Microsoft have given Yahoo until April the 26th to accept its bid offer or it will go ahead and buy them out on the open market, at a significantly lower price.

• Overview of the proxy fight:
  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7254456.stm
• Yahoo's response:
  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7334475.stm

Have MS gone mad? This is just pure bully boy tactics.



What are your thoughts?

welshstew

So it would appear that BT internet users have had there internet habits tracked and documented without consent:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04...rm_2006_trial/

At present such tracking systems, although available, are still highly controversial, and companies that are using them are under increasing attack within the media for using such systems. There is currently an open investigation by the Information Commissioner into the legality of these systems and,...

welshstew

Well the BBC have updated the news section.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

I didn't like the old style left aligned version, but this version, to me, looks great.

However, looking through the code, it would seem that they have reverted back to tables for the main content layout, which for me is a step backwards.

Lets hope that this is an interim update and the tables will be gone soon.

What do you think?
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welshstew