Looking at Microsoft’s hostile takeover move for Yahoo, brings back memories of the time when Apple management sought its own buyout. But the corporate “saviors” had cold feet.
Archive for February 4th, 2008
Feb4
Remembering Apple’s fizzled buyout
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb4
Vista marketing chief to bid Microsoft adieu
Michael Sievert, Corporate Vice President for Windows Product Marketing, is moving on, according to multiple sources of mine. Sievert is the three-year Microsoft veteran who oversaw Vista’s worldwide launch.
Filed in: Microsoft
Feb4
Mac OS X 10.5.2 Not Quite Ready Yet (9C30 Seeded)
Apple has fixed some issues with Time Machine and AFP X Client and bumped Mac OS X 10.5.2 to build 9C30. The latest Mac OS X seed was released to developer’s today, only four days behind 9C27. There are “no known issues” in this latest seed.
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Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb4
FDA: iPods Don’t Cause Pacemakers to Go on the Fritz
A researcher at the Food and Drug Administration has published a study that contradicts findings released last spring suggesting that iPods interfered with pacemaker function. That earlier study, accompanied by warnings to grandparents to avoid their iPod-toting grandchildren, had been presented by a 17-year-old high school student at the Heart Rhythm Society’s 28th Annual Scientific Sessions.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb4
Intel’s Silverthorne (Ultra-Mobile Processor) Previewed
At this year’s International Solid State Circuits Conference, Intel is giving additional details regarding its upcoming Silverthorne ultra-mobile processor (via News.com and AppleInsider).
According to the reports, Silverthorne will in…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb4
Intel Debuts Slew of New Technologies
Intel has unveiled a trio of new technologies at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco: the Silverthorne mobile processor; the Tukwila Itanium chip — which has a record 2 billion transistors; and a method for doubling the capacity of phase-change products.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb4
Blogosphere Crackles With Talk of Microhoo and Yahsoft
After Microsoft made its move to acquire Yahoo, the blog chatter started almost immediately. Initial postings hit the Web with notes of surprise before the more thoughtful ruminations started to hit, not to mention the tongue-in-cheek name-crunching that produced hypothetical monikers like — “Microhoo!” and “Yahsoft”.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb4
Cablevision Teams With Popcorn for Up-to-Date Movie Downloads
The online video distribution sweepstakes gained another entrant Monday, with Cablevision throwing its resources behind a venture with Popcorn that will offer movie downloads the same day they are released on DVD. The service will enable subscribers of Cablevision’s iO TV digital cable service to download and instantly watch on-demand movies weeks before they are widely available through traditional channels.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb4
What will run on Windows Server 2008 — and when
Now that Microsoft has released to manufacturing Windows Server 2008, the next obvious question is which applications will run on it — and when? Are we in for a Windows-Vista-like experience, where even some of Microsoft’s own applications didn’t work with its new operating system for weeks, if not months?
Filed in: Microsoft
Feb4
Computer Makers Get First Dibs on Vista SP1
Microsoft announced the first stage in the launch of its first service pack for the Windows Vista operating system Monday. The service pack — filled with performance, compatibility and reliability updates for versions in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese — was released to manufacturing, a move that enables Microsoft’s OEM partners to start building new PCs running Vista with SP1 pre-installed.
Filed in: Personal Tech
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