IT News blog 2009

July 29, 2009
Microsoft and Yahoo aim to join forces based on the new MS bing search engine which has gained some ground since the launch in spring. Yahoo plans to market the attached ad space.

22 May, 2009
Bing is gaining ground in the race with Google.

18 November, 2009
Jerry Yang has stepped down at Yahoo where the company value has gone down to $14,7 billion compared to $47,5 billion in springtime when Microsoft had wanted a takeover.

02 September, 2009
Google remains on the attack with the release of a Chrome, the Google browser. Here`s some screenshots with introduction and the official Google news.

29 August, 2009
American Airlines offers now broadband Internet.

28 July, 2009
cuil.com is a new search engine aiming to challenge Google.

July 11, 2009
yahoo is again expected to become a part of the Microsoft empire since Steve Ballmer has been teaming up with shareholders.

April 4, 2009
pizza.com was sold by a lucky investor for $2.6 million who had bought the domain in 1994.

March 15, 2009
youtube has announced to offer other websites it`s technical backbone so that publishers can launch their own video upload community.

February 27, 2009
Microsoft has to pay a fine in the EU worth $1.4 billion for anti-competitive behavior.

27. February, 2009
Google shares have fallen down to $446 from a high of $747 just two months ago.

14. February, 2009
Rupert Murdoch`s NewsCorp wants to partner with Yahoo where the recent Microsoft offer had been rejected as too low.

25. January, 2009
Yahoo might get taken over by Microsoft for $44,6 billion in the second half of 2009.

5. January, 2009
Yahoo is getting to terminate 1.000 jobs due to miserable results.

IT News blog 2007

30. December, 2007
Yahoo search is getting worse and worse in terms of search results.

18. November, 2007
Google has downgraded many high quality pages to Page Rank 0 whilst Junklink Collections benefit from Page Rank 7.

October 09, 2007
Google shares are now worth more than $600 whilst the company is worth more than $147 billion.

August 17, 2007
Skype Internet phone had been down for more than 2 days.

May 29, 2007
godaddy is the lucky winner of the registerfly.com scam with now taking over some final 850.000 Domains.

May 21, 2007
Yahoo seems to be planning to take over bebo for $ 1 billion equivelent to $ 40 for each of the 25 million registered users.

May 05, 2007
Microsoft had been reported to have offered Yahoo a $50 billion take over deal. Yahoo shares had gone up by 16%, but then talks had failed.

April 25, 2007
Microsoft's failure on the Internet has led to a big Internet ad campaign for Live search, despite still extremely poor search results.

April 21, 2007
Under the eyes of ICANN and the FBI the criminal minded registerfly domain seller keeps on pulling in thousands of Dollars each day.

April 10, 2007
More than 75,000 individuals including the government of Thailand have lost their Internet domain names through criminal activities of the registerfly.com registrar. All U.S. law systems have failed alongside ICANN to stop the still ongoing fraud.

April 4, 2007
ICANN is now seeking immunity to escape responsibilities in registerfly.com scam. Still unaware new customers get trapped at this criminal minded registrar.

The quality of Google search results is further going down with many quality sites have lost their traffic to less relevant websites.

March 28, 2007
A lawsuit has now been filed against ICANN, Enom and registerfly by an established law firm. Victims can join at registerfly-lawsuit.com Meanwhile ICANN has created at least a blog on registerfly.

March 18, 2007
ICANN has dumped registerfly.com and countless domain owners have lost control over their websites.

March 13, 2007
after the registerfly.com scam where even the government of Thailand had lost domains now also the godaddy.com registrar faced trouble when some attack had disrupted dns and hosting services.

March 06, 2007
within 6 months Microsoft plans to challenge Google search with a new software. Currently the poorly designed live-search only prides massive website crawls, but without sending visitors.

February 9, 2007
ICANN and top level registrars like enom and verisign had not been able to secure the rights of 2 million domain owners by allowing criminals at registerfly to conduct with extremely dubious business.

