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The Guys take it easy during the summer, this week’s episode proves it. The crew enjoys a traditional American barbeque and manage to deliver a few precious tidbits of tech news.

News
Terry Semel steps down as head of Yahoo, or was pushed out. Yang takes center stage again with Susan Decker stepping up as president.

Rumor has it that Rupert Murdoch is considering an exchange in the form of MySapce.com for 25% share of Yahoo!, an estimated 12 billion dollars.

YouTube launched their remixer program last week in conjunction with Adobe’s Premiere Express software already available on PhotoBucket. There are a bunch of alternatives out there if you like this sort of thing. Our pick is JumpCut.com

Around the World Wide Web
YouTube extends its global reach by announcing versions of its site in Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom with translations where appropriate.

Iris on the Virus

Tech it Out
Sony are looking to roll out older TV shows (like Starsky and Hutch in 4 minute episodes especially for our ADD generation. They’re calling them minisodes.

With more and more clout, Google is taking on public policy via their new blog http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/

Tech Biffo

Amid accusations by Google, Microsoft has agreed to alter the Vista search when it rolls out its first service pack by adding a link to change the default desktop search option and agreed to give competitors technical instructions to help optimize performance.