Microsoft/Yahoo: No Deal Today, Markets Look For Announcement Early Monday
Talks between Microsoft and Yahoo continue as the market closes and the business week comes to an end. Every signal is that the two sides are close to finalizing a deal, somewhere between $33 and $37/share.
Microsoft has signaled that they’ll go as high as $33 [...]
R2-D2 - Ultimate Digital Audio and Video Projector (VIDEO)
This amazing remote control Artoo unit is a complete entertainment system featuring a projector, cd/dvd player, ipod/mp3 dock, stereo sound system, multimedia card reader, USB slots and more. He can even be remote controlled to maneuver around your home. Very cool.
(Via Green Head.)
PC Magazine reviews Apple’s new 24-inch iMac: Editor’s Choice, King of the all-in-ones
The Apple iMac (24-inch Penryn) is the iconic all-in-one desktop that others try emulate. Its aluminum and glass face evoke the iPhone and iPod Touch, a look that works well,” Joel Santo Domingo reports for PC Magazine.
“This newest iteration of iMac is powered [...]
Report: Microsoft close to hostile bid for Yahoo“With the right circumstances it’ll happen. Without the right circumstances it won’t happen,” Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal Thursday.
Microsoft’s board met Wednesday to discuss its next step for the deal, announced Feb. 1, which offered $44.6 billion for the [...]
Next-gen iPhone spotted in the wild?
Well here’s an interesting one. French iPhone blog iPhon.fr got these pics from an anonymous and unverified source, and while there’s no way of telling if the shots are legit, they certainly have a truthy ring to them. They follow what we know so far about the shape, size and [...]
Laptops may get more battery life from silver-zinc
ZPower will soon plug silver-zinc batteries into laptops
Laptop users may soon get longer battery life from their machines, with ZPower set to plug in its new silver-zinc batteries, which it claims last significantly longer than traditional lithium-ion batteries.
The batteries will be available in consumer and business laptops [...]
Iron Man is the Best Reviewed Movie of 2008
Iron Man is not only a great comic book movie, but it’s a great film. Jon Favreau’s Marvel comic book adaptation is the best reviewed movie of the year (so far). The film currently has a 96% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 117 reviews. The only [...]
BusinessWeek Cover Story on Rising Mac Share in Businesses
There’s also this preamble on their Byte of the Apple weblog, where Arik Hesseldahl writes:
A Yankee Group survey that is soon to be published, found that of some 250 companies surveyed, 87% of them have some Macs in their organizations, whereas this number was only 48% two [...]
Alien Salt and Pepper Shakers
These aliens are just fine as salt and pepper shakers. They are not the typical aliens that you expect to take over the world. Not with them wearing clothing I would expect to see on my grandparents. They may just need a quick pat down to be sure those clothes are [...]
