Archive for March, 2008

Sony Ericsson and the Xperia-ence

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Sony Ericsson is enbarking on taking on the US market seriously. They have realized that they aren’t catching much fish (US) with the Symbian OS bait as easily as they do with the European and the rest the of the world markets. MS Mobile is more palatable to the US taste..so is Blackberry therefore Enter The Xperia! SE first foray into the MS Mobile market and not a bad one at that. Some Yah-Sayers saying its the iPhone killer but honestly that is really too previous. There is no way its going to sell as well as the iPhone but it will sell well if marketed properly. Tech donations like these are definitely accepted with much appreciation to boot. :-)

Curious to hear your thoughts….

Yahoosoft - Yahoo and Microsoft to Merge?

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Well Microsoft made an offer to buy Yahoo for US$40 billion,US$31 per share. Yahoo Board of Directors said No - We have a number of investments that hasn’t realized in the market as yet. Microsoft had a tantrum and is now looking at ah hostile takeover - going directly to shareholders. Is this a good thing if Microsoft gains control of Yahoo? Is it a bad thing? Taking into consideration how YH is based on open source platforms for all its development and services and MS is pretty much “you will be assimulated”…its not going to be a good day for YH at all. Both companies are giants in there respective arenas and it will be interesting to see how this possible merger will pan out. Taking into consideration the vast difference in culture as well it might be that MS might just acquire and leave a decent part of Yahoo to do what it normally does. But we haven’t answered the real question…Is this a good thing? I don’t feel it is. The fewer competitors in a market the few innovations. I like me my many options if i feel compelled to go alternative. So we will be left with the Microsoft and Google as the Titans of the net and your phone but we will get to the latter part shortly.