1 Men use social networks for business and information, a study of 30 million users says, while women use them for being social. Translation: Men are ruining social networks.
2 Repeatedly rebuffed, Microsoft gives up on its courtship of Web services giant Yahoo. What, when $47 billion didn’t work, you expected it to try flowers?
3 After Microsoft rescinded the offer, its stock went up a little in early trading, while Yahoo’s went down a lot. Yahoo will not, however, replace the exclamation point that is part of its official spelling with a question mark.
4 Amazon is suing New York State, taking exception to a new law requiring the Net retailer to collect state sales tax. The lawsuit was delivered in a box roughly 100 times bigger than it needed to be.
5 Saturday was International Computer Shutdown Day, challenging people to go 24 hours without their electronic brains. Finally, an excuse to not bring my computer to the kids’ baseball games.
