Amusing myself...

[mapsedge]

Since Microsoft gave up on trying to purchase Yahoo, somehow it makes it into the news that Google is now eyeing (or has been eyeing, I'm not sure on that point) Microsoft's former prey.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7393486.stm

I shudder to think of the anti-trust  issues that would raise (no, not really...) but what really gets me giggling is the possible name of the new company should the merger go through. 

"Yaggle" would be bad enough.  Me? 

I'm voting for "Goo-Hoo!"

Comments

[iarraidh.livejournal.com]

A possible fly in the ointment is that AT&T uses Yahoo Mail for its customers.
Without some interesting jockeying around and/or split offs, I'm not sure AT&T will want Google (who already has GMail) also take its EMail front end.

BTW - I am consistently getting 8 up to 10 meg downlaod speed and 1.6 to 2 meg upload speed with AT&T Uverse.

OVER COPPER WIRE!
It's astounding.
A DSL phone line run into my house, hooked to a "Residential Gateway", then ethernet to all devices - including the TV boxes.
100% improvement on picture quality over Time Warner, as well.
Just amazing.

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

Re, AT&T Uverse: what does that set you back a month?

[iarraidh.livejournal.com]

Kind of a loaded question.
My work needs me to have better, faster connectivity than Time Warner can provide.

Time Warner wanted $279 A MONTH to deliver "up to" 1.5 M upload and "up to" 7 M download with their "Business Class". That is absurd.

Work is subsidizing me $130 a month to have the AT&T speed. So ordering all services they provide (except Playboy Channel) costs me out-of-pocket $40 a month.

The Internet "Max", which is the top end connection, runs $55 when paired with a TV package, according to pricing on their web site. Can't tell what it would run stand-alone.