As Fake Steve Jobs put it, “Honestly, if I could find that Hungarian egg terrorist I would kiss him on the mouth.” Truer words may never have been spoken.
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A week after claiming they were done pursuing Yahoo, Microsoft has again made an offer. This time around, it’s so preposterously one-sided that Yahoo would be twice the fool to take it as they’d have been to accept Microsoft’s truncated stock-price offer the last time around. [link]
But that’s not what it’s really about, and everyone [...]

Personally, I feel that there’s no reason to stick to any policy or concept dogmatically, but there’s one concept out there in business that’s always really rubbed me the wrong way, and that’s the old barb about the customer always being right.
The actual concept being conveyed by this missive is that the customer can always [...]

Yes, that’s right. Bear Stearns collapsed. Here’s their 5-year stock chart: [link]
And today that graph will go from $30/share to $2. The Fed this weekend, along with an additional quarter-point drop in the discount rate, agreed to fund Bear Stearns financial liabilities to the tune of $30 billion dollars at the same time JP Morgan [...]

The news that Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt had made a verbal commitment to work together for two decades struck me as interesting, because it implies that they indeed have a roadmap for much of those two decades already thought through. [link]
Certainly, Google’s made some acquisitions and embarked on other projects that don’t [...]

When are we finally going to see an end to this preposterous string of corporate villainy? [link]
So let me see if I’ve got the sequence down here: First, the banks went on acquisition sprees after being deregulated. Then they made a bunch of bum loans, which wasn’t too bad until they packaged them up and [...]

Well, it looks like the free tunes ain’t gonna start streaming right now, after all.
The Big Four ducked out of, and disavowed any agreements with Qtrax just prior to the service’s much-ballyhooed beta launch.
I’m guessing they mainly wanted to show Qtrax that it ain’t Apple, and it’s CEO ain’t Steve Jobs. If he wants in [...]

Apparently, the at least three of the Big Four music distribution companies –EMI, Universal Music, and Warner Music– have given their blessing to a new venture called Qtrax.
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Have you been wanting to convert your business’ static-HTML website into something dynamic and database-driven? You may want to check out my book “Joomla! Cash”. It’s the only Joomla! book on the market that specifically concentrates on meeting the needs of e-commerce and business users.
It’s available from the following fine retailers: Packt Publishing, Amazon, Barnes [...]

As reported around the web, the RIAA’s ISP removed a GPL-infringing piece of content (to wit: an piece of snitchware infringement-detection “University Toolkit”) after a DMCA notice was sent by Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett.
It’s nice to see the RIAA getting some of its own medicine, but I’d rather see the broader public getting a better [...]