Stop being boring, news

I haven't updated the blog in a while, because aside from the superbowl, everything has been extremely boring.

Let's see. The best I can find, would be that Microsoft offered a bid of 44.6 billion dollars to acquire Yahoo!.. and ah. Hmm..

You know I love me some CIA stories.

Today the President approved the CIA's public disclosure of a widely condemned "interrogation technique" known as waterboarding. (Ever seen The Bourne Ultimatum?) CIA Director Michael Hayden had some bs reasons for using it, something about being low on necessary information surrounding the plans and whereabouts of Al-Quaeda, and having to use it, blahblah. They say it hasn't been used in 5 years, but could with the permission of the President. As of now, they refuse to call it torture.


What else.. I read that Google plans to team up with some Chinese music companies to compete with the largest search engine in China, which is currently offering free mp3 downloads-- unlicensed. Google aims to offer the same sort of thing but with licensed music.. we'll see where they get with that!

Lastly, the GPS tracking company known as Loopt, used by Nextel, Sprint, and Boost Mobile, is now also being used by CBS in such a way that if anyone on a mobile phone goes to access their site through the mobile browser, web advertisements will appear in accordance to that person's surroundings. For example, if there were a Starbucks nearby while the site was being accessed, the advertisements would be for Starbucks.

Clever in my opinion. Loopt is also in negotiations with all major service providers to allow wider use of this network. We're still not where the Japanese are with their phones, but we're making some slow progress I suppose.

I'll try and find something other than mediorcre news to post here.. in the meantime, read the full stories at these jumps:

Reuters: CIA

BusinessWeek: Yahoo! bid

PC World: Mobile Ads

Associated Press: Google in China