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Ballmer's swan song: Take 1 flailing Internet company, add a 2nd flailing Internet company, and what do you get? A bigger flailing Internet company. Accentuate the positive The proposal isn't all bad. : It is an OK deal for Yahoo shareholders. Yahoo was trading above $30...; Tags: Google Inc., Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Internet Company, Jerry, Certainty, Internet, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-02-01
Photos: Yahoo hosts an open house: Internet giant gives a tour of its new San Francisco office, where visitors can spin a digital globe or check out a dynamic display of digital user info.; Tags: Internet company, display, San Francisco, photograph, Yahoo! Inc., Internet; Image galleries 2007-04-30
As House considers data retention, Internet companies have another plan: Hours before the opening of a House hearing on whether to require ISPs to retain user data, a coalition of top Internet companies - including AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft but not Google - proposed developing a technological fix to the problem of child pornography, News.com's Declan McCullaugh reports. (Google apparently...; Tags: child pornography; Blog posts 2006-06-27
Smith to introduce Global Online Freedom Act: The Times reports: The subcommittee's chairman, Representative Christopher H. Smith, plans to introduce legislation by week's end that would restrict an Internet company's ability to censor or filter basic political or religious terms — even if that puts the company at odds with local laws in the...; Tags: Global Online Freedom Act, Internet company; Blog posts 2006-02-15
Major player wants to partner with Microsoft to take Google down a peg: Microsoft Program Manager Ian McAllister wrote about an intriguing meeting he attended "with some senior players at another Tier 1 internet company". The other company's representatives offered to "work together" with Microsoft, in order to prevent Google from dominating the Search and/or advertising business. Here's the whole post: ...; Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Internet company; Blog posts 2005-12-21

The future of Internet markets: Kevin Werbach wrote a very thoughtful post on Web 2.0 market trends for the big Internet companies. He thinks we're potentially entering into an era of "competing integrated fiefdoms," much like the online services of the early 90's - AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy, Apple's eWorld. In other words, the big Internet...; Tags: Web, Google Inc.; Blog posts 2005-09-26

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Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information released: Nitesh Dhanjani released information about some of his newest research on the Safari web browser this morning, and interestingly enough, Apple has decided NOT to fix some of the issues he presented. Dhanjani reported three issues, as follows below from his blog: 1. Safari Carpet Bomb.It...; Tags: HTML, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Issue, Safari Carpet Bomb.It, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-15
VIA reveals world's lowest-power x86 processor on world's smallest board: Since nothing gets Toybox readers going quite like processor wars -- I mean, hey, it's the Crusades of computing -- I thought I'd throw this little morsel into the ring. Arriving in the Toybox inbox this morning from Taipei is news that VIA Technologies has announced their...; Tags: Board, X86 Processor, Corporate Governance, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-05-15
The real question: Is Microsoft still interested in Yahoo?: I actually believed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer when he said he was walking away from buying Yahoo. I wasn't among the crowd who thought Ballmer was just posturing, waiting for Yahoo stock prices to plummet and Yahoo shareholder lawsuits to mount before sweeping back in and getting Yahoo for a...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Site Development, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?: As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...; Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
10 attributes of bad CIOs (self test): Chief Information Officers are responsible for both high-level business strategy and detailed technology decisions, making the job among the toughest in business. The high incidence of IT failure demonstrates the extreme difficulty of juggling business and technology goals that are sometimes in direct...; Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Indecision, Asset Management, Financial Management, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
We've been acquired: CBS buys CNET: Nothing like scanning the headlines and finding out your parent company has been acquired. CBS Corporation To Acquire CNET Networks, Inc. The details: "Under the terms of the agreement, CBS will make a cash tender offer for all issued and outstanding shares of CNET Networks for $11.50 per...; Tags: CNET Networks Inc., CBS Broadcasting Inc., Internet, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Financial Services, Development Tools, Finance, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Ask.com buys Dictionary.com; Bolsters reference content: Ask.com plans to buy Lexico Publishing Group, the company behind Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com, for an undisclosed sum. The fourth largest search engine briefed a few reporters on its plans such as News.com's Stephen Shankland. The deal is expected to be officially announced Thursday. ...; Tags: Ask.com, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...; Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware; Blog posts 2008-05-15
What's wrong at OpenSolaris: The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...; Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Aviv Raff drops an 0-day for IE 7.0 and 8.0b on XP: I've been busy all day and just haven't been able to get to it until now, but Aviv Raff is a seriously bad man. I follow his blog religiously as he always has some cool stuff going on and a lot of it tends to be thought provoking for other...; Tags: HTML, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Blog, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Aviv Raff, Blogging, Web Browsers, Internet, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-14
UC Law bans classroom web access: I love having Internet access during my grad classes. I can get additional references for any information presented with a quick bit of Googling, I can examine alternate viewpoints, or I can look at last week's homework. Of course, I can also check my email, write a blog...; Tags: Web, Professor, Student, University Of Chicago Law School, Law School, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-14
What will a classroom look like in 10 years?: I went to a strategic planning action committee meeting tonight. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? Although not sexy, it is important as we look at concrete ways to implement the strategic plan our district put together. I'm on the facilities committee since technology falls under the facilities...; Tags: Classroom, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Britain releases its X-Files: The truth may be out there, but so far it's not in the government files. The British government posted the first batch of its X-Files to a website today in a project that will eventually see the Ministry of Defence turn over to the National Archives 160 files on UFO...; Tags: Officer, Britain, Alien, Missile, UFO, Government, Vertical Industries, Aerospace & Defense, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Hardware, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Spam king, phishing buddy hit for $200m: Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment today: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports. "By using hijacked...; Tags: MySpace, Phishing, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-14