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Yahoo is reportedly near a search deal with Google and plans an unrelated reorganization. Meanwhile, Microsoft says it's no longer interested in Yahoo. Add it up and billionaire investor Carl Icahn's grand plan to cash in on Yahoo just went kaput. First, the news. News.com's Stephen Shankla...
Palm got a nice distribution boost Thursday in a deal with Verizon Wireless. The companies said (statement) that Palm's Centroâ€"the one bright spot for Palm in a landscape of bleak newsâ€"will hit Verizon Wireless stores June 13. The Centro has been a big hit for Palm, which is getting thum...
Google co-founder Sergey Brin plans to head to space. According to the New York Times, Brin, an investor in Space Adventures, a Virginia-based space tourism outfit, is likely to hitch a ride on a Russian Soyuz en route to the International Space Station in 2011. Brin and Space Adventures are s...
Red Hat on Tuesday said it has settled a patent infringement lawsuit that covers the company's open source software and any other derivative works. The lawsuit was launched by Firestar Software and DataTern in 2006. Firestar has a platform called EdgeNode that automates distributed processes such...
Are Internet companies so inefficient and clueless about management that have to be acquired? Lost in the commentary about Bernstein's "U.S. Internet -- The End of the Beginning" report, which concluded that Amazon and Google would be the dominant Internet duopoly, are the reasons why toda...
Folks spend a lot of time talking about cloud computing. It's a move back to the mainframe. Cloud computing democratizes IT infrastructure. The cloud will be the reason Amazon and Google will be the dominant players on the Internet. You have heard a lot of it before. But the real impact of cloud c...
Apple launched a blitzkrieg of iPhone moves: You got a 3G iPhone, a cloud computing and storage service and enterprise support. But there are also a few productivity killers in there that would make an IT exec step back. What do you do? To be sure, not every Apple advancement announced at the ...
Another day another Carl Icahn to Roy Bostock letter. In this installment, our activist billionaire is annoyed by the Yahoo chairman's terse response to his previous letter. Hmm. Maybe these folks should just pick up the damn phone. Anyway, here's the letter. You can almost see Carl stompi...
The land rush for the .Me domain is underway and the usual domain name shenanigans are hereâ€"especially with speculation that Apple is hoarding these digital monikers to rebrand its .Mac service. This speculation perked up earlier this month. Jason O'Grady tried to land a few Apple.me-ish doma...
Apple CEO Steve Jobs will deliver another sermon to the Mac faithful at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), but amid all the pyrotechnics about the iPhone, App Store and third party software goodies keep in mind the big picture: There's a platform war about to start. It's safe to say t...
See Carl Icahn blast Jerry Yang over a compensation plan to fend off a Microsoft bid. See Jerry tell Carl he's manipulating facts and using allegations from a complaint that has no merit. See Larry's eyes glaze over. Anyone else sick of this dueling letter thing? As a brief catch-up. Carl ...
Verizon Wireless said Thursday that it will buy Alltel to beef up its network for about $28.1 billion. The deal surfaced on Wednesday via various press reports and Verizon Wireless just made it official (statement). What's this deal about? Subscriber envy. Verizon Wireless wasn't going to ...
IBM Labs is taking water cooling to another levelâ€"and pumping water into each layer of a semiconductor via pipes as thin as a human hair. On Thursday, IBM said that its researchersâ€"along with Fraunhofer Institute in Berlinâ€"demonstrated a prototype that integrates a water cooling system dire...
Apple has notched another milestone in its iPhone international expansion by inking a deal with Softbank Mobile to bring the device to Japan "later this year." In a statement Softbank Mobile said: SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone...
Will Amazon and Google be the two giants of the Internet? Sanford Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay seems to think so. In a research report previewed to Reuters, "U.S. Internet: The End of the Beginning," Lindsay concludes that Google and Amazon will be the top dogs on the Internet with oth...
