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No Clear Sign of Settlement in Oracle-SAP Suit
(PC World)
| PC World - A document filed last week by SAP indicates there may be no quick settlement to its rancorous legal entanglement with rival enterprise software maker Oracle, even though SAP admits that some of Oracle's claims about its former subsidiary TomorrowNow are true.
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IBM Employees Buzzing About Layoff Rumors
(PC World)
| PC World - An independent Web site for IBM employees has been buzzing with rumors that the company will make significant layoffs this month.
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Facebook nudity policy draws nursing moms' ire
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090102/ap_on_hi_te/tec_facebook_breast_feeding"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081231/capt.c244a6b23260457c8caede1105f1035c.facebook_breast_feeding_nybz118.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=X75El.Avwpp.fpraNbhbRw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="This undated photo provided by Kelli Roman shows her breastfeeding her daughter Ivy. Facebook removed the photo from Roman's page after she had posted it, citing the company's policy barring people from uploading anything obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit' — a policy that translates into a ban on pictures depicting certain amounts of exposed flesh. (AP Photo/Kelli Roman)" border="0" /></a>AP - Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies. The disputes reveal how the sites' community policing techniques sometimes struggle to keep up with the booming number and diversity of their members.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Slump means identity crisis for Las Vegas
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090101/ap_on_bi_ge/vegas_lights_dim"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081230/capt.55ce3e964c1e4a618ca571e5c0559e0f.las_vegas_unemploy_gfx948.jpg?x=68&y=130&q=85&sig=ggyz9FSL6C9AH83dshZRwA--" align="left" height="130" width="68" alt="ADVANCE FOR JAN. 3-4; graphic shows Las Vegas unemployment rate since 2000; 1 c x 3 5/8 in; 46.5 mm x 92.075 mm" border="0" /></a>AP - This is not just a place people are born and live. Las Vegas is an enterprise.</p><br clear="all"/>
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The 25 greatest blunders in tech history
(InfoWorld)
| InfoWorld - Imagine how different the tech industry might have been had Gary Kildall accepted IBM's offer, back in 1980, to license his computer operating system for a top-secret project. CP/M would have been the OS that shipped with the original IBM PC, and the world might never have heard the name of Kildall's competitor, who eventually accepted the contract: a Mr. Bill Gates.
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IBM in sales alliance with Japan's Ricoh: paper
(Reuters)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090101/bs_nm/us_ibm_ricoh"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20090101/2008_12_31t220823_450x289_us_ibm_ricoh.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=CUy4YxvmEFZ_rXomevtkRA--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="A view of an IBM facility outside Boulder, Colorado October 18, 2006. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - IBM and Japanese office equipment maker Ricoh Co Ltd (7752.T) will start sharing each other's sales network this year and promote their servers and printers together, the Nikkei business daily said on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Facebook ban of breast-feeding photos sparks protests
(Reuters)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081231/wr_nm/us_facebook_breastfeeding"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081231/2008_12_30t005335_450x387_us_facebook_breastfeeding.jpg?x=130&y=111&q=85&sig=v2J8Ws_dTviDLXbRvwJOYg--" align="left" height="111" width="130" alt="A woman breast-feeds her baby in a file photo. The social networking site Facebook has sparked a massive online debate -- and protests -- and after removing photos that expose too much of a mother's breast. (Regis Duvignau/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Are photographs of a mother breast-feeding her child indecent? The social networking site Facebook has sparked a massive online debate -- and protests -- after removing photos that expose too much of a mother's breast.</p><br clear="all"/>
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HP Will Offer Home Multimedia Server for PCs and Macs
(NewsFactor)
| NewsFactor - Hewlett-Packard has unveiled a consumer-oriented multimedia server designed to interact with home computing machines running Windows Vista, Windows XP, or Mac OS X. Slated to ship in February, the HP MediaSmart Server automatically aggregates music tracks, photos, videos and other media often distributed over multiple PCs and other computing devices.
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Facebook Stirs Furor After Pulling Breast-Feeding Photos
(NewsFactor)
| NewsFactor - Facebook has found itself at the core of a heated controversy after the popular social-networking Web site removed photos of breast-feeding mothers. The company threatened to close the account of 23-year-old Heather Farley after she posted two photos of herself breast-feeding her infant daughter.
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Facebook Users Gripe after Breastfeeding Pics Removed
(PC World)
| PC World - Are breastfeeding photos indecent? The boobs who run Facebook apparently think so, and their decision to delete images of nursing women has led to a minor backlash among users of the social networking site.
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HP Makes MediaSmart Mac Friendly
(PC Magazine)
| PC Magazine - Hewlett-Packard on Monday said it had extended the olive branch of compatibility to the Macintosh, via its Windows Home Server product line, the MediaSmart.
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O Christmas tree: Work in summer sun, winter snow
(AP)
| AP - Christmas is over, but for Christmas tree farmers the work is just beginning so next year's boughs can be even brighter.
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Panasonic to Show Powerline Network Prototypes at CES
(PC World)
| PC World - Panasonic plans to unveil a networking system that can connect an electric car to home devices via electrical wiring at January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Windows Server 2008: Windows also rises
(InfoWorld)
| InfoWorld - We suppose it happens in families too, where one twin seems charmed from the start while the other lives under a shadow. Certainly that's the case with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, the one almost universally heralded and the other widely snubbed. Still, isn't it odd? How do two operating systems, born together and sharing so much DNA, arrive to such different fates?
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Facebook Puts Coal in Project Playlist's Stocking
(PC Magazine)
| PC Magazine - Facebook is the latest social networking site to block music Web site Project Playlist. And guess who wants the Project Playlist embedded application taken down?
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Washington Post, Baltimore Sun to share content
(AP)
| AP - The Washington Post and The (Baltimore) Sun, facing cost pressures as advertising revenue continues to sink, said Tuesday that they will share some stories, photos and news content starting next year.
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ASUG Maintains Moderate Tone on SAP Maintenance Hike
(PC World)
| PC World - SAP should be given the opportunity to convince users that its richer-featured but pricier Enterprise Support service is worth the extra expense, a board member of the Americas SAP Users Group said Tuesday.
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Microsoft Acknowledges Critical SQL Server Flaw
(NewsFactor)
| NewsFactor - Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability that could allow remote-code execution on systems with supported editions of its Microsoft SQL Server products.
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Sun Executive Reveals More Open-source Plans for JavaFX
(PC World)
| PC World - A Sun Microsystems executive has provided a glimpse into the company's future plans for open sourcing JavaFX, its recently released technology for building RIAs (rich Internet applications) for the desktop, mobile devices and other platforms.
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Microsoft Warns of SQL Attack
(PC World)
| PC World - Just days after patching a critical flaw in its Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft is now warning users of a serious bug in its SQL Server database software.
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