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MacDailyNews has posted a rumor about a forthcoming Mac Tablet computer which they call a MacBook Touch. People can call it a rumor if they like, but I think it’s more like a dead-cert. Why? Because tablets are now a compelling value proposition for people - today, the technology works really [...]
When Mike Arrington posted a story on Techcrunch today, saying that he has heard from multiple sources that Microsoft and Yahoo! are back in talks about a full acquisition, Yahoo!’s shareprice jumped. According to Techcrunch, Microsoft is planning to offer something lower than than previous best offer of $33 per share.
What will that new offer [...]
By now, I’m sure you’ve read all about Microsoft’s announcement of “Live Search Cash Back” - an all-new offering in the vertical search market of commerce a.k.a. “when people do on-line searches to find products they’re looking to buy.” Bill Gates has just been talking about it at Advance08. You can watch some video of [...]
A few days ago, I wrote about it seeming likely that Microsoft would offer a maximum of $33 per share for Yahoo!, but that there were rumours that Yahoo! wanted $37 per share. I said:
If Yahoo!’s shareholders are really holding out for an offer of $37+ per share, as some are suggesting, I suspect they’re [...]
Microsoft has, though a leak to the Wall Street Journal (see Silicon Alley Insider), indicated that it would be prepared to up its current offer for Yahoo! to $32-$33 per share (the original offer was $31 per share). It’s surprising to me that Yahoo!’s shareholders haven’t already bitten of Microsoft’s hand to take the original [...]
Seems that Yahoo! is trying to put together a deal to acquire AOL in a bid to prevent being acquired by Microsoft. What will shareholders think of that? I’d be surprised if they’ll be particularly impressed. I suspect they’ll think this is simply about turkeys not voting for Christmas.
With various options on the table, shareholders [...]
Update: For more info on Xbox360 video streaming, please see my post - Top 5 Tips For Setting Up Your Xbox 360 To Stream Media - which I will try to keep up-to-date.
Increasingly, I’m finding that the “television” I’m watching these days consists less of regular broadcast content, and more of content that I’ve [...]
From the refreshed shuffle, through the new video-playing iPod nano and iPod touch (not forgetting the newly price iPhone) through to the wireless iTunes store (buy your music on impulse, right on your iPod touch/iPhone, no computer required), Apple has just raised the bar for Microsoft’s Zune platform. Here are the new [...]
In the web services world, there’s a big on-going (pun not intended) debate about RESTful web services. If you haven’t been following the debate, you can start at the most recent post on Tim Bray’s blog, and work your way back. I’m not going to chime in on this one in detail. I’ll [...]
In software development, handling exceptions (”things that go wrong”) is a pain. It’s a (necessary) distraction from implementing the core functionality of a program. Not unsurprisingly then, every so often in the Java and/or C# development communities the question of how exceptions should be best handled comes up. Is it better to have “checked [...]