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Sun Hardware 'Blows,' According to Oracle Internal Documents

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

More precisely, Oracle said Sun hardware baaaallllloooooooows. That description comes from discovery documents released by HP related to ligation between the two tech giants. Columnist Rob Enderle says Oracle treated you and him like 'idiots.'

Cisco Takes its Lumps, Keeps Developing Video Meeting Tools

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

The Cius tablet is all but dead and rental telepresence suites haven't bloomed, but there's still a future in software, Cisco says

Wall Street Beat: After Facebook Fiasco, Don't Write Off Tech IPOs

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Market conditions, not the Facebook IPO, will determine the fate of other offerings

FCC Ruling on 800MHz Band a Boon for Sprint

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

The agency removed a limit on channel width in part of the band, allowing Sprint and others to use 3G and 4G

Oracle Netbeans 7.2 Supports the Latest PHP, C++

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Oracle's IDE also provides a conduit to Oracle cloud services

Quickbooks Online Outage Leaves Some Customers in Sour Mood

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Intuit says it has restored all customers, but angry sentiments linger

Cisco all but Kills Cius Tablet Computer

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet less than a year after it started shipping.

Aged Windows XP Costs 5x More to Manage Than Windows 7

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft yesterday added ammunition to its increasingly aggressive battle to get users off the nearly-11-year-old Windows XP by citing a company-sponsored report that claims annual support costs for the older OS are more than five times that of Windows 7.

Google's Motorola Buy Seen Boosting Android in Workplace

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

With the closing of Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility this week, talk of the possibilities for Android in the enterprise has spiked.

Google Asked to Yank a Million Search Results a Month

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Google received requests to purge more than a million links from its search results in March, according to the search giant's monthly "transparency report."

Dell Windows 8 Tablet Specs Leak

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Don't expect any big surprises out of Dell's first Windows 8 tablet aimed at enterprise users.

IaaS: Renting On-Demand Technology

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Putting your faith in the cloud can be a risky endeavor. A survey from earlier this year showed that of 600 large companies, only 27% were using public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service.

Most Openoffice Users Run Windows

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Nearly 9 out of 10 downloads of the new version of OpenOffice have been for Windows machines, rather than Linux, according to recently released statistics from Apache.

Apple CEO Tim Cook Passes Up $75M

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Apple CEO Tim Cook has passed up about $75 million in dividend payments he would be due when his massive collection of more than 1 million shares vests in the next decade, according to a filing with the SEC.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame, with 4G

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Ever been to a sports game and tried to send a text message, upload a photo to Facebook, or send a tweet about that awesome play that just happened? If so, you may have been left frustrated by the overcrowded network that prevented that all-important message from making your friends jealous.