Report: SAP CEO asked Ellison for meeting on Sun-EU impasse
Shortly after European regulators opened an antitrust probe into Oracle's pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems, SAP CEO Léo Apotheker wrote Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, asking for a meeting to discuss the merger and "other open issues" between the vendors, according to a Wall Street Journal editorial published late Thursday.
Norwegian ISP doesn't have to block Pirate Bay, says court
Norwegian ISP Telenor doesn't have to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, according to a ruling from the district court for Asker and Bærum on Friday.
World Tech Update Nov. 5, 2009
In this week’s World Tech Update, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tours Asia and talks about the future of television, HTC launches the HD2 smartphone that runs Windows Mobile 6.5, Intel gets slapped with an antitrust lawsuit, Motorola’s Droid gets ready to go on sale, an iPhone app from Harvard Medical School helps protect you from swine flu and new research enables 3D on a Microsoft Surface computer.
Microsoft rivals, trade groups want browser offer changed
Microsoft's antitrust settlement offer to the European Commission needs minor, often cosmetic changes in order to restore fair competition to the market for Internet browsers, said some of the software giant's main rivals Thursday.
World Tech Update Nov. 5, 2009
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Apple syncing patent can't come soon enough
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New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
Esther Schindler
Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
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How to set up continuous podcast play on the new iTunes
David Strom
Five important Windows 7 mobility features
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Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
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Grepping on Whole Words
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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