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If Icahn Not Have Yahoo, Boo Hoo!

July 14th, 2008

In “Coma,” patients' brains are killed during surgical operations, and their organs sold one part at a time to the highest bidder. According to Yahoo, Microsoft and billionaire business buster Carl Icahn are looking to lobotomize Yahoo and sell off the parts. There has got to be a movie script in the never-ending botched Yahoo takeover drama. Maybe Michael Crichton can write and direct again (he directed “Coma” and wrote the screenplay from the Robin Cook novel).

Yahoo tells the takeover drama's newest chapter in a press release/letter issued over the weekend. As of this posting, Microsoft had released no official response.

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July 14th, 2008 20:00:07

Nokia 8910 Service Manual

July 14th, 2008

After popular request I thought it would be nice to upload the Nokia 8910 Service Manual which lots of you will find useful.

You can download it here: Nokia 8910 Service Manual download




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July 14th, 2008 20:00:03

Samsung SGH-i600 specifications

July 14th, 2008

Specifications for Samsung SGH-i600 mobile phone


Weight: 105 gr.
Dimensions: 113 x 59 x 11,8 mm.

Display: 320 x 240 pixels, 65536 colors

Camera: 1.31 Megapixels

Internal memory (MB): 64

Memory expansion: yes microSD (Trans-Flash)

Operating system: Windows Mobile 5.0

Platform: Windows for Smartphones

MP3 player: yes

FM radio: no

SMS: yes
EMS: yes
MMS: yes
e-mail: yes

Bluetooth: yes
Infrared port: no
Data cable port:
Wi-Fi: yes

GPRS: yes
EDGE: yes
UMTS (3G): yes

Standy time: 6,5 hours
Talk time: 300 hours



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July 14th, 2008 20:00:02

The Key to Better Websites

July 14th, 2008

The Key to Better Websites
[A] Piloting

Introduction

Importance of the latter :

One of the primary election entailment of a well-organised / good website, is to keep your visitant in the website. A website is decidedly created for a intent, unless intended for personal use, which is the minority. For example, a portfolio website would deprivation to be see and it’s content see. For companies and cyberspace business concern concern, your website certain sufficiency intent to furnish product information, to brand gross gross, or slightly similar. Even So, most human undoubtly prefer visually enthralling designing, so on and so off. It is undeniable that this causes no hurt, but one must put himself/herself in other people’s shoes, as to understand how a visitor to the website power think, do and respond.

1 ) Pilotage

As I aforesaid, a web designer has to acquire how to think the way your visitant think.

Dor Of Personal Concern A : Website with good pilotage ( 2-3 hyperlinks to target page ), well planned in footing of arrangement, and design.

State Of Affairs B : Website with mediocre pilotage ( proceeds evermore for the visitant to range his/her mark page ), difficult-to-read piloting fount and poor arrangement of the piloting buttons/bar.

In Department Of State Of Affairs A, a visitant will ever deprivation to be able to access his/her mark page. For instance, the individual come up crossed your website, and is interested in the wares sold, but privation to breakthrough more than info. He/she discovery the pilotage with no problem, and enters the specific merchandise info page.

As for State Of Personal Business Organization B, a visitant stagger into the website, and would likewise wish to breakthrough out more than information astir the wares. Unfortunately, due to bad placement and fanciful face-types, the visitant yield forever, or even fails to breakthrough the piloting bar. Level once he/she section of energy so, golf course of direction to the merchandise info are nowhere to be found, (instance : place > astir > merchandise > wares mental mental image > etc…[a few more than than clicks] > merchandise info ).

Analysis : In both state of personal business concern, wouldn’t a website with characteristics similar to the State Of Personal Matters A be more rewarding ergo better?

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July 14th, 2008 18:00:02

Initial Intel ‘Nehalem’ CPUs as cheap as chips

July 14th, 2008

Pssst! Want an Intel 'Nehalem' processor on the cheap? Well, just go and ask the chip giant for one. It's 2.66GHz 'Bloomfield' CPU has been price at just $284, it has been claimed. That's the batch price, of course. To get it, you'll have to buy a 1000 CPUs at once - boxed Bloomfields will come in slightly higher than that.

As previously reported, the 2.66GHz Bloomfield - Intel's desktop Nehalem - will also be made available in 2.93GHz and 3.2GHz versions. The pricing, posted by Chinese-language site HKEPC, confirms the latter will be an Extreme-branded gaming PC part - it'll cost $999. The mid-range Bloomfield will cost $562.

View: The full story @ The Reg

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July 14th, 2008 16:00:04