Add Washington Mutual to the list of troubled financial institutions felled by the current economic crisis. The lender was seized by federal regulators on Thursday night and sold to JPMorgan Chase for $1.9 billion in the hopes of preventing further damage to the country’s hard-hit economy.
Apparently, someone forgot to tell Intel (INTC) about the recession. The company reported a sharp rise in profit on Tuesday in the face of a flaccid U.S. economy.
Looks like Firefox 3 Download Day will be one for the record books after all. Though its servers were initially overwhelmed by the volume of download requests yesterday, Mozilla soon had the Firefox 3 download site humming along nicely. Within five hours it had broken Firefox 2’s single-day record of 1.6 million downloads and by 5 a.m. PDT today–18 hours into its world record attempt–it had already blown the doors off the 5 million mark it had set for itself with 6,424,790 downloads.
Add Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) to the list of folks who complain YouTube is neither thorough or expedient in removing objectionable content from its servers, whether it be in violation of copyright or “good taste.”
The cheeky folks at the Pirate Bay may need a peg leg or two when Sweden’s legal sharks are done with them. A Swedish prosecutor filed charges today against the popular BitTorrent tracker’s proprietors, accusing them of “promoting other people’s infringements of copyright laws.“
“The operation of the Pirate Bay is financed through advertising revenues,” [...]
This morning Ask.com became the Internet’s least intrusive search engine. Too bad it’s also one of least used. Because with a 2.9% share of the search market, few are likely to pay much mind to the title.
That said, “AskEraser,” which allows users to delete their search queries and related data (IP address, user ID, session [...]
Sun Microsystems, whose co-founder and Chairman Scott McNealy once described Microsoft’s Internet Information Server as “the Corvair of Web servers–unsafe at any speed” has become a Windows Server OEM.
Extending a partnership first struck in 2004, Sun will now resell and install Windows on its x86-based servers. For Sun, the deal is a way to drive [...]
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Best use of the Beeker “meee” ever.
While the technology behind the Telephone is new, the design is reassuringly old-fashioned, reminiscent of a phrenologist’s horn or ear-candle in form. We found the experience far more comfortable than the one we had with the Telegraph.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
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