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April Fool's joke on Sun takeover wreaks havoc

Serguei Beloussov woke up early on Tuesday to see people in the world of virtualisation commenting on the news that he had sold his company, Parallels, to Sun for US$205 million. Read more »

McNealy's cold feet and other tales of Sun

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy had to be wined and dined at a Silicon Valley McDonald's before he gave up his reluctance to help launch the workstation maker in 1982, according to one of many tales the company cofounders recounted on Wednesday. Read more »

Sun's CIO backs blogs despite lawyer worries

Sun Microsystems' chief information officer (CIO) has backed the vendor's embrace of corporate blogging, despite difficulties such as ensuring senior executives don't post comments that affect the stock price and the occasional posting that makes the company's lawyers "pull their hair out". Read more »

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Conficker's April Fools' infection

Conficker is a computer worm that has proven to be one of the most dangerous threats ever, infecting an estimated 10 million computers worldwide. Read more »

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Microsoft shows off IE9 preview

This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

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IE9's H.264 vote killed Ogg

In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

-- posted by Chris Duckett
Google launches Apps Marketplace

Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

-- posted by Staff