Author: Vince Kimball

Sony to buy MGM

Sony announced its agreement to buy the assets of MGM/United Artists. Sony will pay a total of around $5 billion, including an assumption of debt. It beat out an offer from rival Time-Warner for the company. Several equity partners are backing the buy.

In terms of market share, the #3 Hollywood studio

Sony to buy MGM Sony announced its agreement to buy the assets of MGM/United Artists. Sony will pay a total of around $5 billion, including an assumption of debt. It beat out an offer from rival Time-Warner for the company. Several equity partners are backing the buy. In terms of market share, the #3 Hollywood… Continue reading

Sony to buy MGM

Sony
announced its agreement to buy the assets of MGM/United Artists. Sony
will pay a total of around $5 billion, including an assumption of debt.
It beat out an offer from rival Time-Warner for the company. Several
equity partners are backing the buy.

In terms of market share, the #3 Hollywood studio

Iraq Counter-Insurgency Strategy

Iraq Counter-Insurgency Strategy. One strategy for dealing with 4GW global guerrillas is to deescalate the conflict (within the moral sphere). This isn't weakness, rather it is a method by which you turn a strength of your opponents into a weakness. A fundamental inconsistancy with the US position in Iraq is that we escalated to the… Continue reading Iraq Counter-Insurgency Strategy

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Skype.com: Built with TopStyle

Skype.com: Built with TopStyle. Erki Esken, Web Developer for Skype Technologies, just sent me the following: “I'm happy to say that almost all the code on new www.skype.com was built with TopStyle. And I must say writing valid XHTML and CSS in TopStyle is a breeze 🙂 Thanks again for a great program.” [Nick Bradbury]

Virus-Free Macs

Virus-Free Macs. “The single most effective way to avoid viruses and spyware is to simply chuck Windows altogether and buy an Apple Macintosh,” writes Walt Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal. “There has never been a successful virus written for Mac OS X, and there is almost no spyware that targets the Mac. Plus, the… Continue reading Virus-Free Macs

Radio 8.1 Beta Update

Radio 8.1 Beta Update. I'd like to take a moment and give everyone an update on the impending release of Radio 8.1 to the public. There's been a flurry of activity in the last two days, building beta installers and finalizing code. With that, we've made some minor changes to our commitments listed in the… Continue reading Radio 8.1 Beta Update

Amazon to Take Searches on Web to a New Depth

NY Times: Amazon to Take Searches on Web to a New Depth. Amazon.com, the e-commerce giant, plans to take aim at the Internet search king Google with an advanced technology that the company says will take searches beyond mere retrieval of Web pages to let users more fully manage the information they find. [Tomalak's Realm]

Residents Continue to Flee Gulf Coast as Hurricane Closes In

Residents Continue to Flee Gulf Coast as Hurricane Closes In. With maximum sustained winds of 135 miles per hour, Ivan is expected to make landfall late tonight or very early Thursday. By THOMAS CRAMPTON and MARIA NEWMAN. [The New York Times > Home Page]

Price tag called high for Bush's proposals

Price tag called high for Bush's proposals. WASHINGTON — President Bush's spending and tax-cutting proposals would cost the federal government $3 trillion or more in the coming decade, and would probably have a deeper impact on the federal budget deficit than the plans offered by his Democratic opponent, Senator John F. Kerry, according to independent… Continue reading Price tag called high for Bush's proposals

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