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The Department of Justice is considering anti-trust ramifications of a test Yahoo did - the one where they used Google to generate some search results. If Yahoo let Google take over search on the site, it may make them more profitable - and maybe Microsoft would consider paying more -- but in the meantime, Saturday is the big deadline... and Microsoft isn't budging.

Amazon and Apple are both reporting great numbers. Amazon earnings are up 30% to $143 million dollars. Apple's sales were 10 percent higher than what Wall Street expected - and it was powered mostly by sales of Macs.

Those Macs may soon be harder for other companies to imitate. Apple just bought a small boutique chip design company called P.A. Semi.

Bad luck for folks who bought their music using the now defunct MSN music store. Microsoft is shutting off their DRM servers -- and unless you authorize a computer and a specific operating system, all that music you paid for won't play.

But Microsoft also launched Live Mesh. It's a Windows Live platform where users can set up a virtual desktop online and then connect different computers or mobile devices to it and have them all sync up.

Why does Google own so many thousands of URLs? Some of them I understand... but others are kind of odd...