Business/Tech Xbox Kinect-beta leakers SOL for 'Halo: Reach' launch Much to the pleasure of gaming fans, a number of beta testers have been leaking images and videos of the refreshed Xbox 360 dashboard and avatars that come with the motion-sensor add-on. Vikings-Saints NFL game live online via Silverlight tonight NBC and the NFL are being awesome and broadcasting tonight's Vikings-Saints game on the Web for free. As All Things Digital reports, don't get used to it -- the online stream is a bit of an experiment, and it will only be happening once a week (for NBC's Sunday Night Football, and not during the playoffs). Why am I writing about this? Because NBC's online video player runs in Microsoft Silverlight. I wonder how many new users Silverlight will get tonight.... (Watch the game at 5:30 p.m. PDT here ... 'Halo: Reach' launch party coming to Seattle's EMP For those of us in the Seattle area, Microsoft and Bungie Studios are hosting a launch party for the new Xbox 360 game at the Experience Music Project at the Seattle Center. FAA finally set to propose new pilot fatigue rules After 15 months and a half-dozen missed deadlines, the Federal Aviation Administration is poised to propose, within days, new regulations on how many hours airlines can schedule pilots to be on duty or in the cockpit, the Associated Press reported Thursday. NASA moves Discovery in advance of its final mission NASA on Thursday moved the space shuttle Discovery from Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the nearby Vehicle Assembly Building, where the shuttle will be joined to its solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank. Delta, Hawaiian announce codeshare deal Delta Air Lines, which already has a codeshare agreement with Seattle-based Alaska Airlines, announced a codeshare deal with Hawaiian Airlines Thursday. Dynamics CRM 2011 hits beta with online verison Microsoft has started beta testing the next version of its customer relationship management (CRM) software, Dynamics CRM 2011, the company announced today. ANA, Chinese investors launch Japan's first low-cost carrier As expected, All Nippon Airways Thursday announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding with First Eastern Investment Group to create Japan's first low-cost carrier. Microsoft apologizes for recent BPOS outages Microsoft on Wednesday apologized for a string of recent service outages on its cloud-based Business Productivity Online Suite. FlightBlogger: Boeing to bridge 737 and replacement with NG+ On Wednesday, Boeing Commercial Airplanes Chief Executive Officer Jim Albaugh told employees that the company would bridge its current Next-Generation 737 and a replacement to come in the 2020s with an incrementally improved 737 Next Generation Plus or 737NG+, according to a FlightBlogger report. Report: ANA to create low-cost carrier All Nippon Airways is holding an "extraordinary board meeting" to approve the creation of a subsidiary low cost carrier to be based at Osaka's Kansai International Airport, the aerospace blog Flying With Fish reported Wednesday. Google antitrust probe: Is Microsoft the puppetmaster? After news broke that the Texas Attorney General's office is just the latest to open an antitrust investigation into Google's business practices, a company attorney wrote a blog post that indirectly pointed a finger at Microsoft. Photos from Vintage Aircraft Weekend I was out of town during Vintage Aircraft Weekend, but Liz Matzelle has tons of great pictures, including vintage airplanes with Boeing's fifth 787, ZA005, and the Farmer's Airship. Court OKs Microsoft's new weapon for taking down botnets A federal judge as approved a new tactic Microsoft used to cripple the notorious Waledac botnet, and Microsoft plans to use its new legal weapon again. 
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