Microsoft reportedly is talking to Time Warner and News Corp. about this arrangement, giving investors a sense of deja vu. Time Warner and News Corp. were among the white knights Yahoo had reportedly sought out after Microsoft announced its unsolicited bid.
“We find a breakup would not yield compelling upside from the current stock price,” the [...]
The demo was loud and entertaining, and the technology is cool. If you’re a musician looking for a jamming product, also check out eJamming, which I covered from the at the January 2007 Demo conference.
Artists can lay down new sounds on top of tracks other people have recorded previously, and anyone with [...]
Of course, the biggest hurdle at the moment is convincing Yahoo to take its offer, one which has declined in value since it was made last week.
Microsoft has thus far offered few details on what it might look to cut if its deal goes through, and Ballmer didn’t offer much in the way of new [...]
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.–The shuttle Discovery’s planned launch early Wednesday on a space station resupply mission was called off during fueling Tuesday when a valve in a liquid hydrogen feedline apparently failed to close properly. Launch was tentatively reset for Friday, assuming the problem can be resolved in time.
NASA managers brief reporters on a valve [...]
Interface21, which now goes by SpringSource, is looking to add a little bounce to its business by buying fellow open-source company Covalent Technologies.
SpringSource, which announced the acquisition Tuesday, develops a popular open-source tool called Spring Framework designed to help accelerate the development of Java applications for enterprise servers.
With the acquisition, SpringSource is looking to [...]
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Yesterday, a US federal court of appeals handed open source a significant victory. An earlier district court ruling in Jacobsen v. Katzer had put open-source licensing on shaky ground by treating the Artistic License as a contract, with some injurious readings on likely remedies under an open-source license.
As Mark Radcliffe details, the Jacobsen ruling [...]
If you’ve been on the fence about ditching Outlook for Google Apps you might want to give Google’s efforts another look. In a blog post this morning the company outlined some of the ways Google Calendar has improved over the past month with a handful of small, but important features. Many of them are aimed [...]
A screen shot from the forthcoming online game, ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic.’ The game, which is from LucasArts and BioWare, picks up where the ‘Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic’ franchise left off.
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Updated at 4:13 p.m. PDT: This story now includes more information from the press event announcing ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ [...]
The Copyright Royalty Board on Thursday froze the rate that digital-music stores such as iTunes and RealNetworks’ Rhapsody must pay music publishers.
The three-member board that sets statutory copyright licenses e-mailed the Digital Media Association (DiMA), the National Music Publishers’ Association, Apple, and other download stores with its decision to keep the royalty rate at [...]
If you thought that the issue of whether a patent covered the use of a microprocessor could only concern the computer or semiconductor industry, think again. High tech has extended its reach to zapping rats (literally).
Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. Such were the aspirations of Bob [...]
