Gizmodo: smacktalk

Google Doesn't Like Microsoft Merging With Yahoo

Mark Wilson — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:29:34 EST

Today Google stepped up and responded to Microsoft's bid on Yahoo. Needless to say, Google is not all that thrilled over the possibility of a Microsoft/Yahoo merger, and Google Senior Vice President, David Drummond, made some pretty aggressive statements about the scenario in a Google blog post titled "Yahoo! and the future of the Internet":

This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.
Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC?...Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email, IM, and web-based services? Policymakers around the world need to ask these questions — and consumers deserve satisfying answers.

Ouch. [Google via NYT]

AMD Trashtalks Intel Big Time, Claims All Innovation

Mark Wilson — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:40:35 EST

In a recent interview with Gulf News, AMD's CEO Hector Ruiz took the gloves off and went straight for Intel's throat. Angry about Intel following AMD's lead in areas like X86-64 (64-bit) technology yet dominating the market, Ruiz let loose to the media.

"If you look at the last five years, if you look at what major innovations have occurred in computing technology, every single one of them came from AMD. Not a single innovation came from Intel.

Oh, but there's more!

Intel continues... to abuse their monopoly and that's why around the world governments and regulatory agencies continue to go after them.

Oh, no he didn't. Oh, yes he did. [gulfnews via theinquirer]

Caught Short Taunting? Let SmackTalk for Xbox 360 Do The Talking

Charlie White — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:15:51 EDT

Some of the more accomplished gamers here at the Giz have elevated smack talk to an art form, but those big talkers aren't always the ones who win. Yes, sometimes it takes too much effort to taunt your opponent, so now you can solve that problem by recording those choice words into the SmackTalk for the Xbox 360, a digital audio recorder that'll play back those intimidating admonitions with a lightning-fast button push.

SmackTalk hooks up between the Xbox 360's controller and headset, and lets you record your own ribald remarks or use its five prerecorded taunts. Plunk down your $30 and give your opponents even more reasons to want to frag you to hell. – Charlie White

Product Page [Digital Innovations, via I4U]