Officially Yahoo! won't even confirm the phone call but according to what has leaked to the press, the board is supposed to meet again face-to-face all day Wednesday, ironically - and perhaps prophetically - the day before Valentine's Day. Meanwhile, indulging perhaps in a bit of 'rabb

Tuesday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang sent out his second company-wide e-mail since Microsoft made its unsolicited $44.5 billion bid for Yahoo, a message that made it into an SEC filing Wednesday. He said the same thing he said before: 'No decisions have been made about Microsoft's proposal.'

The Yahoo Board is supposed to convene today to thrash out whether or not to accept Microsoft?s $44.6 billion acquisition offer, try to get Microsoft to sweeten the pot, or resist and hammer out an outsourcing deal with Google, according to TechCrunch.

Key opinion-formers in the field of infrastructure and pioneers of virtualization technologies of all types have already begun submitting speaking proposals to Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 East, being held in New York City, 23-24 June, 2008. Topics covered will range from Serv

Google doesn't like the idea of Microsoft buying Yahoo any more than Microsoft likes the idea of Google buying DoubleClick. Today in a blog Google general counsel David Drummond said Microsoft?'s $44.6 billion hostile bid for Yahoo 'raises troubling questions.' 'This is about more than

Sun is offering ten grants of US $11,500 - equivalent to several months of pay for developers in some countries - for the best NetBeans projects submitted by open source developers. Conceived as a means of increasing general awareness around the NetBeans project as well as rewarding go

Google, which does not give guidance, missed both Wall Street's top and bottom expectations for its December quarter by a hair and the punters turned vicious pounding it down around 50 bucks after-hours. Consensus demanded non-GAAP earnings of $4.44 on revenues of $3.45 billion. Google

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Yahoo! released the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI) as a free, open-source JavaScript and CSS library eighteen months ago along with a commitment to the developer community: We'll share with you our best frontend tools, engage with you about how they're built and why, and we'll docu

In the past few years, AJAX has become very popular because it has enabled developers to build more complex web applications. However, in the rush to push the browser to new limits, we have created a monster. While the original goal of AJAX was to make web applications more responsive

Yahoo is planning to lay off hundreds of workers in an effort to cut costs and revive the company's core business, according to reports in several media outlets Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal, New York Times reported Tuesday that the company is preparing to lay off workers in an effo

A coalition of educators, foundations, and internet pioneers today urged governments and publishers to make publicly-funded educational materials available freely over the internet.

eBay CEO Meg Whitman, after 10 years running the company, is planning to retire, according to the Wall Street Journal, which pegs John Donahoe, president of eBay's auction business, for her likely replacement.

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia anyone can edit, celebrates its seventh birthday. Founded on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia has become of the world's ten most visited websites, and the fastest growing, most current, and largest encyclopedia ever created. Currently, the website has

CMS Watch rejected the snowball of hype suggesting that Google Analytics and Omniture are the only remaining solid choices for Web Analytics. For mid-sized and larger enterprises in particular, and buyers in the UK and Europe, there are many established vendors who can provide advanced

Yahoo! released the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI) as a free, open-source JavaScript and CSS library eighteen months ago along with a commitment to the developer community: We'll share with you our best frontend tools, engage with you about how they're built and why, and we'll docu

Microsoft disclosed late Thursday that Jeff Raikes, the head of its Office operation, second only to Windows in bringing in revenue, was retiring and will be replaced by Stephen Elop, 44, Jupiter Networks' short-term COO. Before Jupiter, Elop was president of worldwide field operation

Microsoft's latest Google corrective has it buying Norway's troubled publicly traded enterprise data search firm, Fast Search & Transfer ASA, for a lavish $1.2 billion in cash. The buyout price represents a 42% premium over Fast's stock price last Friday and 48 times estimated 2010 ear

The release yesterday of an Alpha version of Jimmy Wales's new Wikia Search project underwhelmed critics. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch called it a 'complete letdown' and even BusinessWeek.com noted that 'Preliminary testing of the site...produced disappointing results consistent wit

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Google's new-year special logo, which went live briefly as 2008 began, celebrated the 25th anniversary of TCP/IP - adopted by Arpanet on January 1st, 1983. While 'invisible' to most users, many of the layers built on top of TCP/IP are well-known even to laymen: HTTP (Hyper Text Transfe

Google's Knol sounds like a knee-jerk reaction and retaliation to Jimmy Wales' public insults and threaths for more than a year. At least that's the common perception out there. Blogger Michael Arrington writes: 'Knol is not much different than existing products. It's a new knowledge b

IBM Research Labs has pushed out free e-mail search software called OmniFind Personal Email Search (IOPES) to find information buried, it says, in the 'vast personal database that e-mail has become.'

