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YouTube and Viacom Find Lots of Emails, But No Smoking Gun [MediaMemo]
The YouTube-Viacom documents released today are chock full of interesting morsels. Feel free to ignore most of them.
Because if you’re trying to handicap the way the copyright lawsuit pans out, today’s document dump won’t do much to help you. There are revelations here, but [...]
Microsoft removes XP Mode hardware requirements
Along with other virtualization announcements today, Microsoft has updated XP Mode to be less confusing when it comes to hardware compatibility. XP Mode is a free virtual machine package for business-class versions of Windows 7, intended to ease OS migration for enterprise customers. When it launched alongside Windows 7, the [...]
Viacom, Google trade accusations over YouTube
LOS ANGELES — Viacom and Google, raising a slow-brewing corporate drama to the boiling point, swapped blistering accusations of piracy and clandestine actions as part of a high-stakes legal war aimed at redrawing how television programs and movies are watched on the Internet.
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Startup News & Technology | Viacom, [...]
Report: Google Bailing on China in Early April [Digital Daily]
April 10. That’s the day Google (GOOG) will reportedly begin its withdrawal from China. So says the Shanghai-based China Business News, which claims the company will announce plans for its withdrawal on March 22. “I have received information saying that Google will leave China on [...]
Palm CEO: Sprint deal prevented WebOS from making a splash on Verizon
If Palm’s WebOS products had gone on sale at Verizon before Motorola’s Droid, Palm’s fortunes today would be very different, the company’s CEO said Thursday during its third-quarter earnings call. “If we could have launched at Verizon prior to the Droid, I think we [...]
NoSQL Database Movement Gains Ground as Alternative
Recent announcements from Twitter and Digg.com underscore the growing awareness of NoSQL databases as an alternative to relational database management systems. But just what the future holds for NoSQL is an open question. – The buzz around the NoSQL movement in the past year has grown [...]
Siemens Plans 4,200 Layoffs from IT Division
Reportedly preparing to spin off its IT division in the fall of 2010, tech giant Siemens is downsizing 2,000 jobs in Germany and plans to eliminate another 2,200 technology jobs globally by 2011. – Engineering and industrial-technology conglomerate Siemens
announced March 18 it will lay off 4,200 [...]
Viacom, YouTube air dirty laundry in legal battle
SAN FRANCISCO — Viacom Inc. and Google Inc.’s YouTube site began airing each other’s dirty laundry Thursday, providing a tantalizing peek at the wheeling and dealing that triggered a bitter battle over the copyright laws governing the Internet.
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EMC CEO gets $9M pay package in 2009, down 23 pct
SAN FRANCISCO — The pay package last year for EMC Corp. CEO Joe Tucci was 23 percent lower than in 2008, a reflection of lower equity awards and cuts to the data-storage company’s executive salaries.
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Startup News & Technology | EMC CEO gets $9M [...]
Novell Adds Ingres DB to SUSE Studio Online
A new template for Ingres database eliminates the burden for IT managers of managing the lifecycle of the operating system or the middleware database component within their appliances. – SAN FRANCISCO — Novell and open source database provider Ingres March 18 announced that they have [...]
