AP - In 1995, the first warning was raised: The throngs of people swarming to the Internet would overwhelm the system in 1996. For more than a decade, that fear has proven untrue.
Archive for February 11th, 2008
InfoWorld - The LiMo Foundation plans to announce 18 phones based on its platform, including some that are already on the market, on Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
AP - A major service outage afflicted users of the popular, addictive BlackBerry smart phones across the United States and Canada on Monday.
AP - Starbucks Corp. and AT&T Inc. will start offering a mix of free and paid wireless Internet service in most of the global coffee retailer’s U.S. shops, beginning this spring.
InfoWorld - BlackBerry mobile data services were disrupted Monday afternoon due to a problem with Research In Motion’s infrastructure, apparently affecting customers of all major North American mobile operators, an AT&T Wireless spokesman said.
PC World - A future version of Bluetooth will allow connections to hop on Wi-Fi networks when additional bandwidth is required.
AP - Yahoo Inc.’s rejection of Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited takeover bid left investors guessing the next move in a tense mating dance that may hatch a more imposing challenger to Google Inc. or disintegrate into a bruising brawl.
AP - A handful of chip makers showed Monday how a mobile device running Google Inc.’s Android operating system might look.
AP - EBay Inc. bowed to pressure Monday from some of its high-volume sellers, saying it will further cut listing fees for books, music, movies and video games sold through the online auction site.
Reuters - Yahoo Inc rejected Microsoft
Corp’s unsolicited $41.6 billion takeover offer as too low on
Monday, forcing the software maker to either sweeten the bid or
adopt a hostile approach to clinch a deal.
