Microsoft is back knockin’ on Yahoo’s door. This time, though, without revealing specific intentions Microsoft puts a new deal on the table and suggests it might be interested in acquiring a piece, rather than the whole, of Yahoo. The vagueness has analysts speculating that Microsoft is likely after Yahoo’s search assets. Related special report: The complete saga of Microsoft’s thus far failed bid to buy Yahoo. The IDG News Service, meanwhile, gazes into the future of enterprise search. In short: search technologies will not be about processing queries or parsing data but, instead, systems will get to know the user as much as the content it crawls. And while Microsoft’s effort to woo Yahoo may not be front-and-center to that future, Google undoubtedly plays a key role. Could Google’s ‘dataspaces’ reshape search?Intel says that servers are due to appear early next year with a quad-core Itanium version, dubbed Tukwila, that will launch at 2GHz clock speed and bring 30MB of on-chip cache memory, QuickPath Interconnect. Researchers find new ways to steal data. Two new techniques, developed independently of each other, tap cameras and telescopes to read computer screens from tiny reflections or analyze video of hands typing on a keyboard. An ongoing mass SQL injection attack, even if it’s not successfully inserting malware, is firing at many Web sites in China and Taiwan with brute force.And in Gripe Line, Ed Foster wonders if Web sites’ sneakwrap agreements, such as Terms of Service, ought to be contractually binding? Several instances suggest a trend that goes disturbingly further: treating a ToS violation as a criminal act. Technology Industry