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Microsoft to buy Groove Networks
Microsoft on Thursday said it will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie, a chief technical officer at the software giant. Read more »
BEA Systems pours 'Liquid Computing'
Speaking at its customer conference, BEA's CEO outlines product plans, including messaging-based integration software and administration tools. Read more »
Oblix to help Oracle, PeopleSoft tools 'coexist'
Oracle's aggressive acquisition strategy drove the purchase of privately held Oblix and will get Oracle closer to its vision of a unified application product line, the database giant said this week. Read more »
Microsoft looks to extinguish LAMP
The threat of open source web application software has led the software giant to produce smaller, cheaper versions of some of its tools. Read more »
Ballmer Q&A: Feeling the heat at Microsoft
For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat. Read more »
New Oracle brand to wrap up retail buys
Oracle Retail brand name, set for launch at user confab this week, will cover products picked up in acquisitions and existing software. Read more »
Google's OpenSocial opens new online battle
Google have taken the online social networking battle to a new level with the announcement of a new set of APIs that can be used to create applications on any site that wishes to participate. Read more »
Google buys JotSpot, dips into wiki world
Search giant expands its hosted application portfolio with purchase of JotSpot, provider of a hosted wiki platform. Read more »
Oracle's eye on the future
As part of its semiannual analysts' day, Oracle on Wednesday outlined a range of plans for the New Year and beyond, from integration of PeopleSoft technology to its planned entry into the market for collaboration software. Read more »
New Oracle co-president is former Microsoft exec
Oracle has picked former Microsoft exec Greg Maffei to be chief financial officer and one of three co-presidents. Read more »
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It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »
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In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more. Read more »
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W3C has released mobileOK checker, an open source tool for checking the suitability of websites for mobile devices. Read more »
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Ratbags burn, smash and 'nuke' hard drives
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Five services you can turn off in Windows Server 2003
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.