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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Last Rites Administered to PalmOS
The CEO of Palm has announced that a version of the Treo 700 will run Windows Mobile 5.0.
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Thursday, September 22, 2005
The Sun does news
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Bush Googlebombed
A search for failure (or "miserable failure") on Google shows the George W Bush bio page on the offical White House site. Google defends not tinkering with this spot of Googlebombing on its blog.
A search for failure (or "miserable failure") on Google shows the George W Bush bio page on the offical White House site. Google defends not tinkering with this spot of Googlebombing on its blog.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Apple giving iPod nano away?
Analyst Jim Handy of Semico Research speculates that Apple are making a loss on the nano in this article in USA Today. The wholesale cost of 2GB of flash memory is $99 and the nano costs $199. He may be right.
Analyst Jim Handy of Semico Research speculates that Apple are making a loss on the nano in this article in USA Today. The wholesale cost of 2GB of flash memory is $99 and the nano costs $199. He may be right.
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Friday, September 16, 2005
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Thursday, September 15, 2005
Social engineering costs hacker 11 months
I really haven't heard it called that before. PCWorld.com has the details on the sentencing of the Paris Hilton hacker.
I really haven't heard it called that before. PCWorld.com has the details on the sentencing of the Paris Hilton hacker.
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Skrewed?
Light Reading reports that Verso have announced a carrier grade (that's for ISPs) solution that will block VOIP traffic. Ouch for eBay.
Light Reading reports that Verso have announced a carrier grade (that's for ISPs) solution that will block VOIP traffic. Ouch for eBay.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Larry buys a CRM solution
Well, the company actually. Oracle has agreed to pay $5.8bn for Siebel. Announced on the same day that Ellison himself agreed to pay $100m to charity in an attempt to avoid prosecution on insider dealing charges.
Well, the company actually. Oracle has agreed to pay $5.8bn for Siebel. Announced on the same day that Ellison himself agreed to pay $100m to charity in an attempt to avoid prosecution on insider dealing charges.
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Monday, September 12, 2005
VOIP becomes very expensive
The purchase of Skype by eBay for $2.6bn was confirmed today (you read it first here last week). Quite why eBay needs to own a telco stumps me, though. $2.6bn buys an awful lot of phone calls if eBay really feels it needs to provide a telephony service for it's customers. With profits of $7m last year Skype is hardly going to provide a lot of cash any time soon and when it does it'll find itself in competition with the likes of Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft. Looking forward to see what The Economist's take will be!
The purchase of Skype by eBay for $2.6bn was confirmed today (you read it first here last week). Quite why eBay needs to own a telco stumps me, though. $2.6bn buys an awful lot of phone calls if eBay really feels it needs to provide a telephony service for it's customers. With profits of $7m last year Skype is hardly going to provide a lot of cash any time soon and when it does it'll find itself in competition with the likes of Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft. Looking forward to see what The Economist's take will be!
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From Fleet Street to CA
Dow Jones report specualtion that Google may be taking a look at Reuters. They would, wouldn't they?
Dow Jones report specualtion that Google may be taking a look at Reuters. They would, wouldn't they?
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Thursday, September 08, 2005
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EBay to buy Skype?
EBay is in talks to acquire Internet-telephony company Skype Technologies for $2 billion to $3 billion, in a deal that would represent a dramatic shift in strategy for the world's largest online auction site, reports the WSJ.
EBay is in talks to acquire Internet-telephony company Skype Technologies for $2 billion to $3 billion, in a deal that would represent a dramatic shift in strategy for the world's largest online auction site, reports the WSJ.
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It's a done deal now apparently.
Here's the eBay page announcing it.
And here's the news on the Skype site.
It should be good and will make a lot more people aware of what skype is.
Someday soon I will post about my family's recent explosion in Skype usage since I moved to NYC.
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Here's the eBay page announcing it.
And here's the news on the Skype site.
It should be good and will make a lot more people aware of what skype is.
Someday soon I will post about my family's recent explosion in Skype usage since I moved to NYC.
