With the prospect of antitrust regulation having caused Google to back out of its ad deal with Yahoo, the latter company’s CEO, Jerry Yang, suggests that Microsoft might not be such a bad partner after all.
IBM has announced a new USB device that’s aimed at making online banking transactions more secure. The new ZTIC (”stick”) device allows a user to detect man-in-the-middle attacks by doing a little man-in-the-middle work of its own.
The latest round of rumors to emerge from the negotiations among Google, Yahoo, and the Department of Justice suggest that the two web companies are willing to limit the revenue flowing to Yahoo in order to win antitrust approval.
Thomson Reuters, publisher of EndNote, is suing George Mason University over allegations that GMU reverse-engineered aspects of EndNote for their open source Zotero project.
Dash Express made huge waves with its innovative, Internet-connected GPS unit. But now the VC-backed company has fallen victim to the downturn-induced belt tightening that will affect more such startups in the coming months.