Adobe and Yahoo have launched a beta Ads for Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo! so online publishers can stick context-based ads in a panel next to PDF content for incremental revenue from Yahoo. The context ads are dynamically matched to the content of the documents. Adobe does the inserting

Norwegian browser maker Opera Software ASA has complained to the European Commission that Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its Internet Explorer browser to the Windows operating system and hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards. It wants I

In keeping with the longstanding SYS-CON tradition of being at the very forefront of software development with all its online and offline resources, SYS-CON Media & Events jointly today announced a double whammy, launching both 'Open Web Developer's Journal' (htt p://openweb.sys-con.com

My seven-year-old daughter thinks that there is a knowledge genie that her teacher 'Googles' for answers. While cute, the anecdote also exemplifies how much Google's obsession with simplicity has helped build brand awareness, making their name literally synonymous with search. I can fo

Dr. Li Gong, co-chairman of the Chinese subsidiary of the Mozilla Corporation, has announced a deal with Chinese search engine Baidu to help propagate the Firefox browser in the Middle Kingdom. From now on, China's domestic users who install the latest version of the Firefox browser (2

Since Ed Zander led Sun into the valley of the shadow of death back, what? over five years ago now, it has never recovered. And there's a good chance the same thing may happen to Motorola. With a year left to run on his contract, Zander quit yesterday and clearly not a moment too soon

Dell is gonna sell Google's search widgets, the $30,000-to-start Google Search Appliance and the $2,000-to-start Google Mini to American companies, large and small. It already sells PCs with Google's desktop search. And now it'll have 2950 servers compatible with the Google Search Appl

Within minutes of my blog entry, I received the strangest email notification, alerting me to another blog written by Alan Zeichick, 'co-founder and editorial director of BZ Media, which publishes SD Times and Software Test & Performance, and which also produces the Software Security Su

Credit Suisse has pushed its 12-month price target on Google from $800 to $900, causing the stock to regain some of the 125 bucks it's lost to the market roiling since Google grazed $750 earlier this month. Most of Wall Street believes in its heart that Google will see a dizzying $1,00

Remember that $3.9 million that Google dropped into co-founder Sergey Brin's fiancée's start-up right before they were married? Well, as of Monday said start-up, 23andMe, is peddling $999 DNA saliva tests so people can find out about their ancestry, inherited traits and - eventually -

The Federal Trade Commission has heard from two US senators on the Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights subcommittee, chairman Herb Kohl (D) and ranking minority member Orrin Hatch (R), urging it to redouble its scrutiny of the Google-DoubleClick deal out of concern for bo

The European Commission has decided not to stint on its investigation of the proposed Google-DoubleClick merger and, beginning Tuesday, is treating it to a rare in-depth review that will take until April 2. The move raises the hopes of GoogleClick critics like Microsoft that the $3.1 b

It also talked to Jarg co-founder Michael Belanger. He told Reuters that he's been sitting on the claims for years for lack of money but then found a law firm - Texas-based Vinson & Elkins - willing to take the case on contingency. They're seeking damages and royalties. Jarg's other co

Here are my thoughts on this. I was expecting Alfred - who is known to be an arrogant and incompetent CEO - to run away from Larry as fast as he could. But this movie usually ends as follows. First, history repeats itself. By that I mean that Alfred should remember Larry's PeopleSoft h

I asked what she did for a living. She said she was a software engineer working with SOA. I did not think about my plane ride much until I arrived in San Francisco to attend the SOA World Conference & Expo this past Monday and Tuesday. The first day of the conference as I walked into t

The three-year-old Dojo Foundation has put out version 1.0 of Dojo, an open source JavaScript toolkit for AJAX development meant for building rich Web 2.0 applications without proprietary plug-ins or single-vendor solutions. The widgetry makes use of Google Gears, Google's solution for

Microsoft has pulled the search widgetry out of SharePoint Server 2007 and turned it into a standalone Search Server 2008 Express that it will make available as a free download. It says information workers waste as much as 9.5 hours a week on searches that don't turn up the right infor