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Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Blog:
Helping Dolphins Fly — We announced big news today - our preliminary results for our fiscal second quarter, and as importantly, that we're acquiring MySQL AB. — If you're interested in the financial details for the quarter, tune in to our conference call (see details on sun.com) today …
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Sun Microsystems:
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World's Most Popular Open Source Database — Sun Growth Strategy Accelerates With New Position in $15 Billion Database Market — Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement …
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Sun To Acquire MySQL — Sun Microsystems announced this morning that it has agreed to acquire open source database leader MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and assumed stock options. (Disclosure: I am on the board of directors of MySQL, and O'Reilly co-produces the MySQL User Conference with MySQL.
Zack Urlocker / InfoWorld:Sun Shines on LAMP
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Matt Raymond / Library of Congress Blog:
My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven — If you're reading this, then chances are you already know about Web 2.0. Even if you don't know the term itself, you're one of millions worldwide who are actively creating, sharing or benefiting from user-generated content that characterizes Web 2.0 phenomena.
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Library of Congress Teams with Flickr — The Library of Congress and photosharing site Flickr today announced a partnership that will put photos from the LoC's collection online in a social environment and users to interact with them. The Library is home to more than 14 million photographs …
BBC:
Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous — Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble. — The Facebook add-on has proved hugely popular on the social network site and regularly racks up more than 500,000 daily users.
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Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
REPORT: FACEBOOK THREATENS TO BAN GAWKER'S DENTON — This post was updated at 9:11 a.m. PST with comment from Nick Denton. — Facebook isn't too happy with Gawker Media founder Nick Denton over some screenshots of a member's profile that he posted on Gawker.com on Tuesday, Portfolio.com reports.
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Portfolio.com:
Blogger Bullying Draws a Website Warning — Has Nick Denton gone too far? The new-media minimogul is notorious for poking New York media types in the eye (including Condé Nast Portfolio, Portfolio.com, and this writer). — But now he is accused of ambushing a publisher's daughter …
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
Is MacBook Air Worth the Money? Five Slim Laptops Face Off — Updated with battery life stats, by popular demand. We can all agree that the MacBook Air is a slick-looking little laptop. It's so thin! You can't argue with that! But if you're in the market for a small, high-performance laptop, is it the best option?
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
iTunes movie rentals vs. Netflix: It's Apples (Jobs variety) and oranges — Apple makes a big plunge into the movie rental business and almost instinctively folks dust off the “Netflix is screwed” line. However, you may want to hold of f on that Netflix obituary (again).
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Ryan Block / Engadget:iTunes and Apple TV rentals and purchases: what you can (and can't) do
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why we're going to FastCompany.tv — Ahh, Andy Plesser broke my career news again (he was the guy who broke my news about leaving Microsoft too). Louis Gray got the story first, though, I think, although I told dozens of people at the BlogHaus last week at CES.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (947563) — Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2002 …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Surprise! Oracle buys BEA Systems — The clumsy courtship between Oracle and BEA Systems is over. Oracle said Wednesday that it will acquire BEA for $19.375 a share in cash. — The offer puts the value of BEA at roughly $8.5 billion. — On a conference call-where Oracle …
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Times of London:
Microsoft seeks patent for office ‘spy’ software — Post your comments at the bottom of this article — Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker's productivity, physical wellbeing and competence. — The Times has seen a patent application filed …
