JQ On Technology

WiMax Gets A Big Push

2008-05-07T14:36:59Z

After rumors of its demise and resurrection, it looks like WiMax will finally get the push it needs in the U.S. to become a viable contender in the wireless communications space. Sprint and Clearwire finally rekindled a deal to launch a nationw...

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Microhoo: August Surprise

2008-05-06T16:37:12Z

In the world of mergers and acquisitions, it's never over. Folks are selling their Yahoo shares after Microsoft abandoned its efforts to take over the company last weekend, but they might want to start buying again in July. Yes, Yahoo wanted mor...

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Yahoo Deal All But Done?

2008-02-12T16:53:33Z

One wonders when Yahoo will wake up and smell the cat food. (Microsoft's cat food, that is, to contort a musical sub-reference into a tech marketing quasi cliche.) Naturally, Yahoo had to at least nominally (and oh so predictably) reject Microso...

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Google Calls Kettle Black

2008-02-04T14:58:01Z

The recent hostile bid by Microsoft for the flagging Yahoo is taking on "It's A Wonderful Life" proportions. Unfortunately for the world's search engine, Google is casting itself in the role of Mr. Potter. Witness one of the funniest blog post...

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Microhoo!: A Good Idea?

2008-02-01T17:39:03Z

Microsoft has been after Yahoo for a while now, but this week the folks in Redmond made it official: They really, really like Yahoo. But do we really, really like the idea of a $44.6 billion purchase? For tech veterans, the knee-jerk reaction w...

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Verizon Wireless to Unlock Its Network

2007-11-27T14:16:45Z

Leading this morning's tech news and rumor mongering is word that at 10:30 EST Verizon Wireless will announce that it's opening its network and allowing any compatible device and any compatible application to run on it. It should mean that consu...

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Journalism Doomsday Clock Begins

2007-08-10T17:00:35Z

15 Minutes to Midnight Despite the fact that according to a Gallop poll only about 23 percent of Americans believe that journalists have high ethical standards (hey, at least we have standards), journalism is a profession that requires training,...

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Guidelines for Google

2007-06-08T16:38:22Z

There has been much ado over the past few days about a new Google maps feature. It's called "Street View" and rather than using virtual images of landmarks along the road, it uses actual photographs to give people online a 360-degree view of the...

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Google + DoubleClick: Double Trouble

2007-04-16T19:08:33Z

This kind of trouble is lots of fun! Google's plan to purchase online ad clearing house DoubleClick for $3.1 billion is generating lots of news. However, the real story isn't how much money the search engine/advertising/online services behemoth i...

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Google Owns You

2007-03-15T13:08:16Z

Google, whose corporate creed includes the motto "You can make money without doing evil," has announced that it will retain personal data on individual Web surfers' searches for only 2 years. And in an another amazing example of TP (technological...

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