Yahoo has increasingly been involved with open source over the past year. Zimbra. Hadoop. Yahoo User Interface Library. Etc. Yahoo has been aggressively moving down the open-source road. Would Microsoft help or hinder that progression?
I don’t think a combination of Yahoo and Microsoft is going to reverse Google’s increasing search dominance. As Terry Semel [...]

Music Videos Music Videos from Yahoo and RockYou helps you find music videos from your favorite artists (both new and older) and add them to your profile. They can be viewed anytime you access your profile.
Music Music (by Burst Development, not iLike) allows you to upload songs, send the service a link to add the [...]

Ozzie also announced a new database-in-the-cloud service, known as SQL Server Data Services.

Ozzie said he hoped in his speech to connect some of the dots between Microsoft’s online services, which he acknowledged can seem from the outside to be somewhat haphazard.

“I can say it’s already added some interesting twists to what promises to be a [...]

Inverters convert direct current generated by solar panels or a wind turbine to household alternating current. When the power goes out, the Xantrex inverter draws on batteries to meet the household’s load.

The Xantrex Trace Series Inverter/Charger is designed to charge batteries from solar panels or wind turbine when there is a power failure.
Going off [...]

Some voters went online to find voting information. Nearly one in five voters used the Internet to find out where to vote, 16 percent of voters went online for information about absentee or early voting, and 9 percent went online to find out where they were registered to vote.

“The 2008 elections saw the role [...]

Facebook doesn’t have a great need to jump on the OpenSocial bandwagon now. To date, Facebook has 200,000 developers and 16,000 applications, and is licensing its developer platform to external networks, such as Bebo. Revamping its platform to support OpenSocial isn’t a high priority at this point, but a Facebook versus the rest of the [...]

Microsoft launched an unsolicited bid for Yahoo on Feb. 1, in a deal initially valued at $31 a share. But Yahoo rejected the offer as undervaluing the company.

The report did not note whether the directors would authorize the Internet pioneer to engage in formal negotiations with Microsoft. (On Sunday evening, The Wall Street Journal reported [...]

But Comcast’s Swartz said that the online video market is still young. And experimentation is necessary at this stage.
Of course, the big question is whether they will figure it out in time. The game may only be in the bottom of the second inning, but it could be over a lot quicker than Swartz or [...]

Yahoo said on Saturday that it is evaluating the unsolicited bid.
Microsoft and Yahoo together have a large share of the e-mail and instant messaging accounts, as well as two of the most popular Web portals. Drummond wonders about the possibility that Microsoft could use its dominance in the PC software market to [...]

We promised some more benchmark scores for Apple’s new eight-core
Mac Pro this morning, and once the Fed Ex delivery guy showed up, we got to work. Apple sent us an ATI Radeon HD 4870 3D card to see how the major graphics card upgrade for the Mac Pro would improve its 3D gaming performance.

Call [...]