Heather Havenstein has been a senior reporter at Computerworld since 2004. She covers Web 2.0, emerging technology, application development and business intelligence. Before joining Computerworld, she covered IT at various other publications including InfoWorld, CIO, Federal Computer Week and Network World. Web Watch
The two companies called off their search ad deal just hours before the DOJ was set to file an antitrust case to block it
MySpace, Flock, and Vidoop unveil a jointly developed tool that lets users monitor what is happening on their favorite social networks as they surf the Web
As Jerry Yang prepares to step down, industry watchers call on Yahoo to issue a sound plan, decisive leadership, and a concise portfolio
Google says that continued pursuit of the controversial deal is "not in the best interest of Google or its users"
The new Presto Developer Edition is a single-user version of the Presto software
Google Analytics continues its push into corporate IT shops with capabilities such as custom report generation, advanced segmentation, and integration with Google AdSense
Amazon's EC2 cloud-computing service has emerged from beta and is now generally available with two additions: beta-level support for Windows and SQL Server
Microsoft's prototype U Rank search engine has social networking features that let users edit and reorder search results and share them with online friends
Zoho Marketplace will allow users to buy and sell business apps, putting the company in competition with Salesforce.com's AppExchange
BizTalk Server 2009 will add support for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 SP1, SQL Server 2008, .Net Framework 3.5 SP1, and more