Tailrank Mobile - Top News for Thursday May 15, 2008 in Technology

BREAKING: CBS Acquiring CNET For $1.8 Billion; 44.6 Percent Premium

From paidcontent.org , 20 inbound links , found 50 days, 7 hours, 37 minutes, and 43 seconds ago

CBS ( NYSE: CBS ) is acquiring CNET ( NSDQ: CNET ) for $1.8 billion in cash. The purchase price comes to $11.50 per share, representing a 44.6 percent premium over last night's closing price of $7.95. This is that big acquisition we've been waiting for from Quincy Smith's CBS Interactive, and from CNET's ...

Flash Player 10

From labs.adobe.com , 47 inbound links , found 50 days, 14 hours, 44 minutes, and 34 seconds ago

Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named "Astro," introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. 3D Effects - Easily transform and animate any display object through 3D space while ...

Obama's Is an Appalachia Problem, Not a Whites Problem

From talkingpointsmemo.com , 16 inbound links , found 50 days, 15 hours, 58 minutes, and 29 seconds ago

WASHINGTON _ According to exit polls, Hillary Clinton won 67 percent of the white vote in West Virginia, America's third whitest state. Yet in early March, Barack Obama won 60 percent of the white vote in Vermont, the nation's second-whitest state. Unlike John Kennedy who, with loads of charm and money ...

Microsoft Joins Effort for Laptops for Children

From nytimes.com , 16 inbound links , found 49 days, 20 hours, 37 minutes, and 44 seconds ago

Be sure to hide all your data first

From guardian.co.uk , 18 inbound links , found 50 days, 8 hours, 53 minutes, and 45 seconds ago

This article appeared in the Guardian on Thursday May 15 2008 on p2 of the Technology news & features section. Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you're entering the country. Customs and Border Patrol has not published ...

Fun with the Billboard Liberation Front and monochrom

From tv.boingboing.net , 17 inbound links , found 50 days, 12 hours, 2 minutes, and 3 seconds ago

The San Francisco-based Billboard Liberation Front has been transforming the world of advertising since 1977. When Austrian art-pranksters and regular BBtv guests monochrom recently visited the United States to spread their Sculpture Mob dogma, a historic meeting with the elusive BLF took place. We needed ...

Icahn Sends Open Letter to Board of Directors of Yahoo

From biz.yahoo.com , 14 inbound links , found 50 days, 4 hours, 23 minutes, and 44 seconds ago

It is irresponsible to hide behind management's more than overly optimistic financial forecasts. It is unconscionable that you have not allowed your shareholders to choose to accept an offer that represented a 72% premium over Yahoo's closing price of $19. I believe that a combination between Microsoft ...

Flash Player 10

From adobe.com , 11 inbound links , found 50 days, 16 hours, and 2 seconds ago

Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named "Astro," introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. 3D Effects - Easily transform and animate any display object through 3D space while ...

Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics

From news.yahoo.com , 15 inbound links , found 50 days, 18 hours, 52 minutes, and 58 seconds ago

In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.

Comcast Lied to FCC, Blocks BitTorrent Traffic 24/7

From torrentfreak.com , 13 inbound links , found 49 days, 22 hours, 23 minutes, and 13 seconds ago

BitTorrent throttling is not a new phenomenon, but it is getting more attention lately, because the number of people who use BitTorrent keeps growing. Up until today however, there has been no reliable data that revealed the scope of it. ...