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Stolen: Google employees' personal data
Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services. Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired...
Bill Gates bids farewell to Microsoft
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates joins CEO Steve Ballmer at a town hall event Friday, Gates' final day as a full-time Microsoft employee. Bill Gates' farewell speech to...
Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to Microsoft
Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company. Redmond, Washington--Bill Gates said a teary goodbye...

Sir Tim Talks Up Linked Open Data Movement
Inventor of the Web stumps on how we value data.
From L.A. to Vegas With 100GbE
It may be years away from full standardization, but 100GbE isn't just a pipe dream anymore.
Salesforce Rolls Out Big Summer '08 Update
Expanded CRM features, Web 2.0 support and broad application development are the hallmark of the update.

Antitrust review of Google-Yahoo deal no surprise

A Washington Post story Wednesday saying the DOJ had launched a formal investigation of the ad deal wasn't much of a shocker to Google and Yahoo, either, as the...
Top 10: Coreflood, more Microsoft-Yahoo, iPhone plans

1. Report says Microsoft readying new try for Yahoo: Bill Gates said on his way out of his full-time gig at Microsoft that he thought a deal for...
Four 'important' Microsoft patches due Tuesday

The Exchange and SQL flaws are "Elevation of Privilege" bugs, meaning that an attacker could theoretically exploit them to get administrative access to a PC. One of the Windows...

How to make accounting software cool
It was too weird to be true. In late 2006, a series of videos appeared on YouTube about a Willow Springs, Ill., resident named Kyle Bone who'd created a successful...
Microsoft without Gates
Steve Ballmer was sobbing. He repeatedly tried to speak and couldn't get the words out. Minutes passed as he tried to regain his composure. But the audience of 130 of...
Oracle earnings up on revenue growth
Oracle Corp. breezed past analysts' expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter, providing another sign of the technology industry's vitality despite the listless U.S. economy.

Sun Microsystems and Intel Break Million-Messages-per Second Barrier for Thomson Reuters Market Data System
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA) today announced new benchmark performance results for Thomson Reuters market data platform. The new benchmark demonstrates that running the platform, known as Reuters Market Data...
Sun Microsystems Releases New GlassFish and MySQL Offering To Provide Customers With Unlimited Deployments of Enterprise Class Application Server and Database Software
Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA), today announced the immediate availability of a new offering to help customers achieve greater return on investment (ROI) and significantly reduce the costs of deploying...
Sun Microsystems's Virtual Classroom Unites Global Learning Communities
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the first demonstration of Project Wonderland, its open source virtual world platform for the education community. At the virtual event last week,...

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