Yahoo!, Sprint To Offer Premium Wireless E-Mail
by Gavin O'Malley

HOPING TO CAPITALIZE ON THE ballooning wireless data-service market, Sprint on Wednesday said it enlisted Yahoo! to provide paying customers with an improved e-mail service for mobile devices. The premium service, which will use a new Yahoo! Mail for Mobile client, costs $2.99 a month, but is faster and easier to access, and it features a PC-like interface. Also, an optional instant-messaging feature is being offered at standard text-messaging rates, Sprint representatives said.
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Google readying Web-only video search

By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Google is expected to unveil a search engine for Web-only video this summer that will let people preview media clips from its Web site, CNET News.com has learned.

Google's planned service will let visitors find free short-form videos such as the popular "Star Wars" video spoofs, according to sources who asked to remain anonymous. The engine will complement the search giant's existing experimental site that lets people search the closed-caption text of television shows from PBS and CNN, among others, and preview accompanying still images. The new capabilities will let people watch roughly 10 seconds of Web video clips for free before shuttling visitors to the video's host site, sources say.

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A Search Tool for Your Online Passwords

By Chris Sherman, Associate Editor

Here's a interesting twist: A search toolbar that can be configured to use your favorite engine, and securely manages all of your online login details and passwords to boot.

If you're like most people, you've got tons of login names and passwords for various web sites. Security experts constantly admonish us to construct our passwords using difficult to remember strings of numbers and letters, to change them often, and to use different passwords on different sites.

Yeah, sure.

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