Popular sharing site TorrentSpy closes down after a judgment was handed down in Los Angeles. The site was found guilty of copyright infringement.
The site now host a single page with this open letter to its members:

Service Pack 3 of MS Windows XP went out last April 29, but it wasn’t final yet. It was only available in the Windows Download site.
Today, WinXP SP3 is finally available via the Windows Update. You should be getting alerts by now if you have Automatic Updates enabled on your Windows PCs.
The final build [...]

Yahoo’s shares tumbled by as far as 20% Monday morning after talks with Microsoft ended. The Redmond giant increased it’s bid from the original $31/share back in January to $33. Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang reportedly was asking $37; Microsoft walked away from the deal.

It recovered a little bit after end of trading day and [...]

My favorite among the list on The Time 100 (The World’s Most Influential People) is none other than research scientist Jeff Han. Jay Adelson of IPTV network Revision3 (producer of Diggnation) and Mike Arrington of TechCrunch came in at close second.

To those of you who frequent the NLEX, there is a new new Easytrip electronic toll collection (ETC) tags developed by a company called ActivAsia.
Easytrip replaces the EC-Tag, and is available at the following introductory prices:
1. You can BUY an Easytrip tag for only Php1,508.00, inclusive of a Php500.00 load; or,
2. You can RENT [...]

The Taiwanese company will be releasing the new Asus Eee PC 900 next week, May 12. Invites sent out yesterday indicated that several variants of the ultra-portable laptop will be available to the market:

This new generation of the ever popular PC packs in a whole range of hardware that includes an 8.9 inch wide screen, [...]

Just a couple of days after Google announced its 1st quarter earnings, Millward Brown released the BrandZ Top 100 Most Powerful Brands list. The search giant ended up on top of that list. See below for the rest of the top 10.

Last Saturday, Globe Telecoms rolled out its new time-based charging for all mobile internet usage — GPRS, 3G, HSDPA. This new charging is now available on all pre-paid and postpaid Globe users - Php 5 pesos for every 15 minutes. Basically, the same charging as Smart 3G’s 10 pesos per 30 minutes.

To activate this [...]

Yahoo is wearing Microsoft’s patience. After months of waiting for the decision to agree to the buy-out, the Yahoo Board has not yet decided. Microsoft fired a final warning stating they will take the offer into a proxy-fight and replace the board of directors in order to get a favorable answer.

Now this is something for the records. I don’t know what’s so cool with Facebook that it was able to “poach” long-time Google Executive Chef Josef DeSimone. That’s according to Carolyn Jung of the Food Gal.