Yahoo acquires `widget' company
Seeking a stronger presence on computers and other devices, Yahoo has acquired a Palo Alto company that enables users to run little programs called ``widgets'' on their desktops that can do anything from monitoring stock quotes and lottery results to displaying random poetry passages.A four-person company started in 2002, Pixoria makes and sells a small JavaScript engine called Konfabulator. Once it's installed on either Windows or Mac computers, users can place one or more of the widgets on their desktops.
Widgets are becoming an increasingly popular way for computer users to quickly perform simple tasks or access Internet content such as online dictionaries or TV schedules without having to use a Web browser.
Apple Computer significantly boosted the popularity of widgets earlier this year by making them a feature of its new Tiger operating system.
For Yahoo, widgets provide a new way for the Internet giant to push its content out to users.
Although the widgets could theoretically allow Yahoo to display advertising on computer desktops, Rose said ``that is something I'm particularly opposed to.''
Resource: Mercury News
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