Yahoo! is still relevant
Yahoo! is fighting a good fight against Google and Microsoft, unwilling to accept that either of those giants will eventually render Yahoo! obsolete ( which will be a bad thing, for competition is such a wonderful concept ). They are getting better by the day, adding new services, improving old ones.. they seem to lack the technology and coolness Google has, the might and financial strength of Microsoft, yet they are putting all their effort in deploying new content sections and improving the services for their users -- which is I guess they only thing left for them to do. Their latest service, Yahoo! foods is quite great. I love the content, the UI, the ideas. Very tasty.
Speaking of Google, they are going to surpass UK's Channel Four advertising revenue as far as their operations in the UK are concerned. Lots of quid for the Google boys.
Filling the Lik-Sang Void : Now that Lik Sang is no more, thanks to the efforts of Sony ( may they burn flames ), gamers will have to look for another company to provide them with important gaming goodies.
Friday, 3 November 2006 0:09 am
Links for today
The Stimulants : Steve Dekorte's lists some of the most well known stimulants, such as caffeine, cocaine, ritalin and more.
Microsoft and Yahoo Finally Merge IM Networks: Another effort to resist the inevitable defeat by/from Google. Resistance is futile. Google and AIM are to interoperate sooner or later too.
StartUps Embracing Amazon S3 : (mental note) - I need to check this out sooner or later.
Call of Duty 3 with the Wii-Mote : Sweeet!
Thursday, 13 July 2006 9:23 pm
Today's news and links
Yahoo Boosts Social Travel : the latest battlefield in the online wars saga seems to be focuses on the travel sites/services. Expedia leads the pack, but the underdogs are gaining ground by the day. I am looking forward to the day we launch our own travel service for pathfinder.gr. By the looks of it, it won't be long..
arstechnica is reviewing Parallels Desktop 1.0 for Mac OS X : they like it, just like most of the ones that have had the chance it try it out, me included. I am going to purchase it soon ( their introductory price offer ends at 15h of July ) and use it for Visual Studio .NET, SecureCRT and for running PIM, until I get down and build a PIM client for Mac OS X -- which is probably going to be my first real Mac OS X App, just like PIM was my first real Win32 app. .
Pages 3 to sport improved word processing features : more reasons to rejoice! Not only Charts is going to be included in the forthcoming Apple iWork 07 upgrade, they are adding some great new features on Pages 3 as well, such as:
A number of convenient features catered to writers and typists will also be wrapped into Pages 3, including a thesaurus and integration with Spotlight, Wikipedia, and Google. Apple is also said to be looking to build a robust grammar checking engine for Pages that could find its way into other Apple and Cocoa applications.and
Apple is also beefing up Pages' collaboration capabilities, sources say, enabling any object in a document to be commented on and tracking changes from multiple users. A more robust Mail Merge functionality should also at last support mail merging to email.
David Watanabe believes Apple will ditch the metal windows look altogher in favor of the iApp scheme, for the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. This is probably a good thing.
Nintendo DS rocks!
Monday, 10 July 2006 8:14 pm
