[What's more, a raft of big players is poised to encroach on Vonage's turf. Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) , Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) , and Google are all aggressively pushing into PC-to-PC Web calling. That's] their first step into IP waters, ... Then, the race is going to be on.

Microsoft and Yahoo say they are doing this to give consumers what they want, but I think if you ask consumers they would say they want interoperability all the way [across the two services].

Microsoft and Yahoo say they are doing this to give consumers what they want, but I think if you ask consumers they would say they want interoperability all the way [across the two services],

Microsoft has complied with our request, as has Yahoo and AOL. We have not analyzed the data yet.

[Recreation Director William McCarthy sought the new arrangements after inspecting the damage to a turf field by Milford Shoreline players after a game last month at Milford Academy. If the degradation continued, the academy field would have become unusable later this season, he said.] It is a win, win, win, win, ... Everyone is happy because the games will not have to be canceled or postponed. The parks department will not have a mess on their hands next spring.

AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo did not violate the privacy of any user by handing over this information. No private data was revealed. Nevertheless, by not pushing back against such a bad request for data, it leaves open the real fear that they might not push back if the US government decided to go on a real fishing expedition in the future. Privacy may not have been lost but trust was.