Tech Money: Ideas

More people than ever will be able to ditch their landline phones with T-Mobile’s new Wi-Fi router:

Google hosts “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day,” where research scientist Ellen Spertus explains why it’s important to reach out to middle-school girls:

The Colorado puffer law makes it illegal for people to warm up their cars unattended. But one local business owner says the law doesn’t allow for the latest technology:

Yahoo management is considering revisiting talks it held with Google several months ago on an alliance as an alternative to Microsoft’s bid, that source said. At $31 a share, Yahoo believes the bid undervalues the company, two sources said. A second source close to Yahoo said it had received a procession of preliminary contacts by media, technology, telephone and financial companies. But the source said they were unaware whether any alternative bid was in the offing:

Microsoft said the paring would create a “compelling and competitive number two” in the rapidly expanding online advertising market: