MicroHoo has arrived

Aug 2, 2009 | 0 |

It’s already been more than a year since Microsoft’s deal to acquire Yahoo fell apart. Now, it’s happening again.

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HUMOR- Google Pulls Apple from Search Results

Jul 29, 2009 | 0 |

The Following Story is Intended for Humor Purposes Only.   This is not true, and was orginally posted at www.bbspot.com Mountain View, CA – In response to Apple pulling the Google Voice application from the iPhone App Store, Google has removed all search results leading to www.Apple.com from its index. Google is also redirecting searches for “iPhone” and “app store” to the www.IMDb.com page for Payback. The official explanation was that the Google Voice app duplicated functions on the iPhone, but many think the rejection order came from AT&T. The application would allow users to make calls and send SMS messages for free using the app, threatening the profits of AT&T. The Google Voice application is still available for Blackberry and Android phones. Google’s official explanation for removing Apple from its search results came from Vice-President in charge of search, Marissa Mayer, “Those search results duplicate a lot of the functionality of other sites. For example, people can find cell phones on many other sites. We just think this makes it easier for our users.” Exclusion from the search results could mean lower profits for Apple, as 90% of visitors reach their site by typing “apple.com” into Google. Mayer denied that this was a direct response to Apple rejecting the Google Voice application. “It’s just a coincidence,” said Mayer. Steve Jobs hinted that another strange coincidence might occur soon. “Safari...

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Google Voice app GV Mobile ported to jailbroken iPhones, web app version in the works

Jul 29, 2009 | 0 |

So well-mannered, straight-laced iPhone users got a pretty big slap in the face yesterday by way of Apple’s (and AT&T’s, no doubt) total Google Voice rejection. Looks like jailbreakers are picking up the pieces, as GV Mobile developer Sean Kovacs — whose app was in the iTunes store for some time before being yanked yesterday — has ported the Voice client over to Cydia free of charge, although donations are gladly accepted. Even more interesting, but less concrete, Kovacs said he was already working on a web app version, possibly for submission to Palm’s app catalog. No word on the fate of GVdialer, an app that was also unceremoniously pulled, but we wouldn’t be surprised if it followed in similar...

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Apple iTunes App Store Rejects Google Voice App

Jul 28, 2009 | 0 |

Apple has ridiculously blocked Google’s official Google Voice application from the iTunes App Store because it believes it “duplicate[s] features that come with the iPhone,” reports TechCrunch.com. A Google Spokesperson is reported to have stated the following to TechCrunch: We work hard to bring Google applications to a number of mobile platforms, including the iPhone. Apple did not approve the Google Voice application we submitted six weeks ago to the Apple App Store. We will continue to work to bring our services to iPhone users — for example, by taking advantage of advances in mobile browsers. My response to this latest example of Apple’s mismanagement of the App Store, by denying useful apps that iPhone owners want, is to pledge that I will not purchase anything from the iTunes App Store until it approves the official Google Voice iPhone App. I hope you will also pledge to join this boycott with me so that Apple will realize that the silly App Store denials are unacceptable to its...

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Chicago’s Horizon Realty Group Sues Former Tenant Over a Tweet

Jul 28, 2009 | 3 |

From deep in the “how to royally ruin your reputation via social media” files comes this gem: How much damage can a Tweet do? According to property management company Horizon Realty, $50,000 worth. That’s the size of the lawsuit against one of its former tenants on Monday, in response to a Tweet about one of their Chicago apartments. Amanda Bonnen was staying an apartment at 4242 N. Sheridan.  According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Bonnen’s Tweet on May 12 read, in part: “Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it’s okay.” The Tweet, posted under the user name @abonnen, was the reason for the libel lawsuit filed at Cook County Circuit Court, seeking $50,000 in damages. And although the Tweet and username are now deleted, accessing the account via Google’s cache shows it has around 20 followers. While the numbers could have dropped since deletion, it doesn’t appear the message would have travelled far. @abonnen wasn’t a particularly heavy Twitter user, either – she posted somewhere between 1 and 5 tweets per day and often didn’t post for 2 or 3 days. Horizon’s Jeffrey Michael is quoted in the Sun-Times: “The statements are obviously false, and it’s our intention to prove that”, adding that Horizon has a good reputation to protect. Bonnen wasn’t contacted before the suit was filed or asked to remove the Tweet,...

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Over 1000 free songs from Microsoft

Jul 28, 2009 | 4 |

Microsoft is sponsoring downloads of free music at Reverbnation. The songs are not copy protected, and, in the words of the writer at Download Squad, they don’t all suck. There is page after page of choices of all types of music. The only downside I see is that most, if not all, are encoded at 192kb/s, and they all have a little Windows banner on the album art.  Prepare to take a while looking around. So, if you like free (and who doesn’t), and don’t mind low bitrate encoding, go for...

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AT&T Block Was 4Chan’s Fault

Jul 28, 2009 | 0 |

The internet was in an uproar Sunday when AT&T DSL subscribers around the country found they couldn’t reach the /b/ board on 4chan, a site that’s led to many an internet meme and more than one federal criminal indictment against Anonymous members. How would Anonymous retaliate? The pieces seemed set for the greatest battle between control and chaos. “If you’ve been affected, I would advise you call or write customer support and corporate immediately,” 4chan founder Moot wrote on the site’s status page Sunday. AT&T responded Monday morning with a press release confirming it had temporarily blackholed img.4chan.org. But it said the ban (which has since been lifted) was a defensive response to denial-of-service traffic hitting an AT&T subscriber, and originating from 4chan’s own network. Now 4chan’s founder, Moot, has admitted that his network was sending spurious traffic, but he still faults AT&T for going too far with its response. “They essentially dropped a nuke instead of using the fly swatter,” Moot said in an e-mail. “I was told by someone within the company that an engineer essentially overreacted and made a mistake in choosing how to deal with a rather trivial issue. That’s how we got to where we’re at now.” The trouble was triggered by 4chan’s response to a denial-of-service attack that’s been targeting the site’s image board for three weeks. “We were able to filter this specific...

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Microsoft finalizes Windows 7

Jul 27, 2009 | 0 |

Microsoft announced Wednesday that it has finalized the code for Windows 7. That is our final engineering milestone in what has been a three-year journey,” said Mike Angiulo, general manager for planning in the Windows unit. Windows 7 relies on the same underpinnings as Windows Vista, but adds a lot of features aimed at making the operating system both look and perform better. Visually, it does a better job of managing open windows through an improved taskbar and a feature that lets users peek at one particular window or see the desktop that is hidden below all of the windows. On the performance side, it boots up and shuts down faster, and can run better on Netbooks and low-end machines. Whereas Vista suffered several delays and saw its feature set change significantly in the years it was being developed and tested, Windows 7 looks very similar to the early developer preview version first shown at last October’s professional developer conference. “It feels great to be here on time,” said Tami Reller, the Windows unit’s chief financial officer. The actual build that Microsoft is using as the final one–build 7600.16385–has already leaked to the Web–several days ahead of Microsoft’s confirmation that it was, in fact, the final version. Windows 7 is scheduled to be realeased on October 22nd.  It will be offered in Mutliple Flavors, like with Vista. Above is footage...

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