Yahoo, MSN Messenger Collaborate
Yahoo! and Microsoft have announced a landmark agreement, to connect users of their consumer instant messaging (IM) services on a global basis. This inter-operability agreement, will give MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger users the ability to interact with each other, forming what is expected to be the largest consumer IM community in the world, estimated to be more than 275 million strong.
In addition to exchanging instant messages, consumers from both communities will be able to see their friends' online presence, share select emoticons, and add new contacts from either service to their friends' list, all as part of their free IM service.


New Video iPod
Before this week's unveiling of the new video-enabled iPod, Apple Computer's Steve Jobs was renowned in technology circles for his skepticism about video on portable devices.
His change of heart could have big implications for the media and entertainment world. In addition to announcing its new, video-enabled iPod this week, Apple introduced a departure from the TV industry's traditional business model -- generating revenue not by embedding advertising in the shows but by charging a small amount to download them.

Initial video content to be available for Apple's new iPod:

ABC's "Lost," "Desperate Housewives" and "Night Stalker"; and the Disney Channel's "That's So Raven" and "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody." Downloads: $1.99 per episode.

Music videos, about 2,000 total. Also $1.99 each.

Six short films from Pixar Animation Studios.

Amateur and professional video recordings, known as video Podcasts, generally available for free through Apple's iTunes service.

Home movies transferred to the iPod from a computer