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SCO Thwarted In Unix Decision
A federal judge ruled the copyrights to the Unix operating system belong to Novell, not SCO, after years of aggressive litigation by…
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A Peek Into The Grayboxx
Well, it’s Friday afternoon, and that’s as good a time for vague rumors and reports as any. So we bring you news - somewhat figuratively speaking - of an up and-coming search company called Grayboxx.
Yahoo!Xtra Bubble Doesn’t Blow
“Yahoo!Xtra Bubble” - sounds like a kind of gum, doesn’t it? But it’s actually a new service that should soon become available to customers of Telecom New Zealand, and it’ll “offer a suite of premium services accessed through a personalised homepage - all at no extra cost.”
Perfect 10 Tries Again, This Time With MSN
Google CEO Eric Schmidt once said that lawsuits were just part of doing business today. According to Perfect 10 Magazine, lawsuits are the only things that will save them, and have added Microsoft as the most recent defendant.
Linkedin Calls Customer Delusional
It's fun being called delusional by customer service. Today, LinkedIn is trying to make me feel like I'm in that Jodie Foster movie Flightplan where she claims her daughter was kidnapped while on an airplane and everyone else thinks she's nuts. The movie wasn't supposed to be very good (it scored 38% on the Tomatometer), and I'm not sure this blog post will be any…
Yahoo Executive Wins Innovation Award
Yahoo’s got some pretty bright people in its employ, and one of them - Dr. Usama Fayyad - has just been awarded the 2007 Innovation Award by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). And yes, that’s the same ACM that gives the Turing Award.
