John Battelle had said earlier that all that good publicity around Yahoo is going to get under Google’s skin. Well looks like that skin is stretched pretty thin. Stung by the gigabyte-email-offering from Yahoo to match GMail, Google has announced that it is … Read More »
Archive for March 2005
Most MCI shareholders are for the first time thrilled with Qwest’s latest offer. Q is now offering $27.50 a share, or about $8.9 billion for MCI, which in my opinion is $8.9 billion minus cash too much. Nevertheless that’s neither here or there, but still…. Carlos … Read More »
They say when its too good to be true, it probably is! For a few years the break neck growth and gigantic momentum of UT Starcom has confounded many in the telecom space. It kept on winning business – everywhere from Vietnam to China to Africa … Read More »
I’ve finished reading over a new eBook by author David Hill: “Cocoa Game Programming Workshop”. This book takes readers through the steps to make a simple 2D game with Cocoa on Mac OS X with XCode. Beginning with the assumption that the reader has … Read More »
Netfront has long been a good browser for the Pocket PC but has never worked in VGA under Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition. That is, until this new version 3.2 that I just happened to see on the Access web site. It’s in Japanese but … Read More »
Sometimes its good to be lucky than smart. That adage holds true of Sony’s new PlayStation Portable (PSP) which if early reports are any indication is fast becoming developer platform of choice. Today a die-hard Mac shop, PocketMac, announced PocketMac for PSP. This is the … Read More »
A flurry of activity the past few days shows how important the blogosphere can be when an issue affects a lot of people. I originally posted about the Copernic Desktop Search problem working on Tablet PCs days ago and ranted about the software company’s … Read More »
Qwest is not backing down, and has decided to up the ante in its desperate bid to takeover MCI. New price – $8.9 billion or roughly $0.90 a share more than its previous offer of $25.60 a share. The new offer is $13.50 a share in … Read More »
Just when you thought biometrics was a way to protect data and cars, some folks have come up with an amazingly analog way of over-coming the problem. Chop someone’s finger, open the door to a car, a house or unlock their laptop. This happened to one … Read More »
Everybody seems to be getting on a froth about how SBC is not working with Vonage on 911 service. Red Herring, ZDNet and everyone else has picked up on this story. I feel this is a gross over reaction, and in many cases no effort … Read More »
As more and more signs point to a sooner than later release of OS X 10.4 – Tiger – I find myself planning for that future. Huh? It’s ok, follow along and I’ll explain a skosh more. You see, I hammer on my OS X … Read More »
As predicted previously, big media, aka The Guardian has discovered the Yahoo mojo. John Battelle points to an article by Ben Hammersly in the Guardian says Google has been overtaken by Yahoo. Here is what I wrote previously Battelle notes, “this kind of … Read More »
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