Archive for the 'internet' Category

10

February

Yahoo rejects Microsoft’s Bid

Yahoo Inc.’s board plans to reject Microsoft Corp.’s bid to buy the Internet pioneer, The Wall Street Jornal reported on its Web site Saturday.
Board members concluded the unsolicited $44.6 billion offer massively undervalues the Web pioneer, a person familiar with the situation told the newspaper.
Here’s Yahoo’s reason it rejected the offer:

1. Yahoo thinks Microsoft […]

01

February

Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo

Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares. The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo’s board, is 62% above Yahoo’s closing share price on Thursday.
The proposed acquisition, the largest ever by Microsoft, would give some relief to Yahoo’s long-suffering shareholders, who have seen the company’s […]

26

January

Withdraw Your Paypal to A Philippines Bank Account

via Pinoy Money Talk

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This is great news. Thanks Pinoy Money Talk for the heads up.
Effective yesterday, PayPal started allowing users in the Philippines to withdraw funds to local bank accounts.
Yes, it’s confirmed. Log in to your PayPal account and see that in the My Account > Withdraw page, you now have […]

20

January

Google Experimental Search

Check this latest experiment from Google called Google Experimental Search
This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. When you search for the same keywords again, you’ll continue to see those changes. If you later want to revert your changes, you can undo any modifications you’ve made. Note that […]

16

January

Macbook Air in the Philippines

Apple introduces MacBook Air. When will it arrive in the Philippines? That’s the question? and how much will it cost? So I knew that there would be a new model this first quarter of 2008 but still I don’t regret buying my black macbook.
Now introducing the world’s thinnest notebook, Macbook Air. What […]

07

January

Pinoy Entrecard Users

My blog, About My Recovery joined the Entercard bandwagon out of curiosity. At first, I thought it was much work but later on I found it interesting to meet new blog niches especially my fellow Filipinos. I based this list on JoanJoyce as I wanted a list that didn’t open to a new page. […]

29

December

Netscape Navigator, the Browser End of Support

One of the most popular browser I used in 1996 was Netscape but it will soon end.
Netscape Navigator, the browser that launched the commercial Internet in October 1994, will die on February 1, 2008. AOL, which acquired Netscape in November 1998 for $4.2 billion, will announce today that they will discontinue development of the […]

07

October

Internet Map of the World

The Chris Harrison project created a series of maps that illustrate the geographical structure and distribution of the Internet around the world. At the site you can view a global, geo-spatial map of the global internet. View the World Internet Map.
A lot of observations can be made by just gleaning at the map.
1. […]

27

September

SEO professional looks down on Blogs

When I first read No to Wordpress? SEO professional disrespect Philippine Blogging, I thought who would this SEO company be?
Then I read that Open Letter to Marc withdrawing the cancellation of his measly 5,000 peso sponsorship.
This is why as of now, I am retracting my offer to sponsor and I will no longer […]

29

August

Support Paypal for Philippines Now

We think having PayPal in the Philippines would help improve our economy!. This endeavor needs the support of our financial institutions to make representations to main Paypal office.