Monday, November 8, 2010

Amazon to buy Diapers.com owner Quidsi for $500M (AP)

Amazon to buy Diapers.com owner Quidsi for $500M (AP)

Amazon to buy Diapers.com owner Quidsi for $500M (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 03:10 PM PST

The Amazon homepage appears on a screen in Washington on September 2010. Amazon folded Diapers.com into its online retail empire on Monday, picking up the baby care product's operator Quidsi Inc. for 545 million dollars.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)AP - Expanding its online retail empire, Amazon.com Inc. said Monday that it is buying Quidsi, the owner of Diapers.com and Soap.com, for $500 million in cash.

Ellison: Oracle has $4 billion case against SAP (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:24 PM PST

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison arrives at the Federal Building in Oakland, Calif., Monday, Nov. 8, 2010. Ellison is scheduled to testify Monday in Oracle's trial against archrival SAP. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison turned up the pressure in an industrial espionage trial Monday by testifying that archenemy SAP AG should have paid $4 billion for licenses to Oracle software.

Broadband usage growing even as gaps persist (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 10:54 AM PST

Graphic shows increase of broadband Internet use sinceAP - The U.S. still faces a significant gap in residential broadband use that breaks down along incomes, education levels and other socio-economic factors, even as subscriptions among American households overall grew sevenfold from 2001 to 2009.

Upcoming color E Ink display is ‘milestone,’ but still can’t do video (Ben Patterson)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 09:14 AM PST

Ben Patterson - A Chinese company is primed to launch a color e-reader early next yearâ€"and unlike the recent Nook Color from Barnes & Noble, the new device will have an actual E Ink display (similar to those on the Amazon Kindle and …

New cable service lets you ‘look back’ to recent shows (with ads) (Ben Patterson)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:23 AM PST

Ben Patterson - It's no secret that network and pay-TV executives are looking for ways to keep you from skipping commercials on your DVR. One oft-proposed solution is an "in-the-cloud" DVR that would let you tee up any recent show, whether you'd set …

RockMelt Offers a Browser for Social Networking (NewsFactor)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:42 PM PST

NewsFactor - There have been smartphones, an iPad magazine, and digital cameras designed specifically for social networking. Now a start-up has released a browser optimized for that popular activity.

Remains of the Day: Passive? Aggressive. (Macworld)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 04:30 PM PST

Macworld - Passive-aggressive. It’s not always an either/or scenario: take Steve Jobs dishing truth on the fate of the Xserve and compare to an Adobe executive complaining about Apple’s attitude towards Flash. Then there’s T-Mobile trying to, what, horn in on iPhone sales? Nobody knows, least of all the remainders for Monday, November 8, 2010.

Mobile Network Controls, Pricing Still Taking Shape (PC World)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:40 PM PST

PC World - A top U.S. carrier and a major mobile infrastructure vendor acknowledged on Monday that charging for mobile data services is still a moving target.

Facebook grabs bigger slice of display ad pie (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 03:57 PM PST

Reuters - Facebook, the world's No. 1 Internet social network, is proving as popular among advertisers as it is among Web surfers.

New music releases for the week of November 8 (Digital Trends)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:09 PM PST

Digital Trends - Here’s the lowdown on what new music is coming out this week. Stay tuned tomorrow to see our picks of the week, otherwise known as the DT3.

Dev Builds Bot to Buy Stuff Online (Mashable)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 03:35 PM PST

Mashable - Like many awesome ideas, this one began with an xkcd strip.

Why the first generation of iPad competitors will die on the vine (Appolicious)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 09:40 AM PST

Appolicious - Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs is right when he says the first wave of competing tablets will "be DOA – dead on arrival."

SAP grills Oracle as Apotheker absent from trial (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:26 PM PST

Reuters - Oracle Corp CEO Larry Ellison testified that SAP's theft of its software cost his company $4 billion, doubling his previous estimate but failing to cite written evidence of it.

Arm Faces Uphill Battle in Server Market (PC World)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 03:10 PM PST

PC World - Arm has entered the server market with Marvell Semiconductor announcing a chip based on its processor architecture, but customer acceptance and design issues could affect its chances of winning market share from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, analysts said.

Zscaler Develops Free Tool to Detect Firesheep Snooping (PC World)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 04:40 AM PST

PC World - A security company has developed a free Firefox add-on that warns when someone on the same network is using Firesheep, a tool that has raised alarm over how it simplifies an attack against a long-known weakness in Internet security.

Nokia Reclaims Symbian from Open-Source Foundation (NewsFactor)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 02:11 PM PST

NewsFactor - Nokia is taking back the Symbian platform. On Monday, the handset maker announced that it is taking control of the Symbian operating system about 18 months after the Symbian Foundation was first set up.

Student Who Hacked Bill O'Reilly Gets 30 Months (PC World)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:20 PM PST

PC World - A 23-year-old Bellevue, Ohio, man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison following a 2007 online crime spree in which he used a network of hacked computers to attack and knock offline websites belonging to conservative pundits Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter.
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