Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

CBS Acquires CNet

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

CBS Broadcasting Inc. (CBS) is planning to acquire CNET Networks, Inc. for $11.50 a share, totalling $1.8 billion dollars. The deal should close somewhere in July. If I were CNet, I would be slapping myself non-stop with such an offer, specially with CNet's net income of less than $8 million a year, which makes the offer ...

In Love With G5

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Each time I buy a new mouse, it either falls apart in a few months or it's just not what I'm looking for. I play Counter-Strike: Source and for that particular game you need a really good mouse, otherwise you can just watch them play since you're going to die ...

Google Ad Manager

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Google has recently acquired online advertising giant DoubleClick for $3.1 billion dollars in cash. Google already has its AdSense which is generating them millions or even billions. So why the sudden interest on DoubleClick when they already have a similar product? And it wasn't really a cheap acquisition. DoubleClick is one of the top ...

KEMS vs. United Networks

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

After experiencing a whole year of bad service & lack of quality from United Networks, I chose KEMS on my endless journey to find a decent Kuwaiti ISP. KEMS is amazing service-wise, it's amazingly stable. I subscribed for a 512kbps DSL connection and I got ~600kbps+ of download bandwidth and 512kbps of upload bandwidth. When ...