www.online-degree-college.org is providing prospective students with online degree programs information offered by online colleges. An online degree gives the working professionals a chance to advance in their career without the need to quit their jobs. They have partnered with over 100 accredited Colleges and Universities offering over 2000 online degree programs to choose from. More info

'Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft...to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet?' That's the question raised today in a statement just posted by Google on the Official Google Blog concerning Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! - posted by David Drummond, Google's Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer. More info

Virtualization and provisioning software provider FastScale Technology has unveiled an end-to-end server software management application for enterprise class data centers and web farms. It said FastScale Composer Suite 2.0 features include increased scalability with improved user interface, configuration management, and expanded reporting. It offers support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and VMware ESX Server 3.5. The release follows the launch last August of the FastScale Virtual Manager addition to its Composer Suite. More info

Reviewers overuse the phrase 'required reading,' but no other description fits the new book 'Ajax Security' (2007, Addison Wesley, 470p). This exhaustive tome from Billy Hoffman and Bryan Sullivan places the specific security concerns of the AJAX programming model in historical perspective. It demonstrates not only new security threats that are unique to AJAX, but established threats that have gained new traction in the Web 2.0 era. It then details both the specific technical solutions and - more importantly - the mindset that are necessary to combat such threats. If you call yourself a professional web developer, you need this book. More info

'One of the most important (if not the most important) news for 2008, and we are just in February,' remarked Nelson Cienfuegos of the In Digital Marketing blog. He and nearly 60,000 others bloggers have been vigorously chewing over the ins and outs of Microsoft's $44.6BN mega-bid to acquire Yahoo! Inc. More info

Transitive Corporation has achieved a notable milestone as a result of having its products shipped in more than 10 million computer systems worldwide. In addition to attaining one of the world's largest deployments of virtualization technology, Transitive has further expanded the availability of its solutions by signing global distribution agreements with market-leading strategic partners that include HP, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Red Hat. More info

Keynote Competitive Research, the industry analysis group of Keynote Systems, announced it would make itself readily available to media immediately following Super Bowl XLII 2008 for reporting on the technical quality (responsiveness and reliability) of four leading mobile sports Web sites, three popular sites streaming Super Bowl commercials and 35 of the Super Bowl advertiser's Web sites. Leveraging the company's global test & measurement network, Keynote will collect mobile performance data to measure the response time and availability of the following four mobile sports Web sites: ESPN, Yahoo Sports, FOX Sports and CBS. Keynote will also offer comparisons between the sites average performance to their Super Bowl Sunday performance. More info

'Google has amassed about 75 percent of paid search revenues worldwide and its share continues to grow. ...Microsoft and Yahoo! on the other hand have roughly 30 percent combined in the U.S. and approximately 10 percent combined in Europe.' That, in brief, was the reply Microsoft's General Counsel issued this afternoon to the statement by his opposite number at Google suggesting that Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo! raises 'troubling questions.' More info

DataCore Software announced that it has developed a series of Feature-Packaged Virtual Storage Solutions that run on VMware, Microsoft VS, Oracle VM, SUN VM, Virtual Iron and Citrix XenServer virtualization platforms, or Intel/AMD based hardware servers and blades. All the Feature-Packed solutions include auto-allocating thin provisioning storage support, SANmotion data migration technology, storage performance acceleration caching software, snapshots for fast disk backups, auto failover and auto recovery data protection via synchronous network mirroring as well as remote site IP mirror replication for disaster recovery. These solutions provide the simplest and most affordable way on the market to get started fully realizing the cost savings and productivity benefits of a full-featured, virtual SAN that can scale and survive hardware obsolescence. More info

I.R.I.S. announced the availability of a new, integrated desktop solution, made available through, and developed by its department I.R.I.S. ICT. The IRIS Virtual Desktop Solution takes advantage of central hardware and virtualization technologies, integrating a in-house developed desktop appliance, the IRIS Client, and offers innovative and problem-solving functionalities compared to a traditional thin client solution or to other desktop virtualization concepts. More info