Oracle buys Sun for $7.4B

Oracle, known for its database business, has announced today that it will buy Sun Microsystems for$9.50 per share in cash. The valuation of the deal is $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt. Weeks ago IBM approached Sun for a buyout, but Sun rejected IBM’s offer because they did not like [...]

Vevo: New Music Video Site To Be Launched By Google And Universal Music

Last week, Universal Music Group and Google announced they were working together on a new music and video entertainment service set to launch sometime this year. The new website will be called Vevo. Google-owned YouTube will handle the technology side while Universal Music supplies all the content; and the two plan to split the revenue [...]

Microsoft Pushes Users to Upgrade to IE8 and One Day to Windows 7

Lately, there has been a lot of chatter about Microsoft and its products. Last month the big news was the release of the latest version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser, IE8. While the latest edition was released on March 19th, 2009, a lot of people have yet to upgrade from IE6 or IE7.  Microsoft [...]

Skype iPhone App Now Available!

We’ve been waiting forever it seems, or at least since Skype announced it was coming at CES, but it’s finally here! What you ask? The Skype VoIP phone service we all know and love and use on our desktop PC’s is now available as an app on the Apple iPhone. Today, Tuesday, March 31st, you [...]

Intel Drops Prices on Desktop PC Processors and Launches New Models

Last Thursday, DigiTimes reported they got wind from sources from motherboard manufacturers that Intel is going to drop prices 10-20% on several desktop PC processors. They also announced that Intel plans to launch new desktop PC processors later this year. This is good news for anyone looking to buy desktops. If you just wait a [...]

Apple iPhone Bluetooth Headset Discontinued

I got word of a rumor from The iPhone blog that Apple had discontinued its iPhone Bluetooth headset and confirmed this was true after a quick visit to the Apple website. I’m not sure I’m sad to see it go since it was released late 2007 as a barebones model compared to all the other [...]

New iPhone 3.0 Software

Yesterday, March 17th, Apple presented an extremely detailed preview of the next operating system for the iPhone. iPhone’s OS 3.0 is in beta phase and has been given to the iPhone Developer Program to access and test the software. iPhone OS 3.0 is supposedly equipped with over a hundred new features (most importantly the copy [...]

Kindle 2

Amazon introduces the next-generation wireless reading device – Kindle 2. Like many, you may have not even caught the first edition, but it is something to take notice of now as it’s the beginning of a gadget trend. Kindle operates on its own, without a PC, and has the ability to get books wirelessly in [...]

Universal Cell Phone Charger

I don’t know about you, but I hate it when I go away for the weekend, or for an extended trip, and forget my cell phone charger! If it’s just the weekend you absolutely hate the idea of paying for another charger when you will be home in a few days, but at the same [...]

Analog to Digital Switch Delayed

So, for all of you wondering, it’s official – Congress has passed legislation that delays the deadline for television stations to stop broadcasting in analog. The deadline was supposed to be today, February 17, 2009 for all stations to end broadcasting in analog, but it is now pushed back to June 12, 2009. It appears [...]