Yahoo Mails Letter to Shareholders: Full Text
Yahoo mailed a letter to shareholders outlining the reasons the Board believes Microsoft's proposal significantly undervalues Yahoo and isn't in the best interests of Yahoo stockholders. — In the mi...
Android SDK m5-rc14 now available
On behalf of the entire Android team, I'm happy to let you know that an updated version of the Android SDK — we're calling it m5-rc14 — is now available. Today, we're continuing the early look at the...
Microsoft's executive shuffle expected Thursday
I'll say it again. Microsoft has a lot to learn when it comes to celebrating Valentine's Day. — A long-anticipated Microsoft executive shuffle will be formally announced on Thursday, according to s...
Drupal 6.0 released
After one year of development we are ready to release Drupal 6.0 to the world. Thanks to the tireless work of the Drupal community, over 1,600 issues have been resolved during the Drupal 6.0 release ...
AT&T to offer iPhone tethering plan?
Well, if you believe one of our top informants, then the answer is yes! Have a gander at some of the wording we got a hold of and decide for yourself! — “Important iPhone Upgrade Announcement — A...
Apple TV 2.0 vs. Blu-Ray, DVD & HD Cable: The Comparison
Apple calls them “high-definition movie rentals,” but to people familiar with Blockbuster Video, Netflix, and HD cable box alternatives, Apple TV 2.0's new ability to download and play back certain 72...
JBoss sets goal: Capture 50 percent of enterprise middleware workloads by 2015
Red Hat has big plans for JBoss. With its “Enterprise Acceleration” initiative, the company hopes to gain 50 percent of enterprise middleware workloads by 2015. — Red Hat points to rising adoption ...
Crowd control at eBay
If over the last decade you have read any of the many books and articles promoting the Net as a new world where people are able to form self-regulating, super-democratic communities, you have no doubt...
Why Spore Will Be Absolutely Huge
Spore's going to be massive. — To be honest, I hadn't really paid that much attention to Will Wright's terminally delayed simulation-of-everything over the last few years. For one, I'm not exactly ...
News Corp. Enters Yahoo Fray
News Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are in discussions about combining MySpace and other News Corp.-owned online properties with Yahoo, according to people familiar with the matter. — The discussions are aime...
Yahoo Exec Bails: Bradley Horowitz Leaves For Google
Bradley Horowitz, head of Yahoo's Advanced Technology Division (and mentioned in a post earlier today), has accepted a position with Google, we've confirmed via a source at Yahoo. We have a message i...
Super-Slim ThinkPad Sneak Peek
Only a month or so after Apple announced its MacBook Air laptop, which it calls the world's thinnest laptop, Lenovo is about to spring its own super-skinny machine: the ThinkPad X300. Here's a sneak ...
Apple TV 2.0 Review
Ever since our Apple TV 1.0 review decided that Apple's thrust into the living room wasn't pantsworthy, we've been waiting for them to step up and make a revision that was. Apple TV 2.0 is their answ...
Managing the cost of digital tunes
BARCELONA: Alot of mobile phones can play music today, but downloading digital tunes over the cellular networks is pricey. This week, two companies unveiled new ways to manage the cost of getting mus...
BlackBerry gets home media server, prepaid e-mail
Research in Motion and its partners have used the Mobile World Congress show to unwrap a pair of key updates for its BlackBerry smartphones, including its first “push” e-mail service for the home. Kn...
New Twitter and RSS “Firehose” feeds include all headlines
High-volume, “complete” RSS feeds are available now for Techmeme, WeSmirch, memeorandum, and Ballbug. For years, the RSS feed for each site has included the day's most important 20-30 headlines, typi...
Michael Dell Pays $150M For His Bro's Startup
At a time when Michael Dell has regained control over the helm at the firm he has founded, it seems dicey for him to close a deal that smells of nepotism. But Dell seems to taunt the critics with thi...
Bebo: $1 billion Acquisition “Definitely Happened” Says Source
Following up to our post last week talking about a possible acquisition of social network site Bebo: A high level source has told us that Bebo has been in discussions via their investment bank, Allen ...
What if... you could have your doodle on the Google homepage for a day?
Posted by Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, and Dennis Hwang, Webmaster Manager and Chief Google Doodler — Today, we're excited to announce the Doodle 4 Google comp...
Rupert Murdoch's New Startup Incubator
The SlingShot Labs venture is designed to spawn Internet startups for News Corp. and also likely to help MySpace compete with Facebook — With 110 million members and $800 million in annual revenue, ...
Quitting Facebook Gets Easier
Aiming to address the privacy concerns of disenchanted users, Facebook.com said on Tuesday that it was trying to make it easier for people to delete their accounts permanently from the social networki...
Palm ranks last in satisfaction survey, no one surprised
We know it's probably going to be pretty hard to believe this, but according to a recent survey of mobile phone users, Palm ranks absolutely last in customer satisfaction. If you believe what the fol...
El Rushbo's Appeal to Steve Jobs
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT — RUSH: I can't believe you would say that. For those of you watching on the Dittocam today at RushLimbaugh.com, you've probably seen me pretty animated here during the break talk...