• Oracle announces bid for BEA Systems – Oct. 12, 2007
  “Oracle (Charts, Fortune 500) is offering $17 a share for BEA (Charts), a leading provider of application software for computer servers. That’s worth about $6.7 billion, based on BEA’s total shares outstanding.”
  (tags: Oracle BEA Acquisitions Java applications server Business)
• A Day Without Email Is Like …
  “A growing number of employers, including U.S. Cellular, Deloitte & Touche and Intel, are imposing or trying out “no email” Fridays or weekends. While the bans typically allow emailing clients and customers or responding to urgent matters, the normal
  (tags: Email Enterprise productivity trends)
• Shawn Fanning’s Snocap lays off 60 percent of workforce | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
  “Snocap, the music-licensing company best known for being the follow-up act of Napster founder Shawn Fanning, has cut its staff by 60 percent, a spokeswoman for the company said Thursday evening.”
  (tags: Music copyright DRM Legal media)
• Website Performance | CSS Sprite Generator
  “Stuart Collville and Ed Eliot just launched a new CSS Sprite Generator tool, which is the first of many in a series of web-site performance tools.”
  (tags: Web performance optimization CSS tools Browser utilities webdev)
• Podcasting News » Five Reasons Total Music Will Be A Total Failure
  “Total Music is likely to be a total failure, unless the music industry can find a way to use the service to introduce new users – people that aren’t familiar with the ease of ripping and handling digital music files – to the world of digital music.”
  (tags: Music Business iTunes)
• Silicon Alley Insider: Radiohead: 1.3 Mil Downloads! (But Big Music Not Dead)
  “he big music labels are in trouble, but not because Radiohead is giving its music away — they’re in trouble because they can’t sell CDs by artists who want to sell them.”
  (tags: Music Business radio Radiohead media)
• Radiohead’s Pot Of Gold at The End of In Rainbows
  “According to [readwriteweb] poll US$5-9 is the most popular price range that people are willing to pay for the digital download version.”
  (tags: Music Radiohead trends analysis)

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