Barely a month after Jeff Bezos’ very public mea culpa over delays, Amazon’s Kindle is apparently back on the virtual shelves.
The e-tailer’s listing page for the e-book reader indicates that it’s in stock and available for purchase, at the usual $399 plus free two-day shipping.
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Without increasing its bid above $31 a share, a Microsoft proxy fight is likely to be a tough sell among at least one-fourth of Yahoo’s institutional investors, say portfolio managers.
That figure does not include the more than 12 percent stake that Yahoo officers and directors held, as of …
It seems Google has solidified its dethroning of Microsoft in at least one regard: the global power of its brand.
For the third year in a row, the search giant whose very name has been transformed into a verb, grabbed the top spot in a list of the top 100 most powerful global brands (…
Etelos on Monday will open a limited beta for software that lets hosted application providers give their customers access to information offline.
It’s called Apps on a Plane (AOP), a name that addresses a long-held limitation of Web applications. Namely, they can’t be used when someone is on …
I will admit, I am laughing as I type this. The news that Microsoft and Novell are taking their interoperability roadshow to China is hilarious on a number of different levels.
How much do you think that China cares about U.S. patents? It has been pirating Microsoft’s Windows for years (though at least, in theory, new PCs don’t ship with pirated Windows)–and now suddenly it’s concerned about making sure it has patent protection for Linux? My mirth runneth over.
“We are very pleased with the original approach by Microsoft and Novell to address our concerns about deploying and managing a complex high-performance computing infrastructure across two platforms. It is essential for our future competitiveness and success,” Nie Hua, vice president of Chinese company Dawning Information Industry, said in Microsoft and Novell’s Sunday night press release. “We fully understand the concerns surrounding intellectual property rights and feel reassured that these issues have been addressed by our vendors.”
I bet! I suspect Nie Hua was crying himself to sleep at night before Microsoft and Novell approached him with this. You can just imagine his fretting: “How will I deal with the uncertainty of Linux’s intellectual property position unless Microsoft, which has attempted to introduce the uncertainty, blesses my Linux distribution?” Give me a break.
Still, I give Novell credit here. Why?
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The logo looks like something CNN would cook up at the dawn of a new military campaign, but this time the computer-generated bullet holes are in the CNN logo itself.
“Will” at Imagethief noticed this banner on a special page devoted to resisting “Western” media coverage about Tibet and China …
According to an article in the Financial Times today, Google has reneged on a commitment to improve the way it manages consumer data in light of its DoubleClick acquisition. There are compelling reasons for Google’s delay, as Eric Schmidt points out in the article, but there are even more compelling concerns that demand immediate action.
European regulators cut Google some slack based on its word that it was going to immediately look into ways to boost privacy. A year into that pledge, Google has done little, by its own admission:
The issue came to the fore last April with Google’s announced plan to buy DoubleClick, an Internet company which delivers many of the ads consumers see online and which plants many of the cookies that sit on personal computers. The combination of Google’s records of a consumer’s Internet searches with DoubleClick’s information from cookies prompted complaints that one company would hold extensive data about a large proportion of the world’s Internet users.
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Intel posted price cuts on Sunday that included reductions of 50 percent on select quad-core processors. The chipmaker also introduced new Celeron and Core 2 Duo processor models.
Intel Core 2 Quad processor
(Credit: Intel)
The price of the Core 2 Quad Q6700 (2.66GHz) fell 50 percent from $530 …
A couple of times a year, I check the list of autostart programs in Windows XP’s System Configuration Utility (aka Msconfig) to see if any apps that I don’t need to start automatically have snuck onto the roster.
The older my PC gets, the more important it is …
Blockbuster seemed to have no qualms about offering roughly $1 billion to buy up Circuit City stores, but it may not have the stomach for a protracted acquisition fight.
(Credit: Blockbuster)James Keyes, the CEO of video-rental giant Blockbuster, told The Wall Street Journal that his company would proceed with …