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Ballmer and Icahn Get Chatty

It appears that Steve and Carl are like a couple of mischievous schoolboys, who can’t let something go until they are sure they have either destroyed something, or figured out why they can’t do it.
A notice on Tech Crunch states that ‘the boys’ have been discussing all the different scenarios that might play out if [...]

Who Is Microsoft Aiming At?

Lots of chatter is going on about the release of Equipt, the newest of Microsoft’s products to rent us our software. On one side there are the opinions of how it is about time, on the other the gasps of how it is finally, dreadfully, here.
In a small way, Dana Blankenhorn, on ZDNet weighs in, [...]

Google AdSense Going Away

Whoop! Without any notice of change, Google announces this -
Due to reasons unknown, the AdSense referral program is being retired at the end of August. It’s unclear how popular the referral program actually was, but it’s safe to assume it wasn’t a huge money-maker for Google. In their official announcement, they alluded to their reasoning [...]

Fear Not! Google Doesn’t Win All Its Battles

Those who are always looking for the other shoe to drop, the boogeyman in the dark corner, etc.; don’t fear, the company is not Big Brother, and is not large enough to buy off the world just yet.
The company has lost the possibility to call its free mail service GMail within the confines of Germany. [...]

Google Funds Private Space Exploration

The next visitor to the moon may not be human, and it may carry the flag of a corporate entity, not that of a country. Google has decided to start a space race of its own, and it only pertains to non-governmental agencies. This private space race is offering $20 million to the first team [...]

Ray Ozzie – Moses or Pied Piper?

The number of articles concerning the changes at Microsoft gets larger each day. with the end of this month defining the end of an era, it seems that he question of whether Ray Ozzie, the man designated to guide the ship, can bring Microsoft out of the doldrums that began with the late release of [...]

Microsoft Has A Long Way To Go

I was reading an opinion, given by one of the typical talking heads, about why it was a very bad thing that the Yahoo – Microsoft deal did not work out. The line of reasoning was one of protection against a larger looming spectre. A gargantuan business that would one day make the misdeeds of [...]

Icahn Must Be Really Peeved

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn must be doubly worked up, as he has seen the day give the news that Microsoft isn’t interested in Yahoo anymore, and Yahoo would continue to rebuff any advances from Redmond. He also has seen the news that Yahoo has hammered out a deal with Google, to have AdSense content on [...]

YouTube vs. Viacom - Is Viacom Trying To Feed From The Google Gravy Train?

The current lawsuit that Viacom is pursuing against Google, because of YouTube, threatens the way that information is exchanged over the internet.
If Viacom has its way, the entire ‘chain of custody’ from content source to ISP would be forced to police all binary data ‘on the wires’. Not only would this slow internet traffic to [...]

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