by Minter Dial | Feb 2, 2008 | New Tech
Microsoft to buy Yahoo for real this time? (BBC report) It was announced late yesterday that Microsoft has put in a bid to buy Yahoo for $44.6B, some 62% above where the Yahoo stock price closed on Thursday. Granted Yahoo stock has dropped 46% over the course of the...
by Minter Dial | Sep 20, 2007 | New Tech
Tech Crunch (Jason Calacanis) announced the winner of the TechCrunch40 award and I was naturally a little curious about the winner: MINT. With the award, Mint receives $50K. See Financial Crunchbase Stats. Here is a description of the Mint application (direct from...
by Minter Dial | Sep 18, 2007 | New Tech
Well, I have been touting the fact that our on-line presence will become our CV in the future. Cory Doctorow has another spin that is wholly mind blowing. I’d summarize the story as Orwell meets The Matrix…on speed. SCROOGLED. A long read on a computer...
by Minter Dial | Sep 16, 2007 | New Tech
In preparations for the CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés) meeting 24 September, in Montréal, Google’s Keeper of the Data, Peter Fleischer, has been on the bandwagon for a worldwide protocol for the protection of private data on...
by Minter Dial | Aug 28, 2007 | New Tech
Courtesy of my father (thanks!), thought I’d share this one with you…
by Minter Dial | Aug 16, 2007 | New Tech
With news via TechDirt that Limewire was tagged by the Recording Industry Assoc of America (RIAA) with a lawsuit and that Limewire has “negotiated” to stay alive using the Digital Rights Management (DRM) route, one could get the feeling that jaws is...