Yahoo Your TiVo From Anywhere

Fans of the digital video recording service can now use Yahoo to remotely program their TiVo from a newly opened portal on Yahoo's web site.

Downloading Groksters Swan Song

Internet file sharing entity Grokster appears to have downloaded a dirge, as the company's no longer offers software that allows people to swap files, in some cases copyrighted files, at no charge.

IBM Says Aperi To Move Industry To SMI-S

Back in October, IBM announced the launch of Aperi open source storage software in conjunction with eight other companies. Some discussion from IBM suggests one major reason for Aperi's creation was to speed up adoption of the SMI-S storage software standard.

IBM Discovers What Willis Is Talking About

The same day as PubSub's announcement about a similar service aimed at harnessing the ever-evolving information-overloaded blogosophere and using that power for good, IBM introduced new software enabling businesses to make sense of and manage information emerging from social networks about their company-a type of gossip monitor, called Public Image Monitoring Solution.