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Archive for June, 2010

Yahoo shares jump on latest Microsoft report

30 Jun 2010

Should such a breakup occur, Stanford Group’s “sum-of-the-parts” assessment would give Yahoo a value of $20 to $24 a share.

Meanwhile, analysts Clay and Fred Moran of the Stanford Group note in a research report Wednesday that breaking Yahoo’s business is unlikely to “drive value” for Yahoo shareholders.

The stock price jumped 6.3 percent to $21.48 a [...]

Microsoft readying apps store for Windows Mobile

28 Jun 2010

Microsoft has been working hard to cash in on the growing demand for smartphones. Earlier this year, Microsoft released version 6.1 of the Windows Mobile operating system. This version includes an updated browser, which is supposed to make Internet surfing on a mobile phone look and feel like it does on a desktop.

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Google, Microsoft, Yahoo as Ford, GM, and Chrysler

23 Jun 2010

While we would be among the first to agree with the general principles of Chandler’s “Coming of Managerial Capitalism” that consolidation is the inevitable corollary of increasing efficiency in almost all industries, we think the maturation of the Internet sector is being accelerated by the large players with big cash piles. Quite simply the Internet [...]

Make Word documents beautiful for the Web with Cal

22 Jun 2010

See also: Scribd, Issuu (review), Yudu Freedom (review)
Calameo is a new service for publishing documents from your computer to the Web. Like Scribd, it’s dead simple to use, and will slurp up all sorts of documents of up to 100MB in size. What makes the service noteworthy is that you can take documents online and [...]

Judge misdials in Sprint ruling on early terminati

18 Jun 2010

Sabraw appeared to base her ruling on her belief that Sprint could have charged customers a pro-rated cancellation charge, so someone who cancels with one month left pays less than someone with nearly two years to go. She wrote: “Sprint did not prove that its motivation and purpose…was to estimate Sprint’s damages.”

That brings us to [...]

Photobucket plugs hole that revealed private photo

16 Jun 2010

Photobucket fixed the hole Monday afternoon after being contacted by CNET News in the morning.
“Photobucket is aware of the issue and it has been resolved. A fix was rolled out this afternoon, less than 24 hours after the site was made aware of the issue,” a Photobucket representative said in an e-mail. [...]

Rashid Battery power is a tricky thing

04 Jun 2010

Check below for a video interview I did with Rashid on Project Green and health-related initiatives. Sorry, no battery talk in the video.

The company’s Project Green uses DVDs to bring farming tips to remote farmers in India, while another effort aims to distribute information on crop conditions to shared community cell phones via text messages.

Update: [...]