With a net worth of over $14 billion, Carl Icahn is the 46th richest man in the world, owning stock of the video game publisher Take-Two Interactive, Motorola, as well as many other large companies, but what's interesting for today's topic is the fact that, on the 13th of May, 2008, he bought 50 million Yahoo shares, and now he's doing something he has done before - pressuring a company to consider takeover bids... or taking out those who oppose this!


<-234x60 Half Banner - left->Yes, yes, this is yet another round of the Yahoo-Microsoft match, but the Redmond giant is not in the field now. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Carl Icahn will try to take out Yahoo's cofounder Jerry Yang from its CEO position, and then push things further.

Accusing Yang of being unwilling to consider Microsoft's offer and costing the company money in his efforts to deter the deal, Ucahn said that unless the board is ousted and Yang removed from its position, Microsoft will not make any deal with Yahoo.

According to the Journal, Icahn will make a public statement regarding its concerns with Yang and the Yahoo board tomorrow, and I don't want to think where is this going to end up.

After all, it seems we can't sleep well yet, and I am sure Yang won't have a good night's sleep either. The whole Yahoo-Microsoft deal takes a new and interesting turn, and I wouldn't bet anything precious on the outcome of this story. What do you think? Is it possible for Yang and the current board to hang on in there and keep the company afloat, or...

Azureus is a BitTorrent client that was built using Java, and while it's compatible with multiple operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X), we're going to talk only about the Windows version, and there's no need to explain why.

Before running the application for the first time, make sure your system has the latest JRE installed. If not, you can download it from the official Azureus homepage, so let's move on...

Once you have downloaded the program, the setup process won't be as easy as expected, because the settings chosen now can have a major impact on the download speed and amount of memory taken up by Azureus. Anyway, don't expect it not to be resource hungry, because this is an application built using Java, after all.

These being said, let's run the setup package and follow the steps required to complete the installation process, and have Azureus up and running, shall we?


<-234x60 Half Banner - left->As you can see in the image above, I am installing Azureus Vuze 3.0.5.2. Needless to say what needs to be done at this stage...
Once the next setup window opens, you will see the License Agreement. If you're not familiar with the GPL license, you can take your time to read it, but we're sure that in most cases people simply click "I Agree" and move on, so do as you wish. The time you spend reading the License Agreement doesn't have anything to do with your experience as a user, so let's move on to the next step, but don't forget to click the button saying "I Agree," first!
Now that the License Agreement is behind us, we have to choose the location where to install the program, set the file association(automatically opening Torrent files with Azureus), and then wait for a little, while the files are copied.
<-customad->Next, I ran into a little problem. Two, in fact, so I advise you to pay attention here, if you don't want to curse later. Now, depends on the type of user you are, of course, because some people that I won't ever understand like to have their browser full of toolbars, and the default search option to be one they are never using. Considering these, I guess the screenshot above should explain it all - be sure to uncheck both options on this screen, and then press Next to move on.
Look! Now, you can run Azureus Vuze, but before starting to download anything, you should carefully adjust the settings to match your Windows version, Internet connection, and - if your computer isn't powerful enough, some of the choices you make now can have a great impact on the program's performance.I don't know about you, but I am a bit tired, so I'll leave the configuration part for tomorrow, or better said, "starting tomorrow," because when we're talking about settings, this program really has a lot of them. In the meantime, be sure to get ready for next round, all right?