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White knight, black heart. Here's a bit of chilling news: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is apparently in talks with Yahoo on ways to save it from the clutches of Microsoft. That's a bit like being rescued from a fire-breathing dragon by a man-eating shark. The tea leaves suggest News Corp would swap MySpace for as much as 20 per cent of Yahoo. What they're less clear on is whether this would make Yahoo more palatable to Microsoft (and thus worth US$40 a share) or turn Yahoo into one of those things you have to choke down with a nose clamp and a tumbler of Scotch. Still, it would be fun to lock Ballmer and Murdoch together in a conference room and see who comes out alive.

Cisco Systems made its biggest foray yet into the entertainment and social networking world by announcing plans late Tuesday for the Cisco Entertainment Operating System.

John Picklo, manager of high-performance computing (HPC) at Chrysler, describes himself simply as an "IT guy" who's also a NASCAR fan. And he will be rooting Sunday for drivers of Dodge cars in the final race of this year's Nextel Cup.

More Newton than iPod, more tablet than music player, the new Apple iPod touch unveiled last week by CEO Steve Jobs breaks into a new hardware category that should scare the ultra-mobile PC/Nokia Tablet world.

While the dot-com era focused squarely on aggregating data on the Internet, one of the most defining characteristics of Web 2.0 is the deconstruction of the Web into small, single-purpose applications called widgets or gadgets.

When CIO H. James Dallas attended his first NASCAR race about 10 years ago, he learned some fast lessons -- not about driving stock cars around an oval at high speeds, but about fostering innovation within an IT department.

When IT executive H. James Dallas attended his first NASCAR race about 10 years ago, he learned some fast lessons -- not about driving stock cars at high speeds, but about fostering innovation within a technology organization.

The Sony brand name was pounded into punch-line fodder last year by all the battery pyrotechnics -- aren't those videos fun to watch? -- and the rootkit debacle that had some calling for jail time for those responsible.

Five years ago this week, the Eclipse consortium was unveiled by IBM and others with an eye toward offering tools based on the Eclipse open-source integrated software development environment.

From the time the World Wide Web took off in the mid-90s, companies began looking for ways to filter out access to its more lurid displays, but IT managers who use filters today say they're good for much more than blocking access to porn.

The technology driving telecasts just might surprise you.