From the latest wind of rumors out on the internet, The Wall Street Journal, AdAge and a number of other sources are reporting that Microsoft Yahoo! search deal has been signed and the announcement would come later today. Though we don’t know the exact parameters of the deal, WSJ had this to say:

Microsoft, which last year made a failed $47.5 billion takeover bid for Yahoo, would finally win what it wanted most from the Internet pioneer — huge volumes of queries that run through Yahoo’s search engine.

At the same time, Yahoo is expected to reap additional search-advertising business to expand its share of the market.

It isn’t clear who would benefit the most out of this, as Bing would get the much needed boost in search market volume, while Yahoo! would get better search advisement deals via Microsoft adCenter. Besides that, I don’t think other players like Google would be sitting quietly about this, because the Google Yahoo! advertisement deal also attracted a lot of attention from legal authorities.

There seems to be a lot of buzz going around right now that Windows 7 has finally hit RTM. Not only that, the latest build has already been leaked onto the inter webs. The build string says that the version was compiled on July 10, 2009 -  which seems to be on par with Microsoft’s schedule.

Every Tuesday morning, we here at this part of the world gear up to download the latest episodes of our favorite TV shows. Well today, most of these people are in for a surprise because The Pirate Bay is down. I realized this when most of my EZTV RSS Feeds weren’t working today (though I’m not sure if the problem had started even before that because I only download on Tuesdays) and The Pirate Bay site fails to load.

Though this might just be a coincidence, one can’t underplay the fact that the largest BitTorrent tracker in the world was taken to court recently, and surprisingly, according to a recent update on Gizmodo, the prosecution had just closed their arguments.

Almost every major cellphone platform out there now has some sort of online application storefront set up thanks to the fad started by Apple. The reason? It is a whole lot more convenient to buy (if there are any prices) an application from a universal catalog than to go to the website of each and every publisher. Why no cellphone vendor ever though of it before is beyond me, but now everyone is doing it, so why not Nokia?

The Symbian Series 60 platform is the most dominant smartphone platform in the market, with a market share of 49% according to a recent study. It is only logical for Nokia to capitalize on that as Apple already earned huge profits even with a 10% share in the market.