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by Chris Nerney

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Chris Nerney writes about research news and the latest discoveries in the areas of science, technology, space and psychology.

CA Technologies scoops up capacity management vendor Hyperformix

Posted Sep 29, 2010 - 12:08 pm

In a move to strengthen its virtualization management software portfolio, IT management software company CA Technologies announced Tuesday it is buying capacity management software vendor Hyperformix. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Keep an eye on HP shares today

Posted Sep 29, 2010 - 10:02 am

It may not have a chief executive at the moment, but Hewlett-Packard had something else to show off at its analyst day in San Francisco Tuesday -- an upbeat forecast for fiscal 2011 that sent shares up more than 1.5 percent in after-hours trading, momentum which has continued into Wednesday's early trading.
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- Business, fiscal 2011, forecast
It's a DRAM shame: Oracle sues Micron, alleges chip price fixing

Posted Sep 28, 2010 - 05:57 pm

Picking up where Sun Microsystems left off, Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) filed a lawsuit last Friday against Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU), alleging that the chip maker conspired with other computer chip manufacturers to jack up the price of dynamic random access memory, or DRAM.
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- Legal, Acer, IBM
Rumor to reality: AOL buys TechCrunch

Posted Sep 28, 2010 - 01:27 pm

AOL has acquired technology news website TechCrunch as part of its recent effort to build a platform of original online content.
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- Business, AOL, Michael Arrington
Facebook IPO coming (well, maybe, and not for a couple of years)

Posted Sep 28, 2010 - 01:05 pm

Wall Street finally may get a chance to "friend" a public offering from Facebook, but it won't be right away.
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- Business, Facebook, Google
Rumor of the day: AOL to purchase TechCrunch

Posted Sep 28, 2010 - 10:35 am

Five years after launching TechCrunch and subsequently building it into one of the most influential technology blogs in the world, founder Michael Arrington may be on the verge of cashing in.
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- Business, AOL, Michael Arrington
RIM unveils 'enterprise ready' tablet

Posted Sep 27, 2010 - 05:45 pm

In corner offices across America, let the drooling commence. Research in Motion Ltd., the company that gave the corporate world the BlackBerry, on Monday unveiled its entry into the growing tablet market.
LinkedIn co-founder gets $20 million in seed cash to play with

Posted Sep 27, 2010 - 04:01 pm

If you've been over at TechCrunch during the past couple of weeks, it probably hasn't escaped your attention that the online tech pub this week is hosting its TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, where a bunch of start-ups officially launch and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington plants himself permanently on stage in an effort to goad
The stratospheric rise of cloud computing valuations

Posted Sep 27, 2010 - 03:11 pm

Whether it's from venture capitalists or Wall Street, the money keeps flowing to cloud computing companies.
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- Networking, Rackspace, RightScale
Sharp's blurring of tablet, e-book reader lines may confuse consumers

Posted Sep 27, 2010 - 12:55 pm

Are they really tablets, or e-book readers on steroids? It all depends on how you look at it, but Sharp's announcement today that it will release a pair of e-book readers in December as part of a new e-bookstore service might have many consumers scratching their heads, though initially most of those heads will be in Japan.

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