Yahoo announced on Saturday night that it rejected a joint-buyout proposal that Microsoft and investor activist Carl Icahn offered the night before, which called for a "complex restructuring" and sale of Yahoo's search business to Microsoft.
Microsoft launched a campaign today to enlist supporters in its opposition to a new advertising collaboration deal between Google and Yahoo, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Gary McKinnon, the Briton who has admitted hacking into NASA systems, is due to fight his extradition to the US in the House of Lords on Monday.
Telstra has served Optus with a notice from its legal department this morning questioning the rival telco's ability to provide adequate service for the 3G iPhone, in a calculated move to disrupt the rival telco's 3G iPhone launch.
Red Hat announced on Wednesday that it has reached a settlement with Firestar Software and DataTern over a patent infringement lawsuit.
Non-profit organisations are keen to take advantage of emerging technologies such as social networking for fundraising and software as a service for administration, but a lack of perceived support options is keeping them away from open source software and focused on traditional providers such as Microsoft.
The software company has made a big show about opening up its APIs, but has it really changed its stance towards open source?
Google denies the information it collects from users of its Google Election platform causes any tension between its commercial interests and its promise to protect users' privacy.
At some stage, many people will find themselves asking why they left that great little job to take a turn in the management ranks. Let's take a few minutes to consider how you can avoid becoming a member of this group.
While Wall Street clamours for a piece of the search king, start-ups are trying to fill in the technology niches.
Should school students learn programming just for the sake of it?
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Computer and telecommunications companies are allying with file-swapping service Kazaa in a bid to overhaul the way record labels are paid for music and other content distributed on the Net.
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