Monthly Archives: February 2008

Yahoo Deal All But Done?

JustSayNo One wonders when Yahoo will wake up and smell the cat food. (Microsoft's cat food, that is, to contort a musical sub-reference into a tech marketing quasi cliche.) Naturally, Yahoo had to at least nominally (and oh so predictably) … Continue reading

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Google Calls Kettle Black

The recent hostile bid by Microsoft for the flagging Yahoo is taking on "It's A Wonderful Life" proportions. Unfortunately for the world's search engine, Google is casting itself in the role of Mr. Potter.   Henry_Potter Witness one of the funniest … Continue reading

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Time Warner Fumbles the Super Bowl

Time Warner was unable to deliver the Fox channel in high definition during the Super Bowl Sunday night in one of its biggest and most lucrative markets, New York, home of the New York Giants. Flooded with complaints, the cable … Continue reading

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Fun With Servers

Among the many items, releases, and gimcracks arriving at our office of late, the funniest one has to be from the folks working on the Windows Home Server account. It came in the form of a childrens' picture book entitled, … Continue reading

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Microhoo!: A Good Idea?

  Whew! Microsoft has been after Yahoo for a while now, but this week the folks in Redmond made it official: They really, really like Yahoo. But do we really, really like the idea of a $44.6 billion purchase? For … Continue reading

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