Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:20 PM ET, February 8, 2008

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Board To Determine Fate Of Company Today  —  Sources have indicated to us that Yahoo has scheduled a special board of directors meeting on Friday to determine, effectively, the fate of the company.  After a week of hectic negotiating, it's clear that no one is going to step …
RELATED:
New York Post:
YAHOO! PRICE TALKS  —  HOLDERS SQUEEZE M'SOFT  —  Yahoo!'s largest investor met yesterday with Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer and other executives in an effort to gauge whether the software giant is willing to increase its already sweet $44.6 billion takeover offer, The Post has learned.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Men Behind the Curtain  —  It's a challenge for a journalist coming late to a story like Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo.  I had literally just pressed the SEND key on last week's column when news hit the wire.  What to do?  The way things are structured at PBS I couldn't just pump …
New York Times:
Is It Too Late for Yahoo?  —  SAN FRANCISCO — One of the first questions that Jerry Yang and his top lieutenants pondered after he became chief executive of Yahoo last summer was whether the company could remain independent.  They quickly answered yes.  —  But Mr. Yang, who founded Yahoo along …
Discussion: Paul Mooney and Portfolio.com
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
An Open Letter to Steve Ballmer  —  I know you want to make your mark on Microsoft, but you should stop trying to be all things to all people.  Take a tip on focus from that other Steve  —  Dear Steve,  —  Let's talk over this Yahoo! (YHOO) thing before you move ahead.  It's a profoundly bad idea.
Discussion: The Mac Observer
Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
Update: Dell to Stop Selling AMD-based Inspirons Online  —  Dell says goodbye to AMD-based Inspirons on Dell.com  —  It appears that the AMD-Dell relationship may soon be coming to an end - at least online.  Dell was rumored for years to consider switching to AMD processors for its computers …
RELATED:
spicu.com:
The look & design of the new Apple Macbook Pro 2008 series  —  The new Macbook Pro is coming the next days!  —  Apples special event is upcoming this month and what everybody expects is the new Macbook Pro that we are all are waiting for!  —  Till now nobody knows how the new Macbook Pro will look like …
Staska / Unwired View:
Blackberry patents: Angled Slider and RIM Multi-Touch technology  —  The information that Blackberry 9000/9100/9900 devices are coming is old news, as well as the speculation that RIM is working on the next generation of consumer friendly Blackberries.  —  The rumors that RIM Blackberry …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget and BlackBerry Cool
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Out of the box 1.1.3 iPhones now software unlockable  —  Mr. GEOrge HOTz did it again.  He just loosed a world of hurt on AT&T with a software unlock for 1.1.3 iPhones.  That's right, the software is said to work on any fresh from the Apple store, shrink-wrapped iPhone sporting the latest 1.1.3 firmware and 4.6 bootloader.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
RIAA president “simply musing” about filters on your PC  —  Yesterday we covered RIAA President Cary Sherman's idea to move content filtering out of the network and onto the home computer.  His goal is to avoid the encryption that will likely make network filtering useless …
Discussion: Neowin.net and Mashable!
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Chinese Professor Suing Google And Yahoo For Making Him Disappear From Chinese Search  —  We've seen plenty of lawsuits over the years from people who were upset over how Google ranked them in search results, but here's an interesting twist on that idea.  Guo Quan, a professor in China …
Discussion: Slashdot
ChangeWave:
Seismic Shift To Smartphones  —  ChangeWave survey shows consumers abandoning basic models for advanced RIM and Apple phones  —  Record numbers of consumers are abandoning their basic cell phones for more-advanced models, according to the latest ChangeWave consumer cell phone survey.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Is mobile really a sure thing for Google?  —  news analysis Google sees mobile as its future, but the company's success in the mobile realm may not be a slam dunk.  —  With half the world's population soon owning a cell phone, the opportunity to reach more people on the Web via a mobile device is huge.
Bryan Gardiner / Wired News:
Like Apple, Intel Wants to Put the ‘Internet in Your Pocket’  —  Borrowing a phrase that Apple CEO Steve Jobs used when introducing the iPhone last year, Intel wants to put the “internet in your pocket.”  —  For Apple, that meant a top-down, years-long project to create the ultimate consumer fetish object …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 2:20 PM ET, February 8, 2008.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Tribe AI:
Is AI just hype?  —  Find out how top enterprises use Tribe to get real business results.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more  —  We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics.  Download reports immediately for just $100.
Zoho:
The key to implementation success: Nurturing customer and tech partner engagement  —  Companies, whether large or small, often encounter two significant challenges with new technologies: selecting the appropriate tools and implementing them efficiently.
Comprehensive.io:
Browse salary data from 3,000 startups for free  —  Click for FREE, immediate access to real-time compensation benchmarking data.  Paid version helps HR automate comp reviews and communicate total compensation to employees.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Linux-Watch.com:
Can open source and capitalism co-exist?
Discussion: Open Source
Jerry Brito / The Technology Liberation Front:
TPW 35: Network Management Redux
Discussion: George Ou
comScore:
U.S. Internet Users Viewed 10 Billion Videos Online in Record …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Bluerun Ventures raises initial $200M fund for consumer and mobile investments
Discussion: mocoNews.net
Dave Greenfield / Team Think:
Cisco to Combine Google's Android, UC and Enterprise 2.0
Discussion: VoIP Watch
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
House Approves Bill To Require Universities To Offer Students Music Services
Discussion: CNET News.com and p2pnet
Charles Forelle / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft's Office Push Scrutinized
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Mustek announces digital photo frame that doubles as an alarm clock and so much more
 Earlier Items: 
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
ClearChannel begs gov't to help it keep making money by stopping sattelite radio
Discussion: Orbitcast and Engadget
Matt / Peer Pressure:
The Rise and Fall of the Tech Blogosphere
Discussion: broadstuff
Light Reading:
TWC ‘Starts Over’ in HD
Discussion: DSLreports and Engadget HD
InfoWorld:
Keep Windows XP until 2009, analysts tell Microsoft
cabel.name:
FancyZoom 1.0  —  ...so I fought back the charging Guanaco …
Discussion: Compiler
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Robot glider harvests ocean heat
Discussion: Gizmodo and TreeHugger
Claudia H Deutsch / Bits:
Kodak Knows a Little About Dying Business Models
John Markoff / New York Times:
Seattle Taps Its Inner Silicon Valley