http://mrtoday.net Up today news from everywhere Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:40:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Citysearch is still ahead, butupstart rival Yelp is catching up. Good thing Citysearch has brought in some much-needed new social features.(Credit: Compete.com)Citysearch, the online business directory owned by Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, has gotten a full makeover. It's available now at beta.citysearch.com--there'... http://mrtoday.net/2008/11/19/citysearch-pulls-a-total-overhaul/ Microsoft may no longer be looking to buy Yahoo outright, but I'm guessing it is not averse to picking up some of its talent. Valleywag reported on Wednesday that Sean Suchter, a top search executive at Yahoo, is leaving the company and speculated that he is headed to Microsoft. ... http://mrtoday.net/2008/11/19/yahoo-search-exec-departs-perhaps-to-microsoft/ Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer threw his daily bucket of cold water on the notion that the software maker will return with a new bid for all of Yahoo. "We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo," Ballmer said, adding that he has said this a bunch of times but ... ... http://mrtoday.net/2008/11/19/ballmer-we-are-done-with-yahoo-acquisition-idea/ Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told shareholders Wednesday he expects the company's move to slow its hiring will continue beyond the middle of next year. Headcount, he said, will experience "much, much slower growth for the remainder of this financial year and I suspect into next year." Microsoft's current ... http://mrtoday.net/2008/11/19/microsoft-hiring-could-be-slow-through-2010/ Microsoft and Novell said Tuesday that they are nearly ready with a beta version of Moonlight--a Firefox add-on that allows Silverlight content to play on Linux PCs. The software is being announced as the companies tout the second anniversary of their peace deal. Work on Moonlight began in May 2007 ... http://mrtoday.net/2008/11/19/moonlight-heads-to-beta/ (Credit: Ina Fried/CNET News) There's a lot of ways to look at Microsoft's decision to abandon OneCare and come up with free antivirus software. But I had to do a double take Tuesday night when I saw the Wall Street Journal headline on the decision: "Microsoft plans ... http://mrtoday.net/2008/11/19/wsj-calls-microsoft-antivirus-tool-spyware/ Blair Levin(Credit: Stifel Nicolaus)The transition team for President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday announced which advisers will lead the team's efforts to develop technology policy for the Obama administration. Julius Genachowski (Credit: LaunchBox Digital) The three team leaders of the technology, innovation, and government reform policy working group ... http://mrtoday.net/2008/11/19/obama-transition-team-names-tech-policy-group/ WASHINGTON--Rather than investing emergency funds into old economic sectors like the auto industry, the federal government should look to the future and invest in a national broadband strategy, panelists at a broadband symposium said Wednesday. "Let Detroit go bust, let the banks go bust--put $700 billion into broadband," said Paul ... http://mrtoday.net/2008/11/19/broadband-proponents-to-congress-invest-in-future-not-autos/ Clarification at 2:52 p.m. PST: An earlier version of this story said the Minneapolis director of elections admitted she left 32 absentee ballots in her car. But the Minnesota Secretary of State's office says that's untrue and we've changed the language to reflect that position ... http://mrtoday.net/2008/11/19/minn-senate-race-could-hinge-on-scanning-machine-mistakes/ Since its introduction in 2006, Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare has altered the antivirus landscape. With Tuesday's announcement that Microsoft will no longer be selling the product in retail outlets but offering a new free version, code-named Morro, starting in the second half of 2009, it's sure to ... http://mrtoday.net/2008/11/19/how-live-onecare-changed-the-antivirus-landscape/