Yet another tech executive with ties to the Seattle tech community is being discussed for the top post at embattled Yahoo. The Wall Street Journal reports that Arun Sarin -- who served as CEO of Bellevue-based InfoSpace for a short stint in 2000 before moving on to Vodafone -- is among the candidates being considered. Seattle venture capitalist and Yahoo board member John Chapple also has been mentioned as a possibility.

Just how bad is the recession? High-tech law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is reportedly axing the annual traditional of passing out bottles of champagne to associates who pass the bar exam. UPDATE: We are now hearing that attorneys who passed the bar did get their bottle of champagne this year, so the Above the Law report appears to be wrong. [More after the jump]

Renton's Etelos, a cloud computing startup that is traded on the over the counter bulletin board, says it has raised $575,000 from company founder Danny Kolke and others.

Dell has entered the market for data centers housed in shipping containers, also known as data-centers-in-a box, a model advocated by Microsoft, notes the New York Times Bits blog.

Following up on news that John Hull is leaving OVP Venture Partners, The Oregonian reports that the Kirkland venture firm remains committed to the Portland market.

Open source pioneer and VA Linux founder Larry Augustin has joined the board of DotNetNuke, a Seattle Web site development company that last week announced a first round of funding from August Capital and Sierra Ventures.

Kosmix, a Silicon Valley search startup backed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, has reportedly raised another $20 million from Time Warner, Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures and others. The company is led by by Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan, who the Guardian notes previously sold their company, Junglee, to Amazon.com for $250 million

King 5 profiles Vholdr, the Seattle startup whose helmet-mounted video camera helps skiers, snowboarders, motorcycle riders and others record their activities. The video is worth watching just to see Marc Barros, who founded the company after placing third in the UW Business plan competition, snowboard down a grassy Gasworks hill.