Time Warner to split off cable service
Time Warner is splitting off its cable services division, the company said Wednesday. — Time Warner currently owns around 84 percent of Time Warner Cable. The media giant, which has been struggling...
Microsoft's Next Move on Yahoo Is Imminent
One Possibility — Is a Proxy Slate — To Replace Board — Microsoft Corp. is expected to make its next move in the three-month-old takeover standoff with Yahoo Inc. as early as Wednesday, as the t...
Web in infancy, says Berners-Lee
The world wide web is “still in its infancy”, the web's inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told BBC News. — He was speaking ahead of the 15th anniversary of the day the web's code was put into the pub...
Microsoft Raises Yahoo Offer To $32-$33 Through WSJ; YHOO Wants $37*
Microsoft (MSFT) leaks news that it is willing to pay $32-$33 for Yahoo—in a last attempt to get Yahoo (YHOO) shareholders to pressure the board to sell. It adds that Yahoo's dope-smoking board wants...
Artsy side of search: Designers, pop stars create iGoogle themes
This is Google's video introducing its work with artists worldwide to create — beautiful, funky, and visually enticing iGoogle pages for the masses. — (Credit: Google) — If you thought Google's ...
AT&T Providing Free Wi-Fi Access to iPhone Users [Updated]
A couple of readers have reported that AT&T hotspots are now offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users. Barnes and Noble, Starbucks and presumably AT&T's 71,000 other Wi-fi hotspot locations are now...
Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans
We've got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level—Google Ocean. — The company has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts, and in December invite...
Court rejects RIAA's ‘making available’ piracy argument
The recording industry's music piracy fight was dealt a setback Tuesday when a federal judge rejected the RIAA's “making available” argument in a lawsuit against a husband and wife accused of copyrigh...
BlackBerry Kickstart, the clamshell flip phone? We're unveiling it to you for the first time!
Are you ready, people? We've been holding this info for a while now trying to confirm it, but no more! We have here pictures of a new BlackBerry device. It is a BlackBerry clamshell — a flip phone ...
An elephant never forgets? George W. Bush's lost e-mails
The case of the missing e-mail — A federal magistrate judge on Thursday chastised the Bush administration for failing to fully answer questions related to a long-running dispute over missing White H...
EBay-Craigslist Fight Is About Kijiji and Control, Complaint Shows
Last week, eBay sued the classified advertising site Craigslist in a Delaware court. The suit received widespread coverage but its causes were opaque, since a copy of the complaint was not made publi...
Google Relaunching Measure Map
Those of you who remember MeasureMap are long time readers of this blog. It was a blog-centered analytics service that first surfaced in August 2005. The service was created by San Francisco based A...
United Online To Acquire Floral Company FTD For $800 Million; Guides Up For Q1
A dialup-access business, a social network... why not add a flower business? United Online (NSDQ: UNTD), the ISP and parent of Classmates.com has announced the acquisition of FTD, the floral products...
Is Lessig's Free Culture just a modern Das Kopyright?
April appears to be shaping up as National Slag Lawrence Lessig Month. Last week, there was RedState's ill-starred effort to turn the Stanford legal scholar (and Barack Obama supporter) into the next...
Report: Microsoft earmarks $1.5 billion to keep Yahoo employees
Microsoft plans to set aside $1.5 billion for employee retention at Yahoo, should it succeed in its unsolicited buyout bid for the Internet search pioneer, according to court documents in a shareholde...
PC PLAY - Magazine For The Next Level Generation
Crytek president Cevat Yerli: “Crysis as we have seen it is impossible. Our internal focus is not linked to bring Crysis to consoles” — PC Play magazine had a chance to have a brief chat with Mr Ce...
3Com Announces Senior Leadership Changes to Accelerate Global Business Plan
Names Robert Mao New Chief Executive Officer and Ronald Sege New President and Chief Operating Officer; Sege Appointed to Board of Directors — 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) today announced that th...