After a face to face meeting, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer are finally discussing about advertising and also search partnerships, the companies may possibly strike, said several sources with knowledge of the situation. According to other sources, the talks between the Yahoo and Microsoft representatives are preliminary and wide ranging, focused just on what kind of commercial relationship Yahoo and Microsoft could have in the near future. But, informed sources close to Yahoo, said that the discussions are not about a renewed acquisition attempt by Microsoft and also might not result in any kind of deal. Yahoo and Microsoft representatives refused to comment about the meeting and of any agreement that they could make in the near future.
Such a partnership, which plays to each company’s strengths, would bring the two closely together, even though they still compete on many other fronts on the internet.
From about a month ago Google offers an easy way to link up your phone with one or more of your Blogger blogs as part of its Blogger in Draft program. It provides the settings to post to an exact blog through your telephone or email next to each blog’s topic inside of the dashboard using mini and simple icons. These changes are now available live to everyone worldwide.
SMS or MMS message posting can be set up in less than one minute if you can type fast on your phone, and you don’t need to leave the dashboard to do it, you just have to insert two sets of settings before posting messages.
While blogging by SMS and Email is not a new concept, Google wants to make it easier and just by placing the small icons and the setup tools right there in front of you can be a very good start.
Oracle and Sun are two of the most important players in database software industry. According to BBC they reached an agreement, and Oracle will buy Sun. Many software developers, specially freelancers, are afraid this could be the end of free MySQL and free Java. Currently MySQL has over 25% market share in overall database usage by developers. We don’t know the Oracle’s plans yes, but it’s hard to believe this monopoly will turn into a something positive.
