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It’s a rumor, and in all fairness my track record on the last couple has not been good, but according to a number of open source industry insiders, Oracle is going to announce at LinuxWorld tomorrow their own branded version of Linux based on the Red Hat distro. Previous speculation had them announcing something at [...]
Coming off my earlier post about Khosla’s oil company tax initiative, I thought I would post something that supports renewable energy without prejudice. I found what has to be one of the more interesting cases in favor of renewable energy, and on top of that from a very unlikely place… Iraq. Commanders have done the [...]
You kind of have to wonder if this is a case of lawyers gone wild… the fact that “to google” has entered the popular lexicon is nothing if not an enormous branding gift to the company. Independent Online Edition > Business News: Search engine giant Google, known for its mantra “don’t be evil”, has fired [...]
Be prepared for 150 posts about Windows Live Writer today on Techmeme… I’m not going to write about it. However, all the interest in blogging tools made me think to check in on the status of the next version of my favorite blog editor, Ecto. If you were to give me a new computer and [...]
I noticed something interesting on a television commercial for Yes on 87, the voter initiative that would tax oil companies in California $4 billion. Check out the “major funding” statement below… Considering that the aforementioned $4b in taxes will go into a fund for the financing of alternative fuel research, a well known cause for [...]