WORLD REVIEW
Google Mail added all the popular Indian languages _ Urdu, Bangla, Tamil and many more _ in its quest to have the service available in every major tongue. Language is changed easily at the Settings page. |
If you think sitting by the net at court level at a world tennis championship is hard on the neck, you haven't been watching the Yahoo! matches, particularly the ones pitting CEO Jerry Yang against big-time shareholder and arch-enemy, the always gracious Carl Icahn; Yang served two aces - advert agreements with Wal-Mart and interactive agency Havas Digital; Icahn served, appealed to the judges to stop Yang from trying to block him from buying more shares, grabbed the ball again and hit a scathing screamer that hit Yang square in the groin with a demand to rescind the new Yahoo! by-laws which give millions in severance pay even if Icahn grabs control of the match and tries to sell Yahoo! to Microsoft; Icahn held serve, demanded Yang set a price tag of $49.5 billion on his forehead; Yang, who has already established what he is, said setting a price would be "ill-advised"; the final is scheduled for Aug 1, California time, at the Yahoo! boardroom conference table - and wouldn't you love to have tickets for it?
Apple Inc stunned the art world when it took space at the Carrousel du Louvre, right next to the museum and gallery of the same name; as the Jupiter Research expert Michael Gartenberg was barely able to gasp, "More people are going to be seeing the MacBook Air than the Mona Lisa."
Genial Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer explained that in 10 years you will not hold this newspaper or any magazine or book in your hand in paper form because everything - everything - will be digital; then, affable to a fault as always, he totally weaseled out: "If it's 14 or if it's eight, it's immaterial to my fundamental point;" well, no, actually, it's not; predicting Armageddon is simple, but it matters quite a lot if Earth is going to explode on June 19, 2008, or maybe, you know, some time later, down the road.
Affable Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that by 2018 he will be doing all his monkey-dancing and chair-throwing in a retirement home. Soft-spoken Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that software development development development development has become too complex; maybe there's a company somewhere he could consult about it.
Time Warner turned on the real Internet meter in a beta test conducted for the lucky people in Beaumont, Texas; although Beaumont citizens never did anything to hurt their Internet ISP, Time Warner gave them each a monthly limit of between five (!) to 40GB of web views, email and downloads per month, and charged them 33 baht per gig for everything above that; other big companies refused to join the huge US public outrage because, of course, they would love to do the same thing themselves; one has to ask, though, how smart is Apple Inc, say, for wanting to charge for iTunes downloads by the file size, rather than by the song or movie?
The US Federal Trade Commission opened a formal probe into just how Intel Corp got so successful and if maybe it used a few monopoly practices to do it.
In the words of the great Seattle grunge evolutionists Candlebox, "Never knew how much I'd loved until you're gone;" that song was released in July, 1998 as computer users worldwide firmly resisted switching from the late, great Windows 98 to Windows XP; it was the in-thing to trash XP back then, but Sir William of Gates was not the only Seattle resident to know that on June 30, 2008, sorrow would be worldwide as Microsoft ended official sales of Windows XP; there was speculation that people in Thailand with 150 baht might be able to find a Windows XP seller even in July.
Is capitalism a great system, or what? What? A start-up called TotSpot.com opened a social networking site for babies, so you can get yours off on the right foot; naturally, you must have cookies enabled.
Five years after Google launched the exquisitely clean, fast search engine page, do-gooders discovered that Google.com is illegal, at least in California, where Google lives; the home page does not have a direct link to the Google privacy policy, which "privacy-minded watchdogs" are reminding the courts is why most people go to Google.com; they might change their minds and drop the lawsuit if someone hint-hint contributes substantially to their funding.
The folks who gave you the authoritative Wikipedia gave you Wikia, the search engine that is meant for you to change; let's say you think some idiot has put the wrong newspaper at the top of the search for "english newspapers bangkok," you can simply delete what you find, and put in Database; certainly nothing could ever go wrong with such a brilliant idea? Digital divide. n, 1. An imaginary line separating those rich enough to have the equipment and money to afford access to The Oxford English Dictionary and the billions of The Children(tm) and other disadvantaged who will no longer be able to access the world's leading dictionary because it will only "print" on CD and the Internet from now on.
The rather confused backbencher Jason Wood of Victoria state spoke of the benefits and risks of biotechnology to the Australian parliament, voicing concern about "genetically modified orgasms" - and he did this multiple times, saying the word "orgasm" twice.
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