The Inquirer

"SEARCH outfit Yahoo is facing a shareholder revolt after rejecting a $44.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft over the weekend.

Shareholders are already miffed at the way that the board had been running Yahoo after losing 40 per cent of the value of the company over the last year.

Microsoft has two options now. It can up its bid, and risk annoying its own shareholders, or spark a shareholder revolt. This will involve spear-heading an attack to oust Yahoo's board."

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Theinquirer

"GAME MAKERS have hit out at the Apple for being a bit silly about the way it controls graphics hardware. Many of them see that Apple could easily be kicking some pastel coloured bottom in the games area but its insistence on tight hardware controls are killing it off.

Oliver Buchmann of Application Systems Heidelberg, a company that does offer games for Macs, told Earth Times that Apple has refused to allow graphics cards for games to be installed in its machines.

The current rate of game development requires a serious game user to upgrade graphics cards once a year and run two graphics cards in the same machine.

However Apple ownership forbids this, mostly because their design forbids two graphics cards and while specialists will install good games cards under the bonnet this means chucking your Apple warranty out the window.

So those games developers who are brave enough to take a punt at the Apple games market have to do without things like DirectX which is a mainstay of the industry. Dual booting is an option for Mac users, but that is still a nuisance to reboot the computer just to play a game.

The thing is that Apple's target market are the same age group that play games. It is killing this market just because it does not want people installing graphics cards that are not blessed by the sainted Steve Jobs"

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Hexus

"Sony Ericsson kicked off its presentation at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with quite a bang by announcing that it would feature Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system on future handsets. The first handset from Sony Ericsson to feature Windows Mobile will be the XPERIA X1, currently scheduled for the second half of 2008 with a planned release in select markets.

The XPERIA X1 will mark the first ever handset from Sony Ericsson to carry Windows Mobile. For Microsoft, it will mean that five of the top handset manufacturers will now be utilising its operating system.

Sony Ericsson executive Steve Walker says "In the case of the X1, Microsoft gives us an opportunity to build on", and build on it they have. Taking the core operating system, Sony Ericsson has added many features unique to itself including a whole new interface to make Windows Mobile provide a better user experience."

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AnandTech

"Not long ago we had a long talk with PC Power & Cooling founder Doug Dodson about power supplies and the question came up why there aren't lower wattage power supplies with enough PEG connectors to support higher end graphics card setups. The reason why will be answered shortly but Doug also agreed to build us a custom power supply based on the newly introduced Turbo Cool 860. The article about that power supply is already online, and as a follow-up we wanted to post this interview."

For the curious, that's Christoph on the left and Doug on the right…

"We met Doug and the PC Power / OCZ crew at this year's CES show in Las Vegas, and he took the time to answer a few questions we had. We have three topics to cover: Technology, Markets, and Work. These will concentrate respectively on the technology offered by PC Power & Cooling, the newly extended markets created by the acquisition from OCZ, and how the work changed during this time until today."

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"With the impending release of Service Pack 1 for Vista, Microsoft looks to slow down the pirates by cutting off two popular hacks to circumvent the Windows Genuine Advantage Program.

Testing both these methods of circumventing Windows activation and Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) has shown me that SP1 effectively ignores both these hacks. Systems that previously were shown to be genuine prior to the installation of SP1 then require activation - and if the system isn’t activated it is marked at non-genuine and enters the nag state.

Are Microsoft stepping up in the world to prevent hackers reveiving the most from the new operating system, Windows Vista? We are soon to find out!"

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Two Under Sea Cables Repaired

"Two of the undersea cables that were cut in the last few weeks have been repaired. Maybe we can stop hearing the conspiracy theories for a few days.

FLAG Telecom, a subsidiary of India's No. 2 mobile operator Reliance Communications (RLCM.BO: Quote, Profile, Research), said in a statement the breaks in its FLAG Europe-Asia (FEA) and FALCON cables had been repaired and services routed back through these cables.

With this awesome news, hopefully everyone can back to their hobbies with no problems at all, but will more problems be coming soon?"

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CPU3D Review: Everglide DKTBoard Gaming Keyboard

With a slim, compact and light-weight design, the Everglide DKTBoard is ideal for LAN party goers, and for gamers on the go. Its build quality is very good with the outter casing made from Aluminum. It also features blue leds and backlight illuminated keys which is great for night time gaming.

"... if you’re a hardcore and professional gamer who's always on the go, the Everglide DKTBoard is definitely worth considering.  " 

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BBC

"Yahoo has reportedly decided to reject Microsoft's unsolicited takeover offer. Several newspapers and news agencies say Yahoo's board will on Monday dismiss the $44.6bn (£22.9bn) offer as being inadequate.

When it was made, Microsoft's $31 a share offer was 62% above the level at which Yahoo's shares were trading. Yahoo's shares closed on Friday at $29.20, which may suggest doubt that the offer will be successful or that a higher price will be offered. A source quoted by the Wall Street Journal said that Yahoo's board would be unlikely to consider anything below $40 per share.

A $40 a share offer would be a 109% premium to the $19.18 closing price of Yahoo's shares the day before the original offer was announced."

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