Yahoo Inc.’s chief executive told employees that no decision has been made yet in Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for the company, but rival Google Inc. has meanwhile offered to “help” the company thwart the bid, according to reports Monday.
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Google Inc. raised the specter of Microsoft Corp. using its proposed $42 billion acquisition of Yahoo Inc. to gain illegal control over the Internet, underscoring the online search leader’s queasiness about its two biggest rivals teaming up.
Software giant Microsoft Corp. has offered to buy Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion, in a bold bid to transform two ailing Internet businesses into a worthy competitor for market leader Google Inc.
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The latest release of light laptops are now using solid-state hard drives. Macbook Air and even the Asus Eee Pc 107 laptop are now using these type of drives.
Solid state drives, which use flash memory, are significantly more expensive than laptops with hard drives.
But with no moving parts, unlike hard disk drives, they’re also considered more reliable and rugged, boot up more quickly and can offer longer battery life.
Ever since the dawn of commercial software, piracy has been a problem without a realistic solution that meets the needs of both the software vendor and the end user. From serial keys to outright DRM (digital rights management) schemes, the software industry has left no preventive measure untried.
Some software companies by contrast, have opted to step out of the DRM minefield altogether as it was a perceived irritation to their customers.
Due to the overall negative reaction from many end users with regard to DRM, a number of open source advocates have pointed out that if software companies simply adopted one of the many open source licenses, the need to concern themselves with anti-piracy efforts becomes completely unneeded. But making this kind of business model switch requires more than simply switching licensing models. There are revenue streams to be concerned here.
Linux has created such a buzz since being created by Linus Torvald. 16 Years after, left read what he has to say of the Linux success and some other issues in the IT world.
Here are the details of the Linus Torvalds interview, a repost from computerworld.com .
“The Finnish creator of Linux says open-source software isn’t really an anti-Microsoft movement; it’s just a better model for getting the job done.”
Linus Torvalds was only 22 in 1991 when he decided to share with friends and colleagues the code of Linux, the new operating system he had created. The University of Helsinki computer science student couldn’t have imagined the revolution his decision was about to ignite.
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There is nothing definite yet but several reports of the Blu-Ray DVD format winning is mostly because of Time Warner’s move to exclusively use Blu-Ray DVD format. There are also reports that retailers may also put pressure on other media companies like Universal and Paramount to back Blu-Ray.
Blu-ray discs can hold more data, while HD DVD discs and players are less expensive to make. Also, several readers who have used both say they prefer the menu system on the current batch of HD DVD players.
For now let’s wait and see who wins the DVD format war because the fight between the systems has hurt studios, electronics makers and consumers.
