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Oracle Responds to HP Lawsuit — Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today issued the following statement: — “Oracle has long viewed HP as an important partner,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “By filing this vindictive lawsuit against Oracle and Mark Hurd, the HP board is acting with utter disregard …
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Hani Durzy / Data Central:
BREAKING: HP Files Civil Complaint Against Hurd; Includes Statement and Link to Full Complaint — In response to the news of Mark Hurd's intention to join Oracle, HP today filed a civil complaint in the California Superior Court (County of Santa Clara) against Hurd. HP's statement on the matter:
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Peter Elstrom / Bloomberg:
Oracle Will Pay Hurd $950,000 a Year With Target Bonus $5 Million for 2011 — Oracle Corp., the world's second- biggest software maker, said it will pay former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd $950,000 a year in salary, with a bonus of as much as $10 million.
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Between the Lines Blog, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Associated Press
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Analysis: the H-P Suit Against Mark Hurd — Hewlett-Packard is suing former CEO Mark Hurd, alleging breach of contract and threatened misappropriation of trade secrets, a day after he was named co-president of rival Oracle. Below, a look at some of the most salient points in the suit.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPod touch review (2010) — At Apple's last event, Steve Jobs called the iPod touch the company's “most popular iPod,” and it's easy to understand why. In just a few short years, the iPhone-with-no-phone has kept in lockstep with Cupertino's halo device, benefitting from the same kind …
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PC World, The Mossberg Solution, SlashGear, Softpedia News, TiPb, TUAW, TechCrunch, Telegraph, The Apple Core Blog, Macworld, 9 to 5 Mac, Redmond Pie, GartenBlog, Download Squad, everythingiCafe and iLounge
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Dan Frakes / Macworld:
iPod nano (sixth generation, late 2010) — Biggest nano makeover yet gains Multi-Touch but loses features and screen size — No iPod model has received as many makeovers—both minor and dramatic—as the iPod nano. (Perhaps not coincidentally, no other iPod model has sold as well.)
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Engadget, PC Magazine, Telegraph, 9 to 5 Mac, USA Today, Business Week, The Loop, Softpedia News, MacRumors, I4U News and TiPb
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google Changes Coming Tomorrow: AJAX Results, 30 Results Per Page, Streaming Results & More? — We know Google is having a big search event tomorrow and we suspect that is why Google is showing the Google Balls logo today. Google told me “today's doodle is not related to a birthday but is fast …
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TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, Softpedia News, Geek.com, Buleyean String, THINQ.co.uk, Rob Hof's Blog, Scobleizer, I4U News, Electricpig.co.uk, CNET News, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, MediaPost, Gawker and Digits, Thanks:atul
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Updates The Doodle Again; Points To Live-Updating Results — The ongoing saga of Google's logo continues. The search giant has just changed the doodle on google.com once again this evening, leading up to their search event tomorrow. And once again, it looks as if the logo points to what they'll be announcing tomorrow.
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Guardian, Mashable!, Engadget, Google Operating System, Telegraph, The Wall Blog, Fast Company, Christian Heilmann's blog and Gizmodo
Leena Rao / TechCrunchIT:
Salesforce Takes Chatter Mobile With iPhone, iPad, Android And BlackBerry Apps — As Salesforce's foray into social collaboration, Salesforce Chatter, gains traction amongst enterprise users, it makes sense for the company to launch complimentary mobile apps to the platform.
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eWeek, CNET News, The Diversity Blog, Computerworld, PC World and VentureBeat
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Alert The Enterprise: Seesmic Integrates With Salesforce Chatter
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Between the Lines Blog, The Cloud Blog, ReadWriteEnterprise and Seesmic Blog, Thanks:loic
Mike Beltzner / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 4 Beta With Faster Graphics and New Audio Capabilities for the Web — The latest update to Firefox 4 Beta brings super fast graphics and incredible new audio capabilities to the Web. Firefox 4 Beta now leverages hardware acceleration to improve graphics performance for Windows users …
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CNET News, Download Squad, Bas Schouten, Mozilla, V3.co.uk, Softpedia News, Pluggd.in, eWeek, BetaNews, Erictric, The Register, ReadWriteWeb, Techie Buzz, TechCrunch, Lifehacker and The Tech Report
Gizmodo:
Justin Bieber Has Dedicated Servers at Twitter — Justin Bieber uses 3% of Twitter resources at any moment. According to a Twitter employee—talking to designer Dustin Curtis—Bieber has “racks of servers dedicated to him. I'm sure this will excite his haters (hello 4chan!) even more.
