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The International Herald Tribune
IHT.com Tech Alert
Paris, Thursday, November 20, 2008
Microsoft stays open to collaborative search deal with Yahoo
But Yahoo has an even more fundamental decision to make, analysts and other Internet watchers say: Should it finally listen to the devotees of deal-making and sell some or all of itself to another Internet player?
- Now comes the hard part as Yahoo wrestles with a question of direction

France takes lead in digital library
When Europeana, with two million digitized books, manuscripts and other artifacts, opens to Internet users Thursday, users will find the material dominated by the French.

Microsoft to work for new standard for interaction with media sites
Microsoft said it planned to work more closely with publishers on the development of a new technological standard that would give them more control over what happens to their material after it has been referenced by search engines like Microsoft's Live Search, Google and Yahoo.

P&G and Google trade corporate know-how
Procter & Gamble said that it had conducted job swaps with Google, and that Google employees had been at P&G's headquarters in Cincinnati headquarters to help with training.

Former TV anchorman forms global media consulting company
Dan Abrams, the chief legal correspondent for NBC News, is forming a consulting firm that he hopes will connect a global list of media experts with businesses that need strategic advice.

HP expects revenue and profits will top forecasts
Hewlett-Packard delivered a comparatively optimistic forecast Tuesday for sales in the coming year, bucking the recent trend of gloomy predictions from other major technology companies.
- 'Devoted' Yang had to leave Yahoo

Web journalists' bark grows louder
As newspapers shrink, a new kind of Web-based news operation has arisen in several U.S. cities, forcing the papers to follow their lead.

Spanish regulator in talks with EU about Internet access
The European Commission had warned the CMT over its plan not to oblige Telefónica to offer rivals wholesale Internet access through its new high-speed network at regulated prices.

Emerging nations gain as supercomputer powers
On the latest list of the 500 fastest computers, China nailed the No. 10 spot, and India had the 13th-fastest machine.

Big U.S. retailers feeling pain, on the web and off it
The American retail industry, including stores like Lowe's and Target, continue to see signs of a sharp pullback in consumer spending, both online and in stores, adding more worries to Asian exporters supplying the U.S. shops.

Intel's new chip: Tested, but prey to its own complexity
Intel's tested Core i7 microprocessor, released Monday, has received glowing reviews. But it is impossible to predict how the chip will function running tens of thousands of programs.

Lose the BlackBerry? Yes he can, maybe
Due to security concerns and record-keeping laws, Barack Obama is unlikely to become the first e-mailing president.
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