Yahoo! has fired Carol Bartz and Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse was named interim CEO. The terse message to her staff says: “I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward.”.
The story began in July when DigiNotar, a Dutch certificate authority, identified an intrusion into their systems with an SSL certificate being compromised. As the days passed the investigation has unearthed a very worrying situation finding that the SSL certificates stolen are more than five hundred.
The Mars Rover Opportunity reached the Endeavour crater about three weeks ago after a long journey and it’s already making discoveries that are very interesting from a scientific point of view. In fact the first analysis confirms that the environmental conditions of ancient Mars were favorable to life.
The TouchPad was designed as a high quality product to be a worthy competitor in particular of the iPad but also of Android tablets. However, the TouchPad uses WebOS 3.0 as its operating system. The launch price was in line with its competitors but it was a failure so HP decided to start a fire sale and the tablets got sold out.
