Yahoo has firmly rebuffed a deal from Microsoft that would have seen the search giant selling off its search business and handing over the rest of the company to ‘activist investor’ Carl Icahn.
July 2008
Yahoo Rejects Microsoft’s ‘Now Or Never’ Offer
BIC Phone Launches In France: €49, Mobile & Ready To Go
BIC, famous for disposable pens and lighters, is launching the BIC Phone in France today.As with their other products, the BIC Phone focuses on core functions – making and receiving phone calls & texts.
Available in two playful colours, citrus orange and lime green, the USP of the BIC mobile phone is that it’s ready to go when you buy it.
None of this normal fiddling around with wrestling the battery out of the packaging, finding the charger and leaving it for X hours to get it ready to use – the BIC Phone is charged a ready to go.
Yahoo Games: Ad-supported Games On The Way
Yahoo is on the move again after their shenanigans with Microsoft and the possible take over.Today they’ve announced that they’re getting in to ad-supported downloadable games.
Flickr/Getty Deal: Analysis
The deal between Getty and Flickr, which exclusively gives Getty the right to pick the best images from Flickr and sell them via gettyimages.com to their customers in the creative, commercial and editorial industries — they call it the ‘first commercial licensing opportunity for photo-enthusiasts in the Flickr community’ — is, in many ways, inevitable.Getty have caused a considerable amount of heart ache to professional photographers by re-adjusting their rates and contracts for images in their commercial library.
Just 3% Of User Recycle Mobile Phones
Despite our endless enthusiasm for shiny new mobiles, just 3% of people bother to recycle their discarded mobile phones.A new global consumer survey released by Nokia asked 6,500 people in 13 countries about what happened to their old handsets with the results making for depressing reading: the notion of recycling didn’t even cross the minds of three out of four people asked, while nearly half didn’t even think it was possible to do so.
Scrabble Aims To Outshine Scrabulous On Facebook
Years late to the party, Hasbro and Mattel look to oust the unofficial Facebook hit app.
The unauthorised Scrabble rip-off ‘Scrabulous’ continues to be a phenomenal hit on the social networking site Facebook, despite the best efforts of copyright owners Hasbro and Mattel to get the application closed down.Euro Tech News: Steve Kennedy Deserves Your Vote!
We’re really pleased to see that Steve Kennedey’s, Euro Tech News blog has been short-listed for the ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards 08, which have recently been announced.Computer Weekly describe the selected sites as “this year’s must-read blogs for IT professionals in the UK,” which is a great accolade for Steve – quite rightly too.
Steve Kennedy really knows his onions — why else would we ask him to write for Digital-Lifestyles? — and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the comms and tech world.
His experience is extensive and oh so very deep. As the old phrase goes, he’s forgotten more about comms than most people will ever know.
Massive knowledge aside and on the personal side, he’s also a really nice bloke.
Vote for Euro Tech News
Steve’s Euro Tech News is listed in the Wireless and mobile blogs section and deserves your vote, he really does.Firefox Users Safest, IE Least Safe
We can’t say it comes as much of a surprise to us, but a study has found that Mozilla Firefox users are the safest surfers on t’web, while Internet Explorer users are the worst at keeping their browser’s online security up to date.O2/Be Broadband Twice As Fast As National Average
O2 Broadband and Be Broadband have put on their Billy Whizz boots and surged past their competitors in the broadband speed charts, providing average download speeds over twice the national average.The figures come from broadband analysts at broadband.co.uk, with spokeschap Edd Dawson commenting, “Such is O2’s dominance in the average download speed charts that they are an incredible 47% faster on average than their nearest rivals Virgin Media.”
DRM-free MP3 Downloads Surge By 300%
CD and DVDs sales may be going down the dumper, but downloads of DRM-free music are going through the roof.MP3 download site 7digital.com is reporting that sales have rocketed since they introduced DRM-free music from major labels Warner and EMI, with the site now riding high as the UK’s second biggest digital music retailer, after iTunes.
BIC, famous for disposable pens and lighters, is launching the BIC Phone in France today.
Yahoo is on the move again after their 
The deal between Getty and Flickr, which exclusively gives Getty the right to pick the best images from Flickr and sell them via gettyimages.com to their customers in the creative, commercial and editorial industries — they call it the ‘first commercial licensing opportunity for photo-enthusiasts in the Flickr community’ — is, in many ways, inevitable.
Despite our endless enthusiasm for shiny new mobiles, just 3% of people bother to recycle their discarded mobile phones.
The unauthorised Scrabble rip-off ‘Scrabulous’ continues to be a phenomenal hit on the social networking site Facebook, despite the 
We’re really pleased to see that Steve Kennedey’s, 
We can’t say it comes as much of a surprise to us, but a study has found that Mozilla Firefox users are the safest surfers on t’web, while Internet Explorer users are the worst at keeping their browser’s online security up to date.
O2 Broadband and Be Broadband have put on their Billy Whizz boots and surged past their competitors in the broadband speed charts, providing average download speeds over twice the national average.
CD and DVDs sales may be going down the dumper, but downloads of DRM-free music are going through the roof.