CNET News.com - Business TechTech News FirstReport: Microsoft to buy Powerset- June 26, 2008 Software behemoth has agreed to buy the semantic search engine for a price of upwards of $100 million, according to VentureBeat.http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9978548-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001... Daily Debrief: Figuring out Yahoo, Post-reorg- June 26, 2008 Meet the new boss. He -- and she is -- a lot like the old boss. What's different is the lineup of execs they now direct.http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-9978527-60.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001... Will Intel's snub of Vista be the first of many- June 26, 2008 Intel isn't going to upgrade to Vista. Will other corporations follow suithttp://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9978419-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001... Yahoo looking to unleash its cloud computing infrastructure- June 26, 2008 Yahoo CTO Ari Balogh says that much like Amazon's EC2 and Google's App Engine, Yahoo could offer infrastructure services.http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9978409-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001_... Icahn battles for Yahoo's gold- June 26, 2008 The billionaire files his proxy statement, urging shareholders to send in the gold-colored ballot and vote for his slate of directors. Yahoo's current board is pushing shareholders to send in their white ballots.http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9978361-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001... Daily Debrief: Defusing a P2P crisis before it starts- June 26, 2008 One of the Internet's pioneers is floating an interesting idea about how to fix network overload caused by peer-to-peer file transfers.http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-9978291-60.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001... Sun's McNealy lays claim to creating open source- June 26, 2008 I thought it was the Incans who created open source. Turns out it was Scott McNealy!http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-9978232-62.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001... Report: Microsoft might get more Yahoo for less- June 26, 2008 Yahoo shareholders are pushing for a search deal that would have Microsoft buy at least a third of Yahoo, but at a lower price than it offered in previous negotiations, according to All Things D's Kara Swisher.http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9978202-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001... Cloud computing hangover- June 26, 2008 I came away from GigaOM's Structure 08 with cloud-computing overload. Just trying to define cloud computing is daunting given all the hype and companies thunderclapping.http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9978153-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001... After Yahoo reorg, will Microsoft go to Defcon 1- June 26, 2008 Yahoo buys itself valuable time with its long-awaited reorganization. Now the countdown really begins to see whether real change is in store and whether Steve Ballmer will return to the negotiating table.http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-9978183-60.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001... |