It looks like the rumors we were hearing over the weekend are true, Mark Hurd has joined Oracle as co-president. Hurd has also been named to the company’s board of directors. “Mark did a brilliant job at HP and I expect he’ll do even better at Oracle,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “There is no executive in the IT world with more relevant experience than Mark. Oracle’s future is engineering complete and integrated hardware and software systems for the enterprise. Mark pioneered the integration of hardware with software when Teradata was a part of NCR.” Comments

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Oracle Hires Mark Hurd as President

For those of you that like your news on the go, in audio format or you are just too damn lazy to read, I recommend you try out PC Perspective’s weekly podcast. This week the crew talk about various topics from video cards to new processors from both AMD and Intel. Hit the link and check it out. This week we talk about the Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum, Maingear F131 System, AMD Llano and Orochi, a new Sandforce Roundup, Our Hardware/Software picks of the week and more!

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HP has upped the ante with a $1.5B bid for 3Par just one week after Dell offered the company $1.13B. In 3Par they are bidding for a company that provides software for organizing data on corporate servers. The company, which is based in Fremont, Calif., offers its products on a subscription basis over the Web, an approach known as “cloud computing.” Comments

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HP Outbids Dell, Offers $1.5B for 3Par

Data miners are striking gold with new software, tracking your moves in real time- where you go, what you do, what you prefer- basically a complete profile of your internet habits. The internet used to be a lonely place, but now you are never alone. Tracking technology is getting smarter and more intrusive. Monitoring used to be limited mainly to “cookie” files that record websites people visit. But the Journal found new tools that scan in real time what people are doing on a Web page, then instantly assess location, income, shopping interests and even medical conditions. Some tools surreptitiously re-spawn themselves even after users try to delete them.

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The Web’s New Gold Mine: Your Secrets

A lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court against Sony and McAfee over a patent for software activation. This is the same company that is currently tied up in a lawsuit with Microsoft over the very same thing (software activation). The patent in question #5,490,216, awarded to Uniloc founder Ric Richardson in 1996, covers a method for registering and activating software locked to one PC. The technology was developed as a way to prevent users from freely installing or copying a single software program to multiple machines. Comments

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Sony, McAfee, Sued Over Software Activation Patent

AMD today announced availability of the first software driver for desktop computing environments to support the WebGL industry standard, which is designed to bring plugin-free 3D graphics to the Internet. The AMD OpenGL® ES 2.0 driver is intended to help developers easily create exciting 3D content that can be rendered more quickly for consumers using open-source web browsers, thereby helping create an application-like browser experience. Comments

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Wow. This is some pretty big news. The Library of Congress’ Copyright Office has released a statement that says, among other things, that it is now okay to jailbreak / root your phone. Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset. Comments

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New Gov’t Rules Allow Unapproved IPhone Apps

Wow. This is some pretty big news. The Library of Congress’ Copyright Office has released a statement that says, among other things, that it is now okay to jailbreak / root your phone. Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset. Comments

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New Gov’t Rules Allow Unapproved IPhone Apps

Team Chrome will be stepping up its stable build cycle releases from every 3 months to a 6 week cycle. By scheduling the releases closer together, it is hoped that developers will have a more predictable platform from which to work. We basically wanted to operate more like trains leaving Grand Central Station (regularly scheduled and always on time), and less like taxis leaving the Bronx (ad hoc and unpredictable).”Finally, he wants to take the pressure off software engineers to finish features in a single release cycle. Apparently, when facing a deadline with an incomplete feature in the old release model, the Chrome team would rush or work overtime, delay the release or simply disable the utility until the next build. The new schedule will simply enable the incomplete feature to wait for the next release, or six weeks away. Comments

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Google Chrome Team Accelerates Stable Build Cycle

ARM and Microsoft Corp. today announced that they have signed a new licensing agreement for the ARM® architecture. The agreement extends the collaborative relationship between the two companies. Since 1997 Microsoft and ARM have worked together on software and devices across the embedded, consumer and mobile spaces, enabling many companies to deliver user experiences on a broad portfolio of ARM-based products. “Microsoft is an important member of the ARM ecosystem, and has been for many years,” said Mike Muller, CTO ARM. “With this architecture license, Microsoft will be at the forefront of applying and working with ARM technology in concert with a broad range of businesses addressing multiple application areas.” Comments

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