Download links on Yahoo may include malicious content warnings
Yahoo has launched the beta of its McAfee SiteAdvisor-powered search security feature called SearchScan. Users can now opt to have potentially malicious results marked as such or omitted entirely.
Users in the US, Canada, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Spain now have the SearchScan tool turned on by default.
Qwest to resell Verizon Wireless services
Qwest previously had a deal with Sprint, however it had indicated that it was looking for a new wireless partnership.
Qwest announced the Verizon deal, which has a term of five years, on Monday without disclosure of financial terms. While it is a regional carrier, it is the only one not to own its own wireless business.
Microsoft extends the lifespan of Outlook Express, Hotmail anyway
The Windows Live Mail team recently announced the phase-out of the legacy DAV protocol would draw to a close on June 30. That date, however, has now been postponed.
Like the extension of XP's lifespan, Microsoft says the extended date to the Outlook Express DAV Deprecation has been the result of customer feedback. The transition away from the protocol would end Outlook Express' access to a user's Hotmail inbox, and customers were originally encouraged to switch to Windows Live Mail. Instead of using the Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol, Live Mail uses Deltasynch, which is ultimately more efficient.
Google accuses Verizon of weaseling out of its 700 MHz requirements
Prior to the start of the biggest wireless spectrum auction in US history, Google took credit for convincing the FCC to impose an open access rule for the winning bidder. Now the company is urging the Commission to enforce that rule.
A petition filed by Google last Friday with the US Federal Communications Commission (PDF available here) urges the agency to write a specific order requiring Verizon Wireless, as the runaway victor in its 700 MHz C block auction, to comply with FCC guidelines mandating that it provide customers with unlocked and open equipment for use with services in that spectrum.
Big Blue gets greener with new energy conservation initiatives
Maybe it's the time of year, but computer companies suddenly seem to be growing greener -- including IBM, which has just unveiled a trio of initiatives centered around energy efficiency.
This week's "wearing of the green" from IBM includes a major update to its power management software, a new partner program around energy efficiency, and globalization of an existing program that rewards users for energy reduction with cash redeemable certificates.
Google brain drain to Facebook continues
Elliot Schrage, Google's former vice president of global communications and public affairs will take a comparable position at Facebook.
Schrage will report to Sheryl Sandberg, who also recently migrated to the social networking site from Google to serve as its chief operating officer.
Search engine beta uses images as its search criteria
Idée inc. has launched the private beta of TinEye, an Image identification search engine built upon Amazon's AWS platform.
Rather than relying on tags and keywords, TinEye search takes a user-supplied image and searches for all the places where that same image has been used, regardless of changes made to the actual file. If the photo has been cropped, resized, re-colored, or altered, TinEye still discovers it.
Sprint makes moves toward more Java for its smartphones
During the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco this week, Sprint relaunched its Professional Developer Program while also introducing its latest version of an SDK based upon the Sun Microsystems Java Wireless Toolkit.
The Sprint Wireless Toolkit 3.3 update offers the first SDK for a new touch phone slated for launch for Sprint users only, later this summer. The update aims to enable developers to create content through a more automated process for compiling and debugging code.
With the Yahoo deal nixed, the lawsuits pick up steam
Is it the duty of a CEO to make sure his company's shareholders can make a big short-term gain, even if it means the loss of the company in the long term? A Delaware court will decide that question when it hears Yahoo shareholders' case.
A class-action suit against Yahoo filed last February 21 in Delaware, originally on behalf of shareholders of retirement funds for Detroit city workers and law enforcement personnel, could pick up added class members as a result of last weekend's Yahoo and Microsoft merger talk failure. Attorneys on behalf of the shareholders are confirming today that they're pressing ahead with plans to hold Yahoo's chief executives and board of directors liable for failing to enter into a deal that would likely have maximized their share value.
Two carriers to sell iPhone in Italy, new markets announced
For the first time since Apple's launch of the iPhone last year, two mobile carriers will offer the device to subscribers in a single country.
Both Vodafone and Telecom Italia will offer the iPhone in Italy, which seems to lend some validity to recent reports that Apple may be shifting its strategy to become more open before the 3G release of the iPhone.
Hyundai and Kia cars to add Microsoft voice technology
Like Fiat and Ford automobiles, South Korean Hyundai and Kia vehicles will receive their own version of Microsoft's hands-free media player and mobile phone interface by November, the companies said.
Late Yesterday, South Korea's Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, and Microsoft announced a partnership that will outfit the manufacturer's Hyundai and Kia vehicles with hands-free cell phone and media player controls beginning in November. Voice response-equipped automobiles are expected to hit the market in 2010.
IBM launches its own data center alliance
In a world already populated by the Green Grid Alliance and other industry groups oriented to energy efficiency, IBM has just rolled out a data center alliance with some similar interests.
In an interview with BetaNews, Rich Lechner, VP of IBM's Enterprise Systems, said that that his company's new alliance program for enterprise data centers will work hand-in-hand with other industry groups, including Green Grid, DMTF (Desktop Management Task Force), and SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Alliance).
Roundtable on Yahoo minus Microsoft: Who wins for losing?
There's a saying here in Indianapolis when someone starts falling behind: We say he's "lost the lead lap." Last weekend, Microsoft may have faced a critical moment in its race for online leadership. Does it realize how far behind it is?
With AOL's Platform-A now commanding the largest reach of any online advertising platform worldwide, there's respectable analysis that says Microsoft could now be considered the number four player in the online advertising space.
Another would-be Microsoft partner, Xobni, moves ahead on its own
To help add a social networking feel for Microsoft Outlook e-mail users, San Francisco startup Xobni has launched a beta service aimed at helping organize their e-mail inboxes by business and personal relationships.
As Outlook remains the most common program used for e-mail in corporate America, Xobni (available for download here) aims to make it easier for users to find e-mail addresses and phone numbers faster than simply relying on Outlook alone.
Sun's OpenSolaris on Amazon's 'cloud' begins in beta
OpenSolaris -- Sun's open source version of the Solaris kernel first announced in 2005 -- has been made available on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) distributed computing service.
Today at the CommunityOne Developer Conference in San Francisco, California, Sun Microsystems debuted its new OpenSolaris distribution which includes a small core operating system, a network package repository, application packages, and the Sun-developed Image Packaging System (IPS). The root file system of OpenSolaris is ZFS, which promises continual checksum capability and instant rollbacks to chosen states.
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