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Yahoo Is In Talks To Buy A Big Stake In Video Site Dailymotion (YHOO)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-is-in-talks-to-buy-a-big-stake-in-video-site-dailymotion-2013-3
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer could be on the cusp of her first big acquisition-like move.
The Wall Street Journal reports Yahoo is in talks to buy 75 percent of Dailymotion, a YouTube-esque video service that’s popular in Europe.
Dailymotion is owned by a French Telecom. It’s sort of a mess of different videos. Some are user generated, some are professional.
Yahoo would buy the stake at $300 million valuation with an option to buy the remaining 25 percent later, says the Journal.
Yahoo’s HR leader Jackie Rees told employees recently Yahoo was working on two large acquisitions. A lot of names have been floated around since then.
We’re not sure how Dailymotion fits Mayer’s vision for Yahoo. It’s never struck us as a great technology or media property. And, it’s not a big mobile property as far as we can tell.
However, the Journal says it had 116 million unique visitors in January, making it the twelfth biggest site in the world. It’s also popular outside of the U.S., which could be valuable to Yahoo since it’s largely a U.S. based business.
Mobile to Drive One-Third Paid Search Clicks by End 2013
Mobile To Drive One-Third Of Paid Search Clicks By Year End (Search Engine Land)
Marin Software released a report called The State of Mobile Search Advertising in the World. The 2012 data is drawn from search campaigns conducted in 13 geographies including the U.S., UK, China, Europe and Australia.
Marin forecasts that mobile devices will drive a third of U.S. paid clicks by December 2013. The company says that as of December 2012, mobile devices accounted for 23.4 percent of all US paid-search clicks. Mobile also captured 18.4 percent of search budgets in December.
Marin found that paid search campaigns on smartphones and tablets delivered higher click-through rates (CTR) at a lower cost-per-click (CPC). However, overall, conversions were lower on mobile devices. But because there are relatively few e-commerce sales on smartphones, this metric (“conversions”) isn’t a great fit.
Meanwhile…. The Economy Is Still Coming Unglued In Europe
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/eurozone-pmis-2011-12
Sovereign debt and banking issues aside, the economy of Europe still looks like it must be in recession.
Every country has reported a sub-50 PMI today.
This map from Markit is fantastic.
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- OECD Warns Of ‘Highly Devastating Outcomes’ From The European Crisis
- MORGAN STANLEY: This Is What The Euro Economy Will Do In 2012 And 2013
- MORGAN STANLEY: This Is What Will Happen To Government Deficits Over The Next Two Years
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British Teenagers Would Rather Lose TV Than The Internet
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/british-teenagers-would-rather-lose-tv-than-the-internet-2011-10
Young British teenagers would rather lose access to a TV than access to the Internet or their cell phones, reports the Guardian.
According to new research carried out by British communications regulator, Ofcom, 18 percent of 12 to 15-year-olds said they would miss TV the most if all media was taken away. That compares to 28 percent who said they would miss their cell phones and 25 percent who said they would miss the Internet.
A year ago, TV was missed as much as the Internet.
However, according to Digital Spy, the study also showed that young teenagers are watching more TV than ever. Viewing figures have increased by almost two hours a week since 2007, and “catch-up” services online are increasingly being used.
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- Two British Men Charged With "Conspiracy To Murder" Joss Stone
- James Murdoch Will Face UK Parliament Again In November
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1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/1024-bit-rsa-encryption-cracked-by-carefully-starving-cpu-of-ele/
Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, three eggheads (or Wolverines, as it were) at the University of Michigan claim they can break it simply by tweaking a device’s power supply. By fluctuating the voltage to the CPU such that it generated a single hardware error per clock cycle, they found that they could cause the server to flip single bits of the private key at a time, allowing them to slowly piece together the password. With a small cluster of 81 Pentium 4 chips and 104 hours of processing time, they were able to successfully hack 1024-bit encryption in OpenSSL on a SPARC-based system, without damaging the computer, leaving a single trace or ending human life as we know it. That’s why they’re presenting a paper at the Design, Automation and Test conference this week in Europe, and that’s why — until RSA hopefully fixes the flaw — you should keep a close eye on your server room’s power supply.
