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  Yahoo's search
  for a new CEO

  special coverage With Jerry Yang poised to step down, who will take the helm and what will new leadership mean for the embattled company?
  • What skills should Yahoo look for?
  • Yang: 'Time is right' for new leader
  • Microhoo deal revisited
  • Video: Yang the talk of the Valley

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  Microsoft to offer free consumer security suite

  Software giant cans fee-based security and Windows Live OneCare service in favor of free consumer software focused on protecting PCs against malware.
  • Will Microsoft's antivirus move draw antitrust fire?
  • Microsoft to nix Office subscriptions

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• RIAA win: Tennessee to police campus networks

  Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen signs into law a bill that requires public and private schools in the state to ensure their computer networks are free of pirated material.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• Yahoo to make BrowserPlus open-source

  Trying to be more open and to encourage innovation, the company will release source code behind its project to make Web browsers more powerful computing foundations.

  (Posted in Webware by Stephen Shankland)

• Mark Cuban says no confidentiality agreement broken

  Cuban responds again to some of the SEC charges against him and says presents transcription which he says proves he broke no confidentiality agreement.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• Psystar antitrust claim against Apple dismissed

  Mac clone maker Psystar's best hope of emerging as a winner in its legal dispute with Apple is dealt a severe blow by a federal judge.

  (Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)

• Nokia shows off real-time traffic application

  Nokia and Navteq are developing a new application that will turn GPS cell phones into traffic "probes" for tracking real-time traffic information.

  (Posted in Wireless by Marguerite Reardon)

• Google's Schmidt calls for more innovation, stronger infrastructure

  The CEO on Monday laid out broad policy proposals for Washington that include opening up the government and investing in infrastructure.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• BP, Soros Fund invest in ethanol-making microbe

  Qteros, formerly SunEthanol, gets $25 million to commercialize a process that uses microbes, rather than enzymes, to make ethanol from non-food feedstocks.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Artist envisions turning fake eye into bionic eye-cam

  San Francisco artist wants to replace her artificial eye with a camera as part of an "experiment in wearable technology."

  (Posted in Cutting Edge by Elinor Mills)

• Mobile messaging grows globally

  New uses--such as messaging for social change and marketing--helped spur total message growth worldwide by nearly 10 percent in the third quarter, according to VeriSign.

  (Posted in Wireless by Marguerite Reardon)

• Dell taps game box, Nvidia for supercomputing

  How do you democratize high-performance computing? There's no better example than taking a game PC and turning it into a visual supercomputer.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Microsoft chopping Zune prices

  With storm clouds hanging over the U.S. economy and the holidays just weeks away, the software maker is cutting the price of all its flash-based devices.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• IBM to buy Transitive

  The company, whose technology allows code to run on a different OS or architecture than originally intended, is best known for powering Apple's Rosetta.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Safari 3.2 includes antiphishing tools

  Apple quietly adds the security feature to its latest version of Safari. It's the last of the major browser vendors to offer antiphishing protection.

  (Posted in Security by Robert Vamosi)
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