Yahoo retracted a statement from the company's Australian office that had promised future products would work with both the Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. Users of the Mozilla Foundation's open-source Firefox browser have had to switch to IE in order to use some Yahoo services, including parts of its search toolbar.
"In the grand scheme of things Firefox is still a new technology," said a Yahoo representative, retracting the earlier promise. "I'm not saying we are not going to be developing and exploring other areas--we are. But there are so many different products on the Yahoo network that there may be some products that are, perhaps, not appropriate for that browser."
Google creates an animated doodle that features a boy, a girl, Google's search engine, and a jump rope. But might there be darker, more analytical, more troubling interpretations to this tale?
The Silicon Valley online payments startup grew by 1,000 percent last year and is hopeful it can repeat that level of growth this year. To do that, it's had to move away from its early friends-and-family roots and embrace small businesses.
Chamtech's spray-on antenna uses a nano material to provide a low-power boost to antenna range. The wireless-in-a-can product may some day bring an end to unsightly cell towers.
EnerG2 opens a plant to make an engineered carbon that will improve performance of energy storage devices and make storage for start-stop hybrid cars less expensive.
