Michael Jackson's Autopsy further delayed

The final autopsy results in Michael Jackson's death has been delayed indefinitely, the Los Angeles County coroner has said.

The announcement has come amid reports that police investigators are trying to determine the interplay between the pop star's personal physician Dr Conrad Murray and other medical professionals who treated Jackson in final months leading up to his death, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Assistant chief Ed Winter of the coroner's office said that he could not say when the cause of death would be announced.

The law enforcement officials had earlier said the toxicology results, which are expected to make clear what killed Jackson, would be made public next week.

Shit! - Australian Pm was once a toilet cleaner

Recalling his worst job experience, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Friday that he cleaned toilets and scrubbed floors on his way to country's top political job.

In a pep-talk to Australians hit by the global recession, Rudd said he once worked as a toilet cleaner at a sawmill and scrubbed tv political journalist Laurie Oakes' floors, Sydney Morning Herald reported.

"There's a few realities out there," Rudd said.

"There's a global recession under way, collapsing economies around the world. Therefore let's just adjust to it flexibly and that might mean right now you don't have a job that's your heart's desire; maybe it's a stepping stone to something else.

"And if it's good enough for the Prime Minister - it should be good enough for generation Y," Rudd said.

He told of his worst job experience today in support of employment Participation Minister Mark Arbib's call on generation Y not to be too fussy about their first jobs.

He revealed that the jobs that paid his way after he left school included flipping hamburgers, working on hospital wards as well as in a supermarket and pulling beers in a pub.

"What was the most difficult one? The job I once had as a cleaner at a sawmill, cleaning the loos," he told a radio channel.

In an interview with former ABC journalist Maxine McKew in 2007, it was revealed that one of the young Rudd's jobs included scrubbing Laurie Oakes' floors.

Firefox crosses 1 billion downloads today

Firefox has been nipping at Microsoft Internet Explorer's heels since 2004, and today the browser is passing a milestone: One billion copies will have been downloaded. That's in total, across all the versions made.
Firefox has a growing fan base, and recently took an increased share of the browser market around the world. It's now how 31% of Web pages are served to the public, versus 60% via IE. Google's Chrome, soon to be the basis of a whole OS, has less than a 5% share, as does Apple's Safari--echoing the smaller share of the PC market owned by Apple.

iPhone rejects Google Voice App

In recent days, public opinion in Russia break china possible bans VoIP-telephony, in particular, the press actively circulated information that the Skype application to be outlawed. Very symbolic and another story, concerning IP-telephony. So, these days Apple has actively removed from the AppStore all applications that utilize Google Voice. Moreover, it was removed, and the formal application of Google!

The wording of the standard - "duplicate features that come with the iPhone", that is supposedly the program duplicates the functions that are already inherently there in the iPhone. Representatives of the search giant had expressed regret and said that will continue to work on applications for the owners of iPhone, including those who will work directly in the browser without requiring installation.

Surely this is not the latest example of how mobile operators (in this case, you can suspect that for all these is a partner Apple - AT & T) are trying all possible ways to insert a stick in the wheels of the creators of VoIP-applications.

SCHUMI is back!!!

Ferrari announced on Wednesday that they plan to draft in Michael Schumacher to replace the injured Felipe Massa at forthcoming Grands Prix, until the Brazilian is able to race again.

The seven-times world champion, who retired from Formula One racing at the end of 2006, will undergo a special training programme over the next few days to confirm he is fit enough to compete in next month’s European Grand Prix.

"The most important thing first: thank God, all news concerning Felipe is positive,” said Schumacher. “I wish him all the best again. I was meeting this afternoon with (Ferrari team principal) Stefano Domenicali and (chairman) Luca di Montezemolo and together we decided that I will prepare myself to take the place of Felipe.

“Though it is true that the Formula One chapter has been completely closed for me for a long time, it is also true that for reasons of loyalty to the team I cannot ignore this unfortunate situation. But as the competitor I am I also very much look forward to facing this.”

Schumacher has not driven Ferrari’s current F60 in anger and last tested for the Italian team, with whom he won five world titles, back in April 2008.

Microsoft + Yahoo > Google

Microsoft's chief exec warns Google will try to block the search deal between the companies, and also that some layoffs will ensue.

Now the search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo has been signed, the fallout begins.

In a conference call that also featured Yahoo head Carol Bartz, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer warned that Google is likely to try and block the partnership as the deal is scrutinized by lawmakers. He said:

"We suspect we will face opposition from the competitor [Google]. The case of us coming together will provide more competition, not less. [However] we expect our competitor to be aggressive."

The companies plan on filing the deal document next week with anti-trust authorities in both the US, EU, and elsewhere, next week, with the aim of being able to close the deal early in 2010.

The plan would see Yahoo’s search appearing “as powered by Bing” some three to six months after the deal closure, with total global integration in about two years.

While some Yahoo search employees would move to Microsoft, and others to Yahoo’s display ad division, there would be layoffs, Bartz warned, which would likely occur over the next two-and-a-half years.

A Google spokesman responded:

"There has traditionally been a lot of competition online, and our experience is that competition brings about great things for users. We're interested to learn more about the deal."

Yahoo and Microsoft deal done

Yahoo and Microsoft have announced a long-rumoured internet search deal that will help the two companies take on chief rival Google.

Microsoft's Bing search engine will power the Yahoo website and Yahoo will in turn become the advertising sales team for Microsoft's online offering.

Yahoo has been struggling to make profits in recent years.

But last year it rebuffed several takeover bids from Microsoft in an attempt to go it alone.

Yahoo said the deal would benefit Yahoo's users and advertisers.

"This agreement comes with boatloads of value for Yahoo, our users, and the industry. And I believe it establishes the foundation for a new era of internet innovation and development," said Ms Bartz.