heise online news 21/11/2008

heise online news 21/11/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Yahoo to seek an alliance with AOL instead of a takeover by Microsoft? Observers must be wondering whether, in internet economics, a negative added to a negative gives a positive. Yahoo is at any rate alleged to be reconsidering a (partial) takeover of Time Warner's online subsidiary › Read article     HP brings iPhone-style multitouch to tablet PCs Hewlett Packard introduces the TouchSmart tx2 tablet PC with a MultiTouch display. › Read article     Internet Society presents award to Venezuelan EsLaRed organisation For the first time, the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award has been presented to an organisation rather than an outstanding personality. For the past ten years, the award has honoured those who have promoted the expansion of the internet › Read article     IETF developers call for privacy rules for the W3C's geodata API The W3C is currently developing a programming interface for transmitting geodata. The developers of the Internet Engineering Task Force consider the project's privacy options insufficient. › Read article     NASA testing interplanetary internet The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration has successfully tested a new network protocol specially designed for space conditions, which will eventually link together a solar-system wide "interplanetary internet" › Read article     Steve Ballmer says acquisition discussions with Yahoo are over Microsoft's Chief Executive considers cooperation in online searching is still possible ­­- but apparently no negotiations on this are going on at the moment › Read article     Amazon starts content-delivery service Amazon is now offering a content-delivery service to all users, based on its S3 storage network › Read article     PC Magazine US disappears from the shelves After 27 years, the tradition-rich US magazine will discontinue its printed edition and is set to become a leading brand on the net from 2009 › Read article     Computer virus brings London hospital networks to a standstill An infection with the Mytob worm has forced operators to switch off computers and networks. The health of patients is reported not to have been endangered › Read article     Alchemy translates C/C++ code into Flash code Adobe's free Alchemy compiler lets developers translate C and C++ into byte code for Flash Player and AIR › Read article     Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 released None of the flaws fixed by the update is rated as critical by the developers. Nevertheless, users are advised to install the update immediately › Read article     This newsletter is sent to in a multipart format. If you want to read it as plain text, you will have to change the display mode of your e-mail program. You are receiving heise online news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter heise open source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from heise online, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter heise Security: IT security news and alerts to keep your systems secure, with features giving an in-depth look at the world of IT security. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/security Newsletter heise networks features: In-depth articles, tools and techniques for networking and communications. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/networks Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Jonathan Bennett All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2008 Heise Media UK Ltd.