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HP Mini 311 Nvidia ION Netbook Hackintosh’ed
screenshots to come
Source: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=189621&pid=1296786
Specifications pertinent to Mac OS X:
Memory – 1024MB onboard with one open DDR3 SO-DIMM slot for up to 2048MB expansion, giving 3072MB total memory – Postpunk confirmed
Chipset – STATUS – NVIDIA ION LE
Graphics – STATUS – NVIDIA GeForce 9400M based (NVEnabler, LCD, 1366×768, QE/CI) – adachis/supervisa confirmed DSDT may be an option
HDMI Port – UNKNOWN – TESTING NEEDED
VGA Port – UNKNOWN – TESTING NEEDED
Universal Serial Bus – STATUS – NVIDIA ION LE
Microprocessor – STATUS – Intel Atom N270/N280 – Researching better fixes to remove need for NullCPUPowerManagement
Keyboard – STATUS – PS/2 based – ApplePS2Old – adachis confirmed
Trackpad – STATUS – Alps Electric – PS/2 based – ApplePS2Old – adachis confirmed
Local Storage – STATUS – NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller
Wireless – G-STATUS / N-STATUS – BCM4312(G) (adachis confirmed) and BCM943224(N) (PZZ confirmed)
Network – STATUS – 10/100 NVIDIA nForce MCP79
Wireless WAN – UNKNOWN – HP un2420 Mobile Broadband (Qualcom2000)
Bluetooth – STATUS – USB/PCIe Broadcom based – superviza confirmed
Audio – STATUS – NVIDIA HDA (VoodooHDA works large amount of static overlay, try 16-bit – adachis confirmed) DSDT may be an option
Webcam – STATUS – USB Based HP Webcam-50 – superviza confirmed
External Optical – STATUS – HP External 556s Optical Drive – theproto confirmed
Feature status:
Battery Status – STATUS – VoodooBattery shows some functions – (adachis confirmed) so does AppleACPIBatteryManager (superviza confirmed)
Sleep/Hibernate/Suspend – STATUS – MORE TESTING NEEDED – Not looking good OOB (superviza confirmed)
Trackpad Options – STATUS – VoodooPS2 not recognizing trackpad – adachis confirmed
Shutdown/Reboot – STATUS – superviza confirmed
Clamshell Switch – STATUS – superviza confirmed
Power Button – STATUS – superviza confirmed
SpeedStep or P/C-States – STATUS – AppleLPC loaded and P/C-States are present -superviza/theproto confirmed
Status legend:
VANILLA – No fixes needed or DSDT/EFI fixes used only
EXTRAS – Extra KEXTs needed but not located in /S/L/E
MODIFICATIONS – Modifications or additions to /S/L/E or any other system file
UNSUPPORTED – No useable driver exists for the device/chipset
UNKNOWN – Initial status indicating further testing/verification is needed
For download packages see:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=189621&pid=1296786
Another thread making progress:
http://myhpmini.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=2402
source: http://www.liliputing.com/2009/10/hp-mini-311-ram-can-be-upgraded.html
HP Mini 311 RAM can be upgraded
The HP Mini 311 (or Compaq Mini 311C in Europe) comes with 1GB of RAM soldered to the motherboard. At first glance, that might make this NVIDIA ION-powered laptop a bit less attractive, since it somewhat limits your upgrade options. But Blogeee reports there’s good news: There is another RAM slot that users can take advantage of to upgrade the RAM.
All you have to do is pop open the back and slide in a 2GB module to upgrade the memory to 3GB.
Source: http://www.liliputing.com/2009/10/hp-mini-311-with-ion-graphics-can-run-os-x.html
HP Mini 311 with ION graphics can run OS X
Want an 11.6 inch mini-laptop with high performance graphics, and the ability to run OS X? It looks like the HP Mini 311 fits the bill.
ASRock ION 330 hackintosh
Source: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=178372&st=0#entry1217787
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