Microsoft says it offered $9 billion to Yahoo, $1 billion to acquire Yahoo’s search assets and the other $8 billion as an investment in the remaining company. That was before the talks fell apart. AMD claims its GPU (General Processing Unit) is capable of hundreds of parallel calculations per clock cycle, whereas other more general-purpose processors can only manage a handful. AMD’s latest FireStream processor hits 1 teraflop.A Microsoft snafu blocks patching such that enterprise administrators using one of Microsoft’s patch distribution tools have not been able to install last week’s security updates — and the company said it offered a workaround while it creates a fix. Nokia releases new phones targeted at enterprise users, the E71 and E66, which bring support for HSDPA at 3.6Mbps, WLAN, navigation using A-GPS and a 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus. Related: Samsung handsets made from corn. And Microsoft sponsors the Open Source Census. The software giant joins the initiative to track and catalog open source in the enterprise. Technology Industry