Yahoo Restructure Looming
by Taylor Flatt on February 22nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm EDT - 1,865 views
Carol Bartz, the new Chief Executive, is said to begin reconstruction of Yahoo sometime next week. From sources within Yahoo, Carol is supposedly placing a traditional structure on Yahoo much like the one she employed at Autodesk. From another prominent source,
Most expect Bartz to do a C-level style set-up, with executives like a chief operating officer, chief technology officer and also a new, more powerful chief media officer (who will also head PR), all reporting to her.
After losing many of their executives to Microsoft including Larry Heck (VP of search and advertisement sciences) and Qi Lu (VP of engineering for search and advertisement sciences), it looks like there might be a tough task ahead of Ms.Bartz.
Category: Industry News, Online
Tags: Autodesk, Carol Bartz, Google, Microsoft, Restructure, yahoo
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285 CommentsNCSoft Gets Ready to Close Tabula Rasa
by Andrew Kao on February 18th, 2009 at 4:24 pm EDT - 646 views
The widely acclaimed Tabula Rasa will end its service on February 28th, according to the open letter distributed by the company. The company has begun distributing rewards for their other games, as well as refunding subscriptions that were paid for February and January. NCSoft had sited that the reason for closing the service was that the game had a player population of less than it had anticipated, citing a gap between real and expected revenues.
Rumors had been floating around that Tabula Rasa would be made free to the public, however with the recent events putting forth, Tabula Rasa seems to be officially closing all services. Tabula Rasa will indeed be missed by many players, however in my opinion, I think NCSoft is making the right decision to focus on their more popular games, instead of lingering on some of their dying franchises.
Microsoft’s Own ‘Easy Button’
by Nathaniel Ed on February 8th, 2009 at 8:00 pm EDT - 979 views
Recently Microsoft started implementing it’s latest invention: a ‘Fix it’ button on its self help pages. It isn’t very widespread as of now, but the project is quickly gaining ground, seeing as how it started off with roughly four automatic ‘fix-its’ in December, and now it has grown to about 100 different ‘fix-its.’
To see how it worked, I decided to personally to try out this new feature. I found an easy one for me to try: The Internet Explorer icon is missing from your desktop. Upon arriving on the page, the button stuck out rather quickly. They still have manual fix instructions for Do-It-Yourselfers, but now you can automatically do it.
First of all, I put my IE icon in my recycle bin, then emptied the bin. Next, I clicked on the ‘Fix-It’ button, and a download message appeared. I chose to save the file, and an install wizard came up, so I installed the program that was designed to put an IE icon on my desktop. Next it required me to restart my computer, which I did. Then I noticed that the icon appeared without restarting my computer, but I went ahead and took the advise of the wizard and restarted my computer.
Tags: easy button, Fix-It button, help, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, support
90,000 Sex Offenders Removed From MySpace
by Joel Borhart on February 4th, 2009 at 11:44 am EDT - 763 views
On Tuesday, February 3, MySpace removed nearly 90,000 of its over 110 million users who were identified as sex offenders. MySpace is a social networking website that has drawn in a younger crowd.
Following the younger crowd is the sexual predators that lie and fake their age in order to lure in the users who are not careful. Both MySpace and Facebook are constantly trying to reduce the number of sexual predators who use their sites but it is almost impossible to root out.
IBM’s Ambition: 20X Performance Leap
by Nathaniel Ed on February 3rd, 2009 at 6:48 pm EDT - 670 views
Seven months ago IBM created the most powerful supercomputer. Now IBM seeks to create an even more powerful computer; one that has the computing power of two million laptops.
You heard me right. Two million laptops. Equal to 20 petaflops. Much larger than the supercomputer that they build last year, which was the first computer to break the one petaflop barrier, pulling in at 1.105 petaflops.
They have codenamed it the Sequoia computer, and they schedule it to finish in 2011 for use at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, being built for the purpose of simulating nuclear tests. IBM says that it can also be used for weather forecasting or oil exploration. It will take up the same space as 96 refrigerator-sized racks in an area of 3422 square feet.
SecuROM Leaks Details of Upcoming 1.03 Patch?
by Drew Flatt on February 1st, 2009 at 11:22 am EDT - 936 views
A member in another forum called lolel had an interesting post, it said this,
“I had an issue with Securom launching the game using my retail CD. It was not recognized as a genuine disk. So I sent them an an email and they responded back in less than 12 hours. They sent a link to a new LaunchGTAIV.exe file that happens to be a no CD launcher. Below is what they wrote with a link to the new .exe file:”
So what do you think happened? Well the unthinkable happened SecuROM sent him a working no cd exe. Here is their email back to him.