http://www.233500.org Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:55:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A proposed acquisition by Hewlett-Packard of computer services company EDS has won approval from the European Commission. In May, HP announced it would buy EDS for $25 per share, or $13.9 billion. Under the deal, EDS will operate as a new business unit (called EDS) and will continue to be led ... http://www.233500.org/index.php/2010/09/hp-eds-merger-gets-ok-in-europe/ What may turn out to be a bit more odd, actually, is the demand in the joint Icahn-Microsoft bid that calls for the "immediate replacement" of the current Yahoo board members and removal of the top management team. In essence, the Icahn-Microsoft duo are asking Yahoo's current board to take a ... http://www.233500.org/index.php/2010/08/icahn-applies-oracle-bea-playbook-to-yahoo-microso/ Despite the positive outlook, SunPower apparently disappointed investors. Its stock dropped 7 percent after it announced results. Net income for the fourth quarter, which ended December 30, 2007, was $4.8 million, or 6 cents per share. That is a 56 percent decline compared to the same period in 2006. SunPower on ... http://www.233500.org/index.php/2010/08/sunpower-profit-drops-but-outlook-brightens-for-20/ NEW YORK--"We are not an alley." So said venture capitalist Fred Wilson of at the Web 2.0 Expo here in his keynote entitled "New York's Web Industry From 1995 to 2008: From Nascent to Ascendent." A longtime leader in Gotham's culture of digital innovation, Wilson, of Union Square Ventures, gave a ... http://www.233500.org/index.php/2010/08/idealism-for-new-york-tech-from-vc-fred-wilson/ Microsoft and Japanese phone company NTT are joining 11 other companies in taking a stake in Japan's first 24-hour-English language broadcasting service. The new TV channel will be majority-owned by Japan Broadcasting or NHK, which will issue new shares through private placements with the 13 investors to launch the new TV ... http://www.233500.org/index.php/2010/08/microsoft-and-12-others-invest-in-japanese-tv/ Intel is expected to shed light on its processor of the future this week as it plugs along with another design that was once supposed to be its processor of the future. The chip industry's finest minds will be descending on San Francisco this week for the International Solid State Circuits ... http://www.233500.org/index.php/2010/08/intel-pitching-silverthorne-itanium-at-isscc/ Just read the first few sentences of this article from Xinhua, and tell me it doesn't sound like a press release. Nokia China's new headquarters were completed on the 21st in Yizhuang, Beijing, marking the birth of the world's first mobile phone industry chain fully integrating research and development, management and ... http://www.233500.org/index.php/2010/08/did-nokia-slip-a-press-release-into-chinas-state/ You thought that Microsoft Vista video from earlier today was bad? Watch these. Lest we forget the turgid history of some other horrifically bad promotional videos from Microsoft that will forever be burned into our brains. Here are some of my top picks: 8. Steve Ballmer Sells Windows 1.0 Do plaid suits make ... http://www.233500.org/index.php/2010/08/the-top-8-worst-microsoft-promo-videos/ It hasn't even been released yet, but iPhone hackers claim to have already figured out a way to jailbreak Apple's iPhone 2.0 software. The iPhone Dev Team said yesterday (thanks, Gizmodo) it has figured out a way to hack into the iPhone's bootloader by taking advantage of the way the iPhone ... http://www.233500.org/index.php/2010/08/hackers-claim-iphone-20-breakthrough/ Rumors of new Panasonic Blu-ray players have been kicking around for weeks, but now it's official. Panasonic has announced two new Blu-ray players at CEDIA, the DMP-BD35 and DMP-BD55, which look to be mostly a refinement of the cutting-edge DMP-BD50 that was released this spring. There is no pricing or ... http://www.233500.org/index.php/2010/08/panasonic-announces-dmp-bd35-dmp-bd55-blu-ray-pla/