6th April 2008 Archive

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Microsoft to Yahoo!: Surrender or else

Big Steve turns the screw

Microsoft has told Yahoo! that it has three weeks to walk down the aisle - or it will strong-arm the reluctant bride into marriage. If this ends in a proxy battle, Microsoft will almost certainly return with a lower offer than the $44bn bid originally tabled on February 1. In a letter to the Yahoo! board delivered on Saturday …

Financial News 6 Apr 00:49
CTIA '08: The Works

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FCC boss quashes Skype open access plea 01/04/08 When Verizon says that its entire wireless network will soon be open to any device and any application, the chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission believes the mega-telco is telling truth. Cellco regulators are not the customer's friends 02/04/08 LAS VEGAS - …

Mobile 6 Apr 01:22
Ubuntu unpwned as CERN prepares to destroy Earth

Comments And mobe explodes teacher

Distressingly-named Los Angeles law firm Kabateck Brown Kellner is suing Apple for "deceptively" marketing the new 20-inch iMac. This provoked a spray of Apple spittle from readers, and a bit of a tussle: Apple is a corporation. The entire goal of any large corporation is to rape customers just enough to make the most money …

Letters 6 Apr 08:02
Cyberwar threat way down the agenda at NATO conference

Real war, not iWar, focus for heads of state

For all its hype the threat cyberwarfare merited less than 100 words in a summary of discussions between heads of state at NATO conference last week. The three-day North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Romania last week focused on discussing NATO operations in Kosovo and Afghanistan, and plans for the further expansion …

Government 6 Apr 08:02
Strung out hackers and BBC beanbags

Mobile programming as a competitive art form?

On Saturday the BBC-sponsored Over The Air: the 48-hour race to create innovative mobile applications wound up with 21 teams presenting applications they had hacked together. The teams comprised mobile-development companies showing off what they could do, interested hackers creating stuff for fun, and a few individuals just …

Mobile 6 Apr 20:05