| Class-action lawsuit blasts Microsoft's "Vista Capable" designation
And lets face it, we learn most about a product from reading reviews. If you can't find a review then what? Dagan Henderson - "As a Microsoft Partner, we received massive amounts of literature making it very clear what "Vista Compatible" meant." You want us to believe you had PC's with prices and so-called NEGATIVE LITERATUTE that clearly showed the PC was overall unusable posted or mounter in front of the products? NoFingWay !!! And I'm not talking about a chinese dish pal... I can also assure you these PC's are used as a last minute sales ditch effort to prospective customers. Pushed out front are the more expensive ones and as the customer says no to the price and all out push to get them to buy something takes place. There is when a consumer the print doesn't contradict the words. This is the problem.
Terry McCrann
WE are caught between the US slashing interest rates and our Reserve Bank putting them up. And it's against the backdrop of an Australian broker failing to settle trades for the first time since the Australian Stock Exchange switched to computers almost 20 years ago. For almost five hours last Tuesday, hundreds of millions of dollars of share trades were frozen in limbo. Video: Terry McCrann's business wrap Throw in that $8 billion forex loss by giant French bank Societe Generale, another multi-billion dollar sub-prime write-off by Switzerland's biggest bank, UBS, and it all adds up to disturbing confusion and complexity. Certainly, we are living in "interesting times". Are they about to turn interestingly nasty? For investors? For jobs? For your standard of living? In fact, the local outcome from all of this is encouraging resilience.
Exclusive video: Ross Kemp under fire in Afghanistan
Last year, EastEnders actor turned award-winning journalist Ross Kemp travelled to Afghanistan to live with, travel with, and face fire with British soldiers. Kemp lived with sand storms, temperatures of over 50ºC and the constant threat of attack from the Taliban to film a documentary about the lives of soldiers for Sky One. "Conditions in Afghanistan are intolerable," he said. "The heat is stifling and there's the constant threat of snipers, RPG attacks and land mines. During one engagement between B Company and the Taliban we were pinned down by enemy fire in open ground; bullets fizzed by inches from our heads, hitting the ground on either side of us. It was the most frightening experience of my life. I’ve never hugged the ground as tightly as I did when that happened.
Frist Fence Flakeout?
Frist is having trouble rounding up enough votes for a showdown over the fence this week. I'd tentatively file that under "fecklessness," especially given Frist's bravura last week. He could hold a press conference to shame Republicans as well as Dems into agreeing to a vote if he wanted to. (He might actually have more luck with the Dems--but their votes count too.) Plus, hasn't the Senate already agreed to cloture on the fence issue? Does Frist even need a supermajority? **--The grin is at about 9:18 in this video. There's an ominous sigh too (when the fence question first comes up, at about 8:00). ... .
Gates: Microsoft Offer For Yahoo Firm
Most analysts believe Microsoft will do whatever it takes to buy Yahoo. Redmond-based Microsoft has invested heavily in honing its own search engine and advertising technology, but neither it nor Yahoo have helped close the gap with Google, which dominates Microsoft and Yahoo in U.S. search queries and related advertising revenue.Yahoo is believed to want at least $40 per share, but Microsoft has held firm so far, calling its original bid "full and fair." Microsoft's next move could be to take the offer directly to Yahoo's shareholders, or to attempt a hostile takeover of Yahoo's board.Yahoo shares closed at $29.66 Friday. Markets were closed Monday for Presidents Day.Gates' comment Monday was in response to a question during a phone interview about an unrelated effort to give students free access to certain Microsoft software.There have also been reports that Yahoo is exploring a merger with Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, another popular Internet property that has been struggling in recent years.
At Salishan, it’s all about pride
School's out, and a parade of kids swarms across the T-Street Gulch bridge and bursts into Salishan, swinging books, chatting and laughing.Video: A look back at the Salishan that once was It's a healthy, happy-looking bunch, diverse as a Coke commercial. They cross a grassy park and fan out onto the East Side Tacoma neighborhood's quiet streets, heading toward picturesque Craftsman-style homes, each with a big front porch and a manicured lawn. The scene is enough to sway even the most skeptical: Might it really be possible that the revamped Salishan, notorious for poverty and violence in the 1980s, actually will turn out to be the Utopian model its developers say it will be? "This is better, 'cause the old one had rodents running around," said Margarita Crown, a 45-year-old single mother who lived in the old Salishan and now has a corner duplex in the new one.
Touting Geraldo, ABC's Cuomo Rips Anti-Illegal 'Fear'
"Good Morning America" co-host Chris Cuomo used an interview with Geraldo Rivera on Tuesday to once again showcase his liberal views on illegal immigration. Touting the Fox News host's new book "His Panic," Cuomo gushed over the "beautiful" title and immediately accepted the premise of the book by stating, "But it is about why Americans fear Hispanics in the U.S.--You believe to be the case." Later in the segment, he again dropped any objectivity and opined, "There is a lot of history, a lot of fact in this book. Interesting in a discussion that's usually fueled by passion--" In comparison, the host offered no such accolades to Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo, a foe of illegal immigration. During a June 2007 interview with the then-presidential candidate, Cuomo asked if Tancredo, who fought for tough border security bills, was "driving anti-immigrant sentiment?" He also chided Tancredo for using "scary" words in regard to the contentious subject.
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