Microsoft made an offer of $31 per share according to their press release. Looks like MSFT made an offer a year ago, but Yahoo said something to the effect of “No thanks, we can fix it on our own”. With a tanking share price, that obviously wasn’t the truth. Now there can be an actual [...]
23 Jan, 2008
Posted by: nmessick In: tech
MySpace recently finally fixed a backdoor that allowed people to view any profile, whether it was public or not. In the intervening time (A Wired blog says it was since October), someone downloaded 17 gigs worth of profile pictures and put them up on BitTorrent. People are obviously upset that someone took advantage of MySpace’s [...]
MacWorld 2008 Starts Tomorrow! MacWorld, or “Steve Jobs the Magnificent’s Week Long Extravaganza”, starts tomorrow and fake keynote outlines have been floating around the blogsphere. While I don’t think it well top last year (iPhone and Apple TV introductions) I hope some cool stuff comes out. Wired is predicting HD iTunes, movie rentals, ultra thin [...]