Web advertising and marketing company Overture Services is planning to buy AltaVista for $140 million.
Google buys Blogger.com
Pyra Labs, who developed the online blogging service at www.blogger.com, has been bought by Google.
In January 2003 blogger.com had over 1 million users of their free service (but apparently not as many using the paid service)
It will be interesting to see how and what Google will do with this technology and how they will roll it into their existing service offerings.
Motorola to ship Linux-based cell phones
Motorola have announced they are going to ship Linux based cell phones including color screens, an MP3 player, a digital camera, a Java VM and a movie player (as well as being a phone 🙂
This would seem to be a blow to Microsoft’s ‘Stinger’ PocketPC Phone Edition based platform, especially coming from a large manufacturer such as Motorola.
Motorola is expecting to ship millions of units, and plans to eventually base even the low-end phones on the Linux platform.
No details on price, but theres more information here.
Borland Announces Bundling of JBuilder and TogetherSoft products
According to an article on news.com today, Borland will be bundling a JBuilder specific version of TogetherSoft’s modelling tools with the latest version of JBuilder for $6,999.
I can’t find any confirmation of this on Borland’s site, but this would seem the logical route to take since they purchased TogetherSoft last year.
Have to wait to compare the functionality with other IDE/Modelling integrated tools such as Oracle’s JDeveloper (which originated from JBuilder source code, but has now been totally rewritten in the latest 9.0.3 version), which only costs $999.