Motorola buys Terayon for $140 million ... HP files second patent lawsuit against Acer

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News: Motorola buys Terayon for $140 million
News: HP files second patent lawsuit against Acer
News: Court filings: Kickbacks on gov't contracts widespread
News: Microsoft hit with patent suit over .Net
Unix Tip: Taking notes the easy way
ITwhirled: Researcher records life in detail
Podcast: HP files another lawsuit against Acer ... Singapore Exchange plans new order system ... Intuit offers refunds for e-filing problems


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Motorola buys Terayon for $140 million
Motorola Inc. will buy Terayon Communication Systems Inc., a digital video processing and networking software maker, for $140 million, the companies announced on Monday.

HP files second patent lawsuit against Acer
Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's largest PC vendor, has filed another lawsuit against its fastest growing rival, Acer Inc., as competition in the PC industry continues to heat up.

Court filings: Kickbacks on gov't contracts widespread
An alleged multi-million-dollar kickback scheme involving work on numerous U.S. government contracts touches dozens of IT vendors and systems integrators, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.

Microsoft hit with patent suit over .Net
Vertical Computer Systems Inc. is suing Microsoft Corp. for patent infringement related to Microsoft's .Net framework for building Windows-based software.

Barclays merger will move 10,800 jobs to India
U.K. bank Barclays PLC will move 10,800 jobs to India following a giant merger announced Monday with ABN Amro Holding NV, part of an effort to generate billions of euros in annual savings.

Europe considers network security portal for SMBs
The European Union is considering a system that would alert small and medium-size businesses to network and information security threats.

RIM readies software client for non-Blackberry devices
New software from Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) will enable all BlackBerry wireless applications to run on smartphones from rival handset makers.

Business Objects to buy financial software vendor
Business Objects SA has agreed to buy Cartesis SA, a maker of finance and performance management software, for €225 million in cash, or about $300 million, the companies announced Monday.

Google looking to expand geo-tagged information
Google Inc. is looking to increase the range and variety of information with a geographical element that it offers, and hopes its users will play a big part in the expansion.


UNIX TIP

Taking notes the easy way
By Sandra Henry-Stocker

If you ever find yourself cutting and pasting Unix commands and their output into a file in order to create a record of some anomaly you have encountered on a system you manage or to document a procedure so that someone else can take charge while you are on vacation, you may have overlooked a handy command that takes all the fuss out of recording the content of your online session -- the script command.

Read the full article here.


ITWHIRLED

Researcher records life in detail
Gordon Bell records everything about his life: He saves every e-mail and walks around with a digital camera and audio recorder. It's a bit cumbersome at the moment, but he's working on a system for Microsoft that will make it all simple!

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