How do you add $3 billion to your companies worth in these times of crisis? Easy, just get Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer to make a hint that he’s going to buy your company. Thats exactly what has just happened to Yahoo when Steve made a comment at Gartner ITXpo that a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo would “make sense economically” to each other’s shareholders. After this comment the Yahoo stock soared to $13.73 which is over a 15% rise and has ...

According to an internal email sent to the Engadget staff the site served up a massive 14 Million views on Tuesday October 4th. This was the day of the Apple announcements for their new Macbooks and of those 14 million page views 1.3 million of them were unique visitors meaning that each visitor looked at 10 pages or more likely refreshed the browser 10 times waiting for the announcements. Even so this is quite amazing traffic and I hope for ...

Wordpress or more specifically Automattic, the people behind wordpress have acquired polldaddy which will allow wordpress to have an inbuilt polling system already in the codebase instead of having to install a plugin. Polldaddy offers a range of different features that aren’t seen in other polling systems such as tracking individual votes and adding pictures and video to polls and surveys. Automattic seem to be on an acquisition spree at the moment, acquiring companies that will add features to Wordpress ...

Microsoft have finally announced the name of the upcoming Windows release, it’s going to be called wait for it... Windows 7. It’s a pretty boring name really and windows hasn’t been called its build number since Windows 3 but on the Microsoft blog they have stated that going back to the new naming system is because of simplicity. They tried dates, 95, 98 and 2000 but they don’t release new versions often enough to justify naming Windows versions after their ...

Onkyo have introduced their new wireless headphones to the market, which comes will an iPod adapter. I’m not sure how useful these will be since the whole point of the iPod is portable music so I’m not sure how much benefit these headphones will bring. The MHP-UW2 wireless headphones transmit over the 2.4Ghz frequency to ensure crisp and high quality sound, and lasts for 8 hours of continues music before you need to charge the headphones via a USB connector or ...

You hear about people who were saved from gunfire because they had their bible in their chest pocket, but I bet you’ve never heard of someone being saved by their handkerchief before. Well you may do soon since a military grade Kevlar handkerchief has appeared on the market, if you want one though you’ll have to hurry up since there are only ten being made in total. This does sound like something James Bond would use as it certainly is ...