February 04, 2007
MySpace and Ebay have decided to combine their offers and services.

January 29, 2007
Google has stopped his Internet TV Network which will from now on function as a video search service.

Now U.S. Senators like John Sununu want to give the big telcos the right to bill publishers heavily for content distribution. At least savetheinternet.com is trying to maintain the freedom of the Internet.

January 15, 2007
AOL had tried to extended his IT Media range with the $900 million acquisition of the Swedish Trade Doubler affiliate network. In the past Trade Doubler had never done too well, as well AOL's purchase of free storage provider xdrive does not look like a real shiny deal.

Google chief engineer Douglas Merrill has emphasized the importance of the search business.

Ebay & Yahoo have appointed some intense cooperation to strengthen their competitiveness against Google.

Members of the EU Parliament like Alain Lamassoure are demanding to impose taxes on E-mails and SMS.

Microsoft has announced to improve it`s Internet offerings by an additional investment of $1,6 billion. At this time only 10% search with MSN where suggestions are still very poor.

NBC Universal has acquired iVillage for $600 million.

A new free voice over ip Internet telephone service comes from France at wengo

An Iowa court has sentenced a spammer to compensate an isp with $11,2 billion.

Google had to rename it`s gmail service in the U.K. and Germany into googlemail because in both of these countries a company named Independent International Investment Research (IIIR) owns that name.

Ebay has taken over Internet Phone provider Skype at a price of $4 billion. With Paypal Ebay had acquired already the leading Internet payment system.

Yahoo `s messenger 7 will also include a voice over ip phone service feature and the company has also intensified it`s China ambitions with the acquisition of a 35% share in alibaba.com at a price of $1 billion.

The new shares of the Chinese Internet search engine Baidu.com had climbed to a value of $142 after an initial start of $27 and with also Google as a main shareholder.

Mozilla prides a 10% marketshare whilst the new IE browser will require XP or Vista and will not support windows 2000.

With 23.000 W Lan Hotspots South Korea is bound to remain the world leader. Also 71% of all users benefit from broadband access at decent average costs of $15 for a flat rate.

Barack Obama

was born in a Year of the Buffalo, the symbol of down to earth strength and durability.

In the past America had seen Buffalo Richard Nixon as the President for some time however Buffalos seem to be much better represented by George Clooney, Robert Redford and Jack Nicholson what does point at their charismatic acting abilities.

Barack Obama became the Senator of Illinois in November 2004 when 70% of the voters had wanted him to be their representative.

Nationwide Barack Obama has become extremely popular among the young intellectual Americans.

Buffalos also look good on TV because they know how to compensate their limited intellectual abilities with appropriate but still drastic enough statements that can reach the masses with usually relatively plain messages.

All this had given Barack Obama the chance to knock out Pig Hillary Clinton.

Joe Biden

was born in a Year of the Horse which is another down to earth symbol for strength and durability. Horses are very popular in politics as shown by Condi Rice and the Chinese government led by Horse Hu Jintao.

In China people say, that the Horse always finds it`s way home and that is why perhaps also in Russia most Presidents had been born in a year of the Horse.

John McCain

was born in a year of the Rat just like Al Gore and George H.W. Bush and obviously this symbol has proven to be strong enough for any leadership.

Rats are the by far most successful coaches in Sports as a result of being the very best communicators and organizers.

In fact the last Soccer World Cups have been dominated by Rat coaches from Brazil, Italy and Germany.

John McCain is without any doubt a very efficient communicator and perhaps the next President of the United States despite his almost complete lack of modern, innovative thinking. More troops for Iraq is one of his main approaches.

Sarah Palin

was born at the end of a Rabbit year, a symbol that stands for fashion, style and passion, perhaps expressed at best by the currently successful divas such as tennis queen La Sharapova, Angelina Jolie, Posh Spice and rap star Li`Kim.

