Jan 07, 2009

TwitLinks Our favorite URL shortening service, Bit. ly , has just released a Firefox plug-in that you'll probably want to add to your browser. It lets users hover over shortened URLs from a wide variety of services, including TinyURL, and see the resulting full URL as well as how many people have clicked through the shortcut. (Read More)

Jan 08, 2009

CIO.com - Applications SAP wants Oracle to reveal profit-margin information for JD Edwards and PeopleSoft software and support, according to a joint discovery statement filed this week in connection with Oracle's lawsuit against SAP.In quarterly earnings reports, software vendors regularly trumpet statistics such as growth in earnings per share o (Read More)

Jan 06, 2009

Wall Street Journal By Ben WorthenMicrosoft wasn’t the only tech company to have a time-related incident at the end of the year: As midnight approached on December 31, server computers running some versions of Oracle’s software rebooted on their own. While Microsoft’s Zune crashed because the music player’s software didn’t account properly for (Read More)

Jan 05, 2009

Submitted by Crow74: Court filings in the ongoing Oracle SAP lawsuit revealed while the German software company admits some of the charges, it has denied liability and requested a jury trial. (Read More)

Jan 05, 2009

Submitted by Crow74: Software as a service is a wonderful choice for a business manager. Instead of investing in a packaged software product and the new servers and network gear to support it, along with a cadre of highly-paid professional IT staff to implement and manage the software, a business executive merely subscribes to an existing servi (Read More)

Dec 24, 2008

Submitted by Crow74: Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL) last week gave some dazzling performance details from two customers evaluating its new hardware/software Database Machine, and CEO Larry Ellison called it the most successful Oracle product intro ever in terms of "pipeline growth and pipeline size." Will Oracle be able to convince budget-strapped CIOs to (Read More)

Dec 21, 2008

Submitted by Crow74: A judge has rejected most of the motions made by SAP to dismiss parts of rival software maker Oracle's lawsuit against it, according to the decision filed Monday in U.S. District Court-California Northern District.Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton upheld SAP's motion to dismiss copyright infringement claims by two Oracle entities, (Read More)

Dec 19, 2008

Submitted by Leximo from Google Reader: Just in via Twitter: Pandora has registered its 20 millionth user. The three-year old music streaming service is trying to hold its own despite tough economics and recent layoffs. Its music-recommendation engine pumps out personalized radio stations over the Web, and its iPhone app remains one the top free apps on iTunes (Read More)

Dec 19, 2008

Submitted by Michaelfidler from Google Reader: Oracle's fiscal second quarter conference call was interesting on a couple of fronts. Here are a few observations: No. 1: Oracle has a new whipping boy: Salesforce.com. Check out CEO Larry Ellison's comments about Salesforce.com, which totaled eight mentions (not quite SAP territory, but getting there), on the company's sec (Read More)

Dec 19, 2008

Schneier on Security Funny. . (Read More)

Dec 21, 2008

Submitted by Crow74: It seems the iPhone can do everything. It makes calls. It surfs the Web. It plays music. It even plays games (the number of high-quality games on the iPhone is astounding, especially now that an iPhone version of Sim City is on the way). (Read More)

Dec 21, 2008

Submitted by Crow74: An outspoken, billionaire, playboy CEO, a massive and ongoing predatory acquisition spree, a determination to lead the world in not only databases but applications and middleware as well -- Oracle always provides interesting material for the technology press, and 2008 was no exception.As with 2007, Oracle continued to make (Read More)

Dec 10, 2008

ReadWriteWeb It's a well-known fact that our readers are on the cutting - if not bleeding - edge of technology. But sometimes, it's important to take a step back and realize that the apps to which we've grown so incredibly accustomed are just barely beginning to register with the general public. With the Top 10 Consumer Apps of 2008, we (Read More)

Dec 12, 2008

Mashable! 2008 was definitely the year that social was brought into the mainstream. Nearly all big social networking sites have redesigned to accommodate their quickly growing audiences, while the big portals have incorporated many social features into their front pages. It’s still too early to say whether many of these are goo (Read More)

Dec 11, 2008

Submitted by Magitam from Google Reader: Today, CBS Interactive is laying off people across several of its properties, I’ve confirmed with the company. CBS is not saying which divisions or how many people are affected. It is positioning the layoffs as part of the integration process it began six months ago when it bought CNET for $1.8 billion. But it is not jus (Read More)

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