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Skype Is Already Learning From Microsoft: Firing Execs Before Deal Finalizes To Avoid Big Payouts
Bloomberg is reporting that ahead of the finalizing of the deal with Microsoft worth 8.5 Billion dollars Skype is firing some “senior executives” so they can avoid larger payouts to these execs as a result of the purchase. The story says that because of when they are let go their stock options will be worth MUCH less. Love this quote: “As part of a recent internal shift, Skype has made some management changes,” said Brian O’Shaughnessy, a Skype … Read entire article »
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Microsoft Buys Skype For 8.5 Billion – They Start Ruining It As Soon As FTC Okays Purchase
Rumors were abounding for the last few days but it turns out to be true: Microsoft will purchase, for cash, Skype and pay $8.5 BILLION for it. Sites like GigaOM confirmed the deal and the details. The first thought I have about this is “They’ll ruin it as fast as possible. Where are people going to go?” The answer has to be Google Talk. The folks at Google must be having a MASSIVE party over this announcement. They … Read entire article »
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Microsoft Trashes Open Office – No Surprise. Don’t Innovate, Attack Products That Do.
Well, in a move that really isn’t a surprise Microsoft released an ad attacking Open Office, the Open-Source office suite of programs that is FREE. Free as in “Microsoft Doesn’t Make Money From It” and open-source as in “We Actually Are Trying To Make The Product Better With Each Version Not Just Add Shit On Top Of The Last Version Which Was Already Bloated”. PCWORLD covers the ad bringing it to my attention and it’s worth … Read entire article »
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Why Does Bing (MSN) Video Search Suck So Bad?
Like many people I was waiting for the third episode of this season’s THE GUILD to come out and I went over to the BING Video search page and made a simple request The Guild and a bunch of stuff came up including season 3 episodes so I refined my search. The Guild “Season 4”. You’d think it would return the season 4 episodes on top of that request… you’d think. I got back a bunch of stuff … Read entire article »
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GAME ON Hits YouTube! THE GUILD Music Video Escapes Flash.
After only being on the Bing Video servers (which, by the way, is the WORST video search engine ever!) Felicia Day’s The Guild music video has finally hit YouTube which means if you’re on an iPhone, iPad or just hate Flash with a freakin’ passion it’s time to watch till your brain explodes or you can do the full dance routines with your eyes closed! You can see more of The Guild over at the official … Read entire article »
Filed under: Links of Interest, Online
GAME ON! The New GUILD Music Video Takes Off to Bollywood with Felicia Day and Cast
Well, the people behind The Guild have done it again. Last year the online series THE GUILD (check out last season at WatchTheGuild.com ) exploded with their first music video “Do You Want To Date My Avatar” and this year they are doing it again… Bollywood Style. Felicia Day and cast pulled out all the stops this year and produced “GAME ON” in which Zaboo tries to convince Codex to resume game play by transporting her into … Read entire article »
Filed under: Links of Interest, Online
Dell Computers and Michael Dell himself get wacked hard by the SEC. 104 Million Dollars hard.
In the last couple of days the US Security and Exchange Commission took Michael Dell and his company to the proverbial woodshed for a little beating over their deal with Intel to lock in exclusivity on the chips they use in their computers. It comes as no surprise to anyone that Intel made a deal with Dell to only use Intel chips and to snub AMD’s chips. It appears that Intel gave rebates to Dell for the … Read entire article »
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Microsoft announces pricing for Kinect: $150 alone or $300 with the new XBox 360 4GB – Oh, and Felicia Day
For more then a year we’ve been hearing about and seeing glimpses of Microsoft’s cutting-edge Project Natal that, from the demos we’ve seen, will change interactive game play beyond what the Wii ever did. In June Microsoft announced a new name for Project Natal, KINECT. Not the best of names but what do you expect from Microsoft. In case you don’t know what it is, Kinect is a device connected to the XBox 360 that uses cameras … Read entire article »
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The Death of the Kin continues: Verizon tells Microsoft to take back their phones
Ahh, the on-going failure of the Microsoft Kin continues to make headlines. As I mentioned in my previous post, Microsoft kills the Kin and continues their downward spin into mediocrity, Microsoft announced, spent a pile of money promoting and then killed their new attempt at a phone The Kin in less then two weeks. Rumors continue to abound that they only sold about 500 units and with this most recent news those rumors are coming back. After Microsoft … Read entire article »
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IBM gets it: Firefox now the official browser of Big Blue. IE kicked to the curb?
As covered over at NetworkWorld and announced on the blog of Bob Sutor, the VP of Open Source and Linux for the IBM Software Group, IBM is making it official: FIREFOX is the browser of choice for all 400,000 employees. Now nowhere in the article or the blogpost does anyone mention microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) but I am assuming they are still a primarily windows environment and previous to this there were a lot of employees using … Read entire article »
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