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Turns out the vote that overwhelmingly returned Yahoo’s board to office last Friday by a surprise three-to-one margin was seriously miscounted. The official tabulation claimed that CEO Jerry Yang got 85.4% of the vote (14.6% withheld) and Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock got 79.5% (20.5% withheld). By that count the pair that ran off Microsoft and its billions fared better than last year. read more
Is VMware Buying Red Hat?
Because of its slow growth - a factor of the freebie open source business model - Red Hat has become fodder for Wall Street acquisition speculation, BusinessWeek says, and offers VMware as a possible suitor. Such an acquisition would give VMware the operating system it's lacking, make its products cheaper and make it a more viable competitor against Microsoft - or so the theory goes.BusinessWeek claims to have heard from "some industry executives" that VMware is looking for an operating system and says ousted VMware CEO Diane Greene "had set up meetings with Red Hat in part to position VMware as friendly to open source and possibly as a prelude to a buyout discussion."Red Hat also needs the virtualization halo for growth.read more
Tech Startup Tackles Energy Use by Data Centers
Data centers in the U.S. have created a carbon footprint that is larger than that of countries such as The Netherlands and Argentina. Internet companies such as Google are investing billions of dollars in setting up massive data centers and struggling to control soaring power usage. While Google may want its users to trawl thousands of terabytes of data and get their search results almost immediately, this activity gobbles up plenty of energy.Here's the problem for companies such as Google: power usage by data centers accounts for around 2 percent of all the power supplied to the U.S. grid and 2-3 percent globally.As companies struggle to balance their quest for greater computing capacity while controlling power use, they are turning to technology for answers. Virident, a California-based startup set up by a couple of IIT grads who also went to the same graduate school at University of Illinois, is looking to address this issue using by enhancing the memory capacity of servers using specially designed flash memory chips (commonly used in cell phones, for example) to increase the computing capability of servers.Virident (derived from Viridus in Latin meaning green and dent meaning to make; literally to make green), was started by Kumar Ganapathy and Vijay Karamcheti, who blended their experience across the semiconductor industry and academia to set up this company.Ganapathy was a Fellow with Rockwell Semiconductor before he set up his own start-up, VX Tel, which built voice over IP chipsets, and then worked with Artiman Ventures. Karamcheti worked with Google and spent the last 15 years working on parallelization techniques at New York University.The duo has teamed up with an assortment of business acquaintances to set up Virident and embed these flash memory chips in data centers. As a first step, the company roped in Raj Parekh, a...
Exclusive Q&A with Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation
'We continue to struggle a bit with what developers think 'Eclipse' means. They have heard of it, but they believe that we are entirely focused on Java tools when in fact we are doing so much more,' says Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, in this exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan. 'Our goals at Eclipse are to create an industrial-strength open source development platform that spans extensible tools, frameworks and runtimes,' Milinkovich adds.read more
Keep up with the Presidential Race on Yahoo! Search
With just over a month until the 2008 United States Presidential Election, there is quite a bit of activity ahead and certainly a lot to keep up with. To help you get quick updates on the candidates, election news, polling numbers, and more on a state and national level, Yahoo! Search is launching a series of new election shortcuts. Pulling information directly from the Yahoo! News elections hub as well as the political dashboard, the shortcuts provide fresh, up-to-date information.If you're interested in what's going on with a particular candidate, simply search [Obama] or [McCain] and get up-to-date information on poll results, recent headlines and relevant discussions. We're also including a short bio, photos and videos to thumb through when you search for candidates.
If you're just looking for a quick snapshot of the race, search [presidential election] and Yahoo! Search will give you a shortcut with fresh results on Obama and McCain news and national poll averages. You can also learn how to register to vote by following the link in the shortcut.
If you're curious about a specific state and want to hone in on its election news and polls, just add it to the search box (e.g. California presidential election). And in honor of the upcoming 56th presidential election, we've made some changes to the search results page when you search for election related queries. Click the "VOTE" badge in the top right hand corner to be taken directly to the Yahoo! News election page.
Try it out before the big day on November 4th and let us know what you think in the comments below.Yuko KamaeYahoo! Search
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