In politics Rabbits are fairly unknown except for some occasional and usualy appearances due atheir limited interest in intelectual challenges.

Hillary Clinton - OUT

has been born in a Year of the Pig and it is no surprise, that she has reached such a big turning point in her career in this current 2007 Year of the Pig.

People respect Hillary Clinton a lot for her hard work and her persistency not only shown during the Monica Lewinsky days when husband Bill Clinton had been in charge of the White House.

At that time she had come up with some smart and cool behavior that is kind of typical for folks who have been born in years of the Pig.

Jealousy has usually not much of a meaning for them and they are able to deliver down to earth decisions whenever required.

In the past Ronald Reagon had been a truly successful Pig at the White House when he had straightened out cold war matters as well as Pig Arnold Schwarzenegger had been prepared to take over a difficult California.

On the downside several critics do miss some real personality with Hillary Clinton, what seems also kind of typical with most Pig Ladies due to their frequent lack of intellectual and emotional depth which are both required for serious leadership abilities.

In fact, most Pig women do not enjoy and desire the central limelight so that it is again no surprise, that Hillary Clinton does not look to feel very comfortable in public situations with cameras around.

Behind her Dog Bill she had looked great, but on her own and even in her website video she much more occurs like just a normal house wife rather than as a potential U.S. President with the ability to run the U.S. in difficult days.

Mitt Romney - OUT

has been born in the same year of the Pig as Hillary Clinton and uring his career he became the Governor of Massachusetts.

He is strictly against polygamy and he had been involved in the 2002 Winter Olympics. But all that had not been enough to remain in the race.

Rudy Giuliani - OUT

was born in a Year of the Monkey and in many ways he does remind of Monkey Don Rumsfeld because both of them are always good for cracking some fairly entertaining jokes even under circumstances that may look depressing.

Just like New Orleans Monkey Mayor Ray Nagin also Rudy Giuliani had done a great job for New York with his uncompromising approach to the nagging problems all over town.

In the past Lyndon B. Johnson had been a Monkey President who had badly failed in Vietnam similar to Don Rumsfeld's methods for stabilizing Iraq.

However most Monkeys are outstanding communicators and entertainers so that he will have at least a small chance in the 2006 Race for the White House.

A problem for conservative voters might be his liberal view on marriage and gay communities.

Fred Thompson - OUT

was born in a year of the Horse, what makes him a good candidate for the conservatives.

The 3 chancellors Helmut Kohl, Angela Merkel and Helmut Schmidt reflect the German passion for the Horse and in China Horse Hu has become the current leader. The Horse always finds the way home is what the Chinese people say and what makes this symbol so popular.

The Year of the Pig 2007

seems to obviously favor Pig Hillary Clinton in her Big Time Year although a look back at the last Year of the Pig also proves Buffalos like Barack Obama to be very successful.

This in combination with Hillary Clinton's weak public presentation against the self assurance steaming Buffalo Barack Obama's charismatic appearance will lead to an open race between two down to earth candidates who both try to come across as just like a person next door.

On the other side the race between Rat McCain and Monkey Rudy Giuliani is taking place much more on a real leadership level with highest propaganda and communication skills involved.

Nevertheless, chances for Monkey Giuliani look slim when looking at the current political status of both candidates. In particular the National range of Rat McCain speaks for the Senator of Arizona.

All in all it looks like a Buffalo Barack Obama vs. Rat McCain clash coming up by the end of 2007 though Pig Hillary Clinton might have a slim chance in her big time year.

The Year of the Rat 2008

everything points at Senator Rat John McCain to become the next President of the United States. He's been born under the most perfect symbol for the Rat Year 2008 and for being a successful politician.

In Presidential TV Debates with Pig Hillary Clinton he would always come out as the much more gifted and talented leader based on his stronger charisma and much more advanced rhetorical skills.

Against Buffalo Barack Obama he would certainly have a much more difficult standing but in the end age and color would make John McCain the more successful candidate in most parts of America.

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