Web promotion - Yahoo revenue disappoints, shares drop (Reuters)Reuters - Yahoo Inc. posted

Web promotion - Yahoo revenue disappoints, shares drop (Reuters)Reuters - Yahoo Inc. posted

Yahoo revenue disappoints, shares drop (Reuters)
Reuters - Yahoo Inc. posted a morethan 40 percent rise in quarterly revenue on Tuesday but failedto meet Wall Street expectations, raising concerns about thepace of growth of online advertising and sending the company'sshares down 10 percent.

Product-Search Engine Become.com Adds Comparison Shopping (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Startup Become.com has added comparison-shopping to its online product search service.

Yahoo's 2Q Profit Up More Than Sixfold (TechWeb)
TechWeb - But Wall Street punished the portal provider, largely because Yahoo generated most of its earnings growth by selling the remaining chunk of its stake in Google. The stock plunged more than 10 percent.

IBM, Laszlo bring rich Internet apps development to Eclipse (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - IBM and Laszlo Systems on Tuesday announced they are teaming to link the OpenLaszlo rich Internet application development system to the open source Eclipse platform.

Blinkx Offers TV, Radio Program Searches (AP)
AP - Search company Blinkx launched a free service on Tuesday that scans radio and television programs available on the Internet and automatically delivers the shows to a user's computer.

Call for Homeland Security Cybersecurity Improvements (PC World)
PC World - Recovery plan needed for widespread attack on the Internet, Senate committee told.

`Video iPod'reportedly on the way from Apple (SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - Speculation that Apple Computer will do for video what it has done for music gained momentum Monday, amid reports that it is negotiating for the rights to sell downloadable music videos through its iTunes Music Store.

'E.T. blog home': US firm to send Internet diaries into space (AFP)
AFP - Is there anybody out there? And if there is, what will alien lifeforms make of bloggers signed up to a new service to beam their online rantings into outer space?

100-Mbit Cable Internet To Hit U.S. In 2006 (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - Broadband Internet access via TV cables can reach 100 Megabits per second as early as next year, 50 times faster than the average broadband speeds now offered to cable TV homes, a Finnish firm said on Wednesday.