Daily news beat for July 21, 2008

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SAP says it will close its TomorrowNow subsidiary by October’s end, since it has not found a buyer for the company. Related: Dialing down the high cost of software support and maintenance.

The case of Terry Childs appears to be much more — and much less — than previously reported, at least according to an inside source. Child’s attitude toward other administrators is by no means unusual in IT, but whose fault is this fiasco? Why a San Francisco admin went rouge.

Yahoo offers Carl Icahn a seat on its board and, in so doing, ends the proxy fight. But Icahn maintains that selling all or part of Yahoo still needs “full consideration.”

Vysr issues a free add-on for both IE and Firefox that lets users access services from Web sites, such as YouTube, Wikipedia, MapQuest, and Flickr, without having to actually visit them.

WS02 releases the open source WSO Mashup Server Version 1.5, which brings stubs and templates for Google Gadgets that can be hosted within Mashup Server or externally, such as in an iGoogle page.

And InfoWorld adds Twitter feeds to its mobile options, so that periodic tweets alert readers to the most compelling stories on the site as hand-selected by our news editors. Editors, reviewers, and reporters also occasionally tweet their key observations on breaking events or on in-progress testing.