Tuesday, February 19, 2008

papierdoll.net Girl Uninvited. The self important fashion bloggers who complain about not getting into shows (sheepishly raising hand) should take note from Cathy Horyn. Although her reasons seems wholly related to her review as opposed to her status. Today she goes into detail on receiving an invite then having that invite from Armani called back. Why? Because she [...] [] 8:20:13 PM

Adobe Director 11 Adobe takes aim at video game market. The firm that set the standard for digital photo editing intends to do the same for video game making with the Tuesday release of Adobe Director 11 upgraded multimedia software. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news] 7:39:53 PM

Invasion, Regime Change and Yahoo Inc. New York Times, By JOHN MARKOFF and MATT RICHTEL. 7:29:09 PM

Italian Born Chinese My New iPhone!. Last Saturday my wife bought me an iPhone and I am so happy with it! It feels like a gadget from a sci-fi movie. However I am a bit nervous about carrying around a 4000RMB piece of gadget. I already lost the BlackBerry which was only 500RMB, but if I ever lost this it would be a disaster!! Anyway, look for a full review soon on Reviewsarama.com In the meantime here are some photos: [Italian Born Chinese] 7:23:25 PM

CNET News.com Microsoft to give students free developer tools. Aiming to recruit more students to programming and to its set of tools, Microsoft plans to give away full versions of its Visual Studio and Expression development tools. [CNET News.com] 7:21:35 PM

Microsoft the Underdog "The E.U. almost always scrutinizes Microsoft to distraction," Article by Steven Levy in the Washington Post. In the article: When I spoke to Microsoft's general counsel, Bradford L. Smith, last week, he said a Microsoft-Yahoo combination could slow the runaway devastation caused by the Godzilla of search. "Google has a super-dominant market in the areas of search and advertising," he said. Regulators, he said, will approve the takeover because it is the only way that a credible competitor can emerge to fight Google's advantage in selling ads alongside search results. Mediaburn Editor's note: In the U.S. it is not illegal to have a monopoly position in an industry. It is illegal to abuse a monopoly position by preventing other companies from competing or leveraging the monopoly position to eliminate competition. This is what occured when Microsoft used its operating system monopoly to undermine competition in the internet broswer market. If Google had a monopoly in search, that in itself would not be illegal. 7:17:35 AM