The San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting and fun articlein which venture capitalists comment on ideas for startups that were submitted to the paper by its readers.    Yahoo!Tech reportsthat “Amazon.com's product search engine appeared to malfunction early Tuesday, with searches for well-known books and CDs producing no results.  At [...]

Yahoo!Tech has an interesting article on the mysterious criteria used by Apple’s App store to approve or reject an application, and on a movement “growing within the developer community” to persuade Apple to use a more open and transparent application process for new iPhone apps. The International Herald Tribune has [...]

CnetNews.com reports that “Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations.  The legislation, [...]

The New York Times reveals that “Yahoo is introducing a new type of search advertising that integrates images and video in paid listings.  […]  Search advertising typically shows only text advertisements and links. Marketers usually devote part of their online budget to search — which shows text-only advertisements and links [...]

According to Yahoo!Tech, “[d]igital video recorder maker TiVo Inc and EchoStar Corp [returned] to a Texas court [today]in the latest round of a longstanding fight over a television recording technology patent.  The legal dispute dates back to 2004, when TiVo charged that satellite TV provider EchoStar Communications Corp's Dish network [...]