Google Wins in Microsoft Yahoo Merger Bid. Microsoft and Yahoo were pushed to the brink of a multibillion-dollar marriage and then to a sudden breakup this weekend by the same player.
It was Google, The New York Times says, in the odd dual role of both unwitting matchmaker and self-interested spoiler.
Google’s phenomenal rise, after all, prodded [...]
Microsoft Messenger 7 Free Download, brings Bonjour support, corporate AV features
Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit (BU) has announced the release of Messenger for Mac 7, its instant messaging client. Version 7 is a free download, available from the Mac BU’s website.
Messenger 7 lets users communicate with buddies on the Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger services, [...]
Gartner analysts warned that Windows is in danger of collapsing
Windows in Danger: At a Las Vegas conference on Thursday, Gartner analysts warned that Windows is in danger of collapsing, according to a report in ComputerWorld.
Upon reading that, I wondered how this could have happened in the 10 days I have been traveling around Latin America. [...]
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World’s fastest swimsuit causes serious waves
Popular Science looks at a new Speedo that has world records falling and officials wondering whether to ban the high-tech suit.
Microsoft moves forward on ‘Stirling’ security suite
The company is getting closer to a public beta of the effort, which ties [...]
Microsoft Yahoo Merger Bid: Microsoft and News Corp. lock arms for a joint bid for Yahoo?
Are Microsoft and News Corp. locking arms for a joint bid for Yahoo? That would be something.
According to a report Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal, the two industry titans are in “serious talks” over such a deal.
And a New [...]
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Microsoft introduces tool for avoiding traffic jams
The new service’s software technology, called Clearflow, is an ambitious attempt to apply machine-learning techniques to the problem of traffic congestion.
(From The New York Times)
MySpaceTV inks international distribution deal
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Microsoft introduces Web-based service for driving directions to help users avoid traffic jams
Microsoft on Thursday plans to introduce a Web-based service for driving directions that incorporates complex software models to help users avoid traffic jams.
The new service’s software technology, called Clearflow, was developed over the last five years by a group of artificial-intelligence researchers at [...]
Microsoft Works Again in Vain On Microsoft Yahoo Merger Bid Offer
After their top executives traded recriminations in an exchange of letters, Microsoft and Yahoo continued their stalemate, with Yahoo shareholders expected to play an increasingly large role in the takeover battle.
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Yahoo continues to reject Microsoft’s $44.6 billion unsolicited bid Monday
Chairman and CEO say $44.6 billion bid is too low in an open letter to Ballmer, but add that Web company is not opposed to some sort of deal.
Yahoo continued to reject Microsoft’s $44.6 billion unsolicited bid for the company Monday.
The Internet company is not opposed [...]
Microsoft Yahoo Merger Bid: Dialogue, Dialogue, Still Dialogue - Microsoft and Yahoo continue to circle each other like wrestlers, each waiting for the other to show its weakness before getting into a clinch. At a time like this, just about anything either side says is pure rhetoric.
That is the best interpretation of today’s report that [...]