Wow, $500 a share is quickly approaching. "Google shares traded past the $475.11 level set on January 11, 2006, and reached as high as $476.75 in midday trading on the Nasdaq." Currently at $477.30.
Oracle on Monday announced a beta version of its Oracle Database 11g during its annual users conference. Database 11g beta includes 182 new features designed to address a range of database issues, from the need to retain more information to data compression to the handling of parallel upgrades, said Chuck Rozwat, executive vice president of Oracle server technologies, during his keynote speech here at the Oracle OpenWorld conference.
With NASA expected to reduce expenditures on astrobiology by half in the year ahead, the SETI Institute—a major recipient of that funding—is seeking private money to help support the nearly 50 scientists it has on staff studying the origin, evolution and distribution of life in the universe.
When an 800 pound gorilla puts on a tophat and a bowtie and starts doing dances in the street, people can quickly forget that it's still an 800 pound gorilla. In the patent world, IBM is the simian in question, racking up more patents in the last five years than any other US company. And although it has been a big backer of increased patent quality, transparency, and peer review, make no mistake—IBM still intends to make money from its patent portfolio, and it recently filed suit against Amazon because the online retailer refused to pony up for licenses.
It appears that there's a ripple effect from the battery recall. Compal, one of the biggest contract manufacturers in the world, said it won't be able to fill 100,000 notebook orders because of battery shortages during its third quarter conference call on October 23 in Taipei.
The much-anticipated Firefox 2 will release at 6 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on Oct. 24.
Three hardware manufacturers will embed file-sharing software BitTorrent into their consumer products. Asus, Planex and QNap will include BitTorrent's peer-to-peer technology into products including wireless routers, media servers and network storage devices, BitTorrent said in a statement Monday. Two of the devices made by Asus can be configured to download digital files via BitTorrent without the use of a PC.
Computer Gaming World magazine has made its first 100 issues available online as free PDFs. From Vol 1, Number 1, Nov-Dec 1981
Newcomers to the wondrous joys of the world's greatest peer-to-peer file sharing protocol are always asking one question: "Which BitTorrent client is best?"
The Golden State Warriors will now play basketball in 'the Oracle' after business software maker Oracle said on Friday it signed a 10-year naming rights agreement with the NBA team.
Intel demonstrated an upcoming quad-core processor for servers with four or more processors on Friday.
Under changes to Microsoft's licensing terms, buyers of retail copies of Vista will be able to transfer their software to a new machine only once. If they want to move their software a second time, they will have to buy a new copy of the operating system.
Stocked with an Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor overclocked to 3.67 GHz and a pair of ATI Radeon X1900 XTX graphics cards configured in CrossFire mode, this system brings the performance price tag down to reasonable levels.
