Yahoo shares edged up Tuesday as analysts and the company’s own major shareholder and director Carl Icahn said they longed for the Internet search pioneer to entertain a search-only deal with Microsoft.

Yahoo shareholder and director Carl Icahn, appearing Monday on CNBC, reiterated his hope of a Microsoft-Yahoo deal:

We think the Google and Yahoo proposal to [...]

Microsoft declined to comment on the screenshots. It also hasn’t said when to expect a beta or final version of Office 14, but plans to have more to say later this quarter. The Russian site says to expect a beta by May and a final version later in the year, according to AeroXP’s translation. (My [...]

Should fit in a variety of form factors from laptops to mobile Internet devices (MIDs) to cell phones
Increased levels of integration needed
Convert more analog to digital to take advantage of Moore’s law (45 nanometer, 32nm and beyond)
Users can get 200Mb/s today will want 5Gb/s very soon
Future radios will need to automatically [...]

Disclaimer: We at Crave did not watch the Webcast, as (excuse No. 1) former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stopped by CNET’s San Francisco headquarters Tuesday to talk technology, politics, and Silicon Valley. (Watch for the video Wednesday morning.) But we were most interested in the Webcast results as reported by AFP and Beta News. [...]

Reback reckons that Oracle can cut about $700 million to preserve profit margins without layoffs. Reback has noted that Oracle’s headcount has swelled due to acquisitions, but that expenses per employee has remained at the company’s historical $150,000 per employee plateau. Why? More international workers at lower pay.

Given the macro environment, we believe (that Oracle) [...]

The weak point of Netflix’s streaming service is still the selection of content. As others have mentioned, it’s a far cry from the service’s DVD selection. One thing that could change that is the inclusion of PlayReady DRM, which comes by way of using Silverlight. With that in place we could be seeing the company’s [...]

More likely? News comedy site 236 may become wholly owned by The Huffington Post, which just raised $25 million in funding. Very Short List, an e-mail newsletter, may also be up for sale.

According to PaidContent, IAC may be “dissolving” its “programming” group, a set of ad-supported content businesses that includes CollegeHumor, 236.com (a joint venture with The Huffington Post), Very Short List, and the brand-new The Daily Beast. The restructuring reportedl

The Social Gaming Network, a company best known for its Facebook Platform apps, has launched a new
iPhone app that uses the handset as…a gaming controller.

Called “iFun,” the app is a takeoff on the Social Gaming Network’s existing sports apps: iGolf, iBowl, iBaseball, and the like. But instead of playing on your iPhone, you use your iPhone or
iPod Touch much like the “Wiimote” device for Nintendo’s
Wii console. (Both gadgets use accelerometer technologies.) It connects via Wi-Fi