http://www.searchengineworld.com/tech/ en-us http://www.searchengineworld.com/gfx/wmwbutton.gif http://www.searchengineworld.com 109 33 /tech/3457822.htm Microsoft has entered into an online health record partnership with Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente, the biggest health-maintenance organization in the United States, that will see Kaiser's existing personal Web-based health record system connected with Microsoft's HealthVault program. /tech/3457450.htm Microsoft, the world's largest traditional software company, has begun testing a so-called cloud computing Web-oriented software platform, called Live Mesh, that combines a person's digital information such as pictures, music and application documents, and makes them manageable online. /tech/3457213.htm Yahoo announced Tuesday that it will join an alliance, formed by competitor Google in October 2007, to try making it easier for programmers to popularize their applications on multiple social networking and other Web sites. /tech/3457045.htm Microsoft brought users of its popular Office application suite the ability to work online with documents from programs including Word and Excel, using a new service called Microsoft Office Live Workspace that entered into a global public test Tuesday. /tech/3456895.htm The risk of suffering a security breech while browsing the Web has gone up due to compromised Domain Name System (DNS) servers and malicious syndicated online advertising networks, according to reports released this week authored by a researcher at search giant Google and others. /tech/3456705.htm In addition to being the world's most populous country with an estimated 1.32 billion citizens, China is headed towards overtaking the United States during the coming months as the nation with the most Internet users. /tech/3456672.htm Sunnyvale, California-based Internet portal and search engine company Yahoo announced an agreement Wednesday with Dallas-based Belo Corporation, one of the nation's largest media companies, that will see local news video from 13 of Belo's television stations exclusively shown within the respective local news pages of Yahoo News. /tech/3456570.htm ESPN, MTV, CBS Among 22 Partners to Provide Content to Bebo's 40 Million Users. San Francisco-based Bebo, the world's third most popular social networking Web site, has partnered with twenty-two major media companies including ESPN, Turner, MTV, CBS and BBC, and will allow them to add music and video content to its site and to keep any advertising revenue generated while still retaining copyright. /tech/3456057.htm The leading Internet social network MySpace announced Tuesday a joint effort with top online phone service provider Skype to offer free Internet calling services to an existing user base of more than 330 million people. /tech/3456440.htm The Internet's most popular family history Web site Ancestry.com and its parent company The Generations Network will sell a $300 million majority interest to Spectrum Equity Investors, a private equity firm $4 billion in invested capital, the companies announced yesterday. The Generations Network is a privately held company that includes a group of properties which combined has more than 900,000 paying subscribers, and last year the company had revenues of roughly $150 million. The properties attract 8.2 million unique visitors each month according to August, 2007 figures from Web usage tracking company comScore.