In a move that could help put a dent in music piracy, as well as put pressure on song-sellers like iTunes, Yahoo! has signed a deal to serve up full length songs to anyone who searches for them using its search engine, absolutely free!

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Last week Yahoo! announced it plans to close its music store, shut down the DRM servers, and leave those who bought tracks with useless files that just won’t play.

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There’s some truly bad news in store for customers of the Yahoo! Music Store. The web giant plans to slam the doors on its music download service, switching off its DRM authorisation servers at the same time - meaning all the users who’ve legally purchased their tunes from Yahoo! won’t be able to transfer them to another computer. They’ll have to burn the tracks to audio CD - not a huge drawback if you’ve bought an album or two, but what if you’ve bought 50? Or 100?

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Fancy surfing web pages from the comfort of your sofa? Then check out Sharp’s new tellies. They’re being introduced to Japan this month, and bring pages from Yahoo direct to the screen.

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