Daily news beat for July 7, 2008

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Jul 7, 20081 min

Microsoft says it would deal with new Yahoo board. The software giant confirmed it would be interested in resuming talks with Yahoo regarding a major transaction if a new slate of directors is put in place at the search company’s next shareholder meeting this quarter.

Sun is announcing on Monday that it has integrated J2ME with HP’s iPaq 900 Series Business Messenger smartphone. But the company’s plan to put Java on Apple’s popular iPhone remains stalled.

Marking Hewlett-Packard’s latest in a string of virtualization deals, an agreement with Parallels differs from VMware’s hypervisor approach by partitioning an OS into isolated environments.

Security firm AVG fixes a component of its anti-virus software, LinkScanner, after it caused animosity among users who claim the software was wasting bandwidth by hitting their sites repeatedly.

And The Bush administration’s tax rebates are trickling down into the Internet porn industry, Robert X. Cringely reports. “Yet our Uncle marches on, determined to protect us from our own darker natures.” Dollars, sense, and censorship.