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• Judge finds Oracle's Ellison withheld evidence

  According to Bloomberg, in a ruling that has important implications for Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO and the company itself, district judge Susan Illston found that Ellison: ...deliberately destroyed or withheld ...

  Tags: Susan Illston, Dennis Howlett, Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp.

  Sep 05, 2008 7:25 PM PDT

• Good news on the Dell netbook front

  Just a quick update now that I have a minute to sit down tonight. I heard from my Dell rep this afternoon that, although it's not available on the Dell ...

  Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Christopher Dawson, Notebooks, Hardware, Internet, Blogging, Notebooks & Tablets

  Sep 05, 2008 6:47 PM PDT

• The Linux laptop goes to school

  This is not a PC you load with additional hardware, or much additional software. This is more like a cell phone, something you toss in your backpack and use on-the-run. ...

  Tags: Linux, Peripherals, Laptop Computer, Operating Systems, Keyboards, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Hardware, Linux Laptop, Software

  Sep 05, 2008 6:45 PM PDT

• DDoS + Web2.0 == Buckets o' Traffic

  Denial of Service attacks are based upon a simple idea: generate the maximum amount of traffic using the minimum amount of work. At one time this was as simple as ...

  Tags: Adam O\'Donnell, Network, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Distributed Denial Of Service, Security, Social Networking

  Sep 05, 2008 5:41 PM PDT

• From meme to paperback: Barack Obama is your new bicycle

  Besides Chuck Norris, and the Rickroll, Internet memes rarely go mainstream. But San Francisco native Matthew Honan managed to accomplish that feat — he built a simple website that randomly ...

  Tags: Web Site, Andrew Mager, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Bicycle

  Sep 05, 2008 5:22 PM PDT

• Preview: Plusmo Pro Football Live app (updated)

  As you already know I really want a good NFL application for the iPhone. Now that it's NFL season and it would be great to track teams, players and games ...

  Tags: Plusmo NFL App, Personal Technology, NFL, Plusmo Pro Football Live, Games, App, Digital Media, Apple iPhone, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics

  Sep 05, 2008 3:45 PM PDT

• Yes, we know it's a problem. No, we have no budget.

  A survey by data center infrastructure company Voltaire indicates that while a vast majority of data center professionals believe that running a green data center will become a mission-critical agenda ...

  Tags: Data Center, Hardware, Heather Clancy, Data Centers, Data Management, CIO, Voltaire Inc., Storage

  Sep 05, 2008 2:13 PM PDT

• Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as Pope

  I'm just having a little fun.... I don't get the Seinfeld commercial. They are selling Bill, not Windows. What's with that? Bill retired in July. This just in from Adweek's ...

  Tags: Management, Bill Gates, Ass, Marketing, Strategy, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Branding, Operating Systems, Microsoft Corp.

  Sep 05, 2008 1:47 PM PDT

• Is Firefox faster than Chrome?

  Today Mozilla hit back at claims that Google's Chrome browser outperforms Firefox by releasing benchmark results that show that Firefox 3.1 is faster at executing JavaScript that Google's offering. by ...

  Tags: Engine, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Scripting Languages, Web Development, Operating Systems, Software/Web Development, Internet

  Sep 05, 2008 1:12 PM PDT

• What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?

  The news broke today that Joost, the company which in a lot of ways was on the forefront of rich media, is canning its signature desktop client in favor of ...

  Tags: Ryan Stewart

  Sep 05, 2008 12:07 PM PDT

• LHC scientists get death threats

  So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank ...

  Tags: Physicist, Scientist, Public Relations, Marketing, Richard Koman, Corporate Communications, Black Hole

  Sep 05, 2008 11:58 AM PDT

• Cool Tools - Overlay.TV can reduce training, video production costs

  Overlay.TV is much better tool for training than static old WebEx. by Jennifer Leggio

  Tags: Jennifer Leggio, Team, Video, Tool, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Training, Overlay.TV

  Sep 05, 2008 11:50 AM PDT

• Mainstream media writes Windows obit

  Wow, a tough day for Windows. BusinessWeek reports that HP, the world's biggest PC company, is so troubled by Vista's 'tepid reception' and Apple's resurgence that it is developing its ...

  Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Linux, Dell Computer Corp., Mainstream Media, Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Web Browser, Microsoft Windows Vista, Software

  Sep 05, 2008 11:12 AM PDT

• 2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging

  The crossover is close. The Internet is poised to overtake the newspaper industry in total size as an advertising medium. And the question is whether it can also overtake it ...

  Tags: Advertisement, News, Finance, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Revenue, Governor, Internet Advertising, Operational Accounting

  Sep 05, 2008 11:11 AM PDT

• The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.

  I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I ...

  Tags: SlideRocket, Microsoft PowerPoint, Collaboration, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Fax, Digital Signatures, Appirio, Document, Microsoft Office

  Sep 05, 2008 10:58 AM PDT

• Possible AMD Q4/08 desktop processor roadmap surfaces

  CHW.net has published what seems to be on the face of it a convincing looking AMD Q4 08 processor roadmap that gives us a glimpse into what AMD has in-store ...

  Tags: Components, AMD Athlon, Processors, Semiconductors, Desktop, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, CHW.net

  Sep 05, 2008 10:46 AM PDT

• Service integrators = Ed Tech bargain hunters?

  I'm not entirely enamored of my ISP right now. Their backbone is dated, downtime too frequent, the email interface they provide is kludgy at best, application support for their web ...

  Tags: Christopher Dawson, Internet Service Provider, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web Hosting

  Sep 05, 2008 10:37 AM PDT

• The Importance of Dissent

  Word is going around that Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, is parting ways with Sun. Matt Asay blogs about it and says it's a good thing Widenius is taking his ...

  Tags: Joe Brockmeier, Arjen, Databases, Open Source, Data Management, Software, MySQL, Enterprise Software

  Sep 05, 2008 10:32 AM PDT

• Echelon wins smart meter project in Germany; plus insight on smart grid in Europe

  A reseller for smart grid technology player Echelon announced a deal this week to deploy an advanced metering infrastructure system that will serve roughly 10,000 customers in Hassfurt, Germany. The ...

  Tags: Grid, It Management, Utility Computing, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, It service Management, Heather Clancy, Networking, Germany, Green Technology

  Sep 05, 2008 10:17 AM PDT

• Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile up

  [ UPDATE: See below for Google's official response to these issues ] Security vulnerabilities in the new Google Chrome browser are beginning to pile up. Following our coverage of the ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Google Chrome, Ryan Naraine, ModSecurity, Web Browser, Internet, Security, Google Inc., Vulnerability

  Sep 05, 2008 9:33 AM PDT

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