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DIY tractor culture in Poland
This exhibition happened earlier in the year in Berlin, but I still love the concept."In the '60s Poland it was almost impossible to acquire a tractor in Poland. Agricultural machines produced by the country were available mainly for state-owned enterprises. For private... UK Broadband Users Might Pay 'Download Tax'
People living in the UK already pay a tax based on the number of televisions they have in the household, so a new proposal to tax downloaders of pirated software really comes as no surprise.In the proposal, which is garnering lots of heat from angry citizens online, the...Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million”
"Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside and outside of Google. The two companies have reportedly signed a letter of intent and are close to a deal that will bring Digg...New York Times Op-Ed: Israel Will Attack Iran
"Yes, you read my title correctly. Today's New York Times includes an op-ed piece by Benny Morris, a Professor of Middle Eastern history at Ben Gurion University. He claims Israel will most certainly attack Iran... Insanity
OPINION: Many of us, in our darkest moments, have briefly considered it as a possibility, though the results of such a prospect are more terrifying than most care to dwell on, thus we put such thoughts aside... HP buys EDS for $13.9 billion
Announced this morning, Hewlett Packard is set to buy EDS at a price of $25.00 per share - around 13.9 billion in value. "The terms of the transaction have been unanimously approved by the HP and EDS boards of directors. The transaction is expected to close in the second half... Yahoo and AOL are close to merging
Two of the biggest sites on the Internet are closer than ever to a merge, which would mean Microsoft is out of the loop."Yahoo Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL are closing in on a deal to combine their Internet... Jaguar and Land Rover: From Ford to Tata
"London (ABC Live): India’s Tata Motors and United Kingdom’s Ford are in their final lap to announce Jaguar and Land Rover deal." Asian stocks tumble on Bear Stearns news
On the news of Bear Stearn's fire sale, Asian stocks are taking a nosedive. "Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index plunged 4.2 percent to 11,727, while Hong Kong' Hang Seng index was down 4.4 percent at... AOL to buy Bebo for just under 1 billion
"NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AOL announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire
Bebo (http://www.bebo.com), a leading
global social media network. Together with its AIM and ICQ personal
communications network, the acquisition will give... Grammy For Math ... At The Wire :: Symblogogy
"Math algorithms aid our lives in many ways. Here at Symblogogy, we have highlighted the use of math and the reading of symbols with regards to:
** Barcodes for retail transactions and item tracking... Ustream.tv negotiating $50 million sale to Microsoft
Lifestreaming is all the rage and Valleywag is reporting that one of the big players in the space is the target of a pretty hefty purchase offer."Sources tell Valleywag that lifecasting startup Ustream.tv is in...Sun to spend $1B to acquire MySQL, will compete with Oracle, Microsoft
"When discussing enterprise database installations worldwide, as of today, it will be impossible not to consider Sun Microsystems along with Microsoft and Oracle. This morning, Sun announced it has reached an agreement with MySQL -- which by some accounts may have become the...Got 5 billion? Weather.com for sale
This is interesting. Weather.com has been the category leader in weather for a long, long time and weather is a big part of the news mix."Landmark Communications has announced the sale of The Weather Channel... Radiohead: In Rainbows. In Stores. In the News.
Radiohead is all over the music blogs and newswires this week, as they celebrate the launch of their latest album, In Rainbows, in its traditional, physical CD format. To inaugurate the occasion and the arrival of...
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