Yahoo Board To Determine Fate Of Company Today
Sources have indicated to us that Yahoo has scheduled a special board of directors meeting on Friday to determine, effectively, the fate of the company. After a week of hectic negotiating, it's clear...
Visualizing Social Media Fatigue
Our attention is stretched so thin these days that there are times when I have actually tried to register for what I thought was a new service only to realize later that I already had an account — it ...
Update: Dell to Stop Selling AMD-based Inspirons Online
Dell says goodbye to AMD-based Inspirons on Dell.com — It appears that the AMD-Dell relationship may soon be coming to an end - at least online. Dell was rumored for years to consider switching to ...
The look & design of the new Apple Macbook Pro 2008 series
The new Macbook Pro is coming the next days! — Apples special event is upcoming this month and what everybody expects is the new Macbook Pro that we are all are waiting for! — Till now nobody know...
TorrentFreedom Offers 100% Anonymous and Unrestricted BitTorrent
With a militant style more associated with the crew of The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreedom promises to put the user back in control, by offering a new BitTorrent-optimized, zero-logging, 100% anonymous VPN...
Red Hat/Cygnus record run lost amid Sun/MySQL billion-dollar hoopla
Eight-plus years is an eternity in the technology industry, yet that is how long it has taken for Sun's recent billion-dollar acquisition of MySQL to supplant Red Hat's $675 million purchase of Cygnus...
Alltop Has All the Tops Stories, and Egos, Covered
I was just alerted that I have been included in the Alltop index of top sites on the Web. Wow, thank you. It's a pretty incredible group of voices and I'm more than flattered to be included. — Int...
Is mobile really a sure thing for Google?
news analysis Google sees mobile as its future, but the company's success in the mobile realm may not be a slam dunk. — With half the world's population soon owning a cell phone, the opportunity to ...
Blackberry patents: Angled Slider and RIM Multi-Touch technology
The information that Blackberry 9000/9100/9900 devices are coming is old news, as well as the speculation that RIM is working on the next generation of consumer friendly Blackberries. — The rumors t...
Reuters CEO sees “semantic web” in its future
At Money:Tech yesterday, I did an on-stage interview with Devin Wenig, the charismatic CEO-to-be of Reuters (following the still-not completed merger with Thomson). Devin highlighted what he consider...
Yahoo Considers Google Defense
Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors discussed its options Friday in the face of Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited offer to buy the Internet company, including an advertising-outsourcing pact with Google Inc.,...
Twitter-proxy: Any Interest?
The stories of twitter going down frequently don't need repeating here. Instead, I want to ask the community if there is any interest in addressing the problem. — As many are aware, Twitter's probl...
The Men Behind the Curtain
It's a challenge for a journalist coming late to a story like Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo. I had literally just pressed the SEND key on last week's column when news hit the wire. What ...
Warning: Google Reader Congestion of Up to Five Hours
Recently, Google's gained a lot of good feeling in the blogosphere for how rapidly they are indexing blog posts as part of their universal search. But while their search side is getting quicker and q...
City Council Forces Forum Offline; Claims Debate Should Take Place At Meetings Only
from the civilized-people-don't-do-online- forums dept — Eric Samson writes “The city council of the small town of Rawdon, Quebec (population: 9400) has managed to get a court order to shut down an ...
Out of the box 1.1.3 iPhones now software unlockable
Mr. GEOrge HOTz did it again. He just loosed a world of hurt on AT&T with a software unlock for 1.1.3 iPhones. That's right, the software is said to work on any fresh from the Apple store, shrink-wr...
Publisher: Kindle Not Igniting E-Book Sales (AMZN)
We keep hearing that Amazon's Kindle is a hit, and while we're skeptical, we'll play along. Since Amazon hasn't released statistics on the gadget's sales, we don't have much choice. — That said, we...
Mythbusting the ‘Google generation’ report
Hugh McGuire recently pointed to a New Scientist blog entry that begins: … The link points to a press release, entitled Pioneering research shows ‘Google Generation’ is a myth, which summarizes a 35-p...
Seismic Shift To Smartphones
ChangeWave survey shows consumers abandoning basic models for advanced RIM and Apple phones — Record numbers of consumers are abandoning their basic cell phones for more-advanced models, according t...
Like Apple, Intel Wants to Put the ‘Internet in Your Pocket’
Borrowing a phrase that Apple CEO Steve Jobs used when introducing the iPhone last year, Intel wants to put the “internet in your pocket.” — For Apple, that meant a top-down, years-long project to c...
ClearChannel begs gov't to help it keep making money by stopping sattelite radio
ClearChannel has been working behind the scenes in a rather unsavory way to prevent the XM-Sirius merger from happening. I know ClearChannel is “evil” because it killed local radio years ago (I ask …
My CBBC
So is the BBC really launching a “Facebook for under 12s” as was claimed by some of the papers last week? — Well, the short answer is, no. MyCBBC is not a social networking site. — However, what w...
Chinese Professor Suing Google And Yahoo For Making Him Disappear From Chinese Search
We've seen plenty of lawsuits over the years from people who were upset over how Google ranked them in search results, but here's an interesting twist on that idea. Guo Quan, a professor in China …