Google to raise $4 billion spending money!
Posted by donkey (2 Comments)	Thu Aug 18th '05 10:54:52 PM
Quote Google's intention to raise what could be an additional $4 billion from a share offering has slapped Wall Street in the face like someone might be slapped in the gob with a wet haddock. Google told the egregious Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it wanted to offer an extra 14.2 million shares. The news sent Google (tick: GOOG) shares down by over $5 because Wall Street brokers don't know what to make of such moves. For some odd reason, they've always been chary of Google. But Google was straight enough with the SEC. It said that it wanted to take over companies and use the extra money as working capital. The really interesting thing about this what google will do with 4 billion bucks! That's some serious cash. I love google's ambition - it's not just out to simply dominate a market so that the company will be powerful, it always tries to make something extra cool. 4 billion bucks buys a lot of cool!
News Source: Teh Inq	Genre: Internet

China sets its sights on the Moon
Posted by mrplow (3 Comments)	Wed Aug 17th '05 09:53:38 PM
BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to launch its first unmanned lunar flight by 2007 in a three-phase mission that aims to bring back rock samples, state media said on Tuesday. In the second stage, a lunar vehicle would land on the moon by 2012 and by 2017 the rock samples could be collected, the report said quoting aerospace officials. "Scientists hope to get to know the moon's environment and analyse the composition of lunar rocks," the China Daily quoted Luan Enjie, chief commander of China's lunar exploration programme, as saying. China has developed an ambitious space programme since its first Long March rocket blasted off in 1970. It became the third country to successfully send a man into space in October 2003 and regularly sends up research satellites. China's lunar orbiter weighed more than two tonnes and was expected to fly for a year, collecting information for a mapping of the moon's surface and studying its mineral content, Luan said. He did not say when China might be sending an astronaut to the moon, but said the 2017 mission would provide data for a manned expedition. Not much point clicking the link, I just "quoted" the entire thing Salmons first reuters post?
News Source: reuters	Genre: Science

m$ sets price for new xbox - 2 first born sons and 3 healthy goats...
Posted by mrplow (1 Comment)	Wed Aug 17th '05 09:43:14 PM
... or $300, whichevers easiest. Microsoft's next generation console, the Xbox 360, will cost $299 (£209) when it goes on sale at Christmas. The company announced the price at the German Games Convention in Leipzig. A more expensive version costing $399 (£279) will include a 20GB hard drive, wireless controller, headset and remote control. Microsoft is aiming to launch the Xbox 360 before Sony's PlayStation 3, which is due out in the spring. Nintendo's next generation console, the Revolution, is also expected to be released in 2006. Ghost Recon 3 is gonna be sweet... luckily we can all just play it on our PCs
News Source: beebeecee	Genre: Console Gaming

American Idiots
Posted by mrplow (1 Comment)	Wed Aug 17th '05 09:40:41 PM
A bunch of witless yanks tried to kill each other to get at cheap 4 year old iBooks. A quick excerpt: A sale of second-hand Apple laptops costing only $50 have caused a near riot in Virginia in the US. More than 5,500 people queued for a chance to buy one of the 1,000 laptops and stampeded when the sale of the computers started. In the crush 17 people were injured and four needed hospital treatment. The four-year-old iBooks were being sold off cheap because Henrico County switched to Dell from Apple to supply laptops for its schools. Hahahahahahahahaha.
News Source: beebeecee	Genre: Apple

Apple bitten by Microsoft
Posted by joe (1 Comment)	Mon Aug 15th '05 04:06:12 PM
APPLE Computers could be forced to pay royalties to Microsoft for every iPod it sells, after it emerged that Bill Gates's software company beat Steve Jobs's firm in the race to file a crucial patent on technology used in the portable music players. The total bill could run into hundreds of millions of dollars. The patent is related to certain aspects of the device's software. Although Apple introduced the iPod in November 2001, it filed its patent five months after Microsoft. Turns out this is misinformation started by the rumour-mill at Apple Insider View: Read the full article
News Source: The Scotsman	Genre: Tech

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