Practical Technology

Yes, we all know we need to convert our networks and Web sites over to IPv6, but no one wants to be the first. Well, now the Internet Society, the non-profit organization supporting Internet standards, education, and policy-making, is trying to solve the problem for us by getting many major Internet Web powers such as [...]

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Thanks to a leaked Yahoo! screenshot, we know that Yahoo! is closing the door on several of its services including the social bookmarking site Delicious and the search engine AltaVista. That may not seem like a big deal to you, but there was a time when both Delicious and AltaVista were very big deals. Now,, [...]

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“Brains! Must have Yahoo advertising brains!” That might have been Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s call as he finally made a deal for Yahoo. Sure, it looks like Yahoo still exists as an independent company, but in reality, Ballmer’s bite has turned it into a Microsoft zombie. Yahoo has agreed to let is search engine brain, [...]

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I predicted recently that with Jerry Yang on his way out as Yahoo’s CEO, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would end up buying Yahoo. Since then, Ballmer has declared “Acquisition discussions are finished,” while leaving the door open to some kind of searching partnering deal. As you’d expect, Yahoo’s stock price dropped yet again. At around [...]

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How the mighty have fallen! In February, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for a cool $44.6 billion. Yahoo, under CEO Jerry Yang, turned them down. That was then. This is now. Then, Yahoo had an ad deal in the works with Google. Then, Yahoo had a stock north of $27 a share. Then, Yahoo thought [...]

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