News to know: Yahoo-Microsoft and Google; MacBook Air diary; Ubuntu 8.04
Notable headlines:
Blog focus: Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo. Larry Dignan: Google launches its ‘let’s annoy Microsoft’ plan: Pings Yahoo and wor
- Paula Rooney: Yahoo! buy would give Microsoft ownership of open source e-mail, projects, code. Ugh.
- Michael Krigsman: Microsoft-Yahoo: Enterprise confusion
- Phil Wainewright: Microsoft's software-plus-Yahoo! play
- Microsoft-Yahoo: Putting the moving parts together
- FAQ: What's next for Microsoft's Yahoo bid?
Jason O'Grady: MacBook Air Diary–Day 3: migration assistance. Unboxing gallery (right).
David Morgenstern: Mac market share keeps moving upwards
Richard Stiennon: Fourth cable cut in Mideast. Third undersea cable severed in Middle East. India Net capacity at 80 percent after cables break
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” alpha 4. Gallery (right).
Icahn names Motorola slate, eyes new cell chief
Dan Farber: Google unleashes Social Graph API–indexes people connections
Roland Piquepaille: Particle swarm optimization for pictures. This robot snake wants to dance with you. Cellphones to monitor highway traffic
Larry Dignan: StopBadware.org: RealPlayer 10.5, 11 is badware
Phil Fersht: The 2008 Election and Outsourcing... have your sayDan Farber: Meanwhile back at the Yahoo ranch, Flickr Video is coming soon
PaidContent.org: Yahoo sells premium music services.
Computerworld: Intel, Micron unveil high-speed NAND
Joshua Greenbaum: SAP Targets High-end Customers with SMB Offering
Janice Chen: Sony shows off high-end DSLR prototype Photos: Sony's new flagship SLR
Mary Jo Foley: Reports: Vista SP1 gold bits on track for next week
Heather Clancy: Guilty pleasures: Using paper, paper and more paper
Chris Matyszczyk: If you call someone a 'nerd' are you a moron? (Part 1)
Computerworld: Touchscreen tech comes of age
Wireless-auction bidding reaches $18.55 billion
Dana Blankenhorn: If you don't like it, fork it