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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK — Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), which was widely believed to be running out of alternatives to accepting Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) takeover offer, has become a target of two warring camps of technology giants and their media allies, sources said on Wednesday. News Corp is considering joining Microsoft in a bid for Yahoo which […]

Symantec Corp, the world’s biggest security software maker, said on Wednesday it will buy AppStream, a developer of technology used to distribute computer programs across large networks. Financial terms were not immediately available. AppStream’s investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson, JK&B Capital, Goldman Sachs and Evergreen Partners, according to the privately held company’s Web site. Its […]

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) is in advanced talks to carry Web search advertising from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) as part of a test to evaluate the revenue potential of a broader outsourcing arrangement, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Wednesday. Citing people familiar with the matter, the report said the discussion was part […]

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) elected David Dorman, former AT&T CEO as nonexecutive chairman to succeed Ed Zander, who will retire on May 5, the mobile phone company said on Wednesday. The appointment of Dorman, who joined Motorola’s board in 2006, comes as the company plans to split into two publicly traded entities in an effort to […]

A major Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) shareholder, Legg Mason, is ready to back Yahoo’s effort to stay independent if Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) lowers its buyout offer, The Wall Street Journal said, citing an interview with portfolio manager Bill Miller. “The problem is Microsoft blundered with the letter this weekend,” Miller told the Journal, referring to Microsoft […]

Help has arrived for anyone unable to install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). Microsoft said this week that its latest update addresses problems in earlier versions due to bugs in an update required for installation. The replacement update file should solve the problem that some customers encountered when they tried to install the original […]

ORLANDO, FLA. — Xiotech has debuted its new storage line borne from its November acquisition of Seagate Technology’s Advanced Storage Architecture. The Emprise 5000 direct attached storage unit and Emprise 7000 storage area network SAN can eliminate maintenance, prevent drive failures, offer a five-year warranty and can scale — the 7000 goes from one terabyte […]

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) said on Tuesday it has posted online more than 14,000 pages of preliminary versions of technical documentation for underlying software code in its software programs. The underlying code, or protocols, are built into Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. In February, the world’s biggest […]

Source: Reuters Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) on Monday defended a policy of retaining data on Web users for up to 18 months as necessary to improve search results, responding to an EU report that saw no need for search services to keep personal data beyond six months. A group of data protection commissioners from across the […]

Fox Networks, a year-old online advertising network owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), will announce on Tuesday it has bought control of European video ad network Utarget as part of a move to expand in Europe and Asia. While much is known about News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Media Internet unit, which oversees leading […]

Adobe Systems Inc said on Monday it was putting under one roof businesses selling software for computers, phones and consumer electronics to make them run on a single technology platform. The announcement is part of a series of management restructuring moves Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) is making following the planned retirement of two long-time executives, effective […]

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) on Sunday detailed plans for its forthcoming Web advertising management system that gives its ad-sales partners access to online ad space both on Yahoo and other major sites. The widely anticipated system, known as AMP, aims to simplify the process of buying and selling online ads for advertisers, ad agencies, fast-growing ad […]