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  Microhoo revisited:
  A search-only deal?

  With Yahoo looking beyond Jerry Yang for a new CEO, Microsoft could be open to a mutually beneficial search deal.
  • Yang to step down
  • Yang's travails: A Yahoo timeline
  • Yahoo's ultimate search: CEO
  •  Microsoft efforts sank Yang, Yahoogle

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  The Papermaster case:
  A hiring conundrum

  A noncompete agreement signed with IBM could put a serious crimp in Apple's succession plan for its iPhone and iPod team.

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• DivX sues Yahoo over canceled ad deal

  Just two weeks after Yahoo learned it would be losing out on a revenue-making ad deal with Google, it's own reneging on an ad deal is prompting DivX to sue the search company.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• Unisys survey looks beyond cybersecurity

  Semiannual report from consulting firm attempts to "get a sense of where the public is" on security.

  (Posted in Security by Robert Vamosi)

• Privacy laws trip up Google's expansion in Europe

  Search giant is getting caught in a web of privacy laws that threaten its growth and the positive image it has cultivated.
  (From The New York Times)

• HP sees fourth-quarter sales boost

  PC maker's revenue hits $33.6 billion, with adjusted earnings of $1.03 per share. That's "another solid quarter," CEO Mark Hurd says.
  • More holiday time off at HP, Micron

  (Posted in Business Tech by Margaret Kane)

• Amazon launches content delivery network

  Company goes live with CloudFront, which promises to work closely with its popular S3 service, with "low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments."

  (Posted in Webware by Caroline McCarthy)

• Google 'Voice Search' hands-on verdict: Awesome

  Company's updated Mobile App for iPhone is finally here, and it works as advertised.

  (Posted in Webware by Rafe Needleman)

• Spansion, Kodak file patent suits against Samsung

  Spansion seeks the exclusion from the U.S. market of more than 100 million MP3 players and other consumer electronics devices containing Samsung's allegedly infringing flash memory components.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• MLB.com drops Silverlight for Adobe Flash

  Adobe's Flash technology will help deliver streaming video of Major League Baseball games. MLB.com exec said Flash gave service more flexibility.
  • Full coverage: Adobe Max
  • Adobe bringing full-fledged Flash to phones
  •  Photos: Adobe moves Flash 10 to smartphones
  • Video: Maria Shriver touts new online learning tool

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• Mourning, unease after Silicon Valley slayings

  The man suspected of killing three employees at a start-up Friday was terminated, not laid off. But given the economic climate, the incident still has folks worried.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Michelle Meyers)

• District court halts keylogger spyware sales

  U.S. District Court has temporarily halted the sale of RemoteSpy keylogger software, which the Federal Trade Commission says harms consumers and violates the FTC Act.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• New 'Halo'-esque look for Korea's troops

  Korean Agency for Defense Development is designing battle uniforms for the "future combatant" that include bulletproof helmets and automatic temperature control.

  (Posted in Military Tech by Mark Rutherford)

• StumbleUpon adds more partner sites

  Online discovery site, which competes with Digg, Reddit, and Mixx, snags Funny Or Die, Atom, Scientific American, and 5min.com for its partner program.

  (Posted in Webware by Don Reisinger)

• Transmeta finds a buyer

  The struggling chipmaker agrees to be sold to video chipmaker Novafora for $255.6 million in cash.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Ina Fried)
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