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Kind of a quiet week in the technology corner of the stock market. That's not so bad, as people can exhale and figure out if the latest Federal Reserve move to cut the Fed Funds rate by .75 points signals the bottom (finally) of the bearish stock market. if so, then buyers will move back into the...
Read More | Mar 19th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Mar 25th, 2008
Forbes.com has a great piece on former microprocessing kingpin Intel, which held its annual meeting today (being Wednesday). The lowdown on the thoroughly reported story is that Intel may be building things up higher (or better) than they actually are.
At the meeting, Intel employees were busy...
Read More | Mar 13th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Mar 14th, 2008
It’s like the 1990’s again, with all of the big name merger and acquisition activity. We’ve read about Microsft and Yahoo in the last few weeks and now comes wind of a proposed $1.0 billion deal between video game titan Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive Software.
EA is known for its...
Read More | Feb 25th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Feb 26th, 2008
An update on the Microsoft & Yahoo merger comes today in the form of an email from a member of the Yahoo board of directors to shareholders. The email, which was published on Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog earlier this morning, gives a good inside account of why Yahoo shareholders may have reason to...
Read More | Feb 12th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Feb 13th, 2008
Even as U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson reassured us on Friday that the economy "would not go into recession" in 2008", some people, especially consumers, aren't buying it.
This is exactly what I'm talking about when I vent over the power of perception and the media's glee in talking down...
Read More | Feb 9th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Feb 10th, 2008
The most recent quarterly returns are in on U.S. cell phone sales, and Apple seems to have taken a big bite out of Windows' market share. And it has Research in Motion in its gun sights.
For years, Windows Mobile and Research and Motion phones dominated the cellular marketplace. But that was then...
Read More | Feb 6th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Feb 9th, 2008
Microsoft’s CEO has a message to Google: watch out.
In a wide-ranging phone meeting with analysts and business journalists this morning, Steve Balmer, Bill Gates’ right-hand man and the chief executive officer at Microsoft says that the company’s recently-announced deal with Yahoo would...
Read More | Feb 4th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Feb 4th, 2008
Lots to talk about today. You've probably already have read about Microsoft's $45 billion buyout of Yahoo. Obviously, Microsoft is giving up on its MSN web portal and throwing it's weight and capital behind Yahoo. For Yahoo, which has seen its stock slide precipitously in the last year, the deep...
Read More | Feb 1st, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Feb 2nd, 2008
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happygeek in a Nutshell
I am a freelance technology journalist from England, and have been for fast approaching 20 years now. For 14 of them I have enjoyed being Contributing Editor with PC Pro magazine, the biggest selling monthly IT publication in the UK.
Currently, I hold the title of Information Security Journalist... (Read Blog)
According to an Associated Press story just hitting the wires, Wal-Mart is to stop selling computers running the Linux operating system after less than 5 months because, to quote Wal-Mart spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for."
Read More | Mar 11th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Mar 11th, 2008
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newsguy in a Nutshell
I live and breathe technology news, it is what turns me on. Sad, but hey I am a news nerd, what can I say? (Read Blog)
That is what we could be asking by 2012, and be answered with a resounding cry of to the job centre looking for new employment if Fujitsu Siemens Computers is correct with its prediction. FSC today suggested that within just four years unmanned data centres will not only be fully commercially...
Read More | Jan 21st, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jan 21st, 2008
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