Top IT news for May 5: Penalizing net censorship, IBM-Google partnership, can open source save Sun?
- Date: May 5th, 2008
- Author: Jason Hiner
- Category: News
- Tags: Google Inc., Partnership, CNET Networks Inc., Open Source, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Strategy
Top five headlines
- Microsoft abandons its bid for Yahoo (see below)
- Bill would penalize companies that aid net censorship (ZDNet)
- IBM-Google hug in the cloud (ZDNet)
- Will open source save Sun? (CNET)
- 48% see themselves running Windows XP in 2014 (ZDNet)
Microsoft abandons its bid for Yahoo
- Microsoft pulls its Yahoo offer (CNET)
- Microsoft says proxy battle not worth it (CNET)
- Microsoft walks: Five reasons why it’s a good move (ZDNet)
- Assessing winners, losers and Plan Bs (ZDNet)
- Microsoft withdraws offer for Yahoo (Reuters)
- Microsoft To Yahoo: Take a Hike! (GigaOm)
- Jerry Yang’s memo to Yahoo staff (CNET)
- Ballmer’s e-mail to staff on Yahoo (CNET)
- Why Microsoft coveted Yahoo (CNET)
- Yahoo Prepares For A Black Monday (TechCrunch)
- Yang betting on Y!Open to save Yahoo! (CNET)
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- Sanity check: The top four trends in IT from Interop Las Vegas 2008
- Can presentation layer abstraction ever replace desktop and Web apps?
- Physically destroy your hard disk for security
- Beta of Parallels Server now supports Leopard Server
- Big trouble for little white IT consulting lies
- Pop quiz answers: Hexadecimal basics
- Do you pay attention to software EULAs?
- Image: Takeover attempts at a glance
- Image: Top 10 U.S. tech mergers
- Photos: Xirrus tells IT pros to “Ditch the switch”
More from ZDNet
- Is Google reliable enough?
- Four reasons to skip Web conferences
- Global PC shipments grew 14.6% to 69.5 mln units in Q1 2008
- SAP to run apps native on RIM’s BlackBerry
- 10 reasons for IT failure
- Xubuntu 8.04 stellar on low-power machines
- AT&T disables free Wi-Fi for iPhone users
- Power cord clutter: A picture is worth a thousand words
- Commercial OpenSolaris ships
- Oil and the future of cleantech are NOT separable
- EIC podcast: Microhoo; Google and Big Blue; Sun
More from CNET
- Firm fined $45,000 over alleged H-1B favoritism
- Headhunter dishes on why people leave Google
- Imagining the tech world in 2050
- Time to flip out: Clamshell BlackBerry ‘Kickstart’ rumored for T-Mobile
- Purdue set for supercomputer ‘barn-raising’
- From Live Mesh to the Open Mesh
- Larry Ellison couldn’t buy this kind of PR
- Audi promises electric car within 10 years
- Spam at 30. Happy birthday, sort of
- Buzz Out Loud 716: Hope for old people (like Tom)
More from around the Web
- Tech’s Top-Paid CEOs (Forbes)
- Adobe opens up Flash on mobiles (BBC)
- Coming to America: Getting visas to do business in Silicon Valley (TechCrunch)
- Sprint faces Workers’ Suit (Wall Street Journal)
- Nortel’s Net Loss Widens (Wall Street Journal)
- 4G Backhaul: A Problem for All? (Unstring)
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Can the U.S. govt stop multinational companies from censoring?
Jason Hiner | 05/05/08
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Bad idea
RFink | 05/05/08
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Sun needs a Linux OS to run?
BALTHOR | 05/05/08
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