Free the Airwaves and Make Google Happy

Free the airwaves? How about free the ocean waves? Surfers, demand your rights.

I'd Like $3.4 Trillion Worth of IT Please

Gartner is predicting $3.4 trillion in IT spending in 2008

Gmail: The endless reload story: Updated

Gmail reloads endlessly and I'm not the only one with the problem

Real companies: APC

APC can help you save some dollars in the data center. That makes it a real company

HP To Build Wall Between Plano And Round Rock?

What does the HP takeover of EDS mean for the EDS and Dell alliance

liveblog of Marc Benioff: Salesforce.com/Boston

A liveblog of the salesfoce.clom success on demand roadshow in Boston, April 22

April 14: Blockbuster,Google,Salesforce and Taxes

Blockbuster wants to acquire Circuit City. Delta wants Northwest. Salesforce and Google get closer. AMD needs a new tech chief and you need to pay your taxes. A news roundup for the week of April 14.

Is Shyftr Shifting Or Shafting The Blogosphere?

When Robert Scoble declares The Era Of blogger's control is over, you should pay attention. In a series of conversations that sound eerily reminiscent of newspapers complaining about the era of free content and the music industry complaining about ripped off content, the blogosphere is abuzz about what happens when your blog content gets hijacked, collected and you lose the ability to get an ad served against your scribbles?

Microsoft's Hardball with Yahoo Violates Rule Number One

One of the unwritten rules of technology takeovers is that hostile takeovers are fraught with peril. When a company's value is its intellectual capital and that capital walks out the door at the end of each workday, taking a heavy-handed approach to acquisition seems wrong.

In any case, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has now put Yahoo on a three-week deadline. Yahoo seems to be responding by saying they will talk--but they'd like to see a bigger bag of money on the table.

Ballmer Drops Olive Branch, Picks Up Baseball Bat for Yahoo

Microsoft's proposed $40 billion Yahoo takeover always had the potential to turn into an ugly street fight. Steve Ballmer's open letter to Yahoo posted on April 5 sets a date for the street fight to start.

As Ballmer states in the letter, "If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors for the Yahoo! board. The substantial premium reflected in our initial proposal anticipated a friendly transaction with you. If we are forced to take an offer directly to your shareholders, that action will have an undesirable impact on the value of your company from our perspective which will be reflected in the terms of our proposal."