Market Watch (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
When Sun Microsystems Inc. agreed in January 2008 to pay nearly $1 billion for the open source database company, MySQL, the only winners in that boondoggle were the vulture capitalists, founders and other investors who got a hefty cash payday for their shares.
The Register (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Exclusive Sun Microsystems has set software engineers seven goals in the wake of new , hoping to keep them focused amid uncertainty but to also hit existing corporate objectives.Among the targets: focus all their efforts on Sun's hosting and collaboration service, and deliver a "solid, scalable internal proof-of-concept" of Sun's planned cloud storage for a public preview release. The...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Recalling reporters' struggle to put what they saw in words For three decades, enormous interest in "The Good War" and "The Greatest Generation" has generated countless oral histories about World War II, in print and on video. Joseph R. L. Sterne's "Combat Correspondents: The Baltimore Sun in World War II" offers a bracingly fresh perspective - the intensely written perspective...
Digital Daily - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
“The decrease in ____ revenue was primarily due to _____ “and uncertainty associated with the proposed acquisition by Oracle and increased competition.” That refrain is repeated over and over again in Sun’s latest grim earnings report which was filed without much in the way of announcement Friday afternoon.
Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Code: Your solace, our savior Exclusive Sun Microsystems has set software engineers seven goals in the wake of new layoffs, hoping to keep them focused amid uncertainty but to also hit existing corporate objectives.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing Full published article at: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/07/sun_layoffs_motivation/
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
More IndustriesNOVEMBER 6, 2009, 7:53 P.M. ETSun's Server Sales Continue to Sag BY BEN WORTHEN Sun Microsystems Inc. continued to suffer from delays in closing its purchase by Oracle Corp. and other problems, particularly in the company's server systems business.The Silicon Valley company reported late Friday that total revenue for the fiscal first quarter ended in September declined 25%. Revenue...
Security Fix (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Sun Microsystems has issued an update to its Java software that fixes at least one security vulnerability. Separately, Adobe is pushing out a patch to plug four security holes in its Shockwave Player. The Sun patch brings Java 6 to version 17. If you're not sure whether you have Java or what version you may be running, visit this page and click the "Do I have Java?" link. If you don't have...
Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Proposed 150 MW Solar Plant Would Store 7 Hours of Sun’s Energy in Molten Salt Design rendering of Rice Solar Energy Project via Solar Reserve The problem with solar power plants is, of course, that they’re rendered useless on cloudy days and at night. But news broke a while back that a process of storing solar energy [...]
Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I’ve looked at the Ap Index on a regular basis, as it is an indicator of how active the solar dynamo is. When we had sunspot 1029 recently, the largest in months, it gave hope to many that Solar cycle 24 had finally started to ramp up. From the data provided by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction [...]
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Design rendering of Rice Solar Energy Project via Solar Reserve The problem with solar power plants is, of course, that they're rendered useless on cloudy days and at night. But news broke a while back that a process of storing solar energy in molten salt was being considered to help make solar power plants more commercially viable. Now, it looks like that technology is about to be put into action:...
Brainicane (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Design rendering of Rice Solar Energy Project via Solar Reserve The problem with solar power plants is, of course, that they’re rendered useless on cloudy days and at night. But news broke a while back that a process of storing solar energy in molten salt was being considered to help make solar power plants more commercially [...]
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal drafted plans for a New York–only culture section. It didn’t take long for that project to be shelved, and Rupert Murdoch’s Journal decided to take on the city itself—with a New York–only news section that will cover everything you’d expect from a local newspaper: politics, news, sports and, yes, culture. “They want...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Mark Hughes, our exchange reporter from London's The Independent newspaper, had just gotten off a train from Washington on Sunday evening when crime reporter Justin Fenton and I took him to a shooting in McElderry Park in Southeast Baltimore.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
, our exchange reporter from London's newspaper, had just gotten off a train from Washington Sunday evening when crime reporter Justin Fenton and I took him to a in Southeast Baltimore.What an introduction for a reporter who wants to see if Baltimore measures up to .His first view of the city: heading south on St. Paul, east on Orleans to Milton Avenue where a man had been shot in the stomach. I pull...
Next Left (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Former Sun political editor George Pascoe-Watson told MediaGuardian yesterday he was "born with a Sun hat on ... I don't think you could really do politics for the Sun without instinctively feeling it in your gut". But, as John Rentoul reports , Pascoe-Watson's gut instinct appears to be that The Sun's attack on the Prime Minister's over his letter of condolence to the family of a...
