The Ashes

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has made an agreement to acquire Maktoob.com.  Maktoob is based in the country of Jordan and is one of the biggest Arab portals on the Internet today.  The fee was undisclosed, but the acquisition is pegged to be about $75-$80 million. The acquisition should be completed by the fourth quarter.  Maktoob.com itself [...]

It has been rumored for over a year now. It has been denied for over a year now. What is it? The Nokia netbook. Why on Earth would you deny it, then sign a contract with Intel, then still deny it, if you will eventually release it? I know you shouldn’t leave almost anything get [...]

Facebook has hired David Recordon.  Recordon was the Director of Corporate Development at Six Apart.  He spent two total years at Six Apart.  Recordon made the announcement about joining Facebook on his blog. “So yeah, it’s true. Next week I’m excited to join Facebook’s engineering team as the Senior Open Programs Manager and will continue [...]

Preparing bridal shower invitations can be a huge chore, especially if you are inviting a large amount of guests. There is a lot of information that should be included on the bridal shower invitation and getting it right the first time will actually save the hostess time. If you do not include the important information, [...]

For those of you out there that have seen an episode or two of Family Guy, you may recognize the voice of “top of the line PC” in the video below. If you don’t recognize the voice, think Joe Swanson, the testosterone-filled neighbor of Peter Griffin that was permanently handicapped because of a fight he [...]

It seems cable TV is just one several surprising services that small and midsize companies are buying from their telecom and wireless carriers.

For those of you that enjoy sitting in the front row of the movie theater, now there is a way to get your eyes even closer to the screen.  The i-3D video glasses can be worn on your face and can display images 920,000 pixels per LCD with an aspect ratio of 4:3.  The glasses [...]

Sorry about the cheesy title, I couldn’t resist. In one of those moods I guess. Chris Lowe has posted a detailed example of a new-age GWT application that uses lots of cool tech based on Ray Ryans talk on

Twitter has hired Leland Rechis, a user interface designer from Google.  The announcement was made by Kevin Thau, Director of Business Development at Twitter through a tweet (naturally).  “Very excited to have @leland join the Twitter Mobile team today,” stated Thau. Biz Stone and Ev Williams both worked at Google through the acquisition of Blogger [...]

While watching TV we tend to put our feet on the table in front of us. Lazy enough to get up! On top of that if the remote is lying far, nothing could be more annoying. Mantis by Siona Ward is a coffee table that lets you help your TV channel. Rest your feet on [...]