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Microsoft-Yahoo: The end game nears; Was there an Amazon-Yahoo deal in the works?

Yahoo will reportedly have a special board of directors meeting to discuss Microsoft's $44.6 billion unsolicited bid. Meanwhile, the game theories abound. According to TechCrunch Yahoo's fate could be decided today. My guess is that Yahoo's fate won't be completely decided, but the end game is definitely...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Trip Chowdhry, Games, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-08

Can Vista's search poke a hole in Google's armor?

One analysts survey doesnt make a trend. But a Global Equities research analyst said this week that he found "many Vista owners that once used Googles desktop search feature have switched to Microsofts" desktop search which is built into Windows Vista. According to MarketWatch, Analyst Trip Chowdhry said "consumers...

Tags: Google, Search, Vista

Blog posts 2007-02-16

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And the calculator saga continues

I spent the afternoon at a local orchard with my wife and my youngest son. The other kids were buried in homework and/or video games, but it's apple season here in New England, so off the three of us went on a beautiful fall day. The orchard was...

Tags: Ice Cream, Games, Taxes, Corporate Communications, Free Trade, Construction, Personal Technology, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-05

Mobile Edge ScanFast Backpack - notebook carrying backpack

Frequent travelers rejoiced when, earlier this year, the TSA issued guidelines for the construction of a bag that would let you zip through security without removing your laptop. The official guidelines suggest a butterfly, trifold, or sleeve-style case that keeps your laptop separate from other travel detritus so that a...

Tags: Notebooks, notebook, mobile, zipper, laptop computer, compartment, Mobile Edge ScanFast

Product reviews 2008-10-03

39 Traffic Jam Cell Cams (Windows Mobile) (CAB)

The 39 Traffic Jam Cell Cams is a free cell phone application that gives you direct access to over 600 live, roadside traffic cameras in and around the Houston, TX metro area. Just download the software into your data enabled cell phone and before your next trip around the corner...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Cell Phone, Microsoft Windows, Cell, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-03

39 Traffic Jam Cell Cams (Palm) (prc)

The 39 Traffic Jam Cell Cams is a free cell phone application that gives you direct access to over 600 live, roadside traffic cameras in and around the Houston, TX metro area. Just download the software into your data enabled cell phone and before your next trip around the corner...

Tags: Palm Inc., Cell Phone, Cell, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-03

Amazon, open the Kindle before Apple eats your lunch!

Amazon, open the Kindle before Apple eats your lunch!The lack of features is a featureThe Kindle is actually eating Apple's lunch. By offering no features other than the ability to read books, the Kindle is doing what Apple typically does best: offer fewer features at a greater price. The Kindle...

Tags: E-books, Corporate communications, Games, Monitors & displays, Amazon.com Inc., E-Ink, lunch, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Leave Windows Mobile al-o-o-o-o-o-ne!

Leave Windows Mobile al-o-o-o-o-o-ne!It will come down to supportWill Google pull yet another "thanks for the free time, but it is Beta so we will not help you with it", or T-Mobile pushing it off on Google, to the same response?With the others you do have an infrastructure behind it,...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, Handhelds, Bottomline, Google Inc., mobile, phone, Leave Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Winegard RCDT09A

Earlier in the spring we published a blog entry titled, "Don't buy a portable TV this year" highlighting the fact that the vast majority of portable TVs use analog tuners that won't pull in TV signals after the analog-to-digital TV transition February 17, 2009. At the time, our advice was...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Engineering, Winegard RCDT09A, digital television, converter box, battery, DTV converter box, TV, portable TV, battery pack

Product reviews 2008-09-30

I... B... Wha?

The following is a true story, and happened to me today. I'm on a business trip visiting Richmond, Virginia --  which for those of you kids reading this piece, is the state capital, has a population of over 200,000, and is home to...

Tags: Computer, IBM Corp., Productivity, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Google to go back in time?

Google to go back in time?NewspapersThe newspaper archive was announced a while ago.RE: Google to go back in time?The link to their newspaper archiving:http://news.google.com/archivesearchRE: Google to go back in time?You speculated correctly... :-)I liked googling myself from back in 2001 - I found a bunch of web sites I'd built...

Tags: Business intelligence, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

2009 Mazda MAZDA5 Grand Touring

Photo gallery:2009 Mazda5 Grand TouringIt seemed like everyone who we spoke to about Mazda's Mazda5 said the same thing: "It's a mini-minivan." As cheesy as that sounds, there isn't really a better way to describe what Mazda has created with the Mazda5. As fuel prices soar and its full-size MPV...

Tags: GPS, Mazda5 Grand Touring, Mazda Motor Corp.

Product reviews 2008-09-29

Social media fuels 'Security Twit' road trip

Social media fuels 'Security Twit' road tripI dont' mean t stir the pot but...You may want to check in with Leo Laporte who has a netcast "Security Now!" with Steve Gibson on the TWiT network before anyone goes to far with the "Security Twit" idea.

Tags: Security Twit, security, road trip, social media

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

News to know: Tech sales and the art of spin; Firefox; Apple; HD streaming

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Brian Sommer: Quit Spinning - You're Making Me Dizzy Ryan Naraine: Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bug Matthew Miller: Microsoft deep sixes...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Steve Ballmer, Radio, Apple Inc., Sales, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Mio Knight Rider GPS

If you ever dreamed as a child or as an adult of owning a car like KITT of Knight Rider fame, you're dream is about to come true...sort of. Unless you're rolling in money, you can't have the actual Trans Am or David Hasselhoff, but you can have the next...

Tags: GPS, Keyboards, display, Mio Knight Rider GPS, KITT, portable navigation device, Knight Rider GPS

Product reviews 2008-09-26

Social media fuels 'Security Twit' road trip

The Security Twits is an aptly named term for a growing network of non-marketing security professionals who leverage Twitter to talk shop. It started as a fun idea and it grew into an amazing community resource for RSA Conference and Black Hat and continues to serve as the social hub...

Tags: Social Media, Road Trip, Security Twit, Security, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Google, NYC transform public transit info online

Navigating the New York region's myriad and Byzantine transit systems "just got less complicated," Gov. David Pateron crowed at an event announcing the launch of Google Transit NYC, The Times reports. With not only the governor but also Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler and representatives...

Tags: Google Inc., Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-24

About those personal laptops...

About those personal laptops........Linux... saving Windows users from their own idiocy. ]:)RE: About the password reset bootableYeah, I had to use that once when, after acquiring a facility from another company, the previous company's IT department yanked the domain server out from under us the minute the sale was final....

Tags: Notebooks, personal laptop, server, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Will a 6600 mAh battery convince you to buy an HTC Shift?

On my recent trip to New York to cover the T-Mobile G1 Android launch I traveled with just a backpack and used my Fujitsu U810 to write on the road. It was adequate, but the keyboard is quite small and limits how fast I can type. I reviewed the Sprint...

Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Battery, Engineering, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-24

The Fishing Almanac 2009 Edition (exe)

Plan your next fishing trip with comprehensive information on the Sun, Moon, Tides, Weather, Tidal, or Solunar based predictions and location Maps. Base predictions on Tidal or Solunar Activity and have the ability to configure according to a specific location and target species. Save your precious time by targeting fish...

Tags: Prediction, HAL Computing

Software downloads 2008-09-24