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Yahoo on Monday made its rejection of Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid official, concluding that the software giant’s offer “is not in the best interests of Yahoo! and our stockholders” and “substantially undervalues” the company.
Is the $1,300 solid state drive (SSD) for the MacBook Air worth the money? Doesn’t seem so.Ars Technica have published a review where they put an SSD-equipped MacBook Air up against one packing a standard hard drive and found marginal performance gains - certainly not gains that are worth the additional hefty price tag.Boot times, while not “instant on” aren’t too shabby, but again the MacBook Pro beats the MacBook Air SSD
A California appeals court on Wednesday said an anonymous Internet poster does not have to reveal his identity after being sued for making "scathing verbal attacks" against executives at a Florida company on a Yahoo message board.
Yahoo is reportedly holding out hopes that there’s an alternative to Microsoft’s $44.6 billion unsolicited takeover, but it’s becoming clear that white knights are missing in action.According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo is studying alternatives to Microsoft’s bid hoping that it can avoid a Microsoft takeover. The problem: Hope isn’t a strategy. And as the days go by Yahoo will face increasing pressure to join Microsoft.
Mozilla on Friday delivered its Firefox 2.0.0.12 update including patches that fix a Web forgery flaw, browsing history and forward navigation stealing and the directory traversal via chrome, which has been the most visible vulnerability of late.
E-mail has replaced the telephone as the most frequently used business communication tool in the world today, according to a study conducted by KRC Research. Unwanted e-mail ("spam") is a growing problem. Spam is forming a larger and larger percentage of all e-mail, and the time spent dealing with spam causes genuine productivity loss.

 

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