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- Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand
- Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Patent reform dead for 2008
- The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...
- Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Can Icahn bring Microsoft's Yahoo bid back?
- Updated: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn announced an alternate board of directors for Yahoo in a move that could revive a Microsoft bid. Will Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer bite? As expected Icahn announced his alternate slate, which includes Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- 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
- Icahn reportedly preps his board slate for Yahoo
- That Yahoo proxy war looks like it's on, but with a new cast of characters. According to Reuters, billionaire investor Carl Icahn will move ahead with an alternate slate of board of directors. The goal: Turn over Yahoo's 12 directors at once and sell Yahoo to Microsoft--or...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Dell Inspiron desktop now $300
- Dell has cut the price of its budget Inspiron 530 by $140. The $300 configuration includes a 2.0GHz Pentium E2180 dual-core processor, 1GB of memory, a 320GB hard drive, Intel GMA 3100 graphics, and Windows XP. The deal is part of a Dell tax rebate marketing gambit...
- Tags: Desktop, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista, Rebate, Graphics, Dell Inspiron, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Icahn reportedly eyes Yahoo proxy fight
- Just when you thought the Microhoo saga was over billionaire investor Carl Icahn wants in on the act. According to CNBC, Icahn has amassed as many as 50 million shares of Yahoo and is mulling over a proxy war. He has until Thursday to declare an alternate...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- New AMD Opterons are good news for schools
- AMD, a company that has been struggling to compete meaningfully with Intel in the last year, announced new "highly efficient" quad-core processors for blade and rack servers. With energy costs increasing drastically and no relief in sight, schools looking to shave costs, as well as green their IT departments,...
- Tags: Desktop, Data Center, Performance, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Thin Clients, Performance Management, Storage Management, Storage, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Samsung SyncMaster T220
- Is it possible to base an LCD purchase strictly on the display's bezel? If so, Samsung has an LCD to sell you. The Samsung SyncMaster T220 features the company's new Touch of Color bezel, which presents a most attractive visage. The black frame features slightly curved edges along the top...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Samsung T220, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Dell SP2208WFP, Samsung 2232GW, bezel, Samsung SyncMaster T220
- Product reviews 2008-05-13
- Samsung ML-2851ND
- Samsung's ML-2851ND is a barebones monolaser printer with a few extra features attached that will appeal to the small-to-medium business crowd that simply needs to print out text documents or light graphics. The $330 price tag is higher than average for a monochrome printer (especially one that that isn't wireless),...
- Tags: Printers, input tray, CNET Labs, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung ML-2851ND, printer
- Product reviews 2008-05-12
- Toshiba Satellite M305-S4826
- With a lineup of perfectly serviceable, but not exactly standout mainstream laptops, Toshiba's Satellite brand has long played second fiddle to the company's excellent Qosmio multimedia systems. Aiming to correct this, Toshiba has a whole new look and feel for its mainstream consumer products, with a shiny metallic sheen and...
- Tags: Notebooks, Network technology, Toshiba Corp., satellite, Toshiba Satellite
- Product reviews 2008-05-12
- Asus Eee PC 900 (white, Windows XP)
- When we first saw the diminutive Asus Eee PC back in the fall of 2007, we were duly impressed by its capability to mix small size with a small price, and rightly predicted it would be popular with consumers and influential with other PC makers (although, to be fair, the...
- Tags: Processors, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Eee PC, Intel Celeron, Intel Corp., ASUS
- Product reviews 2008-05-12
- Toshiba Satellite A305D-S6835
- Toshiba's Satellite brand has long played second-fiddle to the company's excellent Qosmio multimedia systems. But the updated Satellite line has a whole new look and feel, with a shiny metallic sheen and a clever new Sleep-and-Charge feature, which lets you charge USB devices even if the laptop is powered off....
- Tags: Network technology, Notebooks, Toshiba Satellite brand, satellite, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite
- Product reviews 2008-05-12
- Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refuse
- Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refusewell can we trust Novell to anything now sincethey made deal with MS ......Don't think so. Well even if thay you be very nice to have a unix-fication under a mother distro .....im worry that MS goes up with dirty...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Virtualization, OPEN SOURCE, toughie, Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., NOVELL HAS
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Microsoft's Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?
- Microsoft's Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?Bring it onThe HailStor... I mean Live-Mesh was a good idea back in 2001, but I seriously believe it might have been a bit ahead of it's time. I'm normally an Apple person, but I love the idea of having all these services co-ordinated and...
- Tags: RSS, Microsoft Corp., Hailstorm
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- PilotEdit (5)
- The file size supported by PilotEdit is unlimited. ANSI, UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-16 big endian files are fully supported by PilotEdit. DOS, UNIX file support. When you copy/paste text, PilotEdit will adjust text encoding automatically. Self-defined file types and key words high-lightening. The user interface of HEX mode is as...
- Tags: FTP, Mode, PilotEdit
- Software downloads 2008-05-12
- Shuttle KPC K-4500
- Much like the Asus Eee PC before it, the Linux-based Shuttle KPC K-4500 will impress the tech savvy--especially the Linux comfortable. You can strip it down, expand it, or simply use it as basic day-to-day desktop. You can even put a photo in the removable front panel. Because of its...
- Tags: Linux, Desktops, Shuttle, KPC K-4500, Shuttle KPC K-4500
- Product reviews 2008-05-09
- Why MSFT must make an acquisition in online media
- Businessweek's cover story is: "Inside Microsoft's War Against Google - With Yahoo off the table, Microsoft plans to challenge Google's online-ad juggernaut alone. A behind-the-scenes look at its provocative strategy." This behind the scenes look isn't very deep. It mostly centers on MSFT's "top U.S. salesman for...
- Tags: Acquisition, Advertisement, Online Media, Microsoft Corp., Online Advertising, MSFT, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Google's open source problem is Affero
- Google's open source problem is AfferoOrly?So, if I understand things correctly from the linked article and this, Affero would require Google to release their source code updates for software that runs the [i]services[/i] they sell, not just for compiled software packages as under the current Affero?In the case of the...
- Tags: Mac-user, Affero, F/OSS, open source, AGPL, Google Inc., source code
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
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