a post by Griffin, filed in Microsoft, google, technology on February 10th, 2008. Read the full post »
This article comes from ars technica.
The Yahoo board has mulled it over, and its answer for Microsoft is a simple “no.” The “hostile” $44.6 billion bid was rejected by the board, as largely expected. The question now is, why?
Reported first this morning by the Wall Street Journal, a person “familiar” with the situation says that Yahoo believed the offer of $31 a share “massively undervalues” the company and provides no protections for the risks Yahoo would incur by entering into a deal that would be heavily vetted and possibly overturned by regulators. According to the WSJ’s source, Yahoo is looking for bids north of $40 per share, or something in the $56+ billion range. At $31 per share, the board apparently feels as though Microsoft is trying to “steal” the company and take advantage of recent weaknesses. Such “weaknesses” aren’t necessarily recent, however. Yahoo’s stock price hasn’t been north of $40 since the end of 2005. Read the rest of this entry »
a post by Alec, filed in Video, funny, google, weird on January 23rd, 2008. Read the full post »
a post by Griffin, filed in google on December 4th, 2007. Read the full post »
A recent news leak from a Daily Mail article entitled Google is watching you says that they want to expand their mapping service to find anything with an embedded RFID chip. These will eventually be embedded in easy to lose items such as car keys, wallets, cell phones, and watches. There is also the possibility of embedding these chips in people for medical records, but they could probably also be harnessed for tracking purposes.
So, simply enter “Where are my car keys?” and Google will search through your previously entered information (I’m assuming this is a private opt-in service, otherwise it would pose serious security risks) and find it’s location. Sounds like a great idea, but I’m not totally convinced how well this would work. Radio Frequency Identification chips don’t emit radio frequencies, they modify a radio frequency sent to them. The range for an RFID isn’t too large either.
One plan, which has already tentatively started, entails making literally everything in the world accessible at the click of a button.
….eventually, far-fetched as it sounds, Google boffins believe it can be extended to people and their personal belongings.
The idea is that we, and our treasured possessions, will be fitted with minute microchips which could be linked to the internet, via computers, by a digital radio frequency.
In this way, you would only have to type “Where is my watch” or “Find Joe Bloggs” into your PC or handheld computer, and Google could assist you.
The theory, at least, is that we will never lose anything and never be out of contact with oneanother - fine for parents wishing to check up on little Johnny at nursery, perhaps, but an unpalatable prospect for those who fear the temptation such a network would present to criminals or totalitarian regimes.
Original story here.
a post by Alec, filed in google on November 5th, 2007. Read the full post »
I just found out there will never be a real gPhone.
All this hype for naught.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2212431,00.asp
