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Yahoo: Our poison pill isn't 'nuts'; Icahn guessing at plan costs

Yahoo: Our poison pill isn't 'nuts'; Icahn guessing at plan costsMany, many comments and ideas...prestented during the discussions about MS's takeover of Yahoo discussed either a massive walkout of employees or MS firing many employees. It was said many times that current Yahoo employees just wouldn't stand for the Microsoftation...

Tags: Icahn, Yang and Co., Yahoo! Inc., poison pill

Discussion threads 2008-06-10

Yahoo: Our poison pill isn't 'nuts'; Icahn guessing at plan costs

Yahoo in an SEC filing fired its latest volley at billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn and defended its employee compensation plan. The company, embroiled in a proxy war with Icahn, outlined an FAQ that it sent employees. The key excerpts: Mr. Icahn says this Plan costs...

Tags: Poison Pill, Yahoo! Inc., Mr., Plan, Benefits, Investment, Vertical Industries, Financial Services, Human Resources, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Icahn on Yahoo: I'd hire a 'talented and experienced' CEO

In his latest missive to Yahoo's board of directors, activist shareholder Carl Icahn blasts chairman Roy Bostock and outlines what he'd do if he gets control of the company's board. Right after he ditched Yahoo's poison pill, Icahn said he would "ask our new board to hire a talented...

Tags: Poison Pill, Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Plan, CEO, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Reaction to Yahoo's Microsoft-inspired poison pill: 'That's nuts'

Reaction to Yahoo's Microsoft-inspired poison pill: 'That's nuts'Can't get past the employee part...It was truly written by people that don't understand what was going to happen on the inside for the employees. There was not going to be some smooth transition and retention if MS was going to start...

Tags: Microsoft-inspired poison pill, Yahoo! Inc., poison pill, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

Reaction to Yahoo's Microsoft-inspired poison pill: 'That's nuts'

Yahoo's poison pill--adopted by the company to thwart a Microsoft takeover--was deemed "nuts" by outside consulting firm Compensia. That nugget was the big takeaway from an unsealed complaint Techmeme and PDF of suit by Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann, a Michigan lawfirm suing Yahoo on behalf of...

Tags: Poison Pill, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tale, Corporate Governance, Benefits, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-02

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A virus in our genes, think about that....

A virus in our genes, think about that....Not bad...You were doing good until about halfway through the post, when you might as well have pulled out your Barack Hussein Obama flag and waved it from the rooftops.Your gallop off into politics ruined what would otherwise have been a good read.RE:...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Obama, gene, virus, Creationists, Natural Selection, Sarah Palin

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

The ugly truth: Satan, social networks and security

The ugly truth: Satan, social networks and securityLovely Satan !It was around 90's when I 1st used Satan, those days were so much fun to me.Social Networks - Know your poisonI'm afraid that social networks won't do too much to fix their code - They want it as open as...

Tags: security, SATAN, social networking, network

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Does Big Brother know where you've been surfing?

Does Big Brother know where you've been surfing?microsoft.com & msdn, plus some weird gothic stuff knowing you:PRE: Does Big Brother know where you've been surfing?It'd be easier if my ISP asked me which porn sites I was going to instead of doing the deep packet sniffing. I'd be glad to...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), INTERNET, NOW IT, Does Big Brother

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night

Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night.....Our arrogance is our own demise. It's that simple. ]:)We already have a crippled two-level systemIt's called Medicare/Medicaid.And once again the author shows his ignorance of economics. In a truly private, competitive health care system, if universal electronic records provided increased profits,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Strategy, health care, ideology, ideological night, enormous innovation, surcharge, innovation

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Live from IDF: Entertainment, WiMax and a sense of security.

When you're talking tech, it never hurts to have a convertible BMW on stage with you. The afternoon keynote speeches at the Intel Developer Forum covered a lot of ground and some eye candy to keep us focused on what a couple of hours of geek speak can morph into,...

Tags: Security, Laptop Computer, Entertainment, Computer, Intel Corp., WiMAX, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-19

More bad news on diabetes

The standard protocol for prediabetes thus remains weight loss and exercise. The oldest pill in the doctor's bag, metformin, is your only choice if you can't follow that advice. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Pill, News, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?

Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?My boss likes to look at IT as a cost...center. I asked him the other day to turn off all computers then try to do business. He said he couldn't. Well then it looks like your IT is responsible for 100% of your revenue....

Tags: IT IS, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Forbes rewrites the history of open source

Forbes rewrites the history of open sourceI guess it was a political articleYou just convinced me that the purpose of this article in Forbes being written was to score political points. Which makes its rewriting of history doubly-disgusting.Libertarian?I'm pretty sure the GPL is normally associated with socialism, not libertarianism. Libertarians...

Tags: open source, Forbes, libertarian, software

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Why not VS 2009?

Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Why not VS 2009?because VS 2009 would not be free upgradeI think MS would have a PR nightmare on their hands if this update wasn't free especially since it's adding features/support for stuff that was in beta/ctp along with VS 2008.Mary Jo Foley what a stupid...

Tags: Microsoft development tools, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2008 SP1, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Visual Studio

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

FDA fake ad to test real ones

Pending OMB approval, the agency would create a phony blood pressure pill, then run ads touting its benefits and risks in various ways, and finally test consumer responses to the ads. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: FDA, Advertisement, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-06

DNS cache poisoning attacks exploited in the wild

UPDATE: Arbor Networks have provided more details in their "30 Days of DNS Attack Activity" analysis, SANS confirmed HD Moore's statement on DNS cache poisoned AT&T DNS servers. Numerous independent sources are starting to see evidence of DNS cache poisoning attempts on their local networks, in what appears to be...

Tags: Query, DNS, Vulnerability, Server, Attack, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-29

Attack code published for DNS flaw

Attack code published for DNS flawIrresponsible and evil"In an IM exchange, Moore told me his exploit takes about a minute or two to poison a DNS cache but said he is working to improve it in version 2.0."As far as i am concerened he is just an evil person to...

Tags: Domain names, Halvar, exploit, DNS

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Attack code published for DNS flaw

The urgency to patch Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning vulnerability just went up a few notches. Exploit code for the flaw, which allows the insertion of malicious DNS records into the cache of the target nameserver, has been added to Metasploit, a freely distributed attack/pen-testing tool....

Tags: Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle

On July 7, the day before the release of the patch for the now infamous DNS design flaw, hacker Dan Kaminsky with the help of Black Hat conference organizers invited reporters to a press conference to "discuss the massive multivendor patch being released this Tuesday." "A synchronized...

Tags: Black Hat, DNS, Conference, Dan Kaminsky, Thomas Ptacek, Domain Names, Patches, Security, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Has Halvar figured out super-secret DNS vulnerability?

[ UPDATE:  Kaminsky has all but confirmed that, yes, the cat is out of the bag ] It looks very much like the nitty gritty of Dan Kaminsky's super-secret -- and heavily hyped -- DNS cache poisoning vulnerability has been figured out by reverse engineering guru Halvar...

Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Server, Referral, Mallory, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-21