Merger Update
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under Merger News, Microsoft, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
Microsoft’s board met today to discuss its stand-off with Yahoo over its takeover offer, but failed to reach a decision on what to do next.The board is still considering whether to adopt a hostile approach and nominate a proxy slate of directors to replace the existing board, place a bigger offer on the table, or […]
Read More..>>Search Success
Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under Google | Leave a Comment
In an effort to make the searches you do on the web even more accurate in the results they deliver, Google will start to personalize search results based on the previous query.
Read More..>>Shut ‘Yer Trap
Posted on April 28, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft, Vista | Leave a Comment
This is almost funny….but not quite.
Some of the Microsoft Business Partners are asking Microsoft public figures to cool it on the bashing of Vista! What a turn of events! I have recently written about the mixed signals coming out of Redmond, especially from Ballmer. And not just him, some others as well, have made public […]
PPU - PayPerUsage
Posted on April 27, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Tech News | Leave a Comment
By some estimates, the average broadband equipped home will use more than a terabyte of bandwidth per month by 2010. High-bandwidth apps like peer-to-peer sharing and high-quality streaming video are putting a hit on current networks and building a greater infrastructure will be very expensive, so ISPs are
Read More..>>Upgrade Down
Posted on April 26, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft, Software, Vista, XP | Leave a Comment
If you bought a new computer in the last year, and it had a Microsoft OS on it, chances are you got yourself a shiny new Aero. If you bought almost any retail store computer, it would have had Vista on it instead of XP. So you’ve been using it a while now….
Read More..>>Defrag
Posted on April 25, 2008 - Filed Under Merger News, Microsoft, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
Just as you defrag your hard drive to optimize accessing data and speeding the process of doing so, Yahoo has announced its equivalent by introducing the basic structure of plans to defragment its network of users.
Read More..>>Hardy Heron
Posted on April 24, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft, Software, Ubuntu, Vista | Leave a Comment
Interesting coincidence that Ubuntu’s newest release of its Linux distro, this one called Hardy Heron, was released today. Haven’t tried it on yet, but every release of this OS seems to make great strides toward being market competitive with Microsoft. Leave Vista in the mix and
Read More..>>Ring Fring
Posted on April 23, 2008 - Filed Under Apple, Tech News, VoIP, iPhone | Leave a Comment
Get ready for free VoIP calls on your iPhone. An Israeli company called Fring announced that it has started public testing of an application for the iPhone called Fring, which allows users to make and receive calls using voice over IP technology. Fring bypasses any
Read More..>>Mirror Relief
Posted on April 22, 2008 - Filed Under Health | Leave a Comment
This one is pretty strange until you think about it awhile.
My maternal Grandfather was an amputee from gangrene and my Dad’s sister was one due to cancer, both losing an entire leg due to their illness. I was too young to remember my Grandfather’s experience but am told
Skype Out
Posted on April 21, 2008 - Filed Under eBay | Leave a Comment
Skype In, Skype Out is the way they describe the calls received and made via Skype.
If I was eBay,