There’s a post on Valleywag about the supposed Digg competitor “Yahoo Buzz” to be released to beta on the 26th of this month. While its in beta only 100 selected publishers will be appearing, but sometime this summer it’ll be open to everyone.
Looking at the screens of Buzz on Valleywag I don’t see any [...]

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More news circulating from the New York Post today about the Yahoo/Microsoft acquisition we’ve heard so much about over the past couple of weeks. The Yahoo board of directors have begun to split, while some of the directors remain strong, supporting their decision to remain Microsoft free, some of them are starting to waiver toward [...]

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The secretive competitor to Intel and AMD named Montalvo Systems which is based out of Santa Clara California, is working on a chip that is apparently not so different from the Cell Processor found in the PlayStation 3 console. The chip that Montalvo is working on is “asymmetrical” in that its cores are not [...]

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I’m sure everyone has heard that Google just released the Android SDK. The release of Android is great news for developers as it will allow them to put the latest and greatest mobile apps on your shiny new phone, and hopefully make money (or not depending on their motivation). The market for mobile [...]

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Good news today for coffee aficionados everywhere (well maybe not everywhere if you don’t live near a Starbucks)
Starbucks is now offering 2 free hours (depending on how you view free) of Wi-Fi to Starbucks card-holder customers. Apparently T-Mobile got the boot and Starbucks signed a contract with AT&T. While it’s nice that Starbucks [...]

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I’m not sure if this is what the GPhone will look like when it goes to retail, as this is only the first official prototype that was seen today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Apparently this prototype is running on Texas Instruments hardware, but I’m willing to bet that the Android platform [...]

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According to a post on TechCrunch it appears as though Yahoo will be saying “NO!” to Microsoft’s $44.6 billion acquisition offer. Yahoo’s board says the offer “massively undervalues” the company. It seems that Yahoo thinks $40/share is more like it and Microsoft’s $31/share just wont cut it. Is this a strategy on Yahoo’s [...]

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Ford Motor company announced an interesting strategy at the Chicago Auto Show to help customers keep tabs (literally speaking) on their precious cargo using RFID tags.
RFID (radio frequency identification) is a method of tagging and storing information about pretty much anything you can think of. Farmers use RFID to track livestock, in fact [...]

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It seems like every day there’s another acquisition. The hottest start-ups are eaten up by the big boys of the industry on a daily basis. Sometimes it’s hard to remember who bought your new favorite web 2.0 application but MyDigiMedia has you covered with a handy .pdf containing a list of who owns [...]

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Today’s the day for Yahoo to make a decision according to sources. Company board members should be making a decision about its fate… will Yahoo accept Microsoft’s offer? Most sources say a Microsoft acquisition is likely, while other sources are saying a deal with Google for ad and search revenue is a possibility [...]

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