswoman Parul Shah said. 
  - Neowin Closes Again
 
  Due to mis-understandings about ad's on Neowin we have been forced to close the 
  site We already have offers of hosting and are not looking in that direction right 
  now. We are not sure at the moment what will happen with the site. It has been 
  for the most part a fun 2 years to do Neowin theres a lot of reasons to continue 
  but there are also many reasons to stop. Whatever we do we will keep this space 
  informed. 
  
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