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Ask Adobe Systems' CEO Bruce Chizen about the state of relations between his company and Microsoft, and he finds it hard not to smirk.

Yahoo will shut down Yahoo Photos, one of its two photo-sharing sites, and focus all its efforts on its other photo-sharing site, Flickr.

To eliminate overlap in services, Yahoo will close its Yahoo Photos service in favour of photo sharing darling Flickr, acquired by Yahoo a little over two years ago and considered by many a pioneer of the Web 2.0 wave of Internet innovation.

Flickr is the ultimate Web 2.0 app -- one of the first to implement tags, RSS feeds, and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML); to offer APIs to third-party developers; to encourage mashups; and to incorporate groups or "lite" social networking into a tool previously viewed as family-centric.

Today's corporate end-users are far more tech-savvy than their productivity with IT tools indicates. After all, screen-deep in IMs, widgets, and elaborate consumer Web apps, they're proving themselves well-versed in the production and distribution of content as facilitated by the consumer Web 2.0 craze. Yet to surface this hidden expertise in an enterprise setting requires a deeper understanding of what draws end-users to these technologies and how these consumer technologies are reshaping end-users' tech expectations in the workplace.

The "MyParty" virus, masquerading as a URL for an online archive of photos, came as a shock last week to companies in Australia who didn't realise that a mass-mailer worm could disguise itself as a harmless-looking link in a message.

Grappling with the slow-to-develop Web photo-processing market, Shutterfly Inc. announced a restructuring plan Wednesday that includes a layoff of 30 employees, a CEO search and at least US$10 million in additional venture funding.

Faced with a shortage of talent and real estate in Silicon Valley, Mike Lambreth, customer service manager at Shutterfly Inc., recently outsourced some customer support functions.

The last decade has been one of incredible technical tumult. And like an earthquake centered in Silicon Valley, the hundreds of new companies spawned there have added hundreds of billions of dollars to today's thriving economy. Behind at least five of those startups stands Jim Clark, mastermind behind the Geometry Engine chip that brought 3-D graphics-and virtual reality-to the world.

Kyle Mashima is a vice president of product marketing for the consumer products division at Adobe Systems Inc. PC World recently quizzed him about Adobe's plans for its consumer products, ActiveShare and PhotoDeluxe, and on photo-sharing trends on the Web.

Here are two ideas that don't fit together: "busy professional" and "errands." The only gifts you give are the books you can order (and have wrapped) at Amazon.com. And you even buy groceries online while you wolf down your lunch.