Lawsuit says Yahoo derailed MS bid

Yahoo has lost a battle to keep information about its operations confidential, after a judge decided to unseal documents filed by shareholders suing the company over its handling of Microsoft's unsolicited acquisition offer, reports IT World.

Delaware Chancery court judge William Chandler ruled on Monday that the court should not keep documents such as the plaintiff's complaint under seal, despite Yahoo's arguments to the contrary.

The 64-page complaint is chock-full of blistering allegations, copies of internal Yahoo documents and e-mails, and blow-by-blow accounts of what plaintiffs characterise as Yahoo bad-faith manoeuvres.

At the 2008 Computex conference, in Taipei, AMD will officially unveil its new laptop platform, formally codenamed Puma, as the chipmaker looks to gain a bigger share of the red-hot notebook market, reveals eWeek.

Just as it did with its recently released desktop platform, AMD is offering Puma as a complete package that includes the company's own processor, the dual-core Turion x2 Ultra, 7-series chipset and ATI Radeon HD 3000 series graphics.

AMD is mainly targeting the platform at consumers, who are continuing to choose notebooks over desktops, which is one reason IDC predicts 71% of consumer purchases and 66% of commercial buys will be laptops by 2011.

Good news for anyone in need of a quick Internet fix: Starbucks is turning on free WiFi today, courtesy of its partner AT&T, says Washington Post.

Users will get two hours of free Internet usage when they purchase a $5 reloadable Starbucks card and register for the Starbucks Rewards Card programme.

Starbucks' relationship with AT&T was first announced in February, and the two sides have slowly rolled out the programme since then, with AT&T users getting first crack at it in April.

BT's FON WiFi service has signed up more than 100 000 users, expanding the provision of free wireless Internet access across the country, reports Computing.co.uk.

Subscribers to the programme share a small proportion of their domestic broadband connection through a separate, secure channel on their wireless router. These hotspots are made available at no extra cost to every other BT FON user, creating a voluntary network of shared WiFi connections.

The service was launched last October. A similar scheme, allowing businesses to use part of their connection to offer free wireless access on their premises, is due to launch later this year.