Reuters - Microsoft Corp is preparing a
new bid for Yahoo Inc's search business and has
approached other media companies about joining it in a deal
that would effectively lead to Yahoo's breakup, the Wall Street
Journal said.
AP - Yahoo Inc. shares rose more than 5 percent Wednesday as The Wall Street Journal reported Microsoft Corp. has talked to other media companies about teaming up to buy Yahoo's search business.
USATODAY.com - Tech junkies looking to pinch pennies in today's economy can scour the Web for a bounty of free software - for word-processing and photo-editing, online storage and more. -- read full article
AP - For the first time, more people around the world are signing up for fiber-optic broadband service than for cable Internet service, according to a British research firm. -- read full article
Reuters - Internet search company Google signed
an agreement with Brazilian public prosecutors on Wednesday to
help combat child pornography on its social networking site
Orkut, an accord that the company believes is the first of its
kind internationally.
Reuters - French Internet service provider Free and
Bollore Telecom are in talks with Web search giant Google Inc
over the funding of their WiMax wireless broadband network in
France, French daily Les Echos reports. -- read full article
AP - Germany's annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" live via the Internet. The catch is the price — $77.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Axiom 600 and 600MC are optimized for VMware, Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, SQL database, and other applications often used with the technology. -- read full article
CNET - Adobe announced late Monday night that it was providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo to help them better index dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications that include the Shockwave Flash file (SWF) format. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are fighting over new media residuals and other contract terms. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Under Powerset's hood is decades-in-the-making natural-language processing technology the company licensed from the Palo Alto Research Center, formerly of Xerox. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - While the industry gets high marks for courteousness, that positive is undermined by low effectiveness in handling customer issues and poor communication, a report says. -- read full article
Reuters - DISH Network Corp, the No. 2 U.S.
satellite television provider, said on Tuesday it received
notice that phone operator AT&T Inc is ending their agreement
at the end of the year to sell TV, phone and Internet packages.
