Microsoft’s top lawyer on Thursday warned that any deal between Yahoo and Google would hurt competition.
Microsoft proposed on February 1 to buy Yahoo for $31 a share, but it has thus far been rebuffed by Yahoo, though the two sides have had a couple preliminary meetings. On Saturday, Microsoft set a three-week deadline for Yahoo [...]
The all new 4GB Flash Voyager Mini from Cosair.
I’ve accidentally left my thumdrives in the pocket and let them go through the laundry treatment multiple times. Some times they survived, other times I had to buy a new one. Either way, I had to deal with this familiar lingering bad feeling after finding the little [...]
Vonage will use the cash, plus some of its own, to repurchase the remainder of its $253 million in convertible notes, the Journal story said. Vonage needed to raise money for the repurchase by December 16 or risk bankruptcy, according to the article.
Now that Vonage has settled its legal disputes and it’s regained its financial [...]
These little guys got me thinking: what’s the least important feature of a gadget?
The Robo Vacuums from Perpetual Kid are cuteness on steroids. And that’s why these wannabe Roombas, spotted at Boing Boing Gadgets, for $15 each are probably not super effective. (But no matter! We here at Crave love useless eye candy.)
Functionality? Probably not. [...]
AT&T also announced it would add a new faster tier of service with 10Mbps downloads and 1.5Mbps uploads to its U-verse customers. U-verse is the newly upgraded network that AT&T is building to deliver TV and broadband over the same Internet connection to the home. Bundled with U-verse TV, the new, faster broadband service costs [...]
Arbitration clauses are popular for several reasons: (1) they dictate where a future case will be heard, (2) they remove the risks of trying the case to a jury, (3) they lessen exposure to class action lawsuits, and (4) they tend to favor businesses rather than consumers. PayPal, eBay, and many other software and on-line [...]
I recorded W3C President Tim Berners-Lee’s press conference at this week’s WWW2008 conference in Beijing.
Update: I was having a glitch while linking to the podcast URL. It should work now. Or copy and paste http://gwbstr.podomatic.com/entry/2008-04-23T01_42_40-07_00 into your browser.
Please forgive the mediocre sound quality; I record for my notes, and not primarily for broadcast. I came [...]
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The free Search Commands add-on for Office 2007 makes finding options almost instantaneous.
After you download and install the add-on, the Search Commands tab is added to the ribbon. Click it (or press the Windows key and Y) and type the name of the command you need.
I’ve done more than my share of rummaging around the [...]
Wikipedia to add editing safeguard for the living
Yahoo reaches Arab world with acquisition
File sharers hold vigil for Pirate Bay
Mobile ‘biochar’ machine to work the fields
In today’s podcast we get CNET News reporter Greg Sandoval in the studio to chat about what’s happening to popular BitTorrent sharing site The Pirate Bay, including why it’s back up, [...]
In another sign of the fledgling industry trying to gain more credibility, Carbon Offset Providers Coalition on Monday published its comments to the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008, one of several federal carbon regulation proposals.
“We believe the market needs independent oversight in order to grow,” Green-e Climate manager Lars Kvale said in a [...]