What two things empower every company? That’s easy: customers and employees. But somehow Microsoft seems to be forgetting that as it grows more aggressive in its plans to take over Yahoo. With enough disgruntled employees, Yahoo may come apart at the seems leaving Microsoft with a series of loose threads connected to hidden treasures.

Annoy your family and roommates now with MySpace’s new feature – karaoke!

If you’re figuring the apocalypse is near, seriously, karaoke on the Web is nothing new. It is, as AP reported, new to MySpace.

Microsoft’s bid to take over Yahoo is still ongoing, but with the three week deadline set by Steve Ballmer for a decision from the Yahoo board on a friendly takeover having gone by without comment on Saturday, the gloves are now coming off, and Microsoft will have to decide which way to play it now.

At first it might have seemed like the RIAA is innocently out to protect the rights of artists, but enough is enough. Now the RIAA is filing a suit against Project Playlist, the music player used on MySpace to play music that has been approved by artists for consumers to listen to and include on their personal pages.

As suspected, Filedropper did indeed pull the offer of free 250Gb accounts due to extreme demand but they are not gone forever.  The free accounts will be returning tomorrow.

The Atera and the VW GX3 both are three wheel cars with two front wheels and one back wheel.  There the similarity ends.  The Aptera was originally designed as an electric car that has added a hybrid twin.  The VW is strictly gasoline.

For a limited time Sony was offering a free PS3 with certain Bravia HDTV models but now it seems the company may have some trouble actually delivering on that promise.  A reader wrote in with some problems he has been having receiving his PS3.

You may have come across this story on any number of news sites, Filedropper, a new file sharing service was offering free lifetime subscriptions to its 250Gb accounts to anyone who signed up before May 15; or rather, it was.  Go over to the subscription page today and the offer is nowhere to be found.  My guess is that demand was so high that it doesn’t want to have so many users with free accounts.

Abilene Christian University made headlines in February when it announced it would be the first university to provide an iPhone or iPod Touch device to all incoming Freshmen. The school’s chief information office and director of re-engineering had a chance to defend the gutsy move, but — despite the plan’s cool-factor — it’s still destined for failure.

For Microsoft, the introduction of its new Live Mesh platform is almost an admission of defeat. After many years of taking a proprietary view of software and insisting that PC based applications were the only way to go, to jump into the online social application field is a huge change in tactics for the software giant.

For one of the most successful smartphone manufacturers on the market, it must be infinitely frustrating to know that Blackberrys are selling more and more, but Apple’s iPhone still has that indefinable something that keeps consumers drooling and panting over the chic little handset. Though RIM has a good strong hold on the business realm, there are 3 really simple ways that it can maintain control of corporate clients and also gain that sex appeal the iPhone flaunts like Britney Spears on her first album.

Lost is a television show which has revolutionised the way various media work with each other. Currently in it’s fourth season, the ABC show and it’s many legions of friends have utilised the Web like no show before it, with multiple ways to interact, and add extra elements to the experience.

We all knew this day was coming as many users have become fed up with Internet Explorer; it’s slow, it’s features are outdated and it used to be full of security holes like swiss cheese but as hackers switch focus that may no longer be the case.  Safari and Firefox have gained a lot more traction and are becoming the focus of more attacks, more often.

In what can only be described as a complete 180 degree turn, Metallica has now said that it wants to share and distribute digital copies of its music.  The heavy metal band has been against distributing its music in such a form but has now reached out with an olive branch to its fans and says they can, "expect everything in terms of possibilities with the Internet."

All anti-virus vedors release faulty updates at one point or another but Microsoft takes the cake. An update it released for its Windows Live OneCare antivirus suite mistakenly identified the popular VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) software Skype as a trojan.

eSolar, with financial help from Google, has created an affordable solar thermal alternative to power plants utilizing coal and fossil fuel.  By developing a modular approach to building solar thermal power plants, eSolar has found a cost effective way to build scalable power plants.

In a blow to privacy, laptops and gadgets have been determined to be “dumb luggage” for people heading to other countries from the United States. This means that the border agents are allowed to crack them open, turn them on and take a look around for… treason? Bomb plans? Sedition pamphlets?