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Microsoft and Yahoo have finalised the terms of a broad search and advertising agreement intended to help them compete more effectively with Google.

Microsoft and Yahoo! May now have the critical mass to take on Google in the search and search advertising market in Australia, following the ACCC decision to allow a technology swap between the companies. Under the deal, [[artnid: 312913|Microsoft's Bing search engine will power Yahoo's search site|new]], and Yahoo will sell premium search advertising services for both companies. The terms of the agreement, which covers search only, is 10 years, in which Microsoft will have an exclusive license to Yahoo's core search technologies as well as the ability to integrate them into Bing. In turn, Bing will be the exclusive algorithmic search and paid search platform for Yahoo sites, but Yahoo will continue to use its technology and data in other areas of its business, in particular its display advertising.

The future of Australia’s Sun Microsystems staff is uncertain after the vendor announced it will layoff 3000 employees across its global workforce over the next 12 months.

The US Department of Justice has come out against the proposed agreement to settle copyright lawsuits that authors and major publishers filed against Google over the search company's book search program.

US iPhone lovers who want their device freed from AT&T's wireless network could soon get their wish.

A 24-year-old Texas man has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for selling counterfeit software on about 40 Web sites, the US Department of Justice said.

Think you can guess the No. 1 threat to the security of your stored data? If you said hackers, or even trouble-making insiders, you'd be wrong. While malicious threats are an ongoing concern, it's your well-meaning employees who are more likely to unknowingly expose your company's stored data through, say, a file-sharing network or a misplaced laptop.

In a column published Tuesday in London's Telegraph newspaper, the mayor of London called upon US President Barack Obama to call off the US effort to extradite and prosecute the British hacker who in 2001 broke into computer systems in the Department of Defense, NASA and the US Army.

Imprisoned former WorldCom chief Bernie Ebbers is hoping that President Bush will give him the gift of clemency this holiday season.

Google called off its proposed search advertising deal with Yahoo just three hours before the US Department of Justice was to file an antitrust complaint on November 5 aimed at blocking it, according to the lawyer that the government hired to pursue the case.