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Mashable!, Go Rumors, Technologizer and CNET News, Thanks:jesusdiaz
Melissa Petro / The Huffington Post:
Thoughts From a Former Craigslist Sex Worker — People — not just prostitutes — have sex for many reasons. Sometimes, for some of us, one reason is money. From October 2006 to January 2007 I accepted money in exchange for sexual services I provided to men I met online in what was then called the …
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Scribe — Google launched a very interesting tool that offers suggestions as you type: Google Scribe. It's not exactly the service I anticipated 3 years ago, but Google Scribe works surprisingly well. For example, I started to type “This works sur” and Google suggested …
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Search Engine Roundtable, Epeus' epigone, ReadWriteWeb, Andy Beard and WebProNews
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
How Ping Might Grow — Matt Drance on Ping: … Agreed. Ping on the iPhone feels like a decent native client to a social network. Ping on the desktop (Mac/Windows) feels like an afterthought to iTunes — one little source list item halfway down the list, with content that doesn't seem designed at all.
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Apple Outsider, Thanks:atul
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Do People Want ‘Amateur Hour’ on Their TVs? — Last week Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, unveiled a new version of the Apple TV, which is smaller and, at $99, less expensive than the previous model. — Before showing off the new device, Mr. Jobs walked the audience through a list …
Thanks:bobcaswell
Martyn Williams / PC World:
Freed Journalist Tricked Captors Into Twitter Access — A Japanese journalist freed over the weekend by captors in Afghanistan managed to send two Twitter messages before his release while teaching a captor how to access the Internet on a new cell phone, he said Tuesday.
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TechEye, The Huffington Post, IntoMobile, Phone Arena, Mashable!, The Next Web, Gadget Lab, Gizmodo, The Blog Herald, Journalism.co.uk, Switched and Associated Press
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Is Google's Mobile Loss in China Kai-fu Lee's Gain? — Former head of Google China, Kai-fu Lee, insists—insists— that he is not happy that Google imploded its business in China. “Seeing the work that I put in, how could I be happy to see that?” he says. In fact, in a press release …
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PE Hub Blog, Thanks:rawmeet
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Confirmed: RIM Acquires DataViz Assets — Rsearch In Motion (RIM) has indeed acquired software developer DataViz — well, most of it anyway. — “RIM has acquired some of the assets of DataViz and hired the majority of its employees to focus on supporting the BlackBerry platform,” …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's Why Microsoft Needs To Make Office Apps For The iPad — One thing has been consistent since Apple's iPad launched in April: Apple's iWork apps, its versions of Microsoft Office apps — Word ("Pages"), Excel ("Numbers"), and PowerPoint ("Keynote") — are near the top …
Thanks:rawmeet
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Why iTunes song samples are still only 30 seconds — Apple's plan to extend the length of song samples doesn't appear to be dead. — “We are in active negotiations with Apple,” about the length of song samples, said Hanna Pantle, a spokeswoman for Broadcast Music Inc., (BMI) …
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9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, The Next Web, TUAW, AppleInsider and Electronista
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Amazon Buys Amie Street, Shuts Down Store, Focuses on Streaming Music — Add another digital music startup to the bonfire: Amazon is buying up Amie Street, the online store it helpd fund four years ago. Jeff Bezos and company will shut down Amie Street's retail operations …
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TechCrunch and paidContent
Kyle VanHemert / Gizmodo:
Leaked WebOS 2.0 Shots Show a Bevy of New Features — Two dozen or so purported webOS 2.0 screenshots have fluttered out onto the web, and while their origins are a bit hazy, they show plenty of interesting new features, like Dropbox support baked into the OS.
Leon Neyfakh / New York Observer:
In Facebook's Crosshairs — It was not an invitation that Dennis Crowley could have been thrilled about. Mark Zuckerberg wanted him to do what, exactly? Fly to California and stand onstage while Facebook unveiled the launch of a new location-sharing check-in feature that tech pundits …
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Xbox 360 250GB plus Kinect bundle priced at $399 in US, £300 in UK — Microsoft has chosen the small hours of the night to announce pricing of its second Kinect bundle, which is set for launch along with the standalone and 4GB options on November 4 in the USA and November 10 across Europe.
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Kotaku, iThinkDifferent, Go Rumors and CrunchGear
Cari Tuna / Wall Street Journal:
Slow-Going for Web-Privacy Software — Products Help Surfers Stay Anonymous, but Customers Are Few; 'It's Hard to Get Users to Pay for Anything These Days' — Looking to tap into Web surfers' privacy concerns, new companies are popping up to help people browse the Internet and send messages anonymously.
Katie Gatto / VatorNews:
Backupify raises $4.5M to back up data — Avalon Ventures, General Catalyst, Lowercase, First Round invest in saving our social-media data — Data is invaluable, even if it's a random Tweet about your lunch that day. — And, Backupify - now flush with new cash - is hoping to ensure …
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