Yahoo! will be among the major players in the community governed OpenSocial headed up by competitor Google. With this news, more than 500 million people will be able to connect using the open social standards that will be offered by the foundation.

Anti-Rootkit vendor Komoku Inc. is the next to be gobbled up by the latest software giant’s buying binge. Microsoft plans on adding the rootkit detection functionality to it’s Forefront enterprise security products, and to the Windows Live OneCare suite.

High Tech Computer (HTC) has been hell bent on becoming the first to release a Google phone. That phone now has a name, the Dream.

Denver based Qwest Communications International Inc. announced Tuesday that it will offer a voluntary buyout to employees responsible for traditional land lines. The offer is to less than 2 percent of Qwest’s almost 40,000 employees.

The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling that Novell can continue its antitrust suit against Microsoft. Following todays popular fashion of redundancy and wastefullness, this case was about whether or not to have a court case.

Bringing the YouTube-y goodness to a TiVo near you, the TiVo Series3 DVR will soon be capable of beaming YouTube videos through that massive plasma on your wall.

GoDaddy.com has denied censoring RateMyCop.com, after the site was directed to an “Ooops” page. A GoDaddy.com representative has told TECH.BLORGE.com that “censorship had nothing to do with it.”

GoDaddy.com has redirected RateMyCop.com to their own “OOPS” page providing a number for the site owner to contact. RateMyCop.com is a website where users rate more than 140,000cops on certain aspects of performance and behavior. The site displays public information from more than 400 precincts.

Google Inc. has successfully closed the $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc., a global leader in digital marketing. Google has been waiting on government approval, and has been limited in the extent to which planning could take place.

Sprint and HTC have finally rolled out a ROM update for the Taiwan made HTC Mogul that enables the built in GPS and Rev. A hardware, previously crippled by software.

Antibiotics, sex hormones, and other dangerous pharmaceuticals have been found in the water supplies of 41 million Americans, though the concentration is measured in parts per billion (PPB) and is minuscule compared to medical dosage.

Google AdWords recently explained why AdWord advertisers may be penalized for slow landing page load times or displaying interstitial pages to users who follow a Google ad.

Nowadays we don’t go anywhere without our cell phones. It is expected of us, as business men or women, to be available on our mobile devices at any given time. Answering a call over lunch could make or break the multi-million dollar real estate deal you’ve been working on for months. So if you had to live without your landline or your cell phone, which would you choose?

Youtube climbs back on top of Wikipedia and other social networking sites in the UK, serving 10.4 million unique viewers in January.

Mozilla is talking with wireless operators about including the free Firefox Mobile web browser on phones to improve browsing experience from mobile phones, and to open up the mobile internet.

Intel has announced the newest member of their silicon family. The Intel Atom has been designed specially for mobile internet devices (MID) and a new class of internet specific devices arriving later this year.

A study pits the Sony AIBO robotic dog against a real therapy dog named Sparky to compare their respective abilities to treat loneliness in long term care facilities.