Dell looks beyond direct model ... Sony sparks outrage with decapitated goat

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News: Dell looks beyond direct model
News: Yahoo buys remainder of Right Media for $680 million
News: Sony sparks outrage with decapitated goat
News: Microsoft to open source some of Silverlight
Unix Tip: Remounting root
ITwhirled: Only the highlights
Podcast: Acer hires lawyer to defend against HP suit ... Vodafone gets approval for Hutchison Essar bid ... China's Alibaba reportedly plans IPO


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Dell looks beyond direct model
In a leaked internal memo to staff, Dell Inc. CEO Michael Dell listed several key steps the company would need to take in order to retain a dominant position in the PC market. One of these was to pursue new opportunities outside of its direct sales strategy.

Yahoo buys remainder of Right Media for $680 million
Yahoo Inc. will buy the remainder of online advertising exchange Right Media Inc. for $680 million in stock and cash, Yahoo said on Monday. The portal giant bought a 20 percent stake of Right Media in October for $45 million and now plans to acquire the remaining 80 percent.

Sony sparks outrage with decapitated goat
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. has launched an internal inquiry following an event in Athens last month that featured a decapitated goat and topless models to promote its new game "God of War II."

Microsoft to open source some of Silverlight
Microsoft Corp.is expected to show a new friendliness to the open-source community by unveiling plans to release the source code to a part of its Silverlight technology at MIX 07, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.

Oracle releases first ECM product since buying Stellent
Less than two weeks after unveiling a road map for its enterprise content management (ECM) software, Oracle Corp. released the first of the revamped products laid out in that strategy.

XO laptop is fun for child's play
The hardest thing about learning to use the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's XO notebook PC is finding the right way to twist its antenna ears and open the display. Once you can see the screen, just follow the icons to write a note, snap a photo or compose a tune.

New Zune players will face tough market
More types of Microsoft Corp. Zune music players are in the works, but some analysts are unsure whether new form factors or functions will significantly boost Zune's popularity.

EarthLink scales back, focuses muni Wi-Fi effort
EarthLink Inc. is pulling in the reins on its municipal Wi-Fi business, focusing on existing deals and big cities for the rest of this year, in a move that raises questions about the growing trend of city-wide wireless networks.


UNIX TIP

Unix Tip: Remounting root
By Sandra Henry-Stocker

During the booting of Solaris, both the / and /usr file systems are
mounted read-only and then later, before the boot process is fully
complete, remounted read-write. This is all part of the normal boot
process and no reason for concern. Disruptions to the normal boot
sequence, however, can leave you with a file system that is mounted
read-only and requiring repair with no obvious way to fix the
problem. Do situations such as this require you to boot from CD, DVD
or from a boot server before you can edit the files or scripts that
are sabotaging your boot process? No, you can make use of the mount
command's handy remount option and save yourself a lot of time and
trouble.

Let's say that you are booting a system and you run into these errors:

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ITWHIRLED

Only the highlights
Love Sumo wrestling but don't have three hours to devote to watching it? MagicSports, an auto-editing program from Taiwan-based Cyberlink, may be just what you're looking for. The software cuts out the pomp and ceremony and leaves you with 20 action-packed minutes of wrestling. MagicSports also works with soccer and baseball, and support for tennis and American football is in the works.

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