Cody Taylor

Carol Bartz, named chief executive last month, is planning to revamp the beleaguered Sunnyvale Web portal in an effort to speed up decision making and help reverse its slowing growth. The shake-up, which could come as early as this week, is expected to create a new, more streamlined organizational chart.

A Trojan horse lurking on servers belonging to Auctiva, a Web site offering eBay auction tools, infected people’s PCs last…

#7 – Jason Kilar — In 2007, Jason Kilarwon the job of creating an online TV outlet for a Fox-NBC partnership. It seemed an impossible task, given the anemic ­results for all previous online-TV ­efforts. Kilar is proving that professional content paid for by advertising has a place on the Web. The networks owe him a pile of gratitude, if not money.

Glyn Moody writes “So the European Commission is going to require Microsoft to offer competitors’ browsers with Windows. ‘…Microsoft will be obliged to design Windows in a way that allows users “to choose which competing web browser(s) instead of, or in addition to, Internet Explorer they want to install and which one they want to have as default…” [Microsoft] now has until mid-March to respond to the Commission, and might also ask for a hearing. Brussels will not adopt a final decision until it has received Microsoft’s official reply.’ But having the option to install Firefox, say, is useless unless people know what it is. The implication is that we need some kind of campaign to ensure that people understand the choices they will have. How can open source best exploit this latest EU decision?”

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