Comment Re:When they control...... (Score 3, Insightful) 160
Comcast will probably use the growth of FIOS as the excuse for why the merger should be passed.
Comment while its not a good exuse (Score 1) 551
It does validate some of my suspicions about the issues AT&T has been having. A lot of people seem to think that an Apple switch to Verizon would be some magic fix-all for the iphone, but I think any provider is going to have a lot of trouble meeting the usage demand of millions of iphone users.
Comment Re:How is this a Patent Troll? (Score 1) 335
I watch Netflix on my Tivo.
ABC/Disney Considering Hulu 192
An anonymous reader writes "The Walt Disney Co and Hulu.com have restarted talks over offering shows from Disney's ABC television network on the online video distributor owned by NBC Universal and News Corp, paidContent.org reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources." The real question to me is when will they stop screwing around with Boxee users?
Comment Why bother trading in? (Score 0, Redundant) 242
When you can sell the game on amazon.com for much more money?
Facebook Nearly Added Twitter To Friends List 124
nandemoari writes "It seems the world's most popular social networking site was just moments away from acquiring another — and few of us ever knew about it. A Facebook executive has revealed that a planned takeover of Twitter only fell apart because of a disagreement over stock valuations.
Despite the rather miserable economy, Facebook is still looking to buy out other firms and says it could make a billion dollars a year from advertising.
Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist who put up some of the money behind Facebook, discussed the deal in a Business Week interview.
Thiel says the two sides agreed a $500 million purchase price and that Twitter would receive the payment in Facebook stock rather than cash — which is a common solution in large takeovers where there simply isn't the money available for a buyout."
Comment Re:Makes me wonder (Score 2, Insightful) 884
US taxpayers, most of which do not ride trains, do not want to pay for fancy trains they will never ride. Its a lot easier to spend trillions on public works projects in a totalitarian regime like China.
Comment Re:Further evidence... (Score 2, Insightful) 221
Its not just marketing, it being able to purchase products online at the actual price. You can't just login to sun.com and buy servers via a online portal with a corporate discount like Dell or HP. You have to talk with a rep to get the actual real price, not the phony MSRP price.
Comment A Flash slideshow? (Score 1, Redundant) 385
I'm sorry, but how did this make to the front page? The selections on the list are wrong or obvious, but the list itself is a freaking flash slideshow with only 1 item per slide! The editors need to do their jobs.
Comment Re:webstart? (Score 1) 387
No, javaws was not in previous versions of the 64bit JVM.
Comment webstart? (Score 3, Insightful) 387
Does anyone know if Sun now supports webstart on 64bit linux?
Comment Re:Satellite Owners (Score 1) 190
Get your facts straight, Tivo never had a relationship with Dish network.
Microsoft-Novell Takes Open-Source to China 63
Bibek Paudel writes "In a move to tap the growing market of free and open source-softwares in developing economies, Microsoft and Novell have announced they were expanding their alliance into the Chinese market. Microsoft and Novell believe big enterprises in China are willing to pay to have the US firms keep hybrid systems updated and running and for assurances that there is permission to use patented software involved. The companies are marketing 'supported Linux' in which they take a fee to maintain software systems blending the open-source programs with Microsoft products such as Vista, Office, Excel and Outlook.The longtime US computer software rivals unveiled their alliance in late 2006, saying their engineers were 'building a bridge' between Microsoft's proprietary software and Novell programs based on the Linux operating system. Sunday was the first time the firms publicly targeted a specific country with their effort."
Submission + - Richard Stallman is looking for a wife (stallman.org)
Teran McKinney writes: "Richard Stallman, the father of GNU, has dramatically changed this world with the free software movement, and is largely responsible for Linux and open source as we know it. Without him, open source would probably not be nearly as far along, and would not likely have nearly the legal protection that it does. Many people look up to him, and he has helped create more competition in the software marketplace which is benefical for both proprietary and open source software users. I'm sure that a few females would be happy to find out that he is looking for a wife. Hint: I think he would be more impressed if you used his PGP key."
Submission + - Reagan's Order to Launch the Challenger
Baldrson writes: "Of his new book "Challenger Revealed: An Insider's Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age", author Richard C. Cook, NASA analyst, says: "...the (Presidential) Commission claimed there was no political pressure from outside NASA to launch Challenger, which my book shows conclusively to be false." Others have documented the role of the four Morton Thiokol engineers who opposed the launch of the Challenge, but this is the first book to focus on the choice facing the administration of NASA. Either, 1) Defy their chain of command going all the way to the White House on the eve of a State of the Union Address or 2) Throw a pair of dice claiming it won't come up 7 dead astronauts."
