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Archive for June, 2010

Oracle amends SAP TomorrowNow suit

30 Jun 2010

He added that SAP “will not litigate the case in the press.”

The amended lawsuit further alleges:

The case is set to go to trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in February 2010.

But SAP TN’s two shareholders, Seth Ravin and Andrew Nelson, refused to make any representation that SAP TN [...]

Smaller, longer-lasting iPhone on tap

28 Jun 2010

Add another log on the
iPhone rumor pile: it may be smaller.
The next iPhone might be smaller and thinner despite its new features, one report says.

Apple has long cited battery life issues as the reason it didn’t jump on the 3G train last year, so it would be somewhat surprising if the company actually improved battery [...]

Why can’t they fix the Flash Firefox bug

23 Jun 2010

Flash 9 works just fine in Internet Explorer.
An annoying and long-lived bug is preventing some users from viewing Web videos. There’s a workaround, but for many, the cure is as bad as the disease.

See also: Two quick fixes for Firefox 3.

Latest: Adobe’s John Dowdell has a thoughtful critique of this post [...]

Automattic acquires IntenseDebate for better blog

22 Jun 2010

Automattic and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg says two of the main reasons for the pickup are IntenseDebate’s e-mail replies and rating system which will likely make their way as the default offerings on WordPress.com and WordPress.org products in the near future.
The service launched a little more than a year ago with several innovative features [...]

Eventful raises $10 million in Series C round

18 Jun 2010

Profitability in the event-planning sector won’t be easy. Eventful competes with a slew of companies, including Zvents, EventOrb, and many others that provide users with opportunities to find and announce events in their area.
“This round of financing will enable Eventful to enhance our services to existing and new users throughout the world, and achieve profitability,” [...]

PayPal XSS vulnerability affects EV SSL

16 Jun 2010

A new attack on PayPal could have allowed users who thought they were on a trusted page to access a fraudulent page and possibly expose personal information. On Friday, Finnish researcher Harry Sintonen reported the vulnerability on an IRC chat room.

“However, as in any phishing incident, we encourage our customers to contact us immediately if [...]

Microsoft’s glimpse of the future

04 Jun 2010

Images: Microsoft’s workplace of the future

“In concert, these things could have a broad impact,” Sands said.

Ian Sands, who works on future-related matters for the Microsoft Business Division, showed me the video earlier this week. The work, he said, brings together about 12 different projects that his unit is working on as part of Microsoft’s [...]