Yahoo and Microsoft making the rounds with old lovers?

Microsoft now wants to get some friends to seal the deal? Time Warner und News Corp. Awesome! How many news do we have to read until it finally stops?

For Bill Gates, the next phase begins

Yet another recent big bruhaha by Microsoft. After hundreds of redundant news about Gates leaving Microsoft we have now reached the time for hundreds of redundant news about Microsoft without Gates - even though he isn’t really away away. I just don’t care about the Windows XP EOL news anymore.

A little history lesson about Microsoft, Bill Gates and his airport races can be heard on Windows Weekly Episode #65.

Sony: Firmware v2.40 status

This really didn’t work out as planned. First they come up with the big news about how great this update will be and now they had to take 2.40 down. “A limited number of calls from consumers experiencing an issue with installing the system software update on their PS3″ leaves some room for speculation as usual. How many is a limited number? 10, 100, 1.000 or maybe more?

Mozilla Sets New Guinness World Record with Firefox 3 Downloads

Don’t get me wrong, I really like Firefox. Especially version 3 added some great feature and also works quite a bit faster than before. But I guess 8.002.530 downloads in 24 hours won’t hold up too long. Let’s wait for Microsoft’s numbers for a usual patch tuesday.

Apple iPhone 3G

Oh well, one more week to go. I’m interested to see if there’ll be lines at Germany’s T-Mobile stores like last year. I was surprised that Germans would really stand in the rain at midnight on a cold november night, all that just for a new mobile phone.

This is actually the best description of the situation. (And no, I don’t read Valleywag regularly.)
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Following some dear friends, I hereby also declare my resignation from not working at Yahoo. It was a great time with the other, mostly clever people around here. Some people working in positions, in which they had and still have no idea what they had to do. What a week. Other people having had great ideas and also not working here any longer. Let’s hope the best for the reorganization.

It was a great time, not working for Yahoo.

There hasn’t been a post about Yahoo on TechCrunch for the past 5 minutes. Let’s see if we can change that.

Edit: For those who are too lazy to create their own resignations from not working with Yahoo can use YahooRezinr.

Ich hatte letztens das Problem, dass ich für ein besonderes Ereignis schnell ein passendes Objektiv brauchte und dazu noch einen Blitz. Kaufen war nicht, weil das Geld dann doch etwas knapp war für das gesuchte. Was bei Autos funktioniert muss es doch auch bei Kamera-Equipment geben? Naja, ganz so einfach war es dann leider nicht. Viele Foto-Geschäfte vermieten zwar auch Kameras, Objektive und Zubehör, wollen aber meist neben teuren Tagespreisen den vollen Preis als Kaution, am besten noch in Bar.
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One thing that Apple is about to do right, at least from their point of view, before another big gun will is the combination of 3G, a data flatrate, GPS and the ubiquitous connection to the net. And all those bits and bytes will float through the inner tubes of Apple.

Put all of this together and you’ll see how Google starts to look like an innocent kitten whose food was just taken away. But let’s take a look what Apple’s next phone will do.
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Just needed to get this out there.