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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. has told users it will shut down its North American Web auction site, the second service the world's most visited Internet media company has set to retire in the past week.

JavaOne Sun Microsystems has jumped inheadfirst into Web 2.0, urging developers to change the world with cell phones and online services powered by its Java software.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - From emergency message networks that can reach 100,000 people within minutes, to alarm systems that allow you to monitor your home over the Web, new technologies are aiming to make U.S. consumers feel safer.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will maintain a ban on Internet gambling services despite an adverse World Trade Organization ruling, the U.S. Trade Representative's office said on Friday

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. is shutting down Yahoo Photos, an online photo storage site, and asking users to move instead to its Web 2.0 photo sharing site, Flickr, a Yahoo official said.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research plans to roll out a "very, very large" number of services to allow smaller Web developers to tap into its well-financed data centers, the backbone for its online strategy, the company's top software executive said on Monday.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, said on Monday it plans to offer a streaming video service that stores and hosts video for its new Silverlight online media platform.

Comment In the world of IT, we are constantly debating the latest trends and developments. Usually, although granted unsurprisingly, these deliberations revolve almost exclusively around the features of a particular technology, more often than not taking the form of "is technology/solution XYZ ready for adoption by mainstream customers or is it a bleeding-edge solution that is likely to appeal only those in desperate need of its features?"

IBM plans to start selling products from smaller rival MySQL, a developer of an open-source database that is used to help run websites, including Yahoo, Google and YouTube.

God alone knows it's going to be difficult, but we promise we will keep an absolutely straight face as we report that Dutch escort agency Society Service has set up a special service for geek virgins looking for that elusive first sexual encounter.

SHANGHAI, April 10 (Reuters) - Yahoo China on Tuesday launched a new blogging and networking service, in a move aimed at diversifying its revenue streams as it steps up expansion in the world's second-largest Web market by subscriber numbers. The Yahoo Space (i.yahoo.com.cn and club.yahoo.com.cn) service includes blogging, photo gallery, online networking and other interactive functions for Yahoo users, Yahoo China said in a statement in response to a Reuters enquiry.