The Net Vol. 5

Posted By: Bob Buskirk
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Well we missed The Net last week so this week are not going to miss it! Although I have been crushed with work all week long! This is the real busy time of year for hardware reviews, because a lot of companies are releasing new products for the holiday season. Also real quick does anyone use twitter? You can follow me on twitter at twitter.com/enigma5. It is a slow week for tech news, but I have few things that I found interesting this week. So what going on, on The Net this week?

ThinkComputers Published its’ 666th Review
Now this really isn’t real news, but it’s kind of interesting. It is quite weird that right around Halloween we post our 666th review and the product that we were reviewing the Thermalright IFX-14 CPU cooler performed horribly. It has to be one of the lowest rated products that I have tested. Anyways I thought it was weird.

iPhone Costumes

Since Halloween is coming up you know there would be some crazy costumes, but these have to be some of the most creative. Yeah you can make an iPhone costume, but does your costume have the iPhone in-store display video playing? I don’t think so! These 2 guys really pulled out all the stops for Halloween and are total Apple fan boys!

10 Absolutely Stupid Quotes by Steve Ballmer
We all know Steve Ballmer is hilarious. I’m sure most of you have seen the DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! video. The guys over at Learn More About Your Linux have a great article of 10 absolutely stupid quotes by Steve Ballmer with sources cited. I’ll give you their #1 and you can take a look at the rest.

“I’m going to f—ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f—ing kill Google.”

Microsoft’s Eclusive Deal with Facebook
I talked about this in my previous post, but it is probably the biggest story of the week. Microsoft paid $240 million for 1.6 percent of Facebook and the exclusive advertising rights. This means that the ads on Facebook will now be powered by Microsoft’s adCenter. At the price that Microsoft paid for the 1.6 perfect it puts the total value of Facebook at 15 billion dollars! To hear my thoughts on the whole thing check out my post on it.