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What is in it for Icahn?
The FTC gave the nod for Carl Icahn to purchase another 1.5 billion in shares of Yahoo. This would give him 59 million shares and 4.3 percent stake in the company. On July 3rd he will be ring leading the proxy battle in hopes for Microsoft to come back to the table with a buyout. In the meantime Yahoo stocks
Early Termination Fees Terminated?
After taking a trip down mobile phone memory lane thanks to Jeffrey Powers post below (I was a proud owner of the gigantic Motorola "Brick" phone) I wondered how many more phones I may have burned through over the years if not for everyone's favorite little constrictive clause, the Early Termination Fee (ETF.) After years of despising and cursing that clause, engaging in the eternal pursuit of devising a way around it (to no avail) there is finally hope on the horizon.
Evolution of Mobile Phones
How many mobile phones have you had in a lifetime? I personally counted 5 personal and 7 business cell phones (not counting any pagers). Everything from the Motorola MicroTac, to the Nokia 6125 to my current HTC 8125. e2save put out an interesting video that can be found on YouTube called "The Evolution of the Mobile Phone". This video spans
Tech valuation realities
I am in Silicon Valley this week at the head office of the day job. While I have been here it has been good to see that the cold showers here have seemed to have an effect on some of the strageness in tech company valuations. Apple has finally started to drop back in the direction of more sane levels,
Dreamhost bills many customers x2 months early
When I was witting my book on podcasting back in 2005 I setup a dreamhost account. That shared hosting account I outgrew but because of the initial subscription time I still have it.
Initial Thoughts on my Vudu Box
Earlier in the week I was offered a Vudu box to test drive and so far my family and I have watched two movies on it. The company was nice enough to provide some free credits so we have watched a couple of recently released movies.