“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.”

“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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“According to [readwriteweb] poll US$5-9 is the most popular price range that people are willing to pay for the digital download version.”