According to a WSJ story Microsoft has said privately that they would be willing to increase their acquisition offer to Yahoo from the original offer of $31 per share to up to $33 per share.
Microsoft had previously said that it would not be increasing it’s bid while some watching the deal were expecting to see [...]
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Beginning May 1st (tomorrow) and taking place through the year T-Mobile will be deploying 3G service to 20 markets, beginning with New York.
The other cities expected to have 3G service available from T-Mobile this year are:
New York City
Austin
NJ and Long Island
Las Vagas
Minneapolis
Miami
Dallas
Chicago
Houston
Philadelphia
Denver
Detroit
Orlando
Kansas city
Atlanta
Los Angeles
New England
Portland
Sacramento
San Diego
Seattle
Washington DC
San Francisco
Birmingham
Memphis
Tampa
Phoenix
[Via Engadget]
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It looks like sceptics (myself included) of Psystar and their Open Computer may be wrong after all.
Engadget managed to get their hands on one of the $399 Mac-clones and while it’s not perfect it is at least real and that’s something.
Here’s what they’ve noticed so far:
It’s running 10.5.2, build 9C31, which is behind the [...]
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Roughly two months ago EA announced that The Sims Online was coming back and that it would be called “EA-Land”.
Gamers could “exist” in the EA-Land virtual world and life a second life online, much like the popular virtual online world Second Life.
Via a blog post, EA has announced that it is closing the “EA-Land experiment” [...]
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Brave and/or foolish MacBook Air owner Jordan Bunnell has posted step-by-step instructions of how he was successfully able to integrate a Verizon USB727 Aircard EV-DO card inside the case of his MacBook Air.
How? By using one of the MacBook Air’s unused USB controllers that was found shortly after the MacBook Air was released and subsequently [...]
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Today’s Grand Theft Auto IV day–the day consumers can finally get their hands on the hot game from developer Rockstar–but there seems to be a fairly widespread bug that’s causing some gamers grief.
The bug, which is reportedly affecting both Xbox 360 and PlayStation gamers, is causing the game to lock-up during the title screens.
No word [...]
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After first slashing the price of their Xbox 360 console in Europe last month Microsoft has announced that they will be slashing the price of the Premium model with a 20GB hard drive in four Asian markets:
Singapore: nearly 20 percent off
Taiwan: 17 percent
Hong Kong: 11 percent
South Korea: 5 percent
After enjoying a 68 percent revenue boost [...]
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According to Fortune, AT&T will be heavily subsidizing the new 3G iPhone meaning that the retail price could be in the neighborhood of $199. They also believe that the new iPhones will be available in 8GB and 16GB version (assuming that’s what they meant by “8-gigabit-memory and… 16-gigabit-memory”.
The cheaper price will, of course, mean you’ll [...]
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Users of Microsoft Messenger for Mac’s eager for an update can now get their fix–Microsoft has released version 7 of their instant messaging program.
The biggest addition in this version is support for full audio/video conferencing between Mac’s and PC’s.
That feature is apparently users with corporate accounts only so home users eager to test out the [...]
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Yelp is a great spot for finding out what people thing about restaurants, bakeries, shops, etc. and now business owners have new options to help make use of some of the data Yelp collects.
With a Business Owner Account, business owners can see things like how many people view info about their business on Yelp, update